Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. Score : 0.5.

SaaS 95

SaaS enablement sustainability innovation 95

TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The group has already invested in startups in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, including Aleph (B2B SaaS for e-commerce), Apperto (social commerce), Choiz (healthtech), Exactly (DeFi), Elevva (e-commerce brands), Inipay (fintech), Leef (sustainability), Wibson (e-privacy) and Yerbo (wellness).

investing 102

investing investment entrepreneurial ecosystem venture capital 102

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. That’s why we created EVENTUS, automating most tasks of business events with IT and enabling data analysis,” Ahn shares. “Events play a crucial role in B2B sales. ” Ahn highlights.

SaaS 98

SaaS education entrepreneurship enablement 98

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Orb powers billing for high-growth B2B technology companies including Airbyte, Dune, and Materialize, saving them engineering costs and enabling them to unlock more revenue. SaaS companies must drive sustainable and profitable growth and need solutions that deliver value without requiring additional seats or active usage.

enablement 40

enablement SaaS accelerator finance 40

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The importance of building more sustainable businesses has never been more evident, especially for those in the food and beverage space,” said Surbhi Martin, vice president of Greek yogurt and functional nutrition for Danone North America. “By million for its marketplace enabling customers to buy food right before it goes to waste.

sustainability 100

sustainability capital technology board 100

StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

BAMF Health of Grand Rapids is a precision-medicine startup that aims to create a world-class radiotracer translational platform through AI-enabled molecular imaging and theranostics. Their high-end products and storefront come from a hand-cultivated culture, state of the art facilities and a sustainable growing practice. BAMF Health.

real estate 119

real estate startup incubation construction 119

TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like green infrastructure, new mobilities, sustainable tech, urban mobility The Fintech Stage: Dive into the evolution of monetary exchanges and follow the technology that is powering new ways of capturing and distributing value and wealth.

disruption 79

disruption peer-to-peer sustainability networking 79

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

We’re the only provider who can enable companies to realise their global potential,” he told me in an email. Productsup, he said, enables them to manage this at scale and covering different use cases like feed management, seller and vendor onboarding, product content syndicatio.

strategy 85

strategy sustainability enablement accelerator 85

American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The early-stage investment fund’s vertical specialties span real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability. Founder and Managing Partner Constance Freedman and Partner, Liza Benson , oversee the generalist venture capital and growth equity firm.

strategy 82

strategy ventures real estate venture capital 82

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Landing in a period when VCs have been tightening their purse strings, it speaks to how strongly Muck Rack has performed until now and the confidence investors have in it sustaining that ahead.

media 101

media SaaS sustainability pitching 101

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC. It raised €2.5

startup 105

startup sustainability VC support 105

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A few weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell forecast that the Federal Reserve’s efforts to contain inflation would entail a “sustained period of below-trend growth” that would “bring some pain to households and businesses.” Scenario 1: Additional pain before recovery.

venture capital 84

venture capital capital ventures energy 84

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? The global software as a service (SaaS) industry is sustaining its steep growth trajectory, but developing and pricing professional services is oftentimes a difficult proposition for SaaS companies.

SaaS 137

SaaS strategy accelerator consulting 137

TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Research by BCG found that fewer than 15% were sustainable in the long run. But Bouchez argues that Reveal goes a step further by involving sales and marketing teams in the process for lead generation, sales enablement, and ecosystem expansion. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

data collection 93

data collection collaboration enablement opportunity 93

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ranging from the rapid adoption of sustainable technologies to the welcoming of a new local creator economy, we detail the surprising changes the pandemic has brought to consumer preferences, workplace dynamics, business models and the geopolitical influence on the fast-changing tech sector.

venture capital 90

venture capital accelerator disruption sustainability 90

TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“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. It is produced from 100% reclaimed carbon fiber, enabling new, high-volume, energy-efficient products that have a low carbon footprint.”

pitching 76

pitching energy startup consulting 76

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

HearstLab : led by Eve Burton, Chairwoman of HearstLab and Executive Vice President of Hearst, the firm provides cash investment and services to early-stage women-led tech-enabled startups in North America and Europe. Reach Capital , co-founded by Jennifer Carolan and Shauntel Garvey, raised a $165 million fund 3.

venture capital 105

venture capital capital ventures health 105

Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Christensen laments that American innovation has transitioned from empowering innovations to sustaining innovations to efficiency innovations - hollowing the job market. Christensen laments that American innovation has transitioned from empowering innovations to sustaining innovations to efficiency innovations - hollowing the job market.

sustainability 40

sustainability innovation economic growth enablement 40

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

“TravelPerk Events enables remote and hybrid teams to connect in real life,” runs its marketing spiel for the tool. “As The startup is also ploughing money into developing what it bills as “sustainable” travel solutions. As time goes by, it is clear that there won’t be a replacement for the human touch.

mix-use 85

mix-use leadership board consulting 85

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Sustainable travel at the forefront. Transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan interviewed Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko about his company’s transition “from using a hardware-as-a-service model to a take-rate scheme that gives it 10% of any sales made from its card payment-enabled bots.”. Mainstream attention is increasing.

construction 90

construction transportation founder advice 90

American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The following areas should be explored to determine the feasibility of the business under consideration will become sustainable and profitable. The former is a business model that has already been proven such as a computer repair shop or a restaurant, enabling the founder to follow what others have done to be successful.

innovation 98

innovation culture entrepreneurship pitching 98

OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

SynergyMed , a California-based startup, plans to bring its unique 3D technology SaaS platform into healthcare with proprietary visualization and printing capabilities that significantly improve patient results while cutting providers’ costs. Top wineries use Trellis’ AI to boost efficiency, sustainability .

startup 36

startup hospitality sustainability innovation 36

Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This financial scrutiny forms a realistic basis for evaluating whether the business idea is sustainable in the long run. For startup founders aiming at sustained success, the initial focus must be on building a comprehensive product or a suite of products. However, the startup landscape demands a more holistic approach.

consulting 52

consulting entrepreneurs advice sustainability 52

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world. So he covers a ton of ground for industry knowledge and M&A chops. just to name a few!

ventures 472

ventures VC venture capital funders 472

Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. We’re currently investing out of our fifth core fund, and since inception have backed 125 founding teams as GPs.

founder 154

founder peer-to-peer VC sustainability 154

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Let’s rethink how we approach growth models; maybe we don’t have to include a trial or free version of our products — especially when not every company is able to sustain the investment and resources required for trial products. This year, marketers should resolve to embrace this resurgence, but in a modern, differentiated way.

creativity 129

creativity strategy sustainability B2B marketing 129

StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Headquartered in California with offices in Ann Arbor, KLA is a global tech company that makes process-control and process-enabling solutions that help manufacture tech devices like our computers, smartphones, smart watches, autonomous vehicles, LCD screens and more. Voxel51 uses computer vision to create insights from video.

startup 108

startup coworking spaces culture communities 108

Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The innovation offered by machine learning techniques are real, and they will changed the SaaS world. Creating proprietary data through product usage, perhaps as an event-driven SaaS product, or through key partnerships is essential to creating sustainable competitive advantage.

SaaS 45

SaaS startup pitching innovation 45

David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Via HOF Capital, I’m an investor in : – Arcus provides a two-way real-time API to provide one trusted, centralized, digitally-enabled banking experience. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

venture capital 52

venture capital VC capital ventures 52

David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Via HOF Capital, I’m an investor in : – Arcus provides a two-way real-time API to provide one trusted, centralized, digitally-enabled banking experience. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

venture capital 40

venture capital VC capital ventures 40

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. In some cases yes, including our e-commerce SaaS companies and my recent Bitcoin exchange investment (MiraiEx). Dignio (SaaS/medtech). What other types of products/services are you wary or concerned about?

opportunity 115

opportunity mix-use advice investing 115

Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Performance marketing was once a steroid for company growth, enabling businesses to grow cost-efficiently as they only paid when they achieved desired outcomes. And it’s certainly not sustainable in this market; the lack of transparency from ad-tech/tech companies makes optimizing customer advertising costly and inefficient.

creativity 241

creativity sustainability enablement strategy 241

Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Klarna is betting AI-enabled software is the future of internal tools. That would provide Klarna a sustainable competitive advantage over time. Klarna, the Swedish fintech giant, is making waves by churning from industry-standard software like Salesforce and Workday in favor of building its own internal systems with AI.

SaaS 90

SaaS sustainability support enablement 90

TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. The theory is that it will make investment in sustainable infrastructure a more attractive proposition, too.

sustainability 76

sustainability finance financing energy 76

TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The SaaS platform provides care workers a suite of digital tools to support their work by streamlining admin and patient management while enabling real-time visibility into care events — helping keep family members informed of important details around their loved one’s care. In Birdie’s home market of the U.K.,

SaaS 92

SaaS health support frameworks 92

AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Register India’s SaaS-based logistics management platform Shipsy has secured US$25 million funding in its Series B financing round led by Z3 Partners and A91 Partners along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. It enables real-time data processing and provides you with live alerts using scalable machine learning models.

SaaS 64

SaaS sustainability enablement accelerator 64

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. The company possesses enough capital to sustain its development despite a long latency between product release and revenue.

enablement 40

enablement SaaS sustainability education 40