Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Chinese startups raise nearly half of all venture capital dollars and nearly 100 are valued at $1B. He’s a venture capitalist in China and knows the ecosystem well. The first is his view of the influence of machine learning in the world. There are two ideas in the book that will remain with me.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 17, 2023

It would require the integration of several AI technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP) to understand and generate text, machine learning (ML) to learn from user actions and preferences, and automation to perform tasks. The security and privacy concerns mentioned are real.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Race for Artificial Intelligence With Micro Startups. Another major trend in micro startup acquisitions is artificial intelligence. Companies in almost every sector are looking to take advantage of machine learning and integrate it into their products. Tiny Capital.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets?

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious. Machine learning, broad consolidation, category creation, and new distribution models each will change the SaaS ecosystem in fundamental ways. SaaS company formation has fallen by 44% in the last 3 years.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 22, 2017

Next-generation machine learning tools are also available by API and improving all the time. The surge of venture capital in the last five years worsens this predicament. First, the technology barriers to starting a SaaS company continue to fall. Second, the customer acquisition playbook is well known. I will add another.

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SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2020

324: Join SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Bessemer Venture Partners Partner Byron Deeter for a deep dive on what’s going on in Venture Capital and Cloud. This podcast is an excerpt from Jason and Byron’s webinar “Bridging the Gap: The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud.”

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

A discussion about venture capital and the effects Covid-19 has had on in the industry. Join Nicole Quinn, General Partner at Lightspeed Ventures, Ann Miura-Ko, Founding Partner at Floodgate, and Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes as they talk about what they have seen in the industry lately and how they are moving forward.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

From Silicon Valley to Rio – The Globalization of Venture Capital Mathias Schilling , Co-founder & Managing Partner (Headline); Romero Rodrigues, Managing Partner (Headline); Artur Búrigo, Reporter (Folha de S. WebSummit Rio, day 4.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And then the second was this period of, I would say, limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms in the Valley and how that worked. It’s completely acceptable in California, and actually in most of the country today, to say that you’re working on inventing artificial intelligence.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. Machine learning in SaaS is nascent. Perhaps there a substantial delay between when the business is founded and when it appears in Crunchbase. However, Pitchbook analysis corroborates this trend.

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker wrote in this Quora post : “This was a journey we committed to back in August 2015 to put us on a path to sustained growth and profitability without additional venture capital. Use venture capital to scale an inside sales team and dial for dollars to gain market share. Have we hit peak SaaS?

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

The session also talks about the challenges of working with a large amount of data in the context of a company, and the use of AI to efficiently route orders, optimize pricing, and improve customer experience. There is a need for deeper investments in the Brazilian market and better budget allocation in learning and development.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. You apply your machine learning and voila, you’ve turned a process from rules-based to experience-based, right?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Engineers measure application performance and build machine learning models. Venture capital is no different. If a relationship business like venture capital can benefit from statistics, imagine the impact to a performance oriented startup. CEOs measure key company metrics. PMs measure engagement.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. Is it venture capital that puts so much money into some of these software organizations and they’re forced to grow, grow, grow, and it’s literally just a body’s game, right?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 14, 2016

Advances in machine learning and natural language processing will be key ingredients in the software applications of the future. For example, Numi could use these technologies to begin to learn venture capital jargon and math like calculating the dilution for an employee stock option plan increase.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. We have Project Lima right now, which is looking at large language models. We recently wrote about the 100 billion that’s gone in since 2021. Safety is vital to effectiveness for us.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2013

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming. Not every company has ML expertise.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

I’d argue it’s not – the markets have changed structurally such that companies are staying private far longer and thus living off venture capital (and/or growth-stage private equity) in ways not previously seen. The interesting question here is whether mean reversion is relevant. Ethics make a comeback.

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

“With this new injection of capital, riskmethods is taking a major step towards achieving our goal of global market leadership in the segment of supply chain risk management,” said Rolf Zimmer, CEO and co-founder of riskmethods. Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. www.eqtventures.com.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow. When Satyen Sangani explained the machine-learning data catalog as I was contemplating an angel investment in Alation [21]. Upstarts can stand yet again on the shoulders of giants. seed, angel) and the later growth stage as well.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

The ability to gather large amounts of data from the entire user base, and use that data along with AI/ML to make your software smarter, is one of the big themes at the moment. For what it's worth, I know AI and Machine Learning are a hyped topic but I think the hype is justified.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2018, however, there’s finally an alternative to doing this by hand: machine learning. You probably associate machine learning with dystopian AI or Google’s bot beating the world’s best Go player, but it’s actually becoming central to the marketing industry today. Alternatives: Salespanel, Infer.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Previously, she was an operating partner at Emergence Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that we all probably know about. Alison Wagonfeld is the chief marketing officer for a little company called Google, specifically for Google Cloud, representing both the Google Cloud Platform and G-Suite.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 13, 2019

Today, machine learning is compounding increasing returns yet again [7]. But that thinking basically assumes the venture capital market mispriced LeaderCo. Most high-tech markets have increasing returns effects because customers like to reduce risk by buying from market leaders.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 29, 2018

Category owners or “kings” are often lauded in the SaaS industry where they take a disproportionately large chunk of market revenue. This means that owning a category is in most cases a requirement for the level of growth and investment multiples that venture capital demands. Oh how far we’ve come. So what’s left?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Years later, he’s got a thriving business but one that is not venture capital backed. Matt launched his business from his proverbial garage while his wife was pregnant with their first child.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

There are a number of funding types that serve the SaaS business model, including: Venture Capital: The glamour means of procuring funds for your startup, venture capital is provided by firms or funds that see high growth potential or a strong track record of recent growth in a SaaS company, enough to merit substantial financial assistance.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 9, 2019

That said, we’re still having trouble hiring machine-learning engineers and are nearly 5 heads behind plan to-date. Finally, I did want to point out — given the concerns about sales hiring — that we ended the quarter with 12 quota-carrying reps (QCRs), only 1 behind plan.

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Kellblog

JUNE 29, 2021

While the app does not appear to learn what I like in formulating suggestions in the hallway, it does appear to learn some bad lessons: e.g., if you actually stumble into a single Russian room it seems suggest them endlessly. The app broke my trust in machine learning. rooms in Russian).

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. AI machine learning was happening, the data was happening, analytics was happening, so and now it’s privacy.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

machine learning in particular?—?are The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. She is an active speaker on startups, venture capital, inbound marketing, remote work, and spacetech. He tweets on product design , investments, venture capitalism, and technology.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, responsible communication for each prospect every time. I started my career actually in venture capital, specifically in SAS venture capital.

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