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The Rise of the API Economy

The Rise of the API Economy

The API economy is forever changing how the next generation of Intelligent Software companies go to market.   API-first companies provide businesses with the connective tissue to data and services that enable rapid innovation, create ...
Envisioning the AI-Empowered Future of Healthcare

Envisioning the AI-Empowered Future of Healthcare

Artificial intelligence is here and one of the industries it is most expected to transform is healthcare. Reflecting back upon the myriad private early-growth companies we have analyzed in recent months, we have reviewed numerous ...
The New Intelligent Sales Stack:  How AI / ML is Revolutionizing the Sales Org

The New Intelligent Sales Stack: How AI / ML is Revolutionizing the Sales Org

Digital transformation is accelerating across companies and data has become the number one asset as teams look for competitive advantages, growth avenues, or cost-cutting opportunities. This is permeating throughout organizations and ...
The Rise of ML Ops

The Rise of ML Ops

Within the past few years, net-new markets, opportunities, and interest have been emerging from all manner of companies—financial services, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, consumer, and general developer-focused companies—in ...
Powering Snowflake’s Big IPO: Data and Intelligent Software

Powering Snowflake’s Big IPO: Data and Intelligent Software

Snowflake Inc., whose software helps enterprises rapidly analyze business information, saw its shares more than double in value on its first day of trading.  What is behind the startup’s roaring IPO?  It all comes down to the ...
Robust Exit Activity Across the Intelligent Software Market

Robust Exit Activity Across the Intelligent Software Market

We believe that the commercial market for Intelligent Software—software applications and platforms that leverage Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning—has reached an inflection point.  In this post we share some of the data ...
The Evolution of Function-Specific Software

The Evolution of Function-Specific Software

The role of the knowledge worker has seen a rapid transformation in the past few months as companies look to prioritize the digital economy and structure their organizations to be more agile, effective, and prepared. While Covid-19 ...
COVID-19, INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE, AND THE FUTURE OF WORK (PART III)

COVID-19, INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE, AND THE FUTURE OF WORK (PART III)

The pandemic has served to catalyze and accelerate seminal changes.  In this three-part article series, we will highlight some of the important themes and concepts that we believe will shape, and are shaping, the Future of Work in the ...
COVID-19, INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE, AND THE FUTURE OF WORK (PART II)

COVID-19, INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE, AND THE FUTURE OF WORK (PART II)

The pandemic has served to catalyze and accelerate seminal changes.  In this three-part article series, we will highlight some of the important themes and concepts that we believe will shape, and are shaping, the Future of Work in the ...