AI Forecast 2025 to 2027 by Industry Vertical

https://www.tridium.com/content/dam/tridium/en/documents/niagara-forum-2025/business/tri-NF25_Business_AI_and_the_World_of_Smart_Buildings_Intel.pdf

Companies can apply different technologies in the AI ecosystem to deliver sustainable cost advantage

https://media-publications.bcg.com/BCG-Executive-Perspectives-Driving-Sustainable-Cost-Adv-with-AI-EP15-20May2025.pdf

Five SaaS Company Archetypes Are Based on Sale Size and Customer Retention

https://web-assets.bcg.com/3a/5d/55e329bd4d1b836a298ed94b2a8a/rule-of-40-lessons-from-the-top-performers-in-software.pdf

The AI Hype Cycle: Future Opportunities

https://www.svb.com/globalassets/trendsandinsights/reports/svb-state-of-enterprise-software-2025-report.pdf

State of Enterprise Software 2025

https://www.svb.com/globalassets/trendsandinsights/reports/svb-state-of-enterprise-software-2025-report.pdf

Software Market Overview

https://www.jefferies.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/05/TMT-IB-Software-Market-Growth-Conference-April-2025-v2.pdf

SaaS M&A: Deal Volumes by Total Funding, 2013 - 2024

https://aventis-advisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MA-in-SaaS_Charts-1.pdf

SaaS M&A: Total Deal Volumes, 2013 - 2024

https://aventis-advisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MA-in-SaaS_Charts-1.pdf

Despite the hype, exits remain rare: just about 1 out of 10 SaaS companies have been acquired or gone public

https://aventis-advisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MA-in-SaaS_Charts-1.pdf

AI Valuations: Median round size by stage

https://aventis-advisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AI-Valuation-Multiples-2024-3.pdf

Vertical Software Valuations

https://www.corumgroup.com/sites/default/files/2025-05/2025-05-08%20TMAM%20-%20Leveraging%20Recapitalizations.pdf

Budgets, AI Use Case Identification and Agentic AI

https://fr.battery.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/State-of-Enterprise-Tech-Spending.pdf

Digital Ops Orchestration

https://content.martechday.com/state-of-martech-2025.pdf

Cost and frequency of a data breach by initial attack vector

https://cristie.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cost_of_a_data_breach_report_2024.pdf

Public Company Growth and Rule of 40 Trends

https://glca.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GLC-Advisors-Q125-Software-Capital-Markets-vF.pdf

Global Enterprise IT Spending

https://s3.amazonaws.com/bizzabo.file.upload/KthN9eCDSvSNuELjijeq_Jan9JLovelock.pdf

Top 5 trends and insights on the voice AI landscape

https://www.aranca.com/assets/docs/The_Rise_of_Voice_AI_Special_Report.pdf

Revenue Technology Landscape 2025

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/647e329e7adac8431aa2383d/678fa28b7781a604d1b91001_Revenue%20Technology%20Landscape%20-%20Weflow%20(getweflow.com).pdf

Public from-scratch US and EU companies

https://tcgsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2_figures_tim_bcg.pdf

Macro Fog With a Chance of Pain

https://www.svb.com/globalassets/trendsandinsights/reports/state-of-the-vc-backed-cfo/state-of-the-vc-backed-cfo-2025.pdf

The estimated Impact of GenAI across sectors

https://kpmg.com/kpmg-us/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2025/quantifying-genai-opportunity.pdf

whereas Vertical and Horizontal SaaS valuations remain on par

https://www.blackpeakcapital.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SaaS-Sector-Update-March-2025_vSent.pdf

Prevailing conditions influence series seed graduation rates

https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpmorgan/documents/cb/insights/banking/commercial-banking/cb-insights-banking-startup-insights-report.pdf

The software industry exceeded $1 trillion in annual spend in 2024

https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/v2/D561FAQHABQnPnKkEyQ/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/B56ZXyXYTeHQAY-/0/1743527971552?e=1744243200&v=beta&t=zLHrucH1FUqg3s0Gkn9yFoRZqNXXhJjTrp_gvop8Ou0

AI Is Reshaping The Software Value Chain

https://europe.ark-funds.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ARK-Investment-Opportunity-Report.pdf

Is there seasonality in SaaS?

https://staging-website.chartmogul.com/reports/saas-billing-report/saas-billing-report-2025.pdf

Mag 7 have invested $49B in startups in 2024. More than all VC into China or EU27.

https://dealroom.co/uploaded/2025/02/Accelerating-Europe-Dealroom.pdf

Field and aftermarket asset examples

https://media-publications.bcg.com/BCG-Executive-Perspectives-Future-of-Field-Service-with-AI-2025-EP13-18Mar2025.pdf

SaaS Top Performer Analysis

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65e1d7fb19a3e64b5c36fb38/67dad4e89daa6264906ed07b_ICONIQ%20Analytics%20%2B%20Insights%20-%20Navigating%20a%20Successful%20Public%20Offering%20in%20Today%27s%20Markets.pdf

Revenue multiples for SaaS companies have plateaued, with the Q4 2024 median multiple now sitting at 5.6x

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65e1d7fb19a3e64b5c36fb38/67dad4e89daa6264906ed07b_ICONIQ%20Analytics%20%2B%20Insights%20-%20Navigating%20a%20Successful%20Public%20Offering%20in%20Today%27s%20Markets.pdf

Data concerns and lack of skills emerge as top challenges

https://www.hkdca.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/intelligent-banking-kpmg.pdf

Europe has plenty of startups, but lacks breakthrough, mega-scale companies

https://www.prosus.com/~/media/Files/P/Prosus-CORP/documents/the-need-for-big-tech-champions-in-europe.pdf

The Trend of Verticalization in Software Is Accelerating

https://craft-bowerycap.files.svdcdn.com/production/Bowery-Capital-Opportunities-in-vSaaS-v6.0-January-2025.pdf?dm=1736454507

Global IT Spending - 2024

https://s3.amazonaws.com/bizzabo.file.upload/PN7B3DGEQGWaY2NdJ06z_Oct15JLovelovkMMcDonaldCHealeyAO-Connell.pdf

Top Predictions of Cybersecurity for 2024+

https://s3.amazonaws.com/bizzabo.file.upload/oY8SOcpaTGCjABDz82eF_Jul31CPorter.pdf

Having Data Ready for AI Drives Greater Business Outcomes by 20%

https://cdn-static.bizzabo.com/bizzabo.file.upload/VrYB8TmkR0KTWc4K4yrn_Jan1Sallam.pdf

The use cases vary based on institutional priorities

https://iacpm.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IACPM-McKinsey-Gen-AI-Webinar-2025.pdf

How We Segment the HCM Landscape

https://cdn.hl.com/pdf/2025/2024-hcm-year-in-review-february--2025.pdf

93% of CDOs Feel Data Strategy is Crucial to Generative AI Value

https://2631050.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/2631050/Jonathon%20Bowring.pdf

Gunderson Dettmer 2024 Venture Capital Report

https://www.gunder.com/a/web/vYUowtMwokvZXwEbox5nuK/a4AkH1/gunderson-dettmer-2024-venture-capital-report-final.pdf

 

Global Aggregate Tech Market Cap 2025

https://go.boarddocs.com/il/ctpf/Board.nsf/files/DDCQAZ686D18/$file/Drive%20Capital%20-%20CTPF%20Investment%20Comitee%20Meeting%20Presentation-%20Feb%202025.pdf

Priority Matrix for Generative AI

https://cdn-static.bizzabo.com/bizzabo.file.upload/736mNZlaR26ezuBNVfK7_Feb6AChandrasekaran.pdf

Unlocking Data in the Digital Asset Ecosystem

https://www.hkdca.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/unlocking-data-digital-asset-ecosystem-ft-partners.pdf

Software Winners and Losers: LTM Performance of Stock Prices & NTM Revenue Multiple

https://www.cantor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Software-and-SaaS-Sector-Update-Winter-2025_vFINALv2.pdf

AI drives >50% of all VC funding already; mostly in infrastructure and LLMs

https://www.prosus.com/~/media/Files/P/Prosus-CORP/investors/the-ai-x-ecommerce-revolution-how-ai-is-shaping-the-future%20of-online-marketplace.pdf

In most industries, Marketplaces are still in their early innings

https://www.prosus.com/~/media/Files/P/Prosus-CORP/investors/the-ai-x-ecommerce-revolution-how-ai-is-shaping-the-future%20of-online-marketplace.pdf

Game Changers 2025

https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_Game-Changers-2025.pdf

Cybersecurity Industry Landscape

https://solganick.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Solganick-Cybersecurity-Mergers-Update-Q4-2024.pdf

Five Innovation Platforms Are Catalyzing Accelerated Growth

https://research.ark-invest.com/hubfs/1_Download_Files_ARK-Invest/Big_Ideas/ARK%20Invest%20Big%20Ideas%202025.pdf

IPO Probability

https://www.elementpointe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025.01.06-Top-Ten-Themes_CA.pdf