Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 1, 2025

These new product categories have driven many PLG AI software companies to tens & hundreds of millions in ARR in record time. We can use a linear regression based on public SaaS companies to predict its forward revenue multiple. Given its high growth & unique business model, how should the market value Figma?

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 11, 2025

It’s already reshaping how thousands of organizations operate, making Glean a frontrunner in the rapidly evolving Work AI category. With over 100 SaaS connectors and native APIs, Glean brings all this context into one AI-powered platform. This human-centered approach to AI isn’t just theoretical.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Whether its our SaaS platform, Hero, new enterprise solutions, or emerging AI capabilities, theres always a next frontier. Our SaaS platform, Hero, is at the center of that, leveraging automation and personalization to make video production seamless and cost-effective. What is it that excites you about what youre building?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The intelligently arranged call inbox shows categories across the top for missed calls, voicemails, recordings, and other types of calls, making it easy to see what may be on your plate. Aircall is a great option in this category. Do you need a low-cost solution? Not every business needs or can afford all the bells and whistles.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

If you're in SaaS, you might track technical requirements. As a result, you'll have a complete timeline of your relationship with each customer. The contact management features usually include customizable fields so you can store information specific to your business.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Unlike Jira's templates that explain exactly what the automation or trigger will do, Zendesk just hands you a bunch of dropdown options in each category that you have to sort through to MacGyver your own automation. Is Zendesk a CRM or SaaS? Zendesk for Service is a SaaS product that provides customer support tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Instead of dividing enterprise automation into those categories, I'll stick to a people-first framing here—because automation is only valuable if it actually helps teams work better. They also aren't exclusive to enterprise-level automation.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

As you type, Wix distills your answers into a site profile, including essential details like your business's category, location, and goals. It doesn't have nearly as many apps as Wix; the 45+ apps it features tend to be high-profile SaaS companies, like Mailchimp and Taxjar, rather than apps by independent developers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions have become a fixture of the modern enterprise; organizations with more than 1,000 employees use over 150 SaaS apps on average, according to BetterCloud. According to a recent survey from Workato, 57% of IT teams have received directives from the C-Suite to reduce their overall SaaS spend.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is a new category of data analytics that helps users understand their own performance as it compares to direct competitors, Yarden Shaked added. Varos founders, from left, Gil Shaked, Yarden Shaked and Lior Chen. Image Credits: Varos.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Let’s say you’re creating a category. How do you do this when creating a new category? Recently, SaaS Office Hours at Redpoint had the privilege of chatting with Nick Mehta and Anthony Kennada about the way they created a category with customer success. I’ve since realized I was wrong.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

As short-form media consumption and the effectiveness of influencer-style marketing have increased, and as enterprises continue to search for better customer acquisition and engagement channels, podcasting has been fueled to a multi-billion-dollar category with nearly 2M shows hosted in 2020¹. Stay tuned! [1]

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

WebOps SaaS platform Pantheon , which started out as a Drupal and WordPress hosting service many years ago, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series E round solely funded by the Softbank Vision Fund. “They just want a partner — like any other SaaS application, whether it’s Stripe, Twilio or Salesforce.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As DevOps SaaS platform Esper continues to build out the category and the number of connected devices grows, the company took on another round of funding to stay ahead of demand. trillion category by 2027 and the number of active IoT-connected devices ??is It is projected to be a $1.1 is expected to reach 30.9

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. SaaS, Enterprise + Retail.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

After interviewing 200 such salespeople, Nelson had another interesting finding: the agents’ work required them to use up to 14 separate SaaS applications to complete their daily tasks and effectively earn their commissions. Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Fitness and the outdoor passion space is one of the most exciting CSS categories in a growing landscape that includes everything from family planning/management services to entertainment and education. I believe CSS is still in the early stages of its growth — perhaps where B2B SaaS was a decade ago.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Roughly a fifth of our deal flow is related to construction tech, of which robotics is a rapidly increasing category. These categories include autonomous grading vehicles, robots that can lay bricks and robots that can accurately measure interior and exterior space. How much time are you spending on construction robotics right now?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

As a result, HoneyBook ended up doubling its number of members on its SaaS platform and tripling its annual recurring revenue (ARR) over the past 12 months. The company also wants to make its platform “more customizable” for different categories and verticals. So that’s just a few of the things we plan to invest in.”.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? Velocity of venture dollars deployed increased because of ZIRP iii. Lots of new VCs (both new funds and new hires at existing firms).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Duro’s fundraising round was led by B2B SaaS investors Bonfire Ventures , with follow-on money from hard-tech investors Riot Ventures. “There’s a product category called Product Lifecycle Management — or PLM — which is meant to be a receptacle for that information for centralizing and managing it.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Cliff Longley and Jeff Swenson, managing directors at THL said that Bynder is the pure-play market leader in a category that has become foundational for executing digital marketing at scale. The partnership builds on THL’s investment franchise in SaaS products that enable sales, marketing, and commerce.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

The budgets and timeframes for new end-user software products tend to fall into one of several categories. The deliverable was a professional PowerPoint presentation that helped the company secure funding to create the first full version of the SaaS platform. Start by determining how much you can spend to develop the product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

“Our founders bring with them a wealth of experience and creativity, and we believe that these dreamers, innovators and category creators have the potential to change the future of our region and the world,” he added. Following is the list of startups available in the seventh cohort. Info Edge Ventures is a co-investor.).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re thrilled to partner with SGE to support our rapid growth and continue to define the role of PRM in the SaaS ecosystem,” said Gregory Galant, co-founder and CEO of Muck Rack, in a statement. All of these are approaching an interesting crossroads in terms of what they do.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

The corporate spend category continues to evolve. Via Zoom interview, Kote reiterated that generating SaaS revenue for the company remains its priority. Kote emphasized that he does not believe that the move puts Airbase into the lending category. “We Weekly News. Hence its recent debt financing. We are not a lender.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

“We’d previously been working on technology only used by a few people, but since then the P2C category has taken flight and we have caused a serious shift within the market. But that also means there are a number of companies providing services in the same category as Productsup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Some might argue that Reveal’s product falls into the category of ecosystem management, or tools to navigate and manage B2B partner ecosystems. “We believe we have created a new category: a collaborative growth platform enabling companies to leverage their ecosystem to accelerate growth,” Bouchez said. ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

1 cloud SaaS investor with an excellent track record” and “they have an extensive investment and portfolio operations team that can significantly help us on our journey,” he added. Though the company had a number of investors vying to lead the round, Shah said Databook chose Bessemer, a firm it has known for a while, because it was “the No.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

counterpart in those that were synergistic to the ones in Europe — for example, tech, healthcare and enterprise SaaS. We’re keeping an incredibly open mind for the next generation of founders to define totally new categories as well,” she added. For years, Northzone looked at sectors for its U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Typically we focus on what we call “innovative companies” — whether that’s because they have a SaaS offering or they’re an innovator within a traditional industry doesn’t really matter. That last category can benefit greatly from the way we work. The process we’ve designed works for B2B startups, scaleups and SMBs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

That’s the category we want to create and we want to be the largest in that space.”. Canvas describes its SaaS offering as a “fully virtual” recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. You know how everyone has a CRM? We believe every company should have a DRP, which is a diversity recruitment platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

And now others, of course, have built that functionality as well, but because that was our primary focus, we delivered a best-in-category experience with higher conversion rates when benchmarked to other solutions,” she explained. And that is appealing because from there we build other use cases with our customers.”. “We

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

Now, the vast majority of files (more than 75%) uploaded to Issuu fall in the small business content marketing category: menus for local restaurants, real estate market reports, catalogs for makers and artisans, non-profit annual reports, and more. We learned that over time the balance of content had shifted.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Extra Crunch publishes a variety of article types, but how-tos are my favorite category. ” We’ve also received great feedback on a recent guest post about bootstrapping options for SaaS founders written by a founder who’s actually done it. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The company offers more than 6,000 SKUs across 20 categories, from groceries to fresh produce to packaged goods to electronics. She expects to also expand into new categories and service lines, including financial services. “We We want to be social commerce with a backbone in the supply chain,” she added.

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