Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

From the millions of Amazon Alexas to the self-driving car, new products are coming to market infused with machine learning. The innovation offered by machine learning techniques are real, and they will changed the SaaS world. How can startups use machine learning to their advantage?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 24, 2023

In the late 2010s, machine learning inflated demand. Nvidia has more than doubled its capex in 2023 & the latest earnings release suggested the business plans to invest more. In a decade, the business increased in value about 250x, compounding at about 74%. Nvidia’s most recent breakout occurred in the last two years.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2016

Which are the ripest areas for startups to disrupt using machine learning? At the core, machine learning/artificial intelligence relies on two key ingredients: advanced algorithms and data sets to train those algorithms.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2023

As machine learning becomes core to every product, engineering teams will restructure. In the past, the core engineering team & the data science/machine learning teams worked separately. Data science teams’ increased budget faces pressure from the office of the CFO to justify the investment.

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IT World

JANUARY 24, 2022

Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are apparently eager to invest in technology to help attract — and keep — finance talent and workers with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) skills, according to a new survey. To read this article in full, please click here

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The way developers consume these … The post Investing in Replicate appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. If aliens landed on earth and decompiled our software, every app would look roughly the same: some combination of networking, storage, and compute.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Here’s how more advanced methods of automation, including machine learning, can help CFOs transform the finance function to be more of a strategic advisor to the business. Where Automation and Machine Learning Can Drive Finance Transformation. Internal and external fraud costs businesses billions of dollars each year.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Advances in machine learning are transforming the software world. Two of the most exciting applications of machine learning are speech recognition and natural language processing.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2023

I’ve worked for two, invested in many, seven of which became unicorns. I study them, benchmark them, analyze them, interview their leaders to understand their mechanics & share what I’ve learned on this blog. Thesis investing is at our core. I’ve spent my career as a student of startups. Theory is deliberately named.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2023

Like an investment portfolio, any individual strategy may thrive one day & suffer the next. How do they differ from classic machine learning? Other days when content strategies struggle, a witty paid ad campaign entices some clicks & form fills. When I first started to write this blog, I was thrilled with 100 page views.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. Machine learning has become table stakes for modern software companies - users expect apps to anticipate their needs & businesses rely on it for competitive advantage. I’m filled with optimism for the future.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions. Our modern and intuitive SaaS platform combines our proprietary data and application layers into one vertically-integrated solution with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities.

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 25, 2017

Over the last couple of weeks and months we spent some time putting our investment thesis on paper. The purpose of this exercise was to challenge and discuss our implicit assumptions and to get everyone on our team aligned on what kind of investments we seek. Thanks for contributing this section, Pawel.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As Gleklen says, “We actually see this monolith falling apart, and it’s falling apart primarily due to what we view as two of the biggest drivers for value creation today: Machine learning and product-led growth.”. Instead, the best companies strictly define their segments, track them, and invest in the best ones.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. So, modern machine learning opens up vast possibilities – but how do you harness this technology to make an actual customer-facing product? The cupcake approach to building bots.

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InsightOutData

AUGUST 27, 2020

There's a growing trend towards data-driven investing within private equity, led by a breed of firms that are drawing on all the capabilities of advanced analytics to maximize revenue opportunities. Data analytics and machine learning are quickly changing the private equity industry.

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InsightOutData

AUGUST 27, 2020

There's a growing trend towards data-driven investing within private equity, led by a breed of firms that are drawing on all the capabilities of advanced analytics to maximize revenue opportunities. Data analytics and machine learning are quickly changing the private equity industry.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

What You Will Learn: Andy’s entrance into machine learning and generative AI starting in 2018. Approaches for operationalizing AI learnings across go-to-market teams. Highlights: (3:44) Andy’s journey into machine learning and AI. (6:08) 26:00) Overcoming adversity in business school. (30:00)

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I’ve had the privilege to invest one way or another in about 35 SaaS companies, both as a VC and as angel. It’s a pretty solid group and I’ve learned a lot from it. Later, once you past $20m ARR, and later — if your growth is strong, everyone probably wants to invest. The main issue is price.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 10, 2023

Perhaps the first model will classify the query, then route it to the right machine learning model to answer. One could imagine replacing the background or introduction sections in an investment memo or producing a blog post from this in about 2 minutes on a laptop. Summarization works out of the box.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

Join us as we uncover lessons from UiPath’s success in creating a new category within RPA Enterprise Automation – Robotic Process Automation – while navigating the challenges inherent in digital transformation powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

At SaaStr Annual , he was joined by Jordan Tigani, Founder and CEO of Mother Duck Maggie Hott, GTM at OpenAI , and Sharon Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO of Lamini to discuss the new architecture for building Software-as-a-Service applications with data and machine learning at their core.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit. Which of these markets are growing the fastest for investment dollars? The chart above breaks out 14 different software categories and shows the amount of dollars invested in each category indexed to 2010 levels.

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The SaaS Garage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Founded in 2013, riskmethods ’ software as a service (SaaS) solution harnesses cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI), big data and machine learning to protect its customers’ supply chain networks. riskmethods’ software utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to protect its customers’ supply chain network.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2021

When we released Resolution Bot early last year, we recorded this fascinating conversation between our co-founder Ciaran Lee and our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid. It’s a great peek behind the scenes of how we think about using machine learning in a practical way that truly benefits our users.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

GTP-3 and BERT are massive machine learning systems called neural nets. But in the day-to-day operations of the majority of businesses, classic sales and marketing motions are the classical ones; and the transition has proved more fundamental and a longer investment to achieve. VCs invested $10b per year.

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IT World

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The machine learning language program created by San Francisco-based research firm OpenAI offers human-like text responses to queries. And all that can be done with limited investments. ChatGPT is a chatbot sensation that virtually every enterprise — large and small — is considering using to create greater business efficiencies.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

Machine learning fades as a buzzword. A while ago, I pulled up the Redpoint website from a decade ago, when the bios of the partners said things like “I invest in the internet.” ” Or five years ago, “I invest in mobile.”

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

AI or Machine Learning is a new technology that will benefit nearly every type of sector and we’re still in the very earliest innings. FinTech - challenger banks, new electronic stock brokers, AI-powered investment advisors; startups are besieging the incumbents of this regulated world and assailing them in ever greater numbers.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

There are five steps to tracking and measuring user sentiments: Invest in the right sentiment analysis tools. Invest in the right sentiment analysis tools To accurately track user sentiment, you must invest in the right tools. Gather user sentiment data from multiple sources. Brand24 dashboard.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Database startups, data movement startups, data quality startups, data lineage startups, machine learning startups will be the zeitgeist of the decade as they shape the next wave of massive innovation. The 2020s will be the era of data companies boosting massive markets. M&As and IPOs continue at torrid rates.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Prioritize Data Security: Invest in advanced security measures to protect customer data and payment information. Educate Your Team: Ensure that your team is aware of the regulatory requirements affecting your business. Regular training sessions can help maintain compliance and reduce the risk of inadvertent violations.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The first is his view of the influence of machine learning in the world. On machine learning, The AI world order will combine winner-take-all economics with an unprecedented concentration of wealth in the hands of a few companies in China and the US…China’s data advantage extends from quantity to quality.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 4, 2024

The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions. Despite investment in security tools focused on infrastructure security, encompassing networks, applications, endpoints, and identity, cyberattacks continue unabated.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

You can decrease overall costs while improving efficiency and machine learning processes with the right platform on your side. Data labeling is the process of analyzing raw data and labeling it to provide context to machine learning software, algorithms, and end-users. What Is Data Labeling?

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

Today, customer recommendations are a very small portion of Amazon’s total investment in AI. Netflix doesn’t sell products, but they similarly credit the combination of contextually-aware recommendations and personalization (both powered by machine learning models) with saving them $1 billion a year. How does this work?

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