In about 30 days, three B2B companies—Salesforce buying Fin for $3.6B, Autodesk buying MaintainX for $3.6B, and Schneider Electric buying Cognite for $3.1B—each paid a giant premium to acquire proprie…
The Bay Area captured 51.5% of all AI venture dollars and 53.2% of all B2B dollars from July 2025 through June 2026, according to Carta's Startup Ecosystem Leaderboard, which tracked $124 billion inve…
Software is not dead, but it has become much harder to win, according to Scale Venture Partners co-founder Rory O'Driscoll, speaking at SaaStr AI. Hyperscalers are spending roughly $688 billion on AI …
SaaStr Chief AI Officer Amelia reported that the company's AI VP of Marketing, 10K, completed one hour of work at a cost of $13.42, taking 125 actions and reading 2,463 lines of context. This cost is …
Higgsfield crossed a $500M annualized revenue run rate in June, up from $200M at the end of 2025, and is cash-flow positive, CEO Alex Mashrabov said. The AI video platform, which launched in March 202…
SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin advises companies to deploy AI agents on B-tier leads rather than hot inbound leads, arguing that agents generate revenue from ignored prospects. Lemkin says his own agent on B…
SaaStr's Jason Lemkin argues that OpenAI giving the U.S. government a 5% stake could buy alignment, similar to startups selling small stakes to strategic partners. He also notes that seed investors ef…
SaaStr co-founder Jason Lemkin shares a practical approach to building AI agents: start with an AI-enhanced dashboard, get data flowing, then add the agent layer. The company's QBee agent, which manag…
Willingness to Pay, a pricing consultancy led by Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt, has completed over 200 pricing redesigns for clients including Microsoft, SAP, and Intel, helping B2B and AI companies transiti…
Stripe, Google, Canva, Cloudflare, and Higgsfield shared go-to-market strategies at SaaStr AI 2026, revealing common patterns such as building and selling in parallel, centralizing AI intelligence, tr…
ICONIQ's 2026 State of AI report, based on a survey of 305 executives, reveals that AI products now account for nearly half of revenue at software companies, with open-source models rising to 40% of t…
Washington lifted the 19-day ban on Fable 5, setting a precedent for structured pre-approval of AI models. OpenAI floated a proposal for frontier labs to give the U.S. government a 5% stake, sparking …
At SaaStr AI 2026, Jason Lemkin presented 15 hard truths about B2B and AI, arguing that AI agents should outperform top human reps rather than merely match them, and that startups must shift to weekly…
A long-time Adobe Marketo customer is churning due to poor AI integration, API limits, and rising costs, despite a discount likely keeping them. The author argues legacy B2B vendors harm themselves by…
A SaaStr AI executive argues that while small teams can successfully build AI agents on top of existing CRM platforms like Salesforce, the approach breaks down for larger organizations due to scaling …