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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. One started with PCs and laptops, the other with mobile phones.

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Has SaaS Become Commodified?

Tom Tunguz

Next-generation machine learning tools are also available by API and improving all the time. The surge of venture capital in the last five years worsens this predicament. Mobile app distribution. First, the technology barriers to starting a SaaS company continue to fall. These three points are all true.

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

The SaaS Garage

Hi inov targets young innovative companies in the digital B2B economy, especially in the areas of e-services, mobile Internet and IoT, point-of-sale and data technologies, and SaaS software dedicated to the digitalization of companies. 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. The promise of mobile remains only somewhat fulfilled. Machine learning in SaaS is nascent. However, Pitchbook analysis corroborates this trend. Chat bots, too, are early.

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

The SaaS Garage

Hi inov targets young innovative companies in the digital B2B economy, especially in the areas of e-services, mobile Internet and IoT, point-of-sale and data technologies, and SaaS software dedicated to the digitalization of companies. The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. Companies in almost every sector are looking to take advantage of machine learning and integrate it into their products. Tiny Capital. Micro Startup Acquisition Trends.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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