AI‑first SaaS will mint the next wave of unicorns by packaging agentic AI into workflow‑native applications with proprietary data, clear ROI, and defensible go‑to‑market, as investors publish new benchmarks and maps for what “great” looks like in 2025.Independent rankings and reports show momentum across agentic AI, vertical AI, and infrastructure/data layers, highlighting categories and traits … Read more
AI SaaS “soonicorns” are clustering around applied GenAI, developer infrastructure, and vertical automation, fueled by concentrated VC flows and marketplace GTM; watching late‑stage lists, growth signals, and funding velocity helps identify the next cohort likely to cross the billion‑dollar mark in 6–24 months. Independent trackers and lists point to a rising share of AI among … Read more
AI‑powered SaaS can unlock outsized development gains by compressing costs, expanding access, and improving decision quality across public services and high‑impact sectors like agriculture, health, education, MSMEs, logistics, and energy. The winning formula in emerging markets is not “mega models everywhere,” but reliable, low‑latency, low‑cost systems of action: localized data and languages, small‑first models at … Read more
Introduction: From software that serves to software that thinksThe software industry is entering a structural shift: SaaS is becoming AI-powered at its core. For two decades, cloud software digitized workflows and centralized data. Today, AI-powered SaaS does more—it reasons over that data, predicts outcomes, personalizes experiences, and increasingly acts on behalf of users. This is … Read more
Introduction: The shift from “AI features” to AI-native SaaSSaaS is entering its most transformative era since the move to cloud. What began as isolated “AI features” has matured into AI-native platforms that reason over data, personalize every interaction, compress workflows into a click, and, increasingly, take action on behalf of users. In 2025 and beyond, … Read more