SaaStr

MAY 1, 2023

rev 2017: $30m rev. Today, Dines’ vision is to make software robots , powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace. UiPath has had an incredible history, taking 10 years to get to that first $1m in ARR … and then turning into one of the fastest growing software companies to $1 Billion in ARR ever !

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In 2017, he was named by LinkedIn as one of the top 5 CMOs in the world to follow for thought-leadership in the digital marketing domain. Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE:DFIN) and BlueShift, an AI platform for customer engagement. He is a Strategic Advisor to the CEO of Freshworks. He is on the Board of Directors for R.R.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2024

In 2017, the industry migrated from ASC 605 to ASC 606, which are financial arcana as esoteric as it reads. And if AI fulfills anywhere close to its promise, we should expect that trend to continue. If that argument is correct, then the average gross margin of a software company in the public domain would fall from 72% to 47%.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

In this AI moment we’re in, there are still many moments in scaling a company where intuition still matters. This was around 2017, and CS became simpler and focused on post-sales, retention, and reduced churn. This revenue chart is 2017-2021 before Braze IPO’d. Computers disrupted all of that and changed the way people worked.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Enterprise software–at all stages and check sizes–with a focus on SaaS, Security, Infrastructure and, of course, with an integrated AI strategy. I’m also focused on vertical SaaS solutions that are being disrupted by AI. Hilarie Koplow-McAdams joined NEA as a Venture Partner in 2017 and is focused on enterprise software and services.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

Some more recent commitments like Modal (high performance cloud), Cast AI (DevOps automation platform), Betterstack (see inside any tech stack and resolve incidents) or Abacum (financial planning & accounting platform) give a hint on what we’re intrigued by at the moment. 2024 is also a year of truth.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 16, 2024

They contend that AI agents, capable of handling infinite workloads, will ultimately reduce the need for software spend. One of the clearest examples of how lopsided the services-to-software dynamic can be is from Mulesoft’s S1 filing in 2017. I believe this view is (dramatically) missing the bigger picture.

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SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Founded : 2017. They solve that by using both their AI-enabled platform and automation for engagement with leads and students The platform is already used by more than 150 Higher Education and k-12 in Brazil. Founded : 2017. Founded : 2017. Founded : 2017. Founders : Patrick Rocha. Based in: São Paulo. Pin People.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. It provides visual search and image recognition solutions based on AI. Founded : 2017.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

So what does this mean for the huge wave of new consumer AI companies, whose products are still early in their product cycles, often early in their implementation stages, and are evolving in real time? Here are the 7 most effective ways for AI-native consumer companies to improve their retention. In a word: yes.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

The charts below show the change in quarterly revenue YoY (so Q1 ‘24 rev - Q1 ‘23 rev) going back to 2017. These charts clearly show the ZIRP pull forward, the ensuing cloud cost optimizations, and then the recovery.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Victor Riparbelli As co-founder and CEO of Synthesia , the world’s leading AI video creation platform, Victor Riparbelli is a force to be reckoned with in AI-powered video production. Alex Kendall AI entrepreneur and enthusiast Alex Kendall is shaking up the world of autonomous driving.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In 2017, he co-founded B2B Stack, a software review marketplace that boosts the buying process of B2B tech in Brazil. Then she joined Winning By Design in 2017 as Latin America Director. As of 2017, Maíra is the Marketing Director for Latin America for Zendesk. In 2017, she embraced the VC side of the entrepreneurial world.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A fun watch here: Summary from Pavillion: Let’s dive into this episode’s key topics… The AI Bubble Watch here In 2020 and 2021, we saw tech companies raising a lot of capital, and beginning in 2022, we saw a decline in performance leading everyone to believe that these organizations have been overvalued.

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Unbounce

MAY 29, 2020

Oh, and these benchmarks were generated with help from an honest-to-goodness AI crunching millions of conversions, so the results are far more reliable than the anecdotal best practices often found online.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 12, 2024

  I quickly burned out when I tried starting a YouTube channel in 2017. I lacked strategy, struggled with the technical aspects of video production, and failed to gain traction despite publishing 35 videos. Bookmark these must-read articles: When is the Best Time to Post on YouTube?

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

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. 2017: $30m rev. The market now called RPA, which is the fastest path to using AI in a company now. UIPath History. 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company. 2014: $500k rev. seed round. 2016: $3.5m

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2021

And so naturally, he’s got some strong opinions about automation, AI, and how they can help you create better experiences for both potential and existing customers. Adjust expectations around AI. That’s a good thing – too much AI can be, well, creepy.) Are automation and AI b t? Getting real about AI.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2018

A 2017 Fortune article, “Those Annoying Chatbots Can Save Business Billions,” highlighted research findings that chatbots could help customer service teams save more than $8 billion by the year 2022. 1 obstacle for these executives. These changes can already be seen at companies such as Dutch airline KLM.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

  For example, take a look at how our Content team worked together back in 2017 to plan our editorial calendar.   It certainly helps that these articles can’t be replicated by an AI writing tool , either! My favorite tool for this right now is Speechify , which I included in my AI productivity tools list.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 24, 2017

We are in the final two weeks of preparing for Dreamforce 2017 — building our session agendas, RSVPing to countless events and creating a list of hashtags to follow to ensure we stay informed throughout the week. Sales Summit: AI – Friend or Foe to Sales? Mike Wolff, @mike_wolff : SVP, Commercial Sales at Salesforce.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 17, 2024

Attention Is All You Need (which detailed the transformer architecture) came out in 2017. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Intelligence Revolution, will be defined by the transition from human-driven processes to AI-driven intelligence, transforming industries, economies, and daily life through the power of advanced computing.

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Unbounce

JANUARY 13, 2022

Businesses are beginning to leverage AI copywriter tools to save time and pump out more content. You’ve probably heard of AI-powered copywriting—maybe even considered trying it out yourself—but have some hesitations. ( Give our free AI copywriter a try to see it in action.). AI is your ticket to competing in 2022.

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CloseSaaS

JANUARY 10, 2017

I always find myself stumbling across these articles every new year: Is 2017 The Chatbot Year?, 2017 Will Be the Year of AI, 2017: The Year of Machine Learning, Intelligent Content and Experiences.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

By 2017 as things stabilized, VC firms such as Accell and Tiger came back, while a new breed of local Seed stage ones was established. Founded: 2017. Founded: 2017. The sectors of interest for Qualcomm Ventures include AI, automotive, data center, digital health, IoT, and mobile. Size of fund: $20M. Size of fund: N/A.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

With more than 15 years of solid experience, today she is the Chief Operations Officer at the Ping An Health Cloud, known as the most advanced AI healthcare technology. But the founder streak was strong in her and in 2017, she started her own business: MeeOpp.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

While new AI products are surely on the horizon— self-driving cars are coming any day now, possibly, maybe— AI’s most dramatic effects on your job today lies in adding new features across the tools that you’re already using. But, one day soon, you’ll marvel at all the things AI sneakily helped pull off your plate.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2017, she started working as a product lead at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, building their infectious disease program and IDseq, an open-source online platform to spot movement of diseases across borders, the emergence of new illnesses, or the spread of drug-resistant strains. You need both automation and human interaction.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2024

He’s been recognized as one of the Industry’s top “40 under 40” by Staffing Industry Analysts in both 2017 and 2018 and as a Top 100 Global Sales Leaders in 2020 by The Modern Sale. Eric also serves as a limited partner at the GTMfund investor network as well as an advisory board member at Sales Assembly.

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Incredo

JUNE 25, 2019

Dropbox’s annual revenue for 2018 amounted to $1.392 billion (25%+ more than in 2017). #4 In Evernote Basic, you can take notes, record audio notes, attach files but with paid plans, you have access to AI-suggested content, integrations and team collaboration. 4 SurveyMonkey is an online tool to create surveys, polls, and quizzes.

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ReSci

DECEMBER 4, 2017

BLACK FRIDAY & CYBER MONDAY OVERVIEW AI-driven personalization, mobile shopping, email and discounts are hot topics after Cyber Week 2017. The post Black Friday + Cyber Monday: 2017 Recap appeared first on ReSci. Adobe predicts.

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Unbounce

MAY 15, 2020

It’s the pairing of your marketing expertise with AI insights to create and optimize the highest-converting campaigns possible. AI isn’t quite there yet for many things. As many of us explore AI’s progress to date, we know that machines—while undoubtedly ambitious—are still learning.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. Fast Forward to 2017: Building a Real Foundation for the Future Of Sales Hacker. 2017 was the real turning point for our business. This would prove to be crucial for our 2017 growth.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A $1B Acquisition with a Singular Leader for Both Sales and Customer Success In 2017, tech leader Vikas Bhambry found himself at a crossroads. Startup to watch Create – launched AI Templates to make building even more accessible. Create is AI text to app, allowing you to turn your words into sites, prototypes, and AI tools.

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In 2017, worldwide mobile traffic overtook desktop traffic for the first time, and since then, mobile’s lead on desktop has only grown larger. It’s no secret that the abilities and benefits of artificial intelligence ( AI ) are virtually unlimited. Of particular interest is AI’s effect on cloud security.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Look no further than the 2017 edition of Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report. The explosion of smartphones, messaging, artificial intelligence (AI), and other groundbreaking technologies has led to a new set of expectations for buyers. This type of support no longer cuts the mustard.

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The SaaS Garage

AUGUST 3, 2021

Its AI-powered solution enables them to have better sales conversations, increasing conversions, and number of deals. bao’s ‘Conversation-Intelligence’ software uses best practices from past conversations, real-time analyses, and an AI that automatically delivers valuable data analyses. in its Seed round of funding.

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