TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge. TechEmpower can help In the era of LLMs and Generative AI, empty textboxes are a product mistake. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas In the pre-LLM era, an empty textbox was a tough challenge.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2025

And our full AI Summit will be back and we’re adding a full AI Demo Stage you can apply to present at (more details soon!) There are many more speakers, workshops and braindates we’ll announce soon. It’s going to be one of our most epic line-ups ever!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2024

Gorgias’ Next Generation AI Agent is Already Seeing 20% Automation Rate Gorgias is the leading content center for e-commerce, with over 16,000 customers. It’s next generation AI Agent has seen even better results, with customers able to dial up AI agent automation from 0% to 100%, with most choosing around 20%.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! Investor Connections and Funding Opportunities — And $5m AI VC Pitch Stage!! And the VCs that want to fund them!

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners.

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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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. It’s disruptive.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2024

Alex Plugaru, CTO Gorgias (and Roman Lapeyre, CEO Gorgias) on AI Stage Alex will be doing something pretty special — sharing exactly how they’ve added AI to automate 20%+ of all customer interactions on their platform. And a deep, honest and data-driven look at what works, and what doesn’t today, in AI.

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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. Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? Fulfillment?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI? If you’re going to do AI, you should do so thoughtfully.

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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

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Suddenly it seemed that generative AI might transform industries from education to marketing. However, getting from technological breakthrough to useful applications is far from straightforward. ☞ Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom. Great stuff!”

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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. AI is changing the structure of data teams. Vectors power AI systems.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2024

Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft, framed the opportunity in AI this way : work on problems that used to be impossible, but are now really hard. AI-based sales development changes the economics of this calculation. If AI can reduce the overall cost of sales, the minimum viable ACV drops. ACVs remain the same.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Making it simple to implement, Ramya Periyagaram Chandrasekaran, Co-Founder at Datalligence AI Private Limited Why Is NRR the Most Important Growth Metric? Straight from a SaaS CCO with Yellow.ai’s CCO with Shekar Murthy, Chief Customer Officer at Yellow.ai

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How is ZoomInfo Integrating More Advanced AI? At ZoomInfo, they’re integrating more AI for personalization and prioritization. Before AI, you would come into ZoomInfo and be asked a litany of setup questions like: What are the right accounts? What technologies do they use? Who’s on the buying committee?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) joined forces with the incredibly talented Eiso Kant to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. The pace of innovation in AI today is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my career.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

The Park brothers, with decades of expertise in healthcare and policy, including as EVP and COO at athenahealth (Ed) and Chief Technology Officer of the United States (Todd), started Devoted with the idea of building a healthcare model from scratch. This episode was recorded live at a16z’s LP Summit.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Software is better, and AI makes it more so. GTM Mistake #5: Not Properly Jumping on the AI Bandwagon AI can be confusing in B2B because adding a lot of hallucinations into your app next week doesn’t make it better, or you don’t need to make text into cartoons. AI is where all the budget is right now.

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Unbounce

AUGUST 31, 2021

An AI copywriting tool able to generate content at the push of a button? With AI, meet your new copywriting assistant that takes care of tedious writing tasks so that you can focus on what really matters: getting campaigns to convert. Yeah, an AI copywriter can help with that. What is AI Copywriting?

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BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Key strategies for taming SaaS sprawl With AI becoming more and more prominent, its even more important for IT to keep up with the ever evolving tech stack. Last month, IT Brews webinar focused on an all too common issue – rising software costs colliding with sprawling tech stacks.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

” — Echeyde Cubillo, Co-founder and CTO, Acme Ticketing. Just got into a rhythm, and lazy about bringing up what I felt was wrong even if never mentioned” — Casey Wahl, Attuned Ai. ” — Siva Narayanan, Co-founder/CTO, FyleHQ. A good exercise to do after you lose any top customer. Are we sure?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

An AI co-pilot to an existing product? So we’ve had a ton of great conversations over the years on SaaStr on when and how to go multi-product. The classic in the restaurant industry is guacamole at mexican restaurants. Adding guacamole is one of the highest margin add-ons you can add to an order. The same is often true in SaaS.

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Unbounce

JUNE 11, 2019

AI is a blanket term that covers several different technologies. Even if you don’t know much about it, though, you probably use AI-powered technology dozens or hundreds of times per day. You also don’t need to be an expert on AI to understand how it’s going to transform lead generation and conversion for marketers.

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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. His investment portfolio spans fintech, biotech, and deep tech, reinforcing his passion for driving progress across industries.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Does the acceleration in AI make your SaaS company more or less defensible? Sometimes, an AI feature is just another brick in the wall (but one that improves your product) Last week, I looked into the question if AI is a platform shift as disruptive as the move from on-premise to the Cloud.

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USIO

JUNE 28, 2024

Announces Partnership with Usio as Preferred Payment Integration Partner for USA Customers Chattanooga, Tennessee – 17 June 2024 – ues.io, the leading no-code/pro-code platform for building enterprise applications with AI, today announced a strategic partnership with Usio , a trusted leader in integrated payment solutions. application.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

I’ve been trying to write a comprehensive, buttoned-up “AI Update,” covering all this month’s AI developments. AI does not mean “the machine is thinking.” AGI isn’t here today, is unlikely to arrive in the near future, and is not part of the AI news I’m writing about.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

The three worlds are: B2B2C B2B2B AI And then there are folks in impacted categories like ZoomInfo , where things haven’t really improved. And there’s AI. Jason tweeted WTF because many things are happening in AI, like 200x ARR rounds. A lot of the funding rounds for AI feel like 2021 again, but only for this subset of people.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

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. In 2016, she co-founded Oxpecker Labs Limited and is also its CTO, responsible for developing its technology. Anita Varshney.

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IT World

JUNE 13, 2023

UST is a digital transformation services company with more than 35,000 employees around the globe. The company's services run the gamut of IT, from cybersecurity and data analytics to supply-chain management and next-gen cloud infractructure, and its clients run across seven vertical industries.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

Very rarely, these technologies also let you do things you’d never considered possible. 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.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. What’s changing, rather, is the entity I’m delivering through – a new company called Crafty CTO.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

“AI is fancy statistics. It is no better than the data that you feed into it, and it has no soul” Dee: That’s interesting to me, because I know you’ve spoken quite a bit before about the fact that AI isn’t going to replace, say, the white-collar workforce. Tim: There’s always a fear of change.

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