SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Vendr SaaS Consultant Katie Oates and Vendr Vice President of Customer Team Jeff Swank share eye-opening data and insights into buyer trends from 2023. They review the changing market, buyer trends, and tips for the road ahead. So, what’s driving these purchasing trends? Is it mission-critical? The best product will win.

VP of Engineering 244

VP of Engineering Trends Cybersecurity Sales Hiring 244

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 22, 2023

On November 8th, I’ll share my 10 Top Trends in Data & AI at the IMPACT Summit. If you’re interested to hear about these trends, register here for the virtual event. Last year, I covered 9 topics: Cloud data warehouses will process 75% of workloads by 2024. Metrics layers unify the data stack.

Trends 231

Trends AI Data Cloud 231

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On Monday, at TC Disrupt Colin Zima CEO of Omni , Jordan Tigani CEO of Motherduck , Daniel Svnova CEO of Superlinked & Toby Mao CTO of Tobiko Data who are leading the evolution of the Post Modern Data Stack discussed the trends they are seeing. Here are some of the themes & predictions from the group.

Trends 191

Trends Data New CTO CTO 191

SaaStr

OCTOBER 2, 2023

And 1 Big Party with Cheat Codes and Anabel Englund But much more than that, we dig into the data even more to uncover the latest event trends prevalent at SaaStr: First, on the attendee side, 34% of attendees attended as a team. So who’s coming with?

Trends 220

Trends New CTO CTO Data 220

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At the IMPACT Summit yesterday, I shared our Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024. LLMs Transform the Stack : Large language models transform data in many ways. First, they have driven an increased demand for data and are causing a complete architecture inside companies. Second, they change the way that we manipulate data.

Artificial Intelligence 182

Artificial Intelligence Trends Data Software Review 182

Payrix

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

To stay competitive today, software companies should plan to stay on top of the latest Embedded Finance trends and strategies. Below are the top 3 trends to look out for this year and the benefits they could provide your business. Embedded Finance trend #3: Ultra-personal services We’re not done with data just yet.

Payments 130

Payments Payment Solutions Embedded Payments Trends 130

BetterCloud

DECEMBER 17, 2024

With a focus on streamlining operations and enhancing security, emerging IT trends prove 2025 will be a doozy. Anyone else feel like 2024 breezed by? As we round the corner to 2025, the IT landscape is poised for significant transformation. Common challenges include increased attach surface and the rise of file sharing.

Trends 105

Trends Cybersecurity compliance AI 105

TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

AI empowers businesses to craft more impactful marketing campaigns by utilizing data analytics for content personalization and market trend forecasting, thereby significantly enhancing campaign relevance and effectiveness. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

Generative AI 443

Generative AI AI CTO Hire Sales Recruiting 443

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 29, 2022

I observe a few trends. Companies that can buck this trend will be valued at significant premiums to the market - hence the sudden venture capitalist interest in product-led growth motions & Adobe’s acquisition of Figma at 50x ARR. After a two-quarter spike, however, the figure has returned to its previous negative slope.

Sales Hiring 297

Sales Hiring Sales Startup Acquisition 297

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

Concurrent with the evolution in ACV, we can observe a few other trends. One hypothesis for this trend is that customers initially bought a large number of licenses and are now working with UIPath and the 3100 system integrators in their network to build a larger number of robots per license seat.

Payment Services 359

Payment Services Metrics Payment Solutions Payments 359

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2021

We’ve all seen this, but the trend is accelerating. You can also catch a deep dive on a number of these metrics and trends we did with Byron Deeter of Bessemer here: The post The Top 100 Private Cloud and SaaS Companies Now Have an Average Valuation of $5.2 But the next generation? That’s less clear.

Cloud 313

Cloud Scale SaaS Acquisition 313

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2023

For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. You won’t find people outside of tech hubs googling for microservices or layer 2 blockchains or serverless databases with any great frequency. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT.

ChatGPT 347

ChatGPT AI Search Blockchain Data Analysis 347

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

The black line shows the linear trend across US venture backed companies with disclosed values of $50m or more. If there are any increases, they tend to be in the bigger acquisitions of $500 million or more - although the sample size there is sufficiently small to conclude the trend is significant.

Acquisition 267

Acquisition Startup Venture Capital Software 267

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

But the trend of slowing growth in 2023 wasn’t just a thing — it was an All Time Low. Still, the trend line does make you worry a smidge. .: And Gartner still predicts overall Cloud spend will grow to record rates in 2024. We’ve always bounced off the lows. I’m betting that’s not 2024-2026.

Azure 289

Azure Cloud SaaS Trends 289

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

NRR Trending Slightly Back Up There’s a general consensus that the B2B segments that saw a downturn the past 2 years saw that downturn end in Q3’24. And then charge users that go beyond 100s or 1000s of workflows per month. Will this stick? Is it too complicated, or is it what the market now expects? Let’s see! #7.

AI 268

AI B2B Scaling Trends 268

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2021

a day: Ok 2021 isn’t quite over, but the trends are pretty much set. Has it felt like not just a unicorn-a-day in 2021, but a bit more? No, you weren’t crazy. We minted 46 Unicorns a Month in 2021. That’s 1.5 Crunchbase had some interesting slices on the overall markets, as you can see above.

Cloud 330

Cloud Trends SaaS Marketing 330

SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2024

SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 11, 2024 So theres a quiet trend Ive observed for a while but didnt want to call a trend. Found out over the weekend another 2 CEOs Ive known for a long time that raised $50m+ recently just quit their start-ups I guess this is fine now — Jason ????SaaStr But I think it is.

Venture Capital 256

Venture Capital Banking Trends Investment 256

SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2021

We’ve used various bits of the BVP Nasdaq Index and metrics since they launched a few years ago to highlight trends in SaaS and Cloud. This week even after a pullback, public SaaS and Cloud companies are up an eve 1000% (!) since 2013. Yes, the markets have retreated a bit from their all-time highs. But does it even matter?

Cloud 317

Cloud SaaS Trends Metrics 317

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Let’s bucket these businesses by growth to see trends. It hovers around 5x until 2018, then spikes to 8x, and despite some volatility, reaches its current zenith at a bit more than 10x. The valuation multiple has doubled in about two years. But this figure includes companies growing at differen rates.

Software Review 363

Software Review Finance Enterprise Acquisition 363

The Daily Egg

JANUARY 18, 2023

If a hashtag for your brand is trending on social media, you’ve either accomplished something amazing…or your brand is being dragged through. The post 5 Brand Crisis Examples appeared first on The Daily Egg.

Branding 285

Branding Social Media Trends 285

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Earlier this week, OpenAI announced a 3x reduction in costs - a trend that will continue as engineers optimize the chips, the algorithms, & the systems for AI. It depends on the use case & the amount of optimization one is willing to commit to the model. These prices aren’t fixed.

Artificial Intelligence 335

Artificial Intelligence AI Engineering Trends 335

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 29, 2020

How consumer spending evolves and the prospects for the largest technology companies are two of the more important trends in the next few quarters. On the other hand, if the behemoths benefit and capture greater share, the index may continue to rise. These are some of the charts I’ll be paying attention to.

Cloud 332

Cloud Technology Trends Startup 332

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The collection of these three earnings calls presages continued reduction in growth rates, likely through the end of the year, as most businesses favor profits over growth - a trend echoing across Startupland. Google: [We] are pushing Google Cloud to Profitability. With an operating loss of $480m on 7.3b Amazon: Net sales increased $21.4

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 280

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Cloud AWS Sales Hiring 280

Tom Tunguz

JULY 4, 2020

We’ve met companies that have grown at steady and even accelerating rates through the crisis, especially those that capitalize on the dominant trends, including cloud computing, remote work, and collaboration. This focus is particularly true at the later stages. At the early stages, the phenomena are a bit different.

Marketing 363

Marketing Investment Cloud Startup 363

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

The automation of QA is a secular trend that perhaps accelerated with more software engineers working from home. By virtue of the importance of data when working remotely and the breadth of applications of that data, this category popped into the top 10. Quality Assurance is truly about the automation of certain parts of software testing.

Startup 354

Startup Software Engineering Finance Engineering 354

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2024

I don’t love this trend. But like side hustles, the trend looks to be here to stay. Everyone does this in support, but so few in CS. Do your customers love their CS exec? And how often do they call them? I like CS’s only core job being making customers truly successful.

Customer Success 250

Customer Success Sales Trends Retention 250

Tom Tunguz

MAY 16, 2024

Ramp published its quarterly spending trends & revealed how businesses are spending on AI. 1 However, this isn’t a uniform trend. 1 However, this isn’t a uniform trend. There are many great data points that underscore the growth in AI but there are important nuances in the patterns.

AI 244

AI Churn Trends Pricing 244

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2024

So I wouldn’t call it a trend, at least not yet. More here: 5 Interesting Learnings from OneStream at $480,000,000 in ARR I’m not saying this is a trend. More perhaps a coincidence. But it is interesting. There have been only 3 SaaS IPOs since 2021 … a long, dry spell. And 1 was basically bootstrapped. #1.

Venture Capital 250

Venture Capital SaaS Trends Scaling 250

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So now that we’ve been doing our 5 Interesting Learning series on public SaaS companies for a while, we can pull out a number of trends. Maybe the most jaw-dropping is just how fast the top SaaS and Cloud leaders grow … at $1 Billion in ARR. The average SaaS leader grows almost 60% (!)

SaaS 314

SaaS Cloud Trends Revenue 314

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2024

2024/2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin And come see 200+ top SaaS, Cloud and AI sessions like these at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners #9.

Cloud 229

Cloud AI Startup Trends 229