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Where do startups spend money, according to Mercury and Andreessen Horowitz

Vendor Sponsor
A16ZMercury
Research Published
October 2, 2025
Link to research
https://a16z.com/the-ai-application-spending-report-where-startup-dollars-really-go/
Description

Mercury data on startups spending on AI tools

Comments

Interesting, although I wouldn’t place any bets based on this data.

Demographic or Methodology comments

Demographic points for some methodology descriptions on how the spend doesn’t include purchasing on credit cards - which is probably pretty big. Otherwise, nada and a weird replacement for “workplace” as “enterprise” on Twitter - which it excludes.

Topic Tags
AIAI adoptionSpending PatternsStartups
Sample
Vendor CustomersSaaS Platform Data
Sample Size
200000
Data Source
Behavior dataTransaction Data
Gate
Ungated
Demographics
4/10
Sample Bias

Startups, may be CA centric as well

Created time
Oct 2, 2025 8:44 PM
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