Payrix

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

At Payrix from Worldpay, we have an internal team of risk management experts dedicated to helping software companies, like yours, manage payment processing, fraud prevention, and compliance. Recently, we deployed an in-house machine learning model that predicts the likelihood of ACH payment rejections. compliance.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Machine learning is on the verge of transforming the marketing sector. According to Gartner , 30% of companies will use machine learning in one part of their sales process by 2020. In other words, machine learning isn’t just for computer scientists. What Is Machine Learning?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 30, 2020

Each team, using their data systems, develops their proprietary data products: analyses, dashboards, machine learning systems, even new product features. Data engineers stand on the shoulders of 70 years of software development experience and take many of the learnings from that discipline. Planning the software to build.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Why AI Matters to VCs Over the last decade, each type of machine learning has developed and grown, with generative AI becoming the most recent. Goldman Sachs predicts that the contribution of machine learning to GDP would fall somewhere between 1.5 – 2.9%. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday.

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Payrix

JANUARY 28, 2025

In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. remains the largest interchange and software market, Matt predicts a loosening of regulatory constraints.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 24, 2023

In the late 2010s, machine learning inflated demand. Now, cloud companies, major B2B & B2C software companies’ appetite for GPUs has put the Data Center segment on a hypergrowth trajectory. Nvidia’s most recent breakout occurred in the last two years. AI has replaced that demand.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Divvy is a seamless expense management software combined with the world’s smartest business card giving your company total control of finances. UruIT’s Free Machine Learning Consultation. Where can I find the deal? Click here for Divvy’s Seamless Expense Management Platform for Businesses.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 16, 2024

We can expect the company to start trading on the public markets next Wednesday Subscribe now OneStream Overview From the S1 - “OneStream delivers a unified, AI-enabled and extensible software platform—the Digital Finance Cloud—that modernizes and increases the strategic impact of the Office of the CFO.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

The second feedback loop outputs data products and insights that are then fed into the data warehouse layer for downstream consumption, perhaps in the form of dashboards in SaaS applications or machine learning models and associated metadata. SaaS applications also write back to the CDW directly. Nor will this transition be immediate.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Machine learning’s demand for data has accelerated this movement because AI needs data to function. Data teams architect their systems in a modular way, paralleling the microservices movement in software design. They are central to product development & operations in technology companies.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 4, 2022

Last week, I installed Github’s Copilot , a machine learning tool that helps engineers write software. Two distinct machine learning systems have analyzed this blog post for grammatical errors, clichés, brevity, style, and weasel words. I typed in def get_tweets_for_user(username) in ruby. They have it wrong.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Machine Learning is a Secular Platform Change & a Growth Driver for Software The age of AI is upon us, and Microsoft is powering it.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The future of LLM evaluations resembles software testing more than benchmarks. Machine learning benchmarks like those published by Google for Gemini2 last week , or precision and recall for classifying dog & cat photos, or the BLEU score for measuring machine translation provide a high-level comparison of relative model performance.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 25, 2018

For every one of the 23 software companies listed in the chart above who are worth more than $5B, there is an unhappy customer segment. Mobile, machine learning, blockchain. And in this environment, where there are 23 next-generation software companies worth $5 billion or more, the playbook can create a unicorn.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Around & atop those databases, an ecosystem has developed that transmogrify data from raw ore to into a finished product consumed by analysts & operators or highly refined fuel injected into machine learning systems. During my session, I’ll answer the question: where might we be in another ten years’ time?

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Incumbents have lept onto advances in generative machine learning more aggressively than any trend in recent technology history. As startups incorporate generative machine learning into their products or develop new products, understanding the competitive dynamic with incumbents will be more important than before.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 3, 2022

Some use machine learning to identify profile pictures across services to canonicalize user identities - no doubt clever. Every new software era has its messaging protocol. Products work around this limitation by linking existing communication systems to wallet addresses like email addresses, or Discord & Telegram handles.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2024

Machine learning advances tend to evolve in bursts. In some software categories, first mover advantage exists. In search, last mover advantage (Google) won because they benefitted from the learnings of all who came before. Researchers publish a new paper with a newly discovered technique.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

At SaaStr Annual , he was joined by Jordan Tigani, Founder and CEO of Mother Duck Maggie Hott, GTM at OpenAI , and Sharon Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO of Lamini to discuss the new architecture for building Software-as-a-Service applications with data and machine learning at their core. There’s tension between the two.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

AI or Machine Learning is a new technology that will benefit nearly every type of sector and we’re still in the very earliest innings. Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category. Others have grown by more than 3x. Yet others are growing geometrically. Let’s take a look. Hot Spaces.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops. Devops combines the responsibilities of software developers and infrastructure operations. The software innovation pendulum will change direction.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

“The fastest company will always win,” says Daniel Dines, CEO and Founder of UiPath, one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. Ten years ago, no one would have guessed Europe would generate the largest software IPO globally, yet UiPath has done it, and net retention is 144%.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Data teams are becoming software engineering teams. Business logic : the data engineering team build the ETL pipelines while the data science team researches & implements machine learning algorithms for MLDS driven data products. The video is here. Thank you, Philip!

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2024

It requires a new software infrastructure layer: a vector computer. Founder Daniel Svonava is a former engineer at YouTube who worked on real-time machine learning systems for a decade. Watching the osso bucco video to its end would trigger more Italian cooking specialty videos in your feed.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2019

Second , in early markets, most of the buyers don’t understand the nuances of the technology, whether it’s IoT platforms, or machine learning infrastructures, or data lakes. Imagine you have just written machine learning model that prices stocks better than anything else in the market. Everything is brand-new.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

Everyone has questions when it comes to choosing data analysis software. Luckily, data analysis software can seriously simplify data analysis—provided you choose the right one. How to Choose the Best Data Analysis Software for You. Data analysis software isn’t a cheap investment, so use caution when making a selection.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Software AG 2.4 In December of last year, I wrote : Private equity acquires 10% of the 70+ publicly traded software companies by the end of the year. Meanwhile, venture-backed software M&A in the US, Canada, & Europe during 2023 totaled about $10b, about 20% of take-privates. Company Valuation Qualtrics 12.5 Momentive 1.5

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

Below are 7 predictions about the startup software ecosystem. It permit companies to bring US dollars held abroad (from software sales in other countries) back to the US at a lower tax rate than before. There are now 5 publicly traded software companies worth more than $10B, and 19 companies worth between $2.5B

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, once there are enough infrastructure and consumer companies to serve, software businesses pop up, in this case to serve DAOs. Large software companies accelerated growth this year, despite their scale reinforcing the notion that users write data into systems but rarely delete it. Or a personalized email to a sales prospect.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

The thinking is that every successful software product will eventually be commoditized because it attracts lots of people who will copy the product and offer it for a lower price. For what it's worth, I know AI and Machine Learning are a hyped topic but I think the hype is justified.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 21, 2024

As software startups begin to sell agentic systems, the procurement process will change. Unlike classical software, where the application either meets the criteria (price, integration into other software, particular features) or doesn’t, agentic systems operate on a performance continuum.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Top 7 Options For Live Chat Software. How to Choose the Best Live Chat Software For You. Most plans will have some limitations on how many support reps can access the software. Why exactly are you in the market for live chat software? But some software is designed to accommodate specific needs and goals.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Builders are re-architecting SaaS applications atop data warehouses to join data across domains in a wave that will transform software. Machine learning has become table stakes for modern software companies - users expect apps to anticipate their needs & businesses rely on it for competitive advantage.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

That’s why HR software has become so popular over the years. Interested in getting HR software, but don’t know where to start? The Top 5 Options For HR Software. How to Choose the Best HR Software For You. There are hundreds of different HR software options on the market today. You’ve come to the right place.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

5G, the Internet of Things, AI and Machine Learning, Wearables, Virtual Reality…these buzzwords are dominating the world of tech as the technologies they represent drive global cultural and business trends. There are dozens of fantastic software tools out there to maximize team productivity digitally.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2023

Data movement, transformation, analysis, & observability software will underpin data applications used by every part of modern organizations. Machine Learning as a Force Multiplier : There are four types of machine learning: classification, prediction, interpretation, & generation.

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