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Where AI Really Matters in Vertical SaaS With CEOs of Owner, Alloy Automation, and DoNotPay

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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.

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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

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Codeium has built a generative AI coding assistant Windsurf that integrates across any IDE and supports over 70 programming languages. Their product is generating an impressive 45% of developers’ code on average. Our best hires consistently came from our leadership team’s networks.

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Building Product in the Age of AI with Plaid’s President and Brex’s President

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The Top 10 Product Leadership Lessons from Plaid’s and Brex’s Presidents Product leaders often ask me what it takes to build successful products in the age of AI, especially in fintech where the stakes are incredibly high. ” The biggest impact?

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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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The Hidden Costs of Efficiency

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Under his leadership, Crunchbase has more than 4X’d its unique users, increased its annual recurring revenue by over 75x, and secured partnerships with large brands like S&P, LinkedIn, NVIDIA, Monday.com , Perplexity, G2, Factset, Amazon, and Snowflake. Pocus – launched their AI Strategy tool to the general public.

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Decoding SaaS Exits: The Most Common Patterns of Successful SaaS Companies

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When evaluating a teams potential, these are key questions to ask: Is the leadership team world-class? Storytelling is core to leadership. DocUnlock is changing that with cutting-edge generative AI, automating workflows for brokers and eliminating inefficiencies. Is operational excellence ingrained in the culture?

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Acquisitions — If You Do Sell, Try to Make Sure It’s At a Local Maximum

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ARR, You Can Get Offers of $25m or if you are in a hot space (maybe generative AI today), sometimes even $100m. What people care about is an MSP (Minimum Sellable Product) … which you don’t really prove until Initial Traction, or $1-$1.5m Every Big Tech company has a budget for sub-$100m acquisitions.