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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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Category Analysis: The New SaaS Hierarchy Tier 1: AI + Government = Money Printer Average Return: +165.2% The Government AI Arms Race Every government agency suddenly has unlimited AI budgets. Expect 3-5 companies to go from unknown to $10B+ valuations based purely on government AI contracts. It’s already started.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Palantir at $2.7 Billion in ARR

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Growth Has Re-Accelerated Fueled by commercial and government contracts, and by AI-related demand in both, Palantir is seeing growth re-accelerate from 2023. Palantir is closing big, big deals and its roots are in government and defense. Billion in ARR Growing 27%, and importantly — re-accelerating. Let’s dig in.

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

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Government-to-Commercial Transfer Success Palantir leveraged their battle-tested government experience to dominate commercial markets. ” Their government contracts provided the R&D foundation that now powers commercial AI solutions — a moat competitors can’t replicate.

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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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AI Governance Committee Rather than treating AI adoption as purely a technology initiative, Rubrik established an AI governance committee including InfoSec, Legal, and business stakeholders. This committee evaluates AI tools and use cases for security and compliance before deployment.

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Innovation Systems: Advancing Practices to Create New Value

Download this Special Report by MIT Sloan Management Review to learn about: The concept of radicalness and how its intertwined with innovations Innovative governance ideas that have the potential to influence organizational changes Simple decisions that can set teams on a path toward either incremental or breakthrough innovations

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How AI Led Palantir From Slow Growth to Hypergrowth

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The Commercial Breakthrough For years, Palantir was primarily a government contractor. Government Can Be a Feature, Not a Bug Palantir’s deep government relationships initially seemed like a limiting factor for commercial growth. Government Momentum Sustained : Despite all the commercial focus, U.S.

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How Dialpad Hit $300M ARR by Building Their Own AI Stack: 5 Key Learnings

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Here’s why domain data matters: Tighter accuracy gains : Domain-specific data allows you to optimize for specific use cases while maintaining general capabilities Vertical specialization : Different industries have different needs – Dialpad can tune their models for sales teams vs. support teams Competitive moat : While anyone can access (..)

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Resilient Machine Learning with MLOps

To prevent deployment delays and deliver resilient, accountable, and trusted AI systems, many organizations invest in MLOps to monitor and manage models while ensuring appropriate governance. Download today to find out more!

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The Business Value of MLOps

Machine learning operations (MLOps) is the technical response to that issue, helping companies to manage, monitor, deploy, and govern their models from a central hub. As machine learning models are put into production and used to make critical business decisions, the primary challenge becomes operation and management of multiple models.

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10 Keys to AI Success in 2021

The importance of governance in ensuring consistency in the modeling process. Download this eBook to learn about: Achieving ROI with AI and delivering valuable results with urgency. AI storytelling in communicating value to your organization. Trusted AI and how vital it is to your AI projects.

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Build Trustworthy AI With MLOps

Our eBook covers the importance of secure MLOps in the four critical areas of model deployment, monitoring, lifecycle management, and governance. AI operations, including compliance, security, and governance. We also look closely at other areas related to trust, including: AI performance, including accuracy, speed, and stability.

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Compliance 101: What You Need to Know as a Payfac

Payment facilitators are obligated to follow rules and regulations from the multiple entities that govern the payments ecosystem. Compliance is achieved by implementing the appropriate processes needed to adhere to these rules and remaining aware of changing conditions.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

However, as a company, sales stack, and database grow, it becomes difficult to uphold structure and governance to keep a CRM up-to-date. When used effectively, a CRM can be the lifeblood of your sales team – keeping everyone organized, efficient, and at peak productivity. The result? Less organization, more confusion, and fewer deals closed.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications.