Justin Kahl

Sep 20, 2024 | a16z.com | Angela Strange |Justin Kahl |David George |Alex Immerman

This is the first installment of a two-part series on AI Inside Vertical SaaS. In 2020, we wrote about how fintech scales vertical SaaS and noted that by adding fintech, SaaS businesses can increase revenue per customer by 2-5x and open up new SaaS markets that were previously inaccessible due to market size or customer acquisition cost. Four years later, vertical SaaS (VSaaS) is scaling once again, but now it’s for a different reason: artificial intelligence.

Aug 29, 2024 | a16z.com | Alex Immerman |Justin Kahl |James da Costa

This month, the a16z fintech team went to Fintech DevCon, payments platform Moov’s annual conference for the fintech developer community.

Feb 29, 2024 | a16z.com | David George |Peter Lauten |Dylan Field |Justin Kahl

Everyone knows that founders have been on a whipsaw over the past several years. Pivoting from growth at all costs in 2020 and 2021 to efficiency in 2022 and 2023 meant slashing budgets, shelving new projects, doing RIFs, and picking fights with your cloud provider over your bills. That’s hard work, and founders should be commended for doing it.