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The Next Big Thing in AI Compliance: What ISO 42001 Means for Your SaaS Company with Prescient Security’s COO

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The Next Big Thing in AI Compliance: What ISO 42001 Means for Your SaaS Company The Cold Hard Truth About AI Risk in SaaS Picture this: Your product team’s AI chatbot gets breached. For SaaS startups, this is your chance to get ahead of the curve instead of playing catch-up later. No protocol. Just chaos. Sound familiar?

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The Early Days: 5 Things Vanta Got Right, And 5 It Got Wrong, Getting to First $10m ARR

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5 Things Vanta Got Right and 5 They Got Wrong getting to the first $10m ARR When Christina Cacioppo co-founded Vanta in 2017, security compliance was an afterthought for most startups. billion with over 8,000 customers worldwide, having fundamentally transformed how companies think about trust and compliance. Not software.

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The Vertical SaaS Gold Rush: Why Non-Tech B2B Is Growing 250%+ Faster

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Regulatory Requirements Create Infinite Moats Try switching away from Toast when you’ve got 50 restaurant locations with integrated POS, payments, payroll, and compliance systems. Try replacing Samsara when it’s monitoring your entire fleet for DOT compliance. Both help teams organize projects and collaborate.

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AI and Cybersecurity: How Rubrik’s Co-Founder Built a $1B+ ARR Platform While Joining the AI Revolution

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This wasn’t just a startup necessity—it was a cultural decision that permeated the entire organization. This committee evaluates AI tools and use cases for security and compliance before deployment. AI Adoption : Legal and compliance stakeholders should be partners, not obstacles 7.

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How The Top 25 B2B Public Companies Have Performed In 2025 So Far — And What They Tell Us About the Future

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Here’s the full breakdown of 25 top public B2B / SaaS companies and what it means for your startup. Traditional horizontal SaaS faces big headwinds (Salesforce -18%, Asana -31%). The Scoreboard: All 25 Public SaaS Companies Ranked I spent the weekend pulling YTD performance data for every significant public SaaS company.

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SaaStr AI App of the Week: Syllable.ai

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Why Enterprise Teams Choose Syllable Security & Compliance First SOC 2 certified with comprehensive audit logs, data encryption at rest and in transit, regular penetration testing and vulnerability assessments. Build exactly what you need without vendor lock-in. Built for enterprises that can’t afford security risks.

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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

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And the evidence is mounting that AI startups aren’t just complementing SaaS — they’re actively hunting traditional SaaS incumbents for lunch. The Billion-Dollar AI Unicorn Factory The scale of AI startup funding isn’t just impressive — it’s existential for SaaS: The AI Billion-Dollar Club: OpenAI : $8.4

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