Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Understand the buyer’s roadmap, their build vs. buy framework, and their best alternative Once you’ve identified the buyer and, ideally, a champion for whom you’re solving a problem, the next step is to understand the buyer’s process. That ultimate user could be a physician or a specific administrative team member. Transparency is critical.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Essentially, the DEAR customer outcomes score enables you to connect workflows to leading indicators and lagging outcomes. To overcome such strategic “squishiness,” we spearheaded the development of a more scientific, data-driven customer health scoring and retention modeling methodology. A DEAR solution.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. million to fuel its growth. ” It is not the only company in this wider area getting a lot of attention.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Against this backdrop, Deepset , the startup behind the open source NLP framework Haystack, today announced that it raised $14 million in a Series A investment led by GV with participation from Harpoon Ventures, System.One, Lunar Ventures, and Acequia Capital. Haystack lets developers build pipelines for NLP use cases. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). “Boston Materials is a high-performance materials company enabling manufacturers of industrial and consumer products to break through their design trade-offs with new materials.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The new cash will be used to support product development and R&D efforts, CEO Matthew Carroll said, as well as expand Immuta’s sales, marketing, customer success, and support teams and enable “key” acquisitions in the data monitoring space. Immuta recently launched a software-as-a-service deployment, Immuta SaaS.)

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

The 9 Disciplines of Great SaaS Companies remains one of the most popular posts on marketing on this blog. It’s a wonderful framework by Bill Macaitis, who was the CMO at Zendesk and Slack. The framework breaks down the key marketing operational roles into six buckets. The value of this framework is two-fold.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As CEO and co-founder Adam Pettit told TechCrunch at the time of his seed investment last year: “We’re the only product that has almost 200 of these one-click policy frameworks we call parameters. Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely. It seems to be working. Image Credits: Kandji.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One of those people is Navrina Singh, a former product manager for Qualcomm, then Microsoft, who saw firsthand at Microsoft how a Twitter bot it developed in 2016 as an experiment in “conversational understanding,” was, to quote The Verge, “ taught to be a racist a **e in less than a day.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Gretel AI , which lets engineers create anonymized, synthetic data sets based on their actual data sets to use in their analytics and to train machine learning models has closed $50 million in funding, a Series B that it will be using to get the company to the next stage of development. AI is on a collision course with privacy. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

CEO Michael Sanchez told TechCrunch that the proceeds will be put toward general growth and supporting Savana’s go-to-market and product development projects. Beyond this, Savana offers a low-code UI framework to build internal and customer-facing apps that interface with the aforementioned APIs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Seattle-based modular and headless commerce company offers more than 300 commerce APIs and associated framework to connect a company’s sales channel to one place and the ability to use the entire commerce platform or individual products. billion valuation. 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022. In 2021, fabric experienced 4.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

” Danilo and Brodacka had the idea of applying their visual effects tools, which were fundamentally data processing frameworks, to other domains including credit risk scoring modeling. Enso’s platform enables data analytics. Image Credits: Enso.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Axio CEO Scott Kannry tells TechCrunch that the proceeds — which bring New York–based Axio’s total capital raised to $30 million — will be put toward product and engineering team development and supporting go-to-market functions and expanding across “key geographies.” Department of Energy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

” Nearly 70% responded yes, which means Twitter developers are “likely now asking themselves if they should try to revive the old codebase or start from scratch ,” writes Marcus Merrell, vice president of technology strategy at Sauce Labs. “In both cases, you’re wasting time and resources,” he says.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

“This was … right around the time powerful machine learning technologies became more accessible with open source frameworks and hardware acceleration. Van Aken led the design and development of the prototype, which received a grant from Amazon, as a Ph.D. student, while Bohan joined shortly after graduating from CMU.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

But Piero Molino, the co-founder of AI development platform Predibase , says that inadequate tooling often exacerbates them. “Given these challenges, organizations today need to choose between two flawed approaches when it comes to developing machine learning. These are ultimately organizational challenges.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The first version of Swell was a pure API for developers, but it wasn’t enabling businesses to get up-and-running quickly, so businesses were turning to marketplaces like Shopify, CEO Eric Ingram told TechCrunch. We needed to build something that was as easy as Shopify, but enabled you to grow.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Define your growth metrics Ideology and bull market momentum does not sell long term, and utilizing terms like “protocol” and “DAO” doesn’t remove the requirement to develop and scale a product that people actually want to use. Before considering growth, however, it’s important to understand what growth means for your project.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

The jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) approach provides a framework for defining, categorizing, capturing and organizing all your customers’ needs. It teaches us to think about users’ needs and develop a product to meet those needs. How to employ JTBD at an early-stage SAAS. Increase conversion of information pages.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 14, 2022

OpsVerse provides a managed DevOps tools platform that enables a seamless software delivery pipeline. Arul has spent 20+ years building and transforming end-to-end DevOps tool chains and Internal Developer Platforms (IDP). What we are building with OpsVerse will have a positive impact on this huge community of software developers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For now, the 2021-founded startup is busy with product development. Currently it’s running a closed beta as it works to develop models and hone decision-making heuristics with the goal of building tech that can proactively protect consumers from opportunistic vendor price hikes and loyalty taxes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. Now, almost all games are built using the third party engines shown below, excluding some of the largest AAA budget games that still develop on their own (e.g. EA’s Frostbite, Infinity Ward Engine, etc).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. Well, at its core it’s about garnering insights from information that may be spread across different codebases and developer teams.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

But Articulate , a SaaS training and development platform, is not your typical company and today it announced a whopping $1.5 “Our software enables organizations to develop, deliver, and analyze online training that is engaging and effective for enterprises and SMBs,” Schwartz explained. billion valuation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 23, 2015

If you want to understand how to build a great SaaS sales organization, you should read Mark Roberge’s The Sales Acceleration Formula. The first employee at Hubspot and tasked with building the sales team, Mark developed a structured interview to qualify candidates and correlated the attributes of the best sales candidates.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

economy, particular classes of workers rarely have had a run so prodigious and extended as the current ride that engineers and developers find themselves on. Universities are pumping out more engineers capable of writing code and developing algorithms every year, but the tech demands of this economy quickly swallow them up.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s not a matter of it not being possible for an organization to revoke access, but across many applications sharing is enabled on a per-user basis, and so it means it needs to be disabled on a per-user basis, too, but because we’re busy and distracted, it often isn’t.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Capria leads the “largest network of collaborating fund managers in emerging markets” Their product Edge enables you to benchmark your internal processes against other investors. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. 2) Market . 3) Raise capital.

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technology investing investment ventures 81

TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

WorkOS , a platform that lets developers add enterprise features like single sign-on (SSO) and directory sync to apps, today announced that it raised $80 million in a Series B funding round led by Greenoaks with participation from Lachy Groom, Lightspeed Ventures, and Abstract Ventures. And that’s where WorkOS comes in.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Contract Length: Many SaaS startups launch with monthly pricing which encourages customers to try the product and engenders demand. At some point, most SaaS startups switch to annual contracts for three reasons. Your Startup’s Unit Economics: Your pricing plan has to enable the company to become profitable at some point.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

When to build a freemium plan and how to get it right Image Credits: Jonathan Knowles (opens in a new window) / Getty Images SaaS pricing comes in three flavors: the classic sales-led model, free trials that eventually force users to make a decision, or freemium plans that hopefully deliver enough value to keep users coming back.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

It is now enabling financing for over 2,500 businesses in the U.S. One of the areas where Murata says Slope is differentiating itself from other financial providers is its focus on a developer-centric approach, where others are taking a finance-centric approach, and “integration and underwriting have been so bad as a result,” he added.

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