SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! What VCs Are Funding in AI Today The AI funding landscape has evolved rapidly in 2023-2024.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The challenges and rewards of founding and growing a startup for nine years. 26:54) The existential dread of being a startup founder. (37:56) 45:40) Debunking the myth of sacrificing personal life for startup success. (49:07) 26:54) The existential dread of being a startup founder. (37:56)

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As the UKs tech startup ecosystem continues to thrive, visionary founders are driving innovation across various industries, shaping the future of technology , finance , healthcare , and beyond. In this article, we highlight the top 10 tech startup founders in the UK for 2025 (who you should be following if you arent already!),

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SaaStr

JULY 6, 2025

Gross contributed his expertise in early-stage investing and startup acceleration from his tenure at Y Combinator, where he helped identify and nurture some of the accelerator’s most successful companies. This strategic focus proved prescient as the fund launched just as the generative AI boom was beginning to reshape entire industries.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2025

Startup to watch DocUnlock – announced a $3M round with a TechCrunch feature, led by GTMfund. DocUnlock is changing that with cutting-edge generative AI, automating workflows for brokers and eliminating inefficiencies. Writer – named one of Business Insider’s top startups to bet your career on in 2025.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2025

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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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

Our analysis below explores the top 7 countries pushing full-stack AI in 2025, the user perspective on AI’s origins, and how end-users actually feel about these cutting-edge tools. Whether you build enterprise SaaS or run a startup, understanding the global AI landscape (and its products and platforms) is key to staying ahead.

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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. While the acronym might sound funny, the concept has proven incredibly powerful.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Its especially popular with startups, small-to-mid-sized companies, and any organization embracing content marketing and online lead generation. Startups, SMBs, and mid-market; teams wanting all-in-one marketing + sales. auto-generated emails, AI chatbots in service). Rapid SMB adoption with 200K+ customers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2025

Companies can focus on qualitative approaches with a diverse range of customers – from startups to enterprises – to identify common threads and implement solutions that address universal needs. ” AI: The New Foundation of Fintech Both leaders were unequivocal about AI’s central role in modern fintech.

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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. Path 2: Use an AI tool or service.

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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.) Weve seen startups and agencies use Flowise to quickly launch support bots or FAQs without writing Python.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

from Nov 2022 to Dec 2024 NVIDIA GPUs: 105,000x less energy per token (2014 vs. 2024) What cost dollars now costs pennies; what cost pennies now costs fractions of cents The Developer Revolution: This cost collapse democratized AI development. Suddenly, every indie developer and startup can afford to build AI-native products.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Self-serve support: Zendesk goes beyond traditional knowledge bases to incorporate generative AI capabilities that let you save time. For example, instead of writing entire help articles, you could come up with a few bullet points and ask the AI to expand on them. The paid plan starts at $19 per agent/month. Zendesk pricing.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I know for a lot of people listening, that is probably one of your goals for this year, at least in a lot of the startups we talked to. Katrina Wong: I feel like I barely have time to do so, but when I do have a minute, uh, sometimes it’s in between, uh, startups exiting, that type of thing. Uh, but I love all that.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2025

” ChatGPT and other new GPTs have disrupted the SaaS and no-code space, potentially destroying 99% of startups in the industry and creating new business opportunities in the chatbot and GPT market. What This Means for B2B and SaaS Leaders For incumbents : Your moat isn’t your UI anymore—it’s your data and domain expertise.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

He also co-founded WGI Group, LLC, to provide growth capital to early and expansion stage startups in enterprise software, consumer internet and digital media industries. LLC to provide growth capital to early and expansion stage startups and enterprise software, consumer internet and digital media industries. One is fragmentation.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We’re already seeing a surge of startups offering a light layer of content personalization on top of existing tools. In fact, Forrester predicts that thinly customized generative AI content will further degrade the purchase experience for 70% of B2B buyers.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Neal is also an active board member, advisor, and investor in several high-growth startups, where he leverages his expertise and network to help them scale and succeed. Startups to watch Writer – announced a $200M Series C at a $1.9B Pocus – launched their AI Strategy tool to the general public.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. This role is pivotal in creating the most engaging creative tools for users, with a focus on drawing, playing, and the innovative use of generative AI.

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! TechEmpower can help In the era of LLMs and Generative AI, empty textboxes are a product mistake. And if you’re like most people, you’ve also probably struggled to fill those boxes in. Everyone struggles with empty text boxes.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

He has implemented best practices in Startup, Scale Up, Public, and Private Equity operating environments as well as driving many transformational initiatives. He has spent the past 20 years skillfully building and transforming numerous Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. The power of PLG. Hottest GTM jobs of the week Sr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2024

Is Generative AI going to be transformative or incremental for your startup? Are you re-vampimg your entire product roadmap, or sprinkling AI in along the way? A panel of AI-driven organizations took the stage at SaaStr Annual to talk about the trends and opportunities of GenAI and how it’s shaped their companies.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. I started with a few sentences, uploaded them to gamma.app to outline the presentation, popped over to Midjourney to generate images along the story line, & published it in IA Presenter. GS estimates a 1.5-2.9%

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. Startup platforms are OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Cohere. For the incumbents, you have Notion and Gorgias, and the startups are Jasper, Copy, and Harvey.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2024

As the kickoff to our first fully digital SaaStr AI Day, Jennifer Tejada , the CEO of PagerDuty, chatted with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder, about navigating the shift to Generative AI and what Artificial Intelligence in SaaS might look like in the next 6 months, as well as years to come. What will it mean for society?

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. About 15 – 25% of tasks can be automated using AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’re starting to see the very early stages of a tech stack emerge in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Hundreds of new startups are rushing into the market to develop foundation models, build AI-native apps, and stand up infrastructure/tooling. Many hot … The post Who Owns the Generative AI Platform?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

As generative AI captivates Startupland, startups will do what they have always done: integrate new technology to build transformative businesses. Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. What are these moats?

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sharing our mental model on gen AI in SaaS Over the past twelve months, like many others, I’ve been diving deep into generative AI and its implications for SaaS companies, as well as what it means for us as early-stage SaaS investors. Where are the opportunities for new startups in generative AI?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AI adoption has grown exponentially over the past year and it has likely doubled from its more than 2.5x At SaaStr Annual , IBM’s VP of Software and Technology Raj Datta and Director of Startups Kylie Rutherford shared how AI is changing the game for companies of all sizes. growth in the last few months alone.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If one thing is certain about generative AI, it’s that no one knows exactly how it will play out from a product or user experience perspective. How will creative AI models change our expectations of what we can do with computers? What’s the scale of the opportunity that AI presents?

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Point Nine Land

MAY 11, 2023

Speed and Adaptability Will Define the B2B SaaS Winners in the Generative AI (R)evolution Smaller species tend to have shorter lifespans and faster reproductive cycles and can therefore adapt much faster to changes in the environment. To say there’s no shortage of opinions on ChatGPT and the future of AI would be an understatement.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2024

750k-$4m checks for SaaS, Cloud and B2B startups at from $10k-$200k MRR. Gorgias’ Next Generation AI Agent is Already Seeing 20% Automation Rate Gorgias is the leading content center for e-commerce, with over 16,000 customers. A big week at SaaStr Fund! Some great news this week: #1. We led the U.S.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Can these startups actually make any money? Budgets for generative AI are skyrocketing. In 2024, we believe the revenue opportunity will be multiples larger in the enterprise.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

How is AI going to impact the software and SaaS landscape of the next couple of years and also the next 5-10 years? Kristina Shen, General Partner at a16z, shares some insights into the present and future of generative AI at this week’s Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Is less more? Only time will tell.

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