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The most important metrics for SaaS funding in 2024

Today we're focusing on metrics and business environments that apply to most SaaS companies — not the unicorn outliers.

It’s time for a heat check on the subscription economy and its proposed value to customers

Companies employing subscription licensing have grown between three and four times faster than the S&P 500 over the past 12 years.

AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced, from new AI tools to LLM updates and more

We will deliver quick hits of the biggest news from AWS re:Invent as they are announced.

Good old-fashioned AI remains viable in spite of the rise of LLMs

Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was all about building models to solve for a single task like loan approvals or fraud protect

Amazon finds itself in the unusual position of playing catch-up in AI

"This might be the first time where people looked and said that Amazon isn't in the pole position to capitalize on this massive opportunity."

The search and discovery marketplace 

The benefits of a well-run marketplace are numerous: a far more valuable user experience for your customers, a differentiated product and new revenue streams.

Stensul draws on new capital to boost marketing creation features

Stensul added dozens of new features and functionalities. Most notable is Landing Page, which gives customers a no-code, drag-and-drop way to build integrated landing pages.

Good news, startups: Q3 software results are changing the tech narrative

New data from Salesforce, Zuora, Okta, Nutanix and Snowflake makes it plain that several tech sectors are doing better than a lot of people expected.

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on culturally aware LLMs, developer productivity and FemTech

By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition is that he also uses that day to publish his predictions for the coming

Tech-enabled warehousing startup Huboo raises another $36.6M amid continued e-commerce growth

When consumers switched to home deliveries and “digitized” their lifestyles during the pandemic, it led to a surge in e-commerce sales and thus, also, in the need for warehousing and shipping. But

Kognitos raises $20M to help businesses automate back-office processes

Businesses will never not (forgive the double negative) push to improve efficiency. It’s their commercial imperative. Sometimes, that takes the form of budget cuts. Other times, it’s more

With Neptune Analytics, AWS combines the power of vector search and graph data

There’s been a debate of sorts in AI circles about which database is more important in finding truthful information in generative AI applications: graph or vector databases. AWS decided to leave

AWS Clean Rooms ML lets companies securely collaborate on AI

Amazon’s launching (in preview) a privacy-preserving service that lets AWS customers deploy “lookalike” AI models trained for one-off company-company collaborations. Called Clean Roo

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod makes it easier to train and fine-tune LLMs

At its re:Invent conference today, Amazon’s AWS cloud arm announced the launch of SageMaker HyperPod, a new purpose-built service for training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). SageM

A three-step process to launch and sustain your merged brand

When companies merge, there’s almost always significant trepidation, so your first job must be to offer your stakeholders peace of mind.

Squint peers at $13M led by Sequoia for AR aimed at B2B to interact with physical objects

Apple’s and Google’s move into smart augmented reality several years ago, creating ways for people to use their smartphone cameras to identify everyday objects to interact with them, put t

DuploCloud lands $32M infusion to make provisioning cloud apps easier

It’s only appropriate that, during AWS’ biggest week of the year, a cloud-based software-as-a-service startup closed a sizeable funding round. DuploCloud, which sells a set of tools to mak

AWS takes the cheap shots

The rise of generative AI opens up a massive new market for the large cloud providers, but it’s also a bit of a reset. Unlike the rise of containers, for example, generative AI is an entirely ne

Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses at AWS re:Invent

Amazon is launching an AI-powered chatbot for AWS customers called Q. Unveiled during a keynote at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this morning, Q — starting at $20 per user

AWS adds Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock to help safeguard LLMs

We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models, and finding ways to constrain the answers that a model could give is
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