SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Activant Capital brought together at SaaStr Annua l a group of break-out next-generation AI enhanced vertical software leaders: the CEOs from Owner.com, Alloy Automation, and DoNotPay. At SaaStr Annual they shared their experiences and insights on implementing AI in vertical software companies. Sales up 22%! Join a rocketship.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2025

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) work directly with industry leading Generative AI companies, build and own robust, production-grade data integrations used to power advanced foundational models. They have dedicated engineers whose job is to make AI work for each specific customer. But it’s not just about the data.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2025

The AI race isn’t just about who has the most users—it’s about who can monetize their technology most effectively. forward revenue multiple compared to OpenAI’s 31x multiple, suggesting investors believe Anthropic’s business model has superior long-term potential despite the smaller current scale.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2025

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. Now this isn’t all start-ups, it’s many of the best ones.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2025

billion in Q4 FY2025 Cloud Services became Oracle’s largest business, with non-GAAP operating income up 14% in constant currency to $5.7 But the real story is in the cloud numbers: cloud business earned €17.14 The AI Integration That Actually Matters : Half of SAP’s Q4 cloud order entry included AI.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Building ‘opinionated products’ and the importance of customer intimacy Lessons learned from scaling Twitter’s ad business from zero to $650 million in three years. 15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54) The challenges and rewards of founding and growing a startup for nine years.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

Buying Committees Are Shrinking But Getting More Technical The Change : Committees down from 5-8 people to 3-4 people, but IT involvement jumped to 47% of all deals The Challenge : IT leaders are now “AI orchestrators” focused on integration and risk management The Response : Build separate pitch decks for technical buyers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2025

GenAI investments are already delivering measurable ROI: 49% report improved time efficiency 40% see improved cost efficiency 27% can produce more content and handle more business Just 1% of CMOs said GenAI isn’t currently a priority. Let that sink in—99% of marketing leaders are actively investing in generative AI.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

The harsh reality: Most enterprises are adopting AI due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) rather than for specific business outcomes. A chief data officer at a top-five global bank recently shared they have 150 generative AI projects in the lab but zero in production.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

In an era when executives are bombarded with tech buzzwords, it’s vital to focus on real-world AI uses that deliver business impact. This vivid idea captures AIs potential to act as assistants and insights machines, boosting efficiency and innovation.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Generative Business Intelligence (GenBI) is the next exciting innovation, saving organizations from getting lost in a sea of data. What is generative BI? Generative BI is an AI-powered evolution of traditional Business Intelligence (BI) that enables users to interact with data via a chat-like function using natural language.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Are PE firms looking for fixer-uppers or already-fixed businesses? A discussion of Andy Wilson ‘s successful exit at Logickull where Jason was an investor and I was an advisor What will be the impact of AI on SaaS budgets? To what extent will companies raid headcount budget to generate AI budget?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2025

Yet, some do it repeatedly, spotting the right opportunities, backing the right teams, and scaling businesses to the finish line. Patterns emerge when analyzing businesses that have successfully exitedoften multiple times. Talent, decision-making, and execution all start with the people running the business.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Buffer: Social media management for creators and small businesses A social media management tool is central to any social strategy. That flexibility is helpful since every dollar counts as I grow my freelance business. Many social listening tools cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, putting them out of reach for small businesses.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Industry leaders have quickly embraced RAG as a way to build more intelligent AI applications. In fact, Gartners 2024 AI report advises organizations that want to use generative AI on private data to prioritize RAG investments. This means the AIs answers can include information from after its training date.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Apart from building successful companies, these entrepreneurs are taking it a step further – rewriting the rules of business and disrupting traditional models. Thanks to him, businesses can easily create and scale professional-quality videos in 50+ languages.

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SaaStr

JULY 6, 2025

The AI Focus: Betting Big on Artificial Intelligence From the outset, NFDG positioned itself as an AI-focused venture fund, anticipating the massive wave of innovation that would sweep through the artificial intelligence sector.

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SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2025

It’s based on market creation potential: AI market projected to hit $1T+ by 2030 OpenAI commands 17% market share in generative AI Winner-take-all dynamics in infrastructure B2B Application : If you’re creating a new category, price your rounds based on market potential, not current metrics.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. Both are industry leaders, but they cater to different business needs and audiences. Are you an enterprise needing deep customization and analytics, or a small business seeking user-friendly marketing integration?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2025

Her Internet Trends reports helped a generation of founders navigate shifts in consumer behavior, platforms, and growth models. It’s a 340-slide deep dive into how AI is reshaping business, product, and go-to-market strategy. At Harvey, <100 employees are supporting Fortune 100 legal teams with generative AI agents.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

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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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

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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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

In this post, well break down what LLMs are, how they differ from AI tools, and why understanding this distinction is key to building successful AI-powered SaaS applications. The past few years have seen an explosion in generative AI AI systems that create content. Notion AI is an add-on subscription to Notion.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The Infrastructure Math Is Unprecedented The Capital Intensity Is Off The Charts: Big Six tech CapEx: $212B annually (63% YoY growth) Microsoft AI business: $13B run-rate (175% YoY growth) NVIDIA data center revenue: $39B quarterly (78% YoY growth) Amazon AWS CapEx as % of revenue: 49% (vs. Token Costs Collapsed 99.7%

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2025

His unique position spans both product and business functions including sales, marketing, and customer success – giving him a holistic view of bringing outside perspectives into product development. “It’s no longer possible to build a fintech product at scale without using AI,” states Taylor.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

The generative AI revolution has driven explosive growth in Large Language Model (LLM) applications. To build these AI-powered apps (chatbots, automated agents, RAG systems, etc.) For example, E2E Networks built an AI chatbot for its product docs using LlamaIndex and Flask.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 28, 2025

The SaaS landscape is rapidly embracing generative AI. Analysts estimate that up to 6070% of routine tasks could be automated by AI, potentially adding trillions of dollars in value. are already infusing AI into products used by billions. rising latency or hallucinations) and continuously improve the AI pipeline.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 10, 2025

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. Pro Gemini 2.5

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Integrations with other tools: Does it integrate with CRM, marketing automation, and other essential business applications? Scalability and security: Can the platform grow with your business and protect your data? Scalability and security Built to scale with your business, with enterprise-grade security measures to protect your data.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

And if you’re a B2B, you know, as a business leader myself. Is this relevant enough to the business that I’m running? And to look at your business in a greater detail than you may imagine. So here is how I would do it without the outside consultants and if I were a smaller business. What’s my strategy?

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Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. With businesses adopting diverse pricing modelsranging from subscriptions to usage-based billinglegacy systems often struggle to keep up.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2025

Except instead of two egos competing for attention, it’s one AI platform systematically absorbing the functionality of entire categories of business software. The Numbers Don’t Lie: OpenAI Is Playing a Different Game OpenAI announced it now has 3 million paying business users, up from the 2 million it reported in February.

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