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April 9, 2026

AI Is Eating SaaS

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February 20, 2026

Financial Reporting Is Becoming Services-as-Software

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March 11, 2026

De-Laboring the Go-To-Market: How AI is Unlocking PLG for B2B

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January 27, 2026

Procore Acquires Datagrid to Anchor Global AI Strategy

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January 23, 2026

CrowdStrike to Acquire Seraphic Security: Securing the Human and Agentic Workforce

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November 19, 2025

Storm Ventures Promotes Minjoo Kim to Partner

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October 17, 2025

Storm Ventures Invests in Kenkou AI to Redefine Customer Success in the Age of AI

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February 10, 2025

Pinkfish: Generative Automation

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August 28, 2025

Tote: The Future of Retail

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August 28, 2025

A New Chapter for Infrastructure Automation

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September 11, 2025

Storm Ventures Welcomes David Somers, Former Workday CPO, to Lead Investments in the Next Generation of AI-Native Enterprise Software

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September 19, 2024

The genie of finance

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August 25, 2025

AI in B2B SaaS: What's Changed in Two Years?

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October 28, 2024

AI infra for a multi-model, agent-driven world

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September 25, 2024

Devops is tough

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January 29, 2024

Compa: Reimagine Compensation

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July 26, 2023

Customer Success Evolution

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July 22, 2024

Heeler Security: the next step in AppSec

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November 14, 2024

Retorio: Pioneering a Personal Touch in AI-Powered Training

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April 19, 2023

Dasera: Instant Data Governance, Compliance, Privacy, and Security

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June 21, 2023

Get Ready to Revolutionize Your DevOps Experience with System Initiative

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January 20, 2023

Remote Work: Is it a Revolution?

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February 6, 2023

Raising Money During a Recession: What Are the 5 Signals VCs Look For?

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December 9, 2022

Storm Ventures Announces Fund VII

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July 27, 2022

What Founders need to know about Venture Capital Investing in B2B Tech Startups

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April 5, 2022

Airgap: Protecting Critical Assets and Infrastructure

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March 22, 2022

‘Haegin’: a metaverse game developer

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January 20, 2022

Zingtree: the Revenue Generating Secret Weapon for Call Centers

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June 10, 2022

SaaS Startups: Navigating Uncertain Times

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December 22, 2021

Avoma: Make Meetings Actionable

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February 8, 2022

Circula: the Rise of the SaaS-Based Employee Finance App

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December 14, 2021

Outside The Perimeter: The New Digital Risk Landscape

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December 22, 2021

Understanding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the Startup World

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October 26, 2021

Bridgit: A Collaborative and Smarter Approach to Construction

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December 1, 2021

Bootstrapping vs investment: one venture investor says VC money isn’t always best

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April 7, 2021

Carta Healthcare: Unlocking the Value in Health Data

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February 17, 2021

What is enterprise automation? Q&A with Workato’s Markus Zirn

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August 14, 2021

Motivo: The Next Leap for the Semiconductor Industry

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September 14, 2021

Sendoso’s Journey to Category Domination and $100M Series C Funding with SoftBank

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February 8, 2021

InEvent: Shaping up the future of the B2B event market space

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February 4, 2021

How to Deal with Acquisition Interest

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January 28, 2021

Common mistakes made by startup founders and how to avoid them

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January 15, 2021

Angel investor vs VC: which should your tech start-up pitch to?

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January 21, 2021

How to email an investor you’ve never met — and get a response

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January 12, 2021

Workato — Future of the Enterprise

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November 20, 2020

Creating a strategy to tackle customer churn for a tech startup

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August 12, 2020

5 B2B Sales Leaders’ Secrets on Thriving in a Coronavirus Economy

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July 23, 2020

Measuring Customer Success

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November 2, 2020

Remote work best practices — a CFO’s perspective

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October 5, 2020

Negotiating Your Term Sheet: Startup Vesting and Pro Rata Rights

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August 10, 2020

Krisp: Enabling the Voice Revolution

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July 16, 2020

Qualio: The Future of Quality Management

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November 11, 2019

Workato: the next chapter

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July 13, 2020

Building Remote Teams — All You Need To Know

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February 10, 2020

How to prepare a pitch deck for a SaaS investor

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January 15, 2020

How to Fix Sales Churn

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October 30, 2019

Why SaaS startups should care about churn

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September 30, 2019

Calculating sales efficiency in a startup: The magic number that will help you scale

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September 12, 2019

Why this US investor is on the hunt for European founders

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September 9, 2019

Syte: The Power of Visual AI

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July 30, 2019

Aviso: A NoCRM approach to Sales

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August 16, 2019

Talview: Bridging the Talent Gap

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March 4, 2019

A Smarter and Simpler Approach to Hiring

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August 28, 2019

Why we need to give more funding to female entrepreneurs

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September 4, 2019

There’s no need to fear AI: It will create as many jobs as it steals

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March 27, 2019

Personal Brand

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February 27, 2019

Best kept pipeline conversion secret — Why we invested in Sendoso

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February 25, 2019

GovTech Midwest Meetup

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February 3, 2019

I know It’s Been Awhile…

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February 10, 2019

Power Mapping

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February 22, 2019

Brexit will bring chaos but as an investor it won’t put me off

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December 5, 2018

The Need for Speed

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February 16, 2018

Writing Survival To Thrival

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January 26, 2018

Storm Security Summit

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February 2, 2018

The Role of the Investor- a Heavybit Industries Podcast

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January 29, 2018

Logikcull Raises 25 Million in 17 Days. A Message From Me To Our Customers & Employees: Thank You!

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November 21, 2017

Why Product Qualified Leads Are Rapidly Being Adopted in SaaS

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January 17, 2018

How to Keep Employees Happy?

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January 10, 2018

Blockchain and Healthcare

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January 28, 2018

Investing in 2018

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November 6, 2017

How The Customer Acquisition Process Is Changing In SaaS

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January 2, 2018

Why I love Investor Update Emails

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November 17, 2017

“Mastering Product Experience in SaaS”

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November 1, 2017

Silego — a 15 year startup journey

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October 18, 2017

Sunday evening with Rahul Gandhi, Milind Deora and Sam Pitroda

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October 23, 2017

Customer Success & Account Management by Company Stage

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October 10, 2017

Cyber Awareness Month: When is Ignorance of Attacks Acceptable?

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September 28, 2017

GovTech Business Model Canvas

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September 29, 2017

From Client Kickoff Meeting to Customer Success: The Customer Adoption Curve

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August 22, 2017

ShoCard: Own Your Identity

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August 17, 2017

Hoping for an 80% increase in user engagement?

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August 26, 2017

Artificial Intelligence in Government

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September 25, 2017

SaaS: The White Collar Industrial Revolution

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August 24, 2017

Jabil speeds up Access Violation Management using Greenlight

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August 24, 2017

Ellen Pao’s Discrimination Suit: Would Better Discovery Tech Have Changed the Outcome?

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August 1, 2017

The Sales and Marketing Pipeline

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August 2, 2017

Account Based Advertising Strategies for SaaS Companies

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May 23, 2017

How to Create a“Definitive Guide” (Thought Leadership Content)

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August 4, 2017

Three Phases to Get to SaaS Go To Market Fit

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July 18, 2017

Why Storm invested in Workato

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\ \ Product Led Growth with Dave Boyce](https://youtu.be/howwUOLEHCU)

\ \ Make a Plan, Break the Plan, Repeat with Jeff Gray](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz66USAEb8g)

\ \ Transforming Customer Success: From Defense to Offense with Mark Stephenson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQ4nVbM12w)

\ \ An Insider’s Take on Hiring Your First VP of Sales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRAjn4bfPA)

.jpg)\ \ 3 Mistakes European Businesses Need to Avoid When Entering the U.S. Market](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIQ6Sz-Kh2c)

\ \ AI Product Market Fit Webinar with Natalia Burina & Eva Agapaki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjKmyg93KyI)

\ \ Expansion Strategies Webinar with Christina Noren & Michael Wilde](https://youtu.be/Lm55FqQBX24)

.jpg)\ \ AI & B2B SaaS: Worth the Hype? (Part 2)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWLKHVy1QI)

.jpg)\ \ AI & B2B SaaS: Worth the Hype? (Part 1)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8YwpWbS_yM)

.jpg)\ \ Product Market Fit: 4 Ways to Know if Your Business Has Found It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iY-17WUXQs)

.jpg)\ \ Raising Money During a Recession: What Are the 5 Signals VCs Look For?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgdmRQaDEPQ)

\ \ Remote Work: Is it a Revolution? - AskAVC #37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9wIxnDoUHw)

\ \ Startup Funding: How Venture Investors Make Decisions - AskAVC #36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNZsDRwbF_c)

\ \ SaaS startups: Navigating Uncertain Times - AskAVC #35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs-vUszwU5s)

\ \ Customer experience 101 - AskAVC #34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F65n8Aspeyg)

\ \ Cybersecurity for a small business: latest threats - AskAVC #33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ab9ZcGRVIw)

\ \ How to master net dollar retention - AskAVC #32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCYf7L_mCyo)

\ \ 8 ways to finance your startup - no VC funding required! AskAVC #31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1HkEsbZxJs)

\ \ Understanding diversity and inclusion - AskAVC #30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AmYu0vt8_w)

\ \ Go to market strategy for startups - AskAVC #29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvioSvLMrG0)

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[March 12, 2026\ \ The Founder’s Dilemma: Red pill (Sales-Led) or Blue pill (Product-Led)? 🔴 🔵\ \ In the AI era, the choice is already made for you. If you aren’t building PLG-native, you’re already behind.\ \ We sat down with @DaveBoyceDotNet to break down the new GTM playbook. 🧵👇 https://t.co/SLucMr7EYk\\

[January 28, 2026\ \ For 20 years, construction tech has been a digital file cabinet. That era just ended. 🏗️\ \ @procoretech's acquisition of Datagrid is an exciting moment for the industry. While others built passive dashboards, Datagrid built Agentic AI that actually executes.\ \ More on it below. 👇 https://t.co/iOgDSTxGHs\\

[January 23, 2026\ \ Security spend goes to the device. Reality happens in the browser.\ \ That 85% visibility gap is why @CrowdStrike acquired @SeraphicSec.\ \ In the age of AI agents, the browser is the new endpoint. Huge win for both teams. https://t.co/rQ6mXXt04V\\

[January 20, 2026\ \ Welcome our new EIR, Ahmed! ✨\ \ An AI product veteran, Ahmed helped scale Moveworks from Series A to its ServiceNow acquisition & led Product at Ambience Healthcare. He’s now exploring the next wave of agentic AI at Storm. 🚀\ \ We're glad to have him on board! 🌊 \ \ #AI #VC https://t.co/a3a54YmF0n\\

[December 17, 2025\ \ So many good vibes at our holiday party last week! Cheers to 2026! 🥂 https://t.co/AF1cwJuRxA\\

[January 14, 2026\ \ It's so rare that the whole team is in same place at the same time, but this week we finally made it happen! \ \ After a busier than usual Monday, we all got together for some good food, good wine and quality team time 🍽️ 🍷 ✨ https://t.co/YZzlrfRa7K\\

[January 13, 2026\ \ Say hi to our new EIR, Kevin Schultz! 👋\ \ With 25+ years in SaaS & HCM (Perceptyx, Adobe, TCS), Kevin is an expert at scaling global services and AI adoption. He’s also a dedicated advisor to early-stage founders.\ \ We’re excited to have him at Storm! 🌊 https://t.co/WnfHvEfT0j\\

[November 19, 2025\ \ ⚡️ MAJOR NEWS: Storm Ventures promotes Minjoo Kim to Partner! ⚡️\ \ As a superstar leader driving our global #EnterpriseAI investment strategy from Seoul, she's Storm's bridge between the Korean ecosystem & Silicon Valley B2B expertise.\ \ Join us in congratulating @mjkim_0731! https://t.co/SoWYgujJ8I\\

[November 1, 2023\ \ In case you missed our Enterprise AI Summit in August, you can watch the first panel, "AI within the Enterprise" at the link below:\ https://t.co/hyMdbZAFlJ\\

[November 2, 2023\ \ Missed the Enterprise AI Summit back in August? No worries! Catch the recording of our second panel, Generative AI: Opportunity & Challenges here: https://t.co/y2Gew8puPn\\

[November 9, 2023\ \ During the Enterprise AI Summit’s third panel - “Infrastructure for an AI World” - Ken, Deepam & Gaurav examined the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure. Uncover their insights on the intersection of healthcare and cutting-edge AI at the link below: https://t.co/NZFwduffJT\\

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Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup

by Bob Tinker and Tae Hea Nahm

If you are an entrepreneur anywhere on the enterprise startup journey, Survival to Thrival is for you. In the beginning, it is simply about survival – how not to die? With luck and hard work, it becomes about Thrival – how do we win?

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The Survival to Thrival Podcast

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AI & B2B SaaS: Worth the Hype? - Ask a VC #38 by #AskAVC with Ryan Floyd