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Building and Scaling an AI Company in 2025: What Top VCs Really Want to See with Zetta, Glasswing and B Capital

SaaStr

Where the Real Opportunity Lives The biggest opportunities right now are in what I call “AI applications as a service” (AIaaS). .” They’re building glorified wrappers around OpenAI’s APIs and calling themselves AI companies. That’s not going to cut it.

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

They use AI for price discoverability and optimization, with a setup that drives annual retention. The new term “AI application as a service” (AIS) describes companies selling AI-powered applications to mid-market and enterprise customers. Product-led growth (PLG) motion applies well to AI-powered products.

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Master merchant: Definition, types, and examples

Payrix

This setup is commonly used in marketplaces, software platforms, or businesses that facilitate payments for a network of sellers, service providers, or smaller businesses. This model allows sub-merchants to focus on their core activities while benefiting from streamlined access to payment services.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Upwork at $400,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. 100% Client Spend Retention across 139,000 Customers. A good take rate for a marketplace. But it should be. So what can we learn?

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FastSpring Announces Partnership With Nexus to Help Game Publishers Quickly Succeed With D2C

FastSpring

Effective ways to market web shops outside of games to avoid violating anti-steering rules in mobile marketplaces. These creator programs boost revenue and increase free-to-paid conversions, player engagement, and retention.

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Thanks to Capchase, Intellum, Pilot, SafeBase, and Tilled for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Intellum is an Atlanta-based learning technology company that combines the best of customer experience with customer education to help large brands and fast-moving companies increase revenue, improve customer retention and decrease support costs. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service. appeared first on SaaStr.

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3 Key Automations to Accelerate Your SaaS Company’s Growth

SaaStr

Integration brings together data trapped in various systems to help you understand how customers use your products, improve engagement, and increase net retention. Integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) standardizes how integrations are built and managed across your organization. Employee Hiring and Onboarding.