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A New Chapter

Tom Tunguz

The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. Fueled by this capital, startup company formation rates touched fifteen-year highs in 2021. After more than 14 years at Redpoint, I’m starting a new chapter. I’m filled with optimism for the future.

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AI Superpowers - A History of Chinese Startups and the Implications for the Future of Startupland

Tom Tunguz

Chinese startups raise nearly half of all venture capital dollars and nearly 100 are valued at $1B. He’s a venture capitalist in China and knows the ecosystem well. The first is his view of the influence of machine learning in the world. There are two ideas in the book that will remain with me.

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

Using advanced machine learning techniques, Loyalty Prime’s AI will maximise efficiency and effectiveness of loyalty program business rule creation, segmentation and personalisation, next best offer management, and fraud prevention, to name a few.” The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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The Rising Stakes in SaaS

Tom Tunguz

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious.

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

Using advanced machine learning techniques, Loyalty Prime’s AI will maximise efficiency and effectiveness of loyalty program business rule creation, segmentation and personalisation, next best offer management, and fraud prevention, to name a few.” The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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The Decline of New SaaS Company Formation

Tom Tunguz

This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. Machine learning in SaaS is nascent. Third, the recent concentration of seed investments in fewer companies might contribute to a decreased rate of founding.

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Who’s building the Copilot for VCs?

Point Nine Land

It would require the integration of several AI technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP) to understand and generate text, machine learning (ML) to learn from user actions and preferences, and automation to perform tasks. The security and privacy concerns mentioned are real.