ENTERPRISE 5.0 | Q3 2025
The BGV Beat
KEY TRENDS
The Great Recalibration
Inside the Rise of the AI Native Economy
AI experimentation is outpacing every tech wave in history, yet enterprise adoption still lags. As intelligence becomes infrastructure and strategy cycles compress, the AI-Native economy is redefining competitive advantage.
Mapping the Human AI Frontier
In the AI era, success comes from matching the right level of automation to the right entry point and knowing where your defensibility will come from.
DEEPER INSIGHTS
Leadership in the Age of AI
Why trust, not speed, defines leadership
As AI accelerates software delivery, true leadership shifts from chasing speed to cultivating trust – ensuring AI-generated systems remain reliable, compliant, and resilient under real-world pressure.
The Human Test of AI Leadership
AI’s next era will move faster than any before. True leadership means shaping its direction with integrity, cooperation, and purpose – building technology that makes us more human, not less.
Financing Events
Datawizz has raised a $12.5M Seed round to redefine AI efficiency by replacing large, general-purpose language models with Specialized Language Models (SLMs) – making AI 10x cheaper, 2x more accurate, and 15x faster.
The company’s platform automatically builds smaller, task-specific models that reduce inference costs by over 90% while enhancing speed and precision. This milestone represents a major step toward scalable and sustainable AI.
COVU, the AI-native operating system for insurance, today announced it has raised $16 million in new capital, including equity and growth financing. This brings the company’s total funding to around $50 million to date, fueling its mission to transform how insurance is delivered, serviced, and experienced through agencies and partners. The funding will accelerate platform development, expand operational infrastructure, and offer independent agency partners more options.
Tagnos has merged with Sonitor, combining Tagnos’ workflow orchestration platform with Sonitor’s real-time location intelligence. Together, they aim to tackle critical healthcare challenges, including asset tracking, equipment lifecycle management, staff safety, specimen chain-of-custody visibility, and patient flow optimization.
This merger positions the combined company to redefine operational efficiency and patient care across hospitals and healthcare facilities worldwide.
HG Insights has acquired MadKudu, a BGV portfolio company, as part of the launch of its new Revenue Growth Agentic Ecosystem. The acquisition combines MadKudu’s AI-driven go-to-market intelligence and signal-based workflows with HG Insights’ data capabilities and TrustRadius’ buyer intent insights. Together, these assets will enable more precise, autonomous, and data-powered GTM execution across sales, marketing, and RevOps functions.
AGT Networks, LLC, a leader in Cybersecurity and Telecommunications, announces its acquisition of Spyderbat, Inc., a pioneer in cloud-native security offering purpose-built Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) for Linux, Kubernetes, and other modern environments. This acquisition advances AGT Networks’ strategy to enhance its ECO Cybersecurity Platform with capabilities to proactively detect and neutralize emerging threats.
Perspectives
Scaling R&D
Salesforce VP Mahesh Tyagarajan explores how AI is revolutionizing R&D -accelerating innovation, enhancing collaboration, and scaling experimentation to drive faster, smarter product development across global teams.
AI & the Future of GTM
Former OpenAI GTM lead Zack Kass joins BGV’s Yash Hemaraj to explore how AI is accelerating demand generation and reshaping enterprise growth strategies.
The Future of Pricing
Kyle Poyar of Growth Unhinged joins BGV General Partner Anik Bose to discuss how AI is reshaping pricing—aligning value with outcomes and redefining monetization in the AI-native era.
Customer Value Creation
Totango CEO Keith Frankel joins BGV Advisory Partner Janice Roberts to explore how AI is redefining customer success—shifting focus from retention metrics to continuous value creation and long-term partnership growth.
Spotlight
Second Edition of the AI Native Startup Playbook
BGV and the Ethical AI Governance Group (EAIGG) announced the release of the AI Native Startup Playbook (Second Edition), a first-of-its-kind guide helping AI-native startups and enterprise innovation teams overcome deployment bottlenecks and scale responsibly.
This edition leverages insights from 100+ founders, investors, and enterprise leaders into the deployment bottlenecks in AI adoption.