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Where AI Really Matters in Vertical SaaS With CEOs of Owner, Alloy Automation, and DoNotPay

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Activant Capital brought together at SaaStr Annua l a group of break-out next-generation AI enhanced vertical software leaders: the CEOs from Owner.com, Alloy Automation, and DoNotPay. At SaaStr Annual they shared their experiences and insights on implementing AI in vertical software companies.

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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

SaaStr

Codeium has built a generative AI coding assistant Windsurf that integrates across any IDE and supports over 70 programming languages. Their product is generating an impressive 45% of developers’ code on average. Our best hires consistently came from our leadership team’s networks.

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GTMfund’s 3 Areas of Focus for Investing

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2) AI infrastructure and AI-native The advancements in AI have enabled developers to build what wasn’t possible just a few years ago. One of our early investments, Writer , is competing successfully in providing full-stack generative AI to the enterprise, against juggernauts like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Decoding SaaS Exits: The Most Common Patterns of Successful SaaS Companies

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When evaluating a teams potential, these are key questions to ask: Is the leadership team world-class? Storytelling is core to leadership. DocUnlock is changing that with cutting-edge generative AI, automating workflows for brokers and eliminating inefficiencies. Is operational excellence ingrained in the culture?

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Acquisitions — If You Do Sell, Try to Make Sure It’s At a Local Maximum

SaaStr

ARR, You Can Get Offers of $25m or if you are in a hot space (maybe generative AI today), sometimes even $100m. What people care about is an MSP (Minimum Sellable Product) … which you don’t really prove until Initial Traction, or $1-$1.5m Every Big Tech company has a budget for sub-$100m acquisitions.

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GTM 126: Reverse Engineering the Founder Journey: From Scaling Twitter Ads to $650M, 20 Years Operating, and a Webflow Acquisition | Guy Yalif

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Discussed in this Episode: Learnings from each major company in Guy’s 20+ leadership career: Microsoft, Tradeweave (first employee and executive committee), Yahoo, Twitter, BrightRoll and Intellimize. So I can’t say we’ve had an aerospace engineer on the pod. So you are number one. So there is always that disconnect.

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A New AI Framework for GTM Teams

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A few years ago, each of your teams would have run out to buy the latest AI point solution because of FOMO. Get your leadership team together, re-evaluate each juncture in your GTM process from customer discovery to upsell, and re-imagine a better way to engage your customers using these new advancements in AI.