Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

About $1B has been invested in early stage SaaS startups as of November 1. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. This operations category hints at the rising importance in the fundraising market of vertical SaaS companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed). After all, Jiffy.ai

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. They are electronic yet manual processes that make their work very inefficient. More than 3,000 users also utilize its software.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Ma was previously a senior engineer at Morgan Stanley before co-founding Supportive, a help desk software-as-a-service startup, and joining Confluent as an engineering lead. Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. Image Credits: Superblocks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care. The problems are more exacerbated the more pets that are added to the system, which has not grown in a way to support that,” Mawhinney added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

In a nutshell, Vesta’s technology aims to provide a customizable platform for mortgage origination, supporting approval, underwriting and the closing and funding of home loans. . ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We Image Credits: Vesta.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Dear Sophie: Supporting Ukrainians with H-1Bs and beyond. How can we support them? Dear Sophie: Supporting Ukrainians with H-1Bs and beyond. 6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. He is trying to get his parents out of Ukraine. United with Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

In a statement, Luke Sarsfield, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “Employers are looking to provide their employees tailored solutions and customizable advice that can better support individual saving and investing needs to help improve retirement savings outcomes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Here are 6 tactical guidelines drawn from my work with 15+ global tech upstarts in D2C, B2B marketplaces, SaaS for SMBs, logistics, cybersecurity, and digital health over the last decade: 1. Winning big often means starting small. These tremendously insightful and influential consumers will pay more, explore more and advocate more.”—

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 92

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. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

There’s evidence to support this. And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. Like all founders, I wore many hats including sales, recruiting, and customer support,” Sambhi told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Just one week after closing on its acquisition of Metromile (and laying off about 20% of the latter company’s staff), Lemonade announced on August 4 that it has sold Metromile’s enterprise business solutions unit, a SaaS-based claims automation and fraud detection product, to EIS. Well, that was fast! from the previous quarter” to $24.1

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Besides incumbent staffing agencies, Deng acknowledges that there are several startups with business models similar to Clipboard’s, like NurseDash, CareRev and Nomad Health, which focuses on travel nurses. That, Deng says, should be sufficient runway to build out new teams to support the company’s growing business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company raised $31 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Venture Partners, with support from Benchmark. “Instead, what ends up happening is the only path that a small company has to get their products to market is to go and get acquired by a big incumbent enterprise.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Spend management decacorn Brex announced this week it would be integrating Deel into its new Brex Empower platform “to support international payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance.” Anita Ramaswamy gives us details on the cash sweep program here. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Historically, software-as-a-service (SaaS) has been built on databases with structured data, as you might find in an Excel spreadsheet. But the ability of large language models to extract insights from unstructured information changes this architecture : data repositories like data lakes are becoming essential parts of modern SaaS stacks.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

Unlike the first wave of SaaS software, machine learning startups benefit from the data their customers share with them. Which is the viewpoint that will ultimately govern the customer/vendor relationships in SaaS? I believe that the SaaS ecosystem will evolve similarly. Should customers be compensated for their contribution?

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. Over time, Stripe has expanded to support more business models (e.g., ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A fascinating example of this is SaaS marketplace Juggle. Professionals sign up for the service, and recruitment tools allow them to schedule and keep track of job applications, and coaching and support are available. Juggle also provides ‘smart matching’ and the necessary paperwork to allow for these flexible roles.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 10, 2016

The next big shift in SaaS is an evolution from software as a service as a displacer to a disruptor. Displacement technologies compete with incumbents on the same buying parameters. Most SaaS products today are displacers. SaaS products initially were viewed as a cheaper, often inferior product to their client/server peers.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note : Last Thursday, Cigna acquired Brighter to accelerate the development of Cigna’s mobile and desktop platforms and create new end-to-end experiences that connect health consumers and providers with the guidance, support, and incentives they need to increase quality of care and maximize cost-savings.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Multiples of SaaS companies have remained at relative highs: still trading at 8x forward as of today, which is 45% above historical averages. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent’s customer bases. SaaS fundraising remained strong. Machine learning fades as a buzzword.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

I realized [that] I have so much support at the front of the house to drive revenue to the door, but I have no technology to support the back of the house,” he said. SaaS-enabled marketplace. It charges a monthly SaaS fee per rooftop to a restaurant group. ResQ product mock-up. Image Credits: ResQ.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

We are deeply grateful for their contributions and they will receive our full support during this time of transition. These actions are never taken lightly, but we believe they are necessary in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the company and our commitment to supporting local restaurants.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2019

The post talked about the potential in the SaaS ecosystem for startups to identify underserved customers in existing installed bases of incumbents and build big companies serving them better. Kustomer is a customer support software business based in New York that is doing just that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

But Amy Spurling, the CEO of Compt, makes the case that incumbent solutions are overly reliant on vendor marketplaces or benefits cards, which limit the ways in which employees can use their perks. “This defeats the purpose of supporting an employee’s whole wellbeing and not just their work wellbeing.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

But often, a company will need real-time access to data as it’s created, and this might be pivotal for customer support software that relies on current information about each and every sale, for example. This so-called “batch data processing” can be useful for things like processing monthly sales data.

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development incumbents SaaS financing 84

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Call center service provider incumbents like Dialpad offer sentiment analysis features, as well, as do companies including Cogito , Saygent and SugarCRM. ” Loris, which has 15 employees, aims to triple its workforce this year. ” Loris, which has 15 employees, aims to triple its workforce this year.

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incumbents capital enablement strategy 81

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age. While Unreal and Unity try to support all platforms enabling cross-platform development, they make performance tradeoffs with the engine for the one-size-fits all approach.

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incumbents creativity development enablement 145

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In recent months, Replicant added support for new languages and conversational capabilities that Shamia calls “powers,” like holding on the line, repeating information “conversationally” and matching a customer’s response against a database.

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incumbents development culture ventures 94

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

But I think there’s something to that, where you provide, you know, the sort of infrastructure and support, and then let the users or creators do what they do best. You know, incumbents versus startups. Definitely the incumbents, they’re going to have access to the technology and they’re going to have distribution.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

SaaS subscriptions may be short-serving your customers. Software as a service (SaaS) has perhaps become a bit too interchangeable with subscription models. SaaS subscriptions may be short-serving your customers. What can we do to support her? Image Credits: emyerson (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. What’s the right NDR target for SaaS startups? Startup CEOs sound off on picking cloud providers. Like Startups Weekly?

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