The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies. With an invested volume of more than EUR 300 million, BayBG is one of the major venture capital and investment companies in Germany. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Engineers measure application performance and build machine learning models. Venture capital is no different. If a relationship business like venture capital can benefit from statistics, imagine the impact to a performance oriented startup. CEOs measure key company metrics. PMs measure engagement.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 14, 2016

Advances in machine learning and natural language processing will be key ingredients in the software applications of the future. For example, Numi could use these technologies to begin to learn venture capital jargon and math like calculating the dilution for an employee stock option plan increase.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets?

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2013

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming. Not every company has ML expertise.

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

“With this new injection of capital, riskmethods is taking a major step towards achieving our goal of global market leadership in the segment of supply chain risk management,” said Rolf Zimmer, CEO and co-founder of riskmethods. Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. www.eqtventures.com.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow. When Satyen Sangani explained the machine-learning data catalog as I was contemplating an angel investment in Alation [21]. Upstarts can stand yet again on the shoulders of giants. seed, angel) and the later growth stage as well.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

For what it's worth, I know AI and Machine Learning are a hyped topic but I think the hype is justified. The ability to gather large amounts of data from the entire user base, and use that data along with AI/ML to make your software smarter, is one of the big themes at the moment.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Companies in almost every sector are looking to take advantage of machine learning and integrate it into their products. Tiny Capital. Tiny Capital is a different breed in the micro acquisition space. Unlike some of the other tools mentioned above, it’s a traditional venture capital firm, with a twist.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

There is a need for deeper investments in the Brazilian market and better budget allocation in learning and development. The session also talks about the challenges of working with a large amount of data in the context of a company, and the use of AI to efficiently route orders, optimize pricing, and improve customer experience.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 13, 2019

Today, machine learning is compounding increasing returns yet again [7]. But that thinking basically assumes the venture capital market mispriced LeaderCo. Most high-tech markets have increasing returns effects because customers like to reduce risk by buying from market leaders.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 29, 2018

This means that owning a category is in most cases a requirement for the level of growth and investment multiples that venture capital demands. Data (as machine learning techniques are increasingly accessible, data becomes a point of leverage). Oh how far we’ve come. So what’s left? ” from the market.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 9, 2019

That said, we’re still having trouble hiring machine-learning engineers and are nearly 5 heads behind plan to-date. Finally, I did want to point out — given the concerns about sales hiring — that we ended the quarter with 12 quota-carrying reps (QCRs), only 1 behind plan.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2023

here , here , here , and here ), and Louis Coppey summarized his learnings exploring GPT/LLMs in this great post. I’ve already shared some of my thoughts before (e.g.,

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SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2020

324: Join SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Bessemer Venture Partners Partner Byron Deeter for a deep dive on what’s going on in Venture Capital and Cloud. This podcast is an excerpt from Jason and Byron’s webinar “Bridging the Gap: The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud.”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. AI machine learning was happening, the data was happening, analytics was happening, so and now it’s privacy.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

machine learning in particular?—?are The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Previously, she was an operating partner at Emergence Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that we all probably know about. Alison Wagonfeld is the chief marketing officer for a little company called Google, specifically for Google Cloud, representing both the Google Cloud Platform and G-Suite.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

And even breakthrough companies, such as VMware [6], solved very practical problems early on (e.g., providing multiple environments on a laptop without having to physically change hard drives).

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker wrote in this Quora post : “This was a journey we committed to back in August 2015 to put us on a path to sustained growth and profitability without additional venture capital. Use venture capital to scale an inside sales team and dial for dollars to gain market share. Have we hit peak SaaS?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2018, however, there’s finally an alternative to doing this by hand: machine learning. You probably associate machine learning with dystopian AI or Google’s bot beating the world’s best Go player, but it’s actually becoming central to the marketing industry today. Alternatives: Salespanel, Infer.

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Kellblog

JUNE 29, 2021

While the app does not appear to learn what I like in formulating suggestions in the hallway, it does appear to learn some bad lessons: e.g., if you actually stumble into a single Russian room it seems suggest them endlessly. The app broke my trust in machine learning. rooms in Russian).

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

When it launched as the first cloud-based notes app during the recession in 2008, its founders didn't raise much venture capital. For instance, could they use machine learning to predict what you might want to write as you continued to jot things down over the years?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. You needed to understand how do we keep the bad actors out and use machine learning to prevent spammers and phishers from taking advantage of our system.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. You apply your machine learning and voila, you’ve turned a process from rules-based to experience-based, right?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Greater integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies Artificial Intelligence has been a part of the product management landscape for at least a couple of years now. The process can be greatly enhanced by AI and machine learning algorithms.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Carbon Black, DocuSign, SurveyMonkey, Tenable, Smartsheet, Dropbox; fantastic names that in aggregate, when you put together the three ways to buy stocks, public, IPOs, private venture capital dollars and then outright acquisitions. Last year was a record in terms of total combined capital by a large multiple.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

I’d argue it’s not – the markets have changed structurally such that companies are staying private far longer and thus living off venture capital (and/or growth-stage private equity) in ways not previously seen. The interesting question here is whether mean reversion is relevant.

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