Tom Tunguz

MARCH 31, 2016

2016 is off to a slower start than 2015. billion in Q1 2016, a decline of about 17%. Nevertheless, Q1 2016 activity exceeded Q1 2014. The first quarter in 2016 has been the hardest quarter to raise a seed round in the past five years. In Q1 2015, venture capitalists invested $17.5 billion compared to $14.6

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

Automattic was started in 2005 to democratize publishing, and WooCommerce was purchased in 2016 to democratize e-commerce. They put power back in the hands of the people because technology should enable you. When WordPress purchased WooCommerce in 2016, they believed it would become their biggest business.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The accelerating pace of new technology has defined the modern era. Technological change needs to mesh with human change to capture new opportunities. Along with the technological change that enabled the formation of a new category called customer engagement, new ways of working and skill sets were introduced to the landscape. .

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Cloud 100 multiples have fallen in 2022 –– ARR multiples rose nearly fourfold from 9x in 2016 to 34x in 2021 and down to 30x in 2022. Currently, the cloud technology industry has reached about $495 billion. VC funding has decreased 23% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 of this year.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After 11 years in finances, in 2016 she became the CFO of Brinc.io, boldly entering into the tech world. Bai took on a number of senior positions – Director of HR and Director of Marketing at Alibaba, as well as Chief Marketing Officer of Jiangsu Ju Teng Network Technology.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 28, 2016

Through the end of July in 2016, $70B worth of SaaS companies sold. In 2016, these PE firms aren’t following that playbook. The 2016 software buying spree hasn’t benefitted private startups or unicorns yet, and that reflects the different strategies of the buyers.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Are you one of those people whose eyes glaze over every time they read about crafting the perfect marketing campaign or embracing technologies? Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World” is a documentary detailing how we became so dependent on technology. iHuman” is a technology documentary covering the impact of AI.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Artificial intelligence is to be a big trend in the SaaS world, a theme that matured in 2016 but will very much continue through 2017. 17% of SaaS companies who have raised so far in 2016 employ machine learning. And investors are excited to support them.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 25, 2016

As the cost of capital increases in 2016, these winner take all rounds will become less and less common. It’s not that fundraising will not remain a critical skill in 2016. So the disparity across competitors’ balance sheets will contract. Rather, fundraising will no longer be exclusively sufficient.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The accelerating pace of new technology has defined the modern era. Technological change needs to mesh with human change to capture new opportunities. Along with the technological change that enabled the formation of a new category called customer engagement, new ways of working and skill sets were introduced to the landscape. .

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2020

Founded in 2016, Hiyacar’s goal has always been to connect drivers with trusted local car owners. Their Quickstart keyless technology means that workers can download a virtual key and start driving without needing to meet car owners. No one at Hiyacar HQ joined because they love car hire.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s. After a BA in Technology and an MBA, André Baldini made his first steps into IT, working in companies like Stefanini and Itaú Unibanco. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

They’ve also: Built-in all the security and controls and technology to be able to scale Introduced Duet AI on the Google Cloud side to help with day-to-day coding and assistance The way GenAI has been built into the whole stack, natively from top-to-bottom, and owning and managing a lot of the pieces has been giving Google an edge in the market.

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SaaStr

JULY 7, 2021

Where it Went: IPO’d in 2013, hit $250m ARR by 2016, a cquired for $1.8b 1848 Intaact Technology. Where it Went: $233m+ in growth financing (at implicit valuation of $1B+) in 2021. #78 78 Marketo. in 2011 GAAP revenue. by Vista PE , and then Adobe for $4B+. #99 99 SugarSync. in 2011 GAAP revenue. And G2 is now worth $1.1B+!

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

There’s no longer a whole market churning through this tidal wave of partially-baked technologies that are looking for some semblance of competitive advantage. However, these developments have also set the stage for a world in which any company, of any size, can potentially access any kind of technology.

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SaaStock

MARCH 27, 2019

The common denominator between each was the use of technology and making an impact on people’s lives. The biggest reason behind that growth is a switch to a full-blown SaaS model starting in 2016. He has certainly had a massive impact on Superlógica.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2024

Jennifer has been at PagerDuty since 2016, a disruptive company that took automation to the next level before AI was hot in 2024. PagerDuty just launched a survey to Fortune 100 CIOs, and 100% of them said they have concerns about the security, privacy, and data risk of the technology. This is why this time in history is so exciting.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2024

In 2016, the question was easy to answer : sell Ironman not Robocop. Technology hadn’t reached the level of sophistication we have attained today where AI is 90% as capable as a high-school student, the MMLU benchmark for AI is precisely this. Should software assist humans or act on their behalf?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Its goal is to help e-commerce, m-commerce and online advertising through its advanced computer vision technology. Founded : 2016. Founded : 2016. Founded : 2016. mHealth Technologies. mHealth Technologies operates the Vietnamese telemedicine platform Wellcare.vn. Founded : 2012. Based in: Singapore.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2024

  In 2016, Mastodon , an open-source and decentralized microblogging platform, was launched. The advent of blockchain technology and growing disillusionment with traditional social networks have reignited interest in decentralization. Their platform still exists and currently has around 850,000 users. 

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. When a new technology launches, the company’s community of instructors typically publishes a course on it, either months in advance or on the day of. A localized approach to growing internationally.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Ceyuan Ventures selects entrepreneurs who show promise in crafting leading technologies, backed by powerful teams and innovation. Tencent has done 43 investment deals in 2018, 72 investment deals in 2017 and 50 in 2016. Foxconn Technology Group. Founded: 2016. In 2016, Ardent Capital merged with Wavemaker Partners.

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Later on, when we thought a new acquisition of raw technology was ready to scale (it wasn’t – it is now) In 2022 (like many companies), when we misread the “COVID bump” of 2021 for a secular change in software In each case, the mistake wasn’t being aggressive. And then at Pulse 2016, I decided to take another leap.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Neoway is targeted to serve a diverse range of industries, including transportation, consumer goods, construction, oil and gas, health and pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, banks, and insurance companies and brokers, among others. Airnguru provides a pricing intelligence technology for airlines. Founded : 2016. MediConecta.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 7, 2023

Looking for: Microsoft office 2016 training courses free.Excel video training. Technology for Teachers and Students has a great number of concise and detailed video tutorials for learning Microsoft Office. It comes with everything microsoft office 2016 training courses free may come into use in the office setting. Download now.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

2016: $3.5m We also started back in early 2000s, but spent the better of 12 years perfecting a technology called Computer Vision before the market really was there. The technology is perfected. We will do four and a half times what we did last year and be able to be a half a billion dollar AI company in about 18 months.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Founded: 2016. and Brazil technology markets. The company boasts high-level investors and advisors who assist portfolio businesses with their extensive know-how in sales, technology, business development, entrepreneurship, as well as with networking connections. Size of fund: $7.6M. A.B.Seed Ventures. Valor Capital Group.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

He went on to serve as CEO of Avatar Technologies and Pacific Data before joining Rational Software as President and COO until its acquisition by IBM. In 2008, Jeff founded Twilio and has since seen the company through it’s 2016 IPO and beyond. He was the CFO of SQA and Orange Nassau. From 2004-2009 he was a partner at Greylock.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We decided 2016 was going to be the year of invention. We had three big projects, and at the end of 2016 , we looked back and realized that we had shipped, with double the staff, 50 things. In 2016, big things. ” But when we did that, we hired very fast through the end of 2015 and early 2016. In 2015, small things.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 1, 2017

AppDynamics technology helps engineers determine how software applications behave as users interact with them. The company provided full year data through 2016. in revenue through 2016. License software is going in the other direction: License revenue in the nine months ended October 31, 2016 decreased by $2.2

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ReSci

MAY 26, 2016

The Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE) is upon us yet again with another exciting year of industry experts covering the latest topics and trends on digital commerce, online retail strategies, and the best solutions for e-commerce technologies. The post Our Top Picks for IRCE 2016 appeared first on ReSci.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2024

He previously co-founded the cloud data pipeline company Stitch (acquired by Talend in 2018) and business intelligence platform RJMetrics (acquired by Adobe by way of Magento Commerce in 2016). Prior to RJMetrics, Bob worked on the Investment Team of Insight Partners.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2017

Five months into 2017 nine venture-backed technology companies have gone public compared to 14 in 2016. Appian is likely the next venture backed technology IPO, coincidentally, my first employer after graduate school. Four consumer companies and five enterprise companies have popped on average 29% since their IPO pricing.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 29, 2017

The chart above shows the amount of venture debt borrowed by US technology startups. In 2016, we saw the first $1B venture debt round. Venture debt is an attractive financial product. No wonder it has grown in popularity by 16x in the in the last six years. Venture debt volumes have surpassed Series A and Series B dollars.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 12, 2016

The value of all public technology companies exceeds $10.7T. At the beginning of 2016, that figure touched an all time high of $11T. It’s taken more than a decade for public technology companies to replicate/recreate the market cap observed in the dot-com era, even when adjusting for inflation.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It takes strategy, processes, design, technology, and the right people to build an empathetic mindset that impacts customers and employees. So, building out a very clear strategy of what a customer support team needs has been key for us striking that balance between human support and technology at Intercom. Doing more with less.

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