SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Saastr Annual, we hosted an Enterprise panel of AI leaders to share their experience and knowledge to help others understand how big companies think about and leverage AI. While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. Enterprises are looking for two big themes.

AI 292

AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence compliance 292

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 27, 2024

AI adoption is slower than expected in many spaces. Most leaders wants to inject AI into their business to develop a competitive advantage. If PhDs in the domain are rushing to understand the capabilities reading papers every week, how are business leaders meant to grok the state of the art? There are four challenges.

AI 226

AI Outsourced Development compliance Innovation 226

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Subscribe now “Grouping + AI” for Triage One area I’m quite excited to see AI revolutionize is “grouping + triage” workflows. Many of them AI based. They each have some of the largest cloud businesses in the world in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud respectively. Follow along to stay up to date!

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AI adoption has grown exponentially over the past year and it has likely doubled from its more than 2.5x At SaaStr Annual , IBM’s VP of Software and Technology Raj Datta and Director of Startups Kylie Rutherford shared how AI is changing the game for companies of all sizes. How to scale AI across your business.

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AI Technology Scale Startup 299

Scytale

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Scytale announces its vision for implementing an AI-driven future of compliance, as well as fully supporting AI security and privacy frameworks in its compliance automation platform. However, AI must also be implemented with caution, respect for data privacy, and adherence to ethical standards.

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compliance AI Artificial Intelligence Innovation 52

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2024

AI is the X-factor for your business, and it can lead to exponential growth. Dawn Herndon, Vice President of EMEA Build & ISV Partnerships at IBM, shares the areas where AI can accelerate your business and the different factors you need to consider as you build products and solutions to sell. Open-source.

AI 176

AI Artificial Intelligence Government Scale 176

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code. Practice what you preach to your users, and position your business for faster growth by automating these five processes. #1 1 Sales tax. 2 Bookkeeping. 4 User support. If 62% of U.S.

Business 329

Business Marketplace as a Service AI Search compliance 329

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Keep reading to learn what the four most common SaaS assumptions are, and watch Adam knock each one down with the power of generative AI. To build an app for that industry, you need to know a business to build SaaS for it. #2 Now, it’s time to knock over all of these beliefs with generative AI.

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Generative AI AWS Artificial Intelligence AI 293

Tom Tunguz

MAY 15, 2023

A product manager today faces a key architectural question with AI : to use a small language model or a large language model? the company has no plan/interest to staff a team to manage AI infrastructure or develop deep machine learning experience / expertise in-house. The pace of innovation in the field clouds the answer.

Artificial Intelligence 217

Artificial Intelligence AI Machine Learning Scale 217

TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. Tell me about the business. Fulfillment?

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Innovation Development CTO Hire Technical Review 780

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. About 15 – 25% of tasks can be automated using AI. Sign up for free.

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Generative AI AI Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 242

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Businesses spend big money on tools they believe are indispensable to their operations and success. Many net-new purchases are for data security, compliance, risk management, and AI-powered tools. Compliance : The cost of GDPR compliance has totaled around $9B globally since its introduction. The bottom Line?

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VP of Engineering Trends Cybersecurity Sales Hiring 293

Payrix

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Software companies are increasingly integrating payments as a core component of their business models rather than treating them as ancillary features. Takeaway #2: Inflation and surcharging compliance Ella highlighted the rising importance of surcharging as a response to inflation and escalating operational costs.

Payments 130

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 130

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This is essential for compliance with privacy and data protection regulations like GDPR or CCPA. One-click AI summaries Fullstory’s AI-powered one-click summaries distill long user sessions into concise, actionable overviews by highlighting key actions and interactions. Fullstory session replay AI summaries.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team compliance Software Review AI 105

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

“My App Stack” is a new series where we dig in with top CMOs, CROs, CTOs and CEOs on just what apps they’re really using to run their business. I always learn a lot from these — they are in essence a best practices list from each leader. Last week we had a great one with Luca Penati, CMO & CCO of BEE, check it out here.

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AWS compliance AI Startup 298

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2024

At SaaStr’s inaugural AI Day, the Senior Director of Product Management at Panoptica by Cisco, its incubation team, Alex Jauch, talks about how GenAI is powering app security, how Cisco is using it, and how you can use GenAI to protect other businesses. Of course, they have an AI-based chatbot in the product.

AI 283

AI Cloud compliance Innovation 283

Tom Tunguz

JULY 27, 2023

AI will automate 25-50% of white collar work including data analysis. On the contrary, while AI can automate some work, it will also demand much more from data teams. The data team will bear the responsibility of providing the data, validating it, & ensuring that it meets both internal & external standards/compliance.

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AI Data Data Analysis compliance 186

Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. With businesses adopting diverse pricing modelsranging from subscriptions to usage-based billinglegacy systems often struggle to keep up.

Payments 59

Payments AI Search Payment Services AI 59

SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A-LIGN is a technology-enabled security and compliance partner that helps global organizations take a strategic approach to confidently mitigate cybersecurity risks. Mutiny is a no-code AI platform that helps marketers convert their top of funnel demand into revenue, without engineers. Totally unified.

Cybersecurity 49

Cybersecurity Data compliance AI 49

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Couple takeaways for me: 2024 is shaping up to be the “prototype to production” year for AI. There were also quite a few questions around cost and compliance. And on the latter - there will be more guardrails and structure in place to appease some of the compliance questions. Time will tell if they can execute!

AWS 299

AWS Cloud AI Search Cost optimization & reporting 299

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Jirav is an all-in-one financial planning and analysis (FP&A) solution that delivers smarter financials and faster insights, helping you understand where your business has been and more accurately predict where you’re going. Schellman is a leading provider of attestation and compliance services. appeared first on SaaStr.

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compliance Forecasting AI Onboarding 274

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Skyflow ’s data privacy vaults deliver security, compliance, and governance via a simple API. Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

Payments 273

Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 273

SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

CTO 283

CTO Scale AI Travel 283

IT World

JUNE 30, 2023

A proposed EU law that would create the West’s first regulatory scheme for AI is the target of criticism from the business and technology sectors, which published an open letter today arguing for fewer restrictions and a less “bureaucratic” approach. In total, 163 people signed the letter.

AI 115

AI Generative AI Business compliance 115

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set. Many laude the SaaS business model because ARR is inherently predictable - you know what you’re revenue will be over the coming 12 months, and sometimes even further out than that.

AI 190

AI Cloud Revenue Technical Advisors 190

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Like most business owners, your instincts tell you to hop on the bandwagon and launch an online store for your business. From different types of online payment gateways and key features to look for, to tips to help you choose the right payment solution for your business and implement it. This is expected to grow to 22.6%

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

With an intuitive product experience, founders can access free checking and savings accounts, debit and credit cards, domestic and international wire transfers, treasury, venture debt, and more — and manage their business with confidence. Update your revenue data from anywhere, all within Slack or MS Teams.

Scale 244

Scale Banking compliance Forecasting 244

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2024

Many success stories and businesses demonstrated how much they increased adoption rates through PLG. PLG companies experience huge growth with small and medium businesses but struggle to surpass the $5B valuation. Plus, these teams face longer sales cycles and need things like SOC 2 compliance. No wonder it was so attractive.

Scale 283

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Enterprise 283

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Drift® , the Conversation Cloud company, helps businesses connect with people at the right time, in the right place with the right conversation. Using the Drift Conversation Cloud, businesses can personalize experiences that lead to more quality pipeline, revenue and lifelong customers. Usually, it takes a paradigm shift to grow.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 261

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Artificial Intelligence Enterprise readiness Azure 261

Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Apart from building successful companies, these entrepreneurs are taking it a step further – rewriting the rules of business and disrupting traditional models. Thanks to him, businesses can easily create and scale professional-quality videos in 50+ languages.

Startup 59

Startup Scale Cybersecurity AI Search 59

SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2022

ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. Our clients love to use our solution. Every day, all day.

DevOps as a Service 246

DevOps as a Service AI Search Cloud compliance 246

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Capacity is an AI-powered support automation platform that connects your entire tech stack to answer questions, automate repetitive support tasks, and assemble solutions to any business challenge. ChurnZero is the Customer Success platform and partner for growing SaaS and subscription businesses.

Scale 200

Scale compliance Healthcare Education 200

BetterCloud

MARCH 7, 2025

This is called shadow IT and its a constant battle, but theres a new, more sophisticated invader on the scene: Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is no longer a futuristic fantasy. While the potential benefits are undeniable, this rapid, often uncontrolled adoption of AI introduces significant challenges for IT.

AI 52

AI Software Review Technical Review Software 52

Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

The merchant underwriting process is a critical step that payment processors and financial institutions use to assess the risk associated with onboarding new businesses. Key steps include application review, risk assessment, credit checks, and compliance verification. The goal is to ensure the business has a solid financial foundation.

Merchant Services 68

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 68

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

In this AI moment we’re in, there are still many moments in scaling a company where intuition still matters. That team became the home of business intelligence and the data team. During the IPO process, they had to look at things related to audit and compliance. Computers disrupted all of that and changed the way people worked.

Scale 291

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Startup 291

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

AI-suggested replays When you go to the replay library, the first thing you see is Suggested replays. Pendo uses AI to analyze product usage data and extracts the top 3 insights about rage clicks, usage trending down, and usage trending up. Pendo uses AI to suggest session replays to watch. What are they?

User Experience 105

User Experience AI Pricing Trends 105

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

If your business is based in the APAC region and you’re focused on expanding into new areas, there are a lot of common challenges to face and questions to ask about the best way to do that. The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript.

Merchant Services 192

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 192