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This spring, we had the privilege of gathering with over 100 CISOs from leading enterprises across Atlanta, Washington D.C., and New York. These weren’t keynote-driven conferences, they were closed-door, peer-to-peer discussions, where security leaders could be candid about the challenges, pressures, and opportunities they face today.

The enterprise technology landscape witnessed unprecedented change in 2024, as AI adoption surged from 50% to 72% across organizations. But even more striking was the meteoric rise of Generative AI, which doubled its reach from 33% to 65% of enterprises in just twelve months. This shift marks the end of an introductory, experimental phase of AI and the beginning of widespread enterprise implementation and integration. At Team8, our work with cutting-edge AI companies and enterprise leaders has lent us unique insights into this transformation. Through our extensive network and deep technological expertise, we’ve identified several critical trends that will shape the future of enterprise AI – and the challenges organizations must overcome to stay competitive.

Sometimes, fortune favors not the obvious. During the California Gold Rush, while prospectors dreamed of striking gold, the real fortunes were built by those who saw beyond the glitter – the merchants who sold picks, shovels, and blue jeans to eager miners. Today’s healthcare gold rush might follow a similar pattern. While organizations mine traditional data sources, the real treasure may be hiding in plain sight, flowing through millions of conversations between clinicians and patients each day.

The way enterprises collect, process, and leverage telemetry data is fundamentally broken. Engineering teams are drowning in an overwhelming flood of logs, metrics, and traces—yet much of it is redundant, irrelevant, or mismanaged. Organizations struggle with vendor lock-in, unpredictable costs, and inefficient data pipelines, making observability more of a burden than an enabler.

When we conducted our 2023 CISO Village survey, identity security emerged as one of the top areas where budgets were being allocated. The consensus was clear: existing solutions weren’t meeting the needs of modern enterprises. Organizations are grappling with fragmented identity environments, outdated processes, and constantly changing security requirements. There was no question that there is a massive opportunity for disruption in the identity and access management space – the only question was how. 

The US healthcare system is approaching breaking point – with projections showing a shortfall of 64,000 physicians by 2025, and 35% of physicians likely to leave their current roles within five years, the status quo is simply unsustainable. Although the solution to this crisis is yet unclear, I believe that digital health technologies will form…

On November 20, 2024, Team8 hosted its first-ever Fintech Village at the iconic New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The event brought together over 200 entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders for a day of collaboration, innovation, and insight. Against the backdrop of Wall Street, attendees explored fintech’s evolving role in addressing global challenges, with a special focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and its transformative potential in financial services.

Healthcare is on the brink of a seismic transformation, and we’re building at its epicenter. At Team8, our role as investors and company builders is to stay ahead of the curve, crafting the theses that marry our data, tech, and cyber strengths with the industry’s next big waves. HLTH 2024 provided a front-row seat to the shifts already unfolding and, quite satisfyingly, validated much of what we’re betting on. Let’s break down four key takeaways that confirm our direction and set the stage for what’s next.

In a world where technology has revolutionized entire industries, healthcare remains stubbornly inefficient. Nowhere is this more evident than in the claims economy, where hidden costs and undetected overbilling weigh heavily on large self-insured employers, and the industry as a whole. Medical overbilling is a major symptom of the $300 billion fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) issue burdening the U.S. healthcare system, significantly contributing to inflated healthcare costs.

Today’s application security (AppSec) landscape is more complex than ever. Many organizations are juggling a growing number of tools, each targeting a specific security need. While this “best-of-breed” approach might seem comprehensive, it often creates noise, redundancy, and ballooning costs that ultimately hinder security efforts. As seen across multiple CISO Village discussions, ultimately consolidating AppSec…

As startups progress from seed to late stage, the demands on their engineering teams shift dramatically. Scaling isn’t just about adding more people; it’s about structuring teams and processes to ensure resilience, flexibility, and quality as the company grows. Here are four key factors to consider for effective engineering team scaling:

Business leaders today are not just frustrated with the pace or quality of insights — they’re fundamentally disillusioned with the entire analytics process.  After having over 140 one-on-one conversations with data, analytics and business leaders, one thing is clear: the traditional approach to analytics is not just insufficient; it’s fundamentally unsystematic and inconsistent. It’s failing…