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We’re proud to unveil the 7th annual Enterprise Tech 30, our data-driven list of the 60 most promising private companies in enterprise technology.

The Wing Team
March 25, 2025
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We’re excited to partner with Kay AI as they revolutionize insurance workflows by automating repetitive tasks, letting teams focus on what truly matters.

Tanay Jaipuria
March 25, 2025
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Cyberhaven Raises $33M in Series B Funding to Transform Stagnant and Ineffective Data Protection Market

Cyberhaven Raises $33M in Series B Funding to Transform Stagnant and Ineffective Data Protection Market

Cyberhaven raised $33M is Series B funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Dec 14, 2021
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Simplified Secures $8.5M in Seed Funding

Simplified Secures $8.5M in Seed Funding

Simplified secures $8.5M in seed funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Dec 7, 2021
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Netography, Which Offers Security for the ‘Atomized’ Network, Gets $45M

Netography, Which Offers Security for the ‘Atomized’ Network, Gets $45M

Netography gets $45M for its security offerings for the ‘Atomized’ Network. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Nov 16, 2021
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Noteable Expands Analytics Tools for Programming with New $21M

Noteable Expands Analytics Tools for Programming with New $21M

Noteable expands analytics tools for programming with new $21M infusion. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Nov 16, 2021
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Blockchain Firm StarkWare Raises $50M Series C Round at a $2B Valuation

Blockchain Firm StarkWare Raises $50M Series C Round at a $2B Valuation

Read how StarkWare raised $50M Series C and earned a $2B valuation. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Nov 16, 2021
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Habu Raises $25M to Help Advertisers Find New Ways of Targeting and Measuring Ads

Habu Raises $25M to Help Advertisers Find New Ways of Targeting and Measuring Ads

Habu raises $25M to help advertisers find new ways of targeting and measuring ads. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Nov 11, 2021
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Lumigo Raises $29M for its Cloud-Native Application Monitoring Platform

Lumigo Raises $29M for its Cloud-Native Application Monitoring Platform

Lumigo raises $29M for its cloud-native application monitoring platform. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Nov 2, 2021
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Computer Vision Platform Cogniac Nabs $20M to Bolster its Customer Acquisition Efforts

Computer Vision Platform Cogniac Nabs $20M to Bolster its Customer Acquisition Efforts

Cogniac nabs $20M to bolster customer acquisition efforts. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Oct 29, 2021
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Fintech Startup Drip Raises $175M for Cross-Border Trade

Fintech Startup Drip Raises $175M for Cross-Border Trade

Fintech startup Drip raises $175M for cross-border trade. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Oct 29, 2021
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Copy.ai: Automated Creativity Tools Generate Business Content in Seconds

Copy.ai: Automated Creativity Tools Generate Business Content in Seconds

Writing business content is hard and time consuming—however, the need for great business writing only continues to grow. The acceleration of fully-digital products and experiences now means almost everyone at a business is a copywriter—whether you are the CEO, working in product, or writing ads for marketing campaigns.

Zach DeWitt
Oct 14, 2021
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Writing Helper Copy.ai Closes on its Second Funding Round This Year

Writing Helper Copy.ai Closes on its Second Funding Round This Year

Writing helper Copy.ai closes its second funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Oct 14, 2021
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AWS Selects GYANT as a Finalist in the Inaugural AWS Healthcare Accelerator

AWS Selects GYANT as a Finalist in the Inaugural AWS Healthcare Accelerator

Read how AWS selected GYANT as a finalist for their inaugural AWS Healthcare Accelerator. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Sep 28, 2021
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Docs Startup Almanac Raises $34M as Remote Work Shift Hardens

Docs Startup Almanac Raises $34M as Remote Work Shift Hardens

Almanac raises $34M as remote work becomes ubiquitous. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Sep 21, 2021
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Tango Dances in with $5.7M, Making Employee Onboarding Easier

Tango Dances in with $5.7M, Making Employee Onboarding Easier

Tango dances in with $5.7M, making employee onboarding easier. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 24, 2021
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Bungalow Valuation Soars Over $600M After Raising $75M in Equity Funding

Bungalow Valuation Soars Over $600M After Raising $75M in Equity Funding

Read how Bungalow pushed their valuation over $600M after equity funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 24, 2021
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CertiK Raises $24m in Series B+ Funding Round

CertiK Raises $24m in Series B+ Funding Round

Read how CertiK raised $24M in Series B+ funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 17, 2021
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Gong Named to the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100

Gong Named to the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100

Gong named to Forbes 2021 Cloud 100 list. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 11, 2021
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Noteable Named to the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars

Noteable Named to the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars

Noteable named to the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 11, 2021
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Cohesity Named to the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100

Cohesity Named to the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100

Cohesity named to Forbes 2021 Cloud 100. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 11, 2021
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TruEra Announces Availability of TruLens

TruEra Announces Availability of TruLens

TruEra announces availability of TruLens. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 11, 2021
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Human Interest Raises $200M On Its Path To IPO

Human Interest Raises $200M On Its Path To IPO

Human Interest raises $200M on its way to IPO. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 4, 2021
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Deepgram Launches $10M Speech Recognition Startup Program

Deepgram Launches $10M Speech Recognition Startup Program

Deepgram launches $10M speech recognition startup program. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Aug 3, 2021
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Advice for Founders from the CEOs of Three Iconic Companies

Advice for Founders from the CEOs of Three Iconic Companies

Last week we hosted the Wing Summit on Building Iconic Companies with the legendary Eric Yuan (Zoom), Melanie Perkins (Canva) and Stewart Butterfield (Slack). We had over 1,000 attendees, largely filled with CEOs and founders. The full summit can be viewed here.

Zach DeWitt
Jul 27, 2021
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Netlify Partners with StepZen to Build Dynamic Functionality on Jamstack Sites

Netlify Partners with StepZen to Build Dynamic Functionality on Jamstack Sites

Netlify partners with StepZen to build dynamic functionality on Jamstack sites. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Jul 20, 2021
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CertiK Completes Series B Funding

CertiK Completes Series B Funding

Read about CertiK securing Series B funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Jul 14, 2021
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AI-Powered Sales Enablement Platform Gong Raises $250M

AI-Powered Sales Enablement Platform Gong Raises $250M

Read about how Gong raised $250M. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Jun 3, 2021
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TruEra Launches TruEra Monitoring

TruEra Launches TruEra Monitoring

TruEra launches TruEra Monitoring. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Jun 2, 2021
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Flush With Cash, Startups Move to Hire CFOs Earlier

Flush With Cash, Startups Move to Hire CFOs Earlier

Startups move to hire CFOs earlier in their lifecycles. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

May 31, 2021
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Clear Labs Raises $60M Series C

Clear Labs Raises $60M Series C

Clear Labs raises $60M in Series C. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

May 26, 2021
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Jellyfish Recognized By Gartner As Cool Vendor For Software Engineering Technologies

Jellyfish Recognized By Gartner As Cool Vendor For Software Engineering Technologies

Jellyfish recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor” for software engineering. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

May 11, 2021
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SiMa.ai Raises $80M in Series B Financing

SiMa.ai Raises $80M in Series B Financing

SiMa.ai raises $80M in Series B financing. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

May 11, 2021
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Deepgram and Gong Named to Forbes 2021 AI 50 List

Deepgram and Gong Named to Forbes 2021 AI 50 List

Deepgram and Gong named to 2021 Forbes AI 50 list. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

May 3, 2021
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Valtix Named a Gartner 2021 Cool Vendor in Cloud Networking

Valtix Named a Gartner 2021 Cool Vendor in Cloud Networking

Valtix named a Gartner 2021 Cool Vendor in Cloud Networking. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

May 3, 2021
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Truera named "Startup to Watch" in 2021 by DBTA Magazine

Truera named "Startup to Watch" in 2021 by DBTA Magazine

Truera named "Startup to Watch" in 2021 by DBTA Magazine. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Apr 22, 2021
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Cohesity Recognized as a Customers’ Choice in 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ Report

Cohesity Recognized as a Customers’ Choice in 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ Report

Cohesity recognized in 2021 Gartner Peer Insights report. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Apr 22, 2021
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Upsolver Enables No-Code Data Analytics in the Cloud with $25M Funding

Upsolver Enables No-Code Data Analytics in the Cloud with $25M Funding

Upsolver enables no-code data analytics in the cloud with $25M funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Apr 6, 2021
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Cohesity Announces a $3.7B Valuation — $1.2B More Than Its Valuation Less Than 12 Months Ago

Cohesity Announces a $3.7B Valuation — $1.2B More Than Its Valuation Less Than 12 Months Ago

Cohesity announced $3.7B valuation. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Mar 30, 2021
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Starkware Raises $75M in Series B Funding Round

Starkware Raises $75M in Series B Funding Round

Starkware raises $75M in Series B funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Mar 25, 2021
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Drip Capital Closes $40M Committed Warehouse Credit Facility from East West Bancorp to Facilitate Trade Finance to Small Businesses

Drip Capital Closes $40M Committed Warehouse Credit Facility from East West Bancorp to Facilitate Trade Finance to Small Businesses

Drip Capital closes $40M in its commitment to facilitate trade finance to small businesses. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Mar 25, 2021
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Truera Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021

Truera Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021

Truera named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Mar 10, 2021
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Collaboration Startup Around Raises $10 Million To Fight Zoom Fatigue In The ‘Hybrid’ Office Future

Collaboration Startup Around Raises $10 Million To Fight Zoom Fatigue In The ‘Hybrid’ Office Future

Around raised $10M to fight Zoom fatigue. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Mar 2, 2021
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Hydrolix Snares $10M Seed to Lower the Cost of Processing Log Data at Scale

Hydrolix Snares $10M Seed to Lower the Cost of Processing Log Data at Scale

Hydrolix snares $10M in seed funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Feb 26, 2021
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Torii Announces $10M Series A to Automate SaaS Management

Torii Announces $10M Series A to Automate SaaS Management

Torii announces $10M Series A to automate SaaS management. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Feb 18, 2021
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401(k) Provider Human Interest Doubles Valuation with $55M Fundraise

401(k) Provider Human Interest Doubles Valuation with $55M Fundraise

Find out how a 401K provider Human Interest doubled their valuation with a $55M Fundraise. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Feb 11, 2021
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Deepgram Raises $25M to Build Custom Enterprise Speech Recognition Models

Deepgram Raises $25M to Build Custom Enterprise Speech Recognition Models

Deepgram raised $25M to build custom speech recognition models. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Feb 3, 2021
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Powering Production ML: Why Wing Invested in Pinecone

Powering Production ML: Why Wing Invested in Pinecone

We look forward to working closely with Edo and the entire Pinecone team to enable the next wave of ML applications as AI takes center stage in the Modern Enterprise.

Peter Wagner
Jan 27, 2021
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Pinecone Lands $10M Seed for Purpose-Built Machine Learning Database

Pinecone Lands $10M Seed for Purpose-Built Machine Learning Database

Pinecone lands $10M seed for purpose-built machine learning database. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Jan 27, 2021
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Classiq Raises $10.5M Series A Round for its Quantum Software Development Platform Frederic Lardinois

Classiq Raises $10.5M Series A Round for its Quantum Software Development Platform Frederic Lardinois

Classiq raised $10.5M Series A for its quantum software platform. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Jan 27, 2021
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Jellyfish Secures $31.5M Series B to Grow Platform, Sales

Jellyfish Secures $31.5M Series B to Grow Platform, Sales

Jellyfish secures $31.5M in Series B funding. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Jan 12, 2021
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Enterprise Tech 2021 Predictions—A Curated Sample

Enterprise Tech 2021 Predictions—A Curated Sample

Over the past 1-2 weeks our research team has scanned many, if not all, of the enterprise technology predictions and trends for 2021, across cloud, data, analytics, machine learning, networking, ops, semiconductor, security, privacy, and other domains. Below is a curation of quotes with the source authors and publications. Our primary takeaway: it is an incredible time to be in enterprise technology.

Rajeev Chand
Jan 5, 2021
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StepZen Raises $8M Seed to Build Data Integration API

StepZen Raises $8M Seed to Build Data Integration API

StepZen raises $8M seed to build data integration API. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

Dec 22, 2020
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Wing Founder Survey: Cloud Data

Wing Founder Survey: Cloud Data

Wing conducted a survey of 153 startup CEOs and founders from December 7 to December 10 to understand their views on cloud data.

Jake Flomenberg
Dec 16, 2020
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September 21, 2023

2025 ET30: The builders defining what's next

We’re proud to unveil the 7th annual Enterprise Tech 30, our data-driven list of the 60 most promising private companies in enterprise technology.

January 10, 2025

Partnering with Kay AI to automate insurance operations

We’re excited to partner with Kay AI as they revolutionize insurance workflows by automating repetitive tasks, letting teams focus on what truly matters.

March 31, 2025

The Intelligent Enterprise: Charting BI's course in the AI age

From legacy giants like SAP and Tableau to emerging winners like Omni and Inventive, the next chapter of BI needs speed, governance, and AI-ready analytics.

January 10, 2025

Three areas of opportunity for AI-powered apps

AI-powered app companies have three key areas of opportunity—vertical/domain-specific software, apps with strong network effects, and certain horizontal software markets—where they can safely create value without facing direct competition from foundation model companies.

January 10, 2025

The rise of the agentic workforce

As more AI colleagues pop up across roles, we’re witnessing the emergence of the “agentic workforce”—specialized AI agents that slot into specific roles within a functional area or vertical, promising to give organizations more leverage in that area.

September 21, 2023

The AI Arms Race: Lessons from product leaders in SaaS and AI

The AI-driven product landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, with leading SaaS and AI companies racing to innovate and outpace each other in a rapidly converging market.

September 21, 2023

DeekSeek and its implications for the future of AI

The recent emergence of DeepSeek has sparked countless conversations about the future of AI, and the Wing team is no exception. Yesterday, the conversation in the office revolved around this topic dominating the zeitgeist. As our founding partner Peter Wagner started, “Let’s look down the road. What are the implications?”

January 28, 2025

AI agents and the future of professional services

The implications of AI agents replacing junior-level tasks traditionally performed by entry-level associates are profound and far-reaching. Let's look a bit deeper.

September 21, 2023

The market gap in advanced persistent phishing

Cyber threats are evolving faster than ever, and organizations need to be both vigilant and similarly adaptive to the changing landscape.

January 10, 2025

Five lessons in building robust AI agents from coding agents

If you’re a startup founder or builder looking to harness AI and build agents in other domains, here are five lessons from coding’s success—each describing how coding benefits, how you can apply it, and an example in various verticals.

January 10, 2025

Predictions for AI and tech in 2025

Let's look at five key themes for 2025 in AI and technology: rapid reasoning advancements through test-time compute, emergence of practical multimodal AI applications, AI agents functioning as autonomous workers, increased industry consolidation, and a more open IPO window.

January 10, 2025

Transforming medicine: AI applications in biotech and pharma at Wing at JPM

Wing held its 2nd annual invite-only summit for 300 chief-level officers in healthcare and biotech. The event featured discussions led by prominent executives from companies like Genentech, OpenAI, Google, Eli Lilly, and others.

January 10, 2025

A conversation with Yann LeCun, the godfather of AI

Wing partner and head of research Rajeev Chand sat down with Yann LeCun, the godfather of AI and current chief AI scientist at Meta, for a fireside chat at this year's CES conference.

January 10, 2025

Comparing the financials of Databricks and Snowflake

Last week, Databricks raised a massive $10 billion Series J, during which they also disclosed some high level financials of their business. This, coupled with Snowflake being public, gives us the opportunity to compare the financials of these two, as I’m sure every growth fund that looked at the Databricks round did.

February 27, 2025

Copy AI's formula for growing 3.5x in 8 months

Go-to-market (“GTM”) is the lifeblood of every company. As companies scale, it becomes increasingly complex and difficult to reach the right customers with on-brand marketing when they are ready to buy.

January 10, 2025

Cohesity and Veritas: A landmark partnership comes to fruition

The closing of this deal isn't just a culmination of years of hard work; it's the beginning of an exciting new chapter in data security and management.

January 10, 2025

ServiceTitan's IPO: A Deep Dive

ServiceTitan, the $772M ARR vertical SaaS leader for the trades industry, files for IPO. With 24% YoY growth, strong retention, and improving margins, it's poised to disrupt the $13B market. However, complex share conversion agreements add intrigue to the IPO timing and valuation.

January 10, 2025

AI’s impact on software: disruption or expansion?

Software vendors face a pivotal moment as AI capabilities advance, with competing visions of either their decline through democratized development or explosive growth through AI-powered automation.

February 27, 2025

AI growing faster than SaaS

Stripe's data shows AI startups reaching $1M revenue 4 months faster than SaaS, and scaling to $30M five times faster. Yet AI faces higher compute costs out of the gate. Does AI still have the advantage?

January 10, 2025

The plummeting cost of intelligence

The perception that AI is expensive is rapidly becoming outdated. Through a combination of technological breakthroughs and market forces, we're entering an era where intelligence could become nearly free to use.

January 10, 2025

Five key learnings from Google’s antitrust ruling

The recent antitrust trial against Google pulled back the curtain on some of the company’s business practices, revealing how they created an insurmountable advantage over Google’s competitors.

March 31, 2025

Open-source versus proprietary AI models: The new frontiers of AI competition

The AI industry is at a pivotal moment as open-source models narrow the performance gap with proprietary giants. This shift could reshape how AI is developed, deployed and monetized.

January 10, 2025

Partnering with Billables to automate operations for professional services

We’re excited to partner with Billables as they help professional services firms automate their mundane administrative tasks so that they can focus on their core work.

January 10, 2025

The evolution of SaaS pricing in the AI era

AI is shifting the long-standing seat-based pricing model in SaaS. Discover how forward-thinking companies are innovating their pricing strategies to reflect the true value of AI-enhanced solutions.

February 27, 2025

The secret to finding PMF is focus

Going broad isn't always the path to success. Find out how a focused approach can lead to stronger growth and better product-market fit.

January 10, 2025

YC S24 - AI Agents for the Enterprise

243 new startups pitched their companies to an invitation-only group of venture capitalists last week at the 39th Y Combinator Demo Day. Core themes for YC S24 included AI agents, voice AI agents, AI copoilots, and AI devtools.

February 27, 2025

The AI growth flywheel: How 11x is scaling fast with their own automated sales rep

AI is disrupting and transforming traditional business processes. This startup built an AI-powered sales rep — and turned it into a powerful growth accelerator for their own business.

January 10, 2025

The hidden traits of great startup hires, and how to uncover them

Krishna Rangasayee, founder of SiMa.ai, shares his hard-won insights on building a stellar startup team. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and hire candidates that will drive your company's success.

February 27, 2025

The new tech diet: Why companies are shedding excess weight

From startups to tech giants, a new mantra is emerging: Do more with less. Dive into the forces driving this trend and learn why operational fitness might be the key to keeping your competitive edge.

January 10, 2025

Unpacking Apple Intelligence: Apple’s vision for personalized AI

Apple's has announced a welcome new entrant to the AI space. With technological innovation and a continued focus on user privacy, Apple Intelligence is a leap forward for personal AI agents.

February 7, 2025

PMF, the “Sine Qua Non” of startup success (and failure): Lessons from Varun Mehta

In Varun Mehta’s Founder Docs, he shares his insights on the importance of getting product-market fit right as early as possible in the startup journey, and what to do when you’re struggling to find it.

January 10, 2025

The entrepreneur's guide to lean financial operations

Lean startup financial management can be challenging. Vinay Jain, founder of MadMen AI, offers practical tips on expense reviews and strategic hiring that can help you run a lean company right from day one.

March 5, 2025

Automating work with Orby AI

Orby observes, learns, and automates - no need to craft the perfect question, rather, the system will intelligently suggest automations for your workflows across apps.

February 7, 2025

2023: The Year of Market Divergence

Today, we are in a time of “market divergence”, in which companies in the fast-moving water of AI have seemingly insatiable investor demand, while those perceived to be in the back-eddies of prior technology cycles can find themselves to be almost unfinanceable.

February 7, 2025

Meet the Angels' Share 100

We are excited to unveil today the Angels’ Share 100. The Angels’ Share 100 is an exclusive list of the most active angel investors in the most promising startups in enterprise tech. The mission is to serve as an information and relationship platform for the founder and angel community.

February 7, 2025

Opportunities (and traps) for the scientist founder: Lessons from Pinecone’s Edo Liberty

Edo Liberty, the mind behind Pinecone, reveals how his background as a scientist has uniquely positioned him for startup success and shares the benefits of applying a research-driven approach to entrepreneurship.

January 10, 2025

Startups and timing: On the “why now” for new businesses

There’s a lot more to the "why now" question for any new business than meets the eye. But when startups get it right, they set themselves up for massive success.

March 31, 2025

Embedding AI and data into enterprise applications with Inventive

Today marks an exciting milestone as we proudly share our investment in Inventive and its groundbreaking platform aimed at revolutionizing the integration of AI into SaaS products.

March 31, 2025

How Synopsys and Cadence are fueling the semiconductor industry's growth engine

As the semiconductor industry continues to innovate and evolve, two companies — Synopsys and Cadence — have emerged as the critical foundation of chip design. Read on for a deep dive into the world of EDA software.

February 27, 2025

Startups, define culture first

What if I told you that one of the biggest keys to startup success lies in something most founders overlook? It's not about having the best product or the most funding — it’s about deliberately defining your culture before you start hiring.

January 10, 2025

Observations from the 2024 Enterprise Tech 30

What do the most promising enterprise tech startups have in common? From Generative AI to product-led growth, discover the biggest trends from the 2024 ET30 list and what they mean for the future of the industry.

March 31, 2025

The major computing cycles: From IBM to NVIDIA, CUDA and the generative AI age

In this exploration of computing's evolutionary timeline, you’ll learn the key milestones that have shaped the AI revolution. From personal computers to GPUs and the rise of generative AI, find out how these developments are paving the way for a trillion-dollar opportunity.

January 10, 2025

YC W24 Demo Day - The implications for enterprise tech

Over the past two days, Y Combinator held its 38th Demo Day, which continues to be one of the most exciting sets of days in tech. We had the privilege to participate, and we congratulate each of the YC W24 batch founders on their companies’ launches!

January 10, 2025

Reddit S-1 breakdown: On community, profitability, AI, and meme stocks

Reddit, the front page of the internet, is going public. Dive into the company's journey, challenges and opportunities as it navigates the path to becoming a publicly traded entity.

February 27, 2025

Common mistakes founders make

Want to build a thriving startup? Discover the top missteps founders make and how to avoid them.

September 21, 2023

Peter Wagner on 20VC: 27 years of investing lessons

Wing's Peter Wagner appeared on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings; listen in and check out the recording!

January 10, 2025

Observations on the Adobe-Figma acquisition termination

The unraveling of Adobe's $20 billion bid for Figma offers key insights into the regulatory roadblocks facing Big Tech mergers. Read on to get an analysis of what happened, and what might come next for M&A.

January 10, 2025

Wing congratulates Cohesity and Veritas

Wing is incredibly excited to congratulate the Cohesity and Veritas teams as they announce today a combined company that will undoubtedly and rapidly become the market leader in data security and management.

September 21, 2023

Pinecone's Edo Liberty and Notion's Akshay Kothari on user safety, building a business, and the future of AI

Wing recently hosted another installment of our Wing AI series, featuring Pinecone's Edo Liberty and Notion's Akshay Kothari in a conversation led by Wing founding partner Peter Wagner.

January 10, 2025

Big Tech’s playbook for AI investment

Tech giants like Amazon and Google are consistently making strategic investments in AI startups. Read on to find out more about Big Tech’s motivations and the broader implications for the technology sector.

March 5, 2025

Dr. Ansuman Satpathy joins Wing team

We're pleased to share that Dr. Ansuman Satpathy has joined the Wing team as venture partner, helping us and founders shape the future of health and medicine.

February 27, 2025

Great companies are built in the first year

Speed thrills — but it's often the steady and meticulous approach that seals the win. Discover how to build startups with a careful blend of patience and urgency.

January 10, 2025

The architect of innovation: Lessons from Arm's recent IPO

Dig deeper into the story of Arm, a pivotal but understated force in the semiconductor industry, as we unravel the strategy and serendipity behind its successful IPO.

February 27, 2025

A closer look at MotherDuck's unique monetization of DuckDB

MotherDuck has recently made waves in the technology world with its innovative serverless data analytics platform. Built on the open-source DuckDB, it offers a new approach to handling modern data challenges.

March 31, 2025

Insights from Retool’s State of AI report: How businesses are really using artificial intelligence today

Retool's latest State of AI Report reveals surprising truths about artificial intelligence in the workplace. Read on to find out how AI is truly being used in businesses today.

March 31, 2025

A deep dive into the AI workload super cycle

The AI workload super cycle represents a profound transformation in the technology landscape, underpinned by cutting-edge GPU hardware innovation and a surging demand for AI-driven tasks.

September 21, 2023

A deep dive into Wing's B2B tech investment strategy with founding partner Peter Wagner

Wing founder partner Peter Wagner sat down with Nick Moran for an interview on The Full Ratchet, a podcast about demystifying venture capital. Though the episode revolved around Peter’s lessons from seed investing in Snowflake and Gong, the conversation ended up a masterclass in investment philosophy.

January 10, 2025

Instacart IPO breakdown: On the grocery market, ads, memberships, profitability and valuation

From its inception to its impressive IPO, Instacart has been a game changer in the grocery industry. Read on to get the details on the company’s metrics, stakeholders and future outlook in the fast-evolving retail delivery landscape.

March 31, 2025

Productionizing LLMs with Gradient.ai

We're excited to welcome Gradient.ai into the Wing family, as they announce their $10 million seed raise. Our collaboration with Gradient started over a year ago, spurred by their adeptness in crafting custom ML models honed at reputable institutions like Netflix, Pinterest, Google, Splunk, and Meta.

February 27, 2025

Wing AI—Getting to 10 million users

Catch the recording of Wing AI: Getting to 10 million users, held October 2 at Notion's headquarters on Harrison Street in San Francisco, featuring insights from Keith Peiris of Tome and Paul Yacoubian of Copy.ai, led by Wing's Zach DeWitt.

January 10, 2025

Building and performing at the embedded edge with SiMa.ai

Today, we’re thrilled to see SiMa's vision take a massive step forward, and to congratulate the SiMa.ai team as they mark two major milestones in their journey to revolutionize machine learning at the edge.

February 27, 2025

A breakdown of OpenView's 2023 Product Benchmarks Report

Change is afoot in the SaaS world. Take a look at OpenView's 2023 product benchmarks report to find out what today's top-performing PLG companies are doing to grow and scale.

January 10, 2025

A few product lessons from Threads: On cold starts, distribution, timing and leveraging your new entrant status

Meta's Threads took the online realm by storm, but what product lessons lie behind its meteoric (if brief) rise? Find out what startups can learn from Zuck's innovative launch.

February 27, 2025

Mastering startup leadership: Insights from tech titan Frank Slootman of Snowflake

Being a CEO can feel like you’re navigating uncharted territory with no guidebook or rules. Leadership is complex, and often the most transformative work happens backstage, away from the public gaze. It’s a lot like building a product.

September 21, 2023

Wing and ET30 honorees ring the Nasdaq opening bell

On Monday, July 17, Wing founding partner Peter Wagner joined with a group of honorees from the Enterprise Tech 30 list to ring the Nasdaq opening bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite Studio in Times Square. Catch the live recording of the event, as well as Peter's remarks.

September 21, 2023

Wing Announces Wing Four: A $600 Million Fund Fueling the AI-First Transformation of Business

The new fund will be exclusively dedicated to early-stage investing and long-term company building in B2B technology with a focus on companies central to the construction of the AI-first technology stack.

February 7, 2025

Ten Years Good: Announcing Wing Four

Wing Four will be perhaps the most significant pool of early-stage capital and company-building resources dedicated to enabling the AI-first transformation of business.

January 10, 2025

Stepping into the Outverse

We at Wing are thrilled to announce that we are leading Outverse’s $6 million seed round. Outverse is a state-of-the-art community platform for forward-thinking companies that reimagines how product teams connect with their customers and users.

February 27, 2025

Partnering with Slang.ai to answer every customer call with AI

We're excited to announce our partnership with Slang.ai as they work to help SMBs leverage the power of AI to better serve their customers.

February 27, 2025

More than meets the eye: How I read between the lines when evaluating investments

Ever wondered about the hidden considerations seasoned investors are thinking about when they’re evaluating startups? Read on to uncover the hidden aspects that make all the difference when identifying great investment opportunities.

January 10, 2025

Leveraging Large Language Models to build a defensible startup

Learn how your startup can leverage the power of large language models (LLMs) to build defensible moats, establish market dominance and create a sustainable path to success.

February 27, 2025

Why all startups should embrace (and seek out) critics

Critics can help your startup uncover hidden issues and improve your customer experience. Find out how to use constructive criticism to create better products and services.

February 7, 2025

V21 Annual Study: The Year of Living Cautiously

The mission of the V21 study is to examine early-stage financing dynamics amongst the industry’s highest quality startups. We analyze and report on the trends and characteristics of companies invested in by at least one of the 21 elite venture capital firms, the “V21."

February 7, 2025

The Vectorious Revolution: Pinecone, developer empowerment, and our AI-first future

The vector representation of data, and the types of processing it requires, is the lingua franca of AI and truly horizontal in its impact.

January 10, 2025

The state of generative AI

While there are still technical challenges to overcome, the future of generative AI looks promising, and it will unquestionably play an increasingly important role in our lives.

January 10, 2025

Voices of the Market: RSA Conference 2023

It is apparent, in our view, that the security ecosystem is more advanced, more prepared, and more engaged than ever before. It is not clear, however, that our collective work is sufficient to change the current trajectory of cyber attacks, which seems to be only “up and to the right”. Fundamentally new approaches may indeed be called for.

January 10, 2025

Enterprise trends from YC W23 Demo Day

Last week, the YC Winter 2023 batch presented their new businesses to an invitation-only group of investors, press, and others in the startup community. The two days included 265 startups, who were selected by YC from a pool of 20,000 applicants.

February 27, 2025

Partnering with AirOps to bring AI to work

AirOps is launching a series of AI apps that are task specific, easy to install and configure, and are scalable and available everywhere. We are proud to announce our partnership with the AirOps team and lead their $7 million seed round.

February 27, 2025

The top 4 ways to hire A-players for your initial startup team

Find out why hiring top performers is crucial to the growth and success of your startup — and get some tips on how to identify and attract A-players for your team.

February 27, 2025

How Userflow bootstrapped to millions of ARR with three people and PLG

Learn from Userflow’s co-founder how the user onboarding app startup beat the odds with bootstrapping and PLG — while enabling PLG for other companies.

January 10, 2025

Big tech and generative AI: What the incumbents are up to

The world’s biggest tech companies revealed their plans for incorporating generative AI into their products and services at recent earnings calls. Read this round-up to find out what’s on the horizon for GenAI.

February 7, 2025

Aircraft Carriers, Death Stars and Why “Seed is the New A”

The early-stage financing world is changing rapidly. But what won’t change is what it takes to build a great company, and the absolute priority and intense difficulty of laying the foundation right the first time.

February 7, 2025

No Sign of a Venture Slowdown (Yet) Amongst Leading Firms

The V21 tracks the investment activity of a select group of the industry’s top venture firms. It is no secret that most startups fail, and that returns for the median venture firm often lag the S&P 500. The V21 data set represents more of the quality and less of the clutter.

February 7, 2025

Wing Congratulates Gong on its $65 Million Series C: “The Virtuous Data Cycle” in Action

We wish to congratulate the entire team at Gong on their tremendous progress. Gong was founded by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef, and it has been our honor to partner with them in their journey.

February 7, 2025

Crash Analytics: What the Last Two Downturns Tell Us About the Future of Early Stage Financing

What the last two downturns tell us about the future of early stage financing. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

February 7, 2025

Trust, Safety and Data: Wing Invests in Spectrum Labs’ $10 Million Series A

The Spectrum Labs team has deep experience building data-driven enterprise technology businesses. Founders Justin Davis and Josh Newman were key leaders at Krux Digital, a pioneer of marketing data technology that was acquired by Salesforce.

February 7, 2025

Seed is the New A – But What’s Next?

The 2021 V21 analysis will reveal a sharp reversal of some of the trends we’ve been documenting to date. Most notably, deal sizes and valuations will undoubtedly decline, as will the number of deals closed.

February 7, 2025

Why Data-First Applications Will Come To Rule Enterprise Software

Next-generation systems of record will be built around data at their core. The smarter incumbents are already trying to respond, but this could be an even more difficult transition for them than the leap to the cloud. Most won’t make it.

February 7, 2025

The Wing Manifesto, Part II: The DMC Shift

Data, Mobile and Cloud are driving a wave of change at a scale that we see only once in a generation. It is bigger than anything we’ve seen before and creates massive potential for innovators with great ideas. We look forward to working with founders and their early teams to lead this change and build companies that matter.

February 7, 2025

Powering Production ML: Why Wing Invested in Pinecone

We look forward to working closely with Edo and the entire Pinecone team to enable the next wave of ML applications as AI takes center stage in the Modern Enterprise.

Buzzy Storytelling Startup Tome Raises $43 Million From A Who’s Who In AI

Buzzy storytelling startup Tome raises $43M from a who’s who in AI. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

February 7, 2025

Snowflake, before it was obvious

Snowflake is now a public company -- an overnight success, eight years in the making! I first met founders Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes in January 2013 (Marcin Zukowski was still in Europe) and led Wing’s investment in the Snowflake seed financing soon after. We have invested in every Snowflake financing since, right up to today’s historic IPO. But when we made our initial decision, things weren’t quite so obvious.

February 7, 2025

The Modern Enterprise

The Modern Enterprise is an agile workplace built on data and powered by AI. As these technologies touch more people and processes, their impact grows exponentially and transcends traditional organizational boundaries.

February 27, 2025

Copy.ai: Automated Creativity Tools Generate Business Content in Seconds

Writing business content is hard and time consuming—however, the need for great business writing only continues to grow. The acceleration of fully-digital products and experiences now means almost everyone at a business is a copywriter—whether you are the CEO, working in product, or writing ads for marketing campaigns.

Atlassian, Slack And The Promise Of ChatOps

Enterprise messaging services are starting to turn themselves into broader-based platforms. This is creating a new set of opportunities for startups that develop applications which can be embedded in the new communication tools.

Creating A Local Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Gaurav was recently invited to give the keynote speech at a startup conference run by Washington University in St Louis. During the event, he was interviewed by the local PBS television station and the conversation focused on what it takes to build a successful local entrepreneurial ecosystem. You can hear his thoughts in the video below:

Inc. Magazine on the Rise of Jasper and the Special Relationship between the Company's CEO and One of Wing's Co-Founders, Gaurav Garg

Inc. Magazine on the rise of Jasper with Gaurav Garg. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

The 25 Hottest Startups that Launched in 2015

Read more about the Hottest 25 startups of 2015. Do your best work with the latest news and content at Wing.

For Cybersecurity, Machine Learning Offers Hope Beyond The Hype

Bold claims have been made about the potential of machine learning to improve the state of cyber security. At least some of them will turn out to be accurate.

How To Build A Vibrant Local Innovation Ecosystem

Gaurav Garg, one of Wing's co-founders, gives his thoughts on the importance of creating local innovation ecosystems that are self-reinforcing.

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