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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Rough Benchmarks for Raising a Series A?

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Rough Benchmarks for Raising a Series A? When it comes to raising a Series A, the benchmarks can vary depending on your market, growth trajectory, and the type of B2B business you’re building. Hot AI deals and super strong teams will bend the rules here. Today, generative AI is hot.

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A16Z: The Median Enterprise AI Startup now Hits $2.1M ARR by Month 12

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What “Working” Means in the Era of AI Apps: The New Enterprise Benchmarks That Matter One of the most common refrains in the generative AI era is that “startups are growing faster than ever” — often with fewer resources. The median enterprise AI company now reaches $2.1M

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GTMfund’s 3 Areas of Focus for Investing

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2) AI infrastructure and AI-native The advancements in AI have enabled developers to build what wasn’t possible just a few years ago. One of our early investments, Writer , is competing successfully in providing full-stack generative AI to the enterprise, against juggernauts like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Mary Meeker’s 2025 AI Report

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Companies like Ramp (valued at $7.6B), Harvey (built on OpenAI), and Runway are proving that AI-native teams can operate with the efficiency of legacy orgs 10x their size. At Harvey, <100 employees are supporting Fortune 100 legal teams with generative AI agents. The agentic era has begun AI is autonomously executing.

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Global AI Race: Top 7 Countries Leading Full-Stack AI in 2025

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No wonder most SaaS companies have jumped on board – one industry report finds that 76% of SaaS vendors already offer AI features in their products, and 38% of SaaS firms launched new generative-AI capabilities in the past year. This confirms that mastering the full AI stack is a strategic priority for tech companies everywhere.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Learnings from Mary Meeker’s Latest Report on AI

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Max: Outperforms both DeepSeek and ChatGPT on key benchmarks Baidu Ernie 4.5: DeepSeek R1 scores 93% vs. OpenAI o3-mini’s 95% on math benchmarks. ” Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn (all-hands): “AI use will be part of what we look for in hiring. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2% downloads in 10 weeks (3.4x

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Top AI Tools in 2025 for Content, Video & Chatbots

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Generative AI has exploded by 2025. A new wave of AI-powered platforms now accelerates everything from content writing to video production to customer chat. Tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude and others (logos shown above) use advanced large language models (LLMs) to generate text, images, and speech.