Today's SaaS Pulse
Fresho snaps up Nation Wilcox to dominate UK food‑wholesale software
Fresho, the Australian‑origin order‑management platform, has acquired UK ERP specialist Nation Wilcox, creating the largest software suite for British food wholesalers. The combined offering now supports more than 400 wholesalers and caterers and processes over £2 billion (≈ $2.5 billion) in annual GMV.
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By the numbers: NinjaOne raises $400M Series C extension
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SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Feb 4, 2026
The Feb 4 2026 SaasRise Mastermind session delivered a deep‑dive into the toughest hurdles SaaS CEOs face, from turning legacy software into scalable cloud services to crafting a focused enterprise go‑to‑market motion. Participants were urged to adopt infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform, invest a year in initial automation, and prioritize a single ABM strategy with seasoned account executives. The discussion also emphasized an AI‑first mindset—using guardrails, enhancing user experience, and rebuilding tech stacks in weeks rather than years—while outlining concrete lead‑nurturing and platform‑consolidation tactics.
Classic SaaS Scaling Model Is Dead, AI Reigns
SaaS isn’t dead, even with the massive sell off this year (and really since July 2025). But … what is dead is the classic pattern and way to scale: - 1, maybe 2 players, take over a space by $10m-$20m...
Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI Testing Your PR, Embedded in GitHub
Glance is an AI‑powered testing tool that reads a pull‑request diff and automatically determines which UI interactions to exercise. It runs the tests in managed or developer‑provided browsers and captures video recordings, screenshots, console errors, and network logs. All artifacts...
Use AI Now or Get Left Behind
If you know AI can already do a part of your job, you should be the one taking advantage of that. Aggressively. If you're waiting for permission, someone else isn't. Here's what happens when you wait. Your competitor figures it out....
Turn Any Website Into a Live, Structured Data Feed
Meter launches a no‑code web‑scraping and change‑detection platform that lets users describe data extraction in plain English. The service runs scrapes every 15 minutes, bypasses major anti‑bot defenses, and rotates residential and datacenter proxies. Detected content changes trigger webhooks, delivering...
Former Workplace From Facebook Engineers Launch AI Startup Slashwork to Banish Teamwork Slop
Former Facebook Workplace engineers have launched Slashwork, an AI‑first enterprise collaboration platform, announcing a $3.5 million seed round led by 20VC. The team, which includes ex‑Workplace leaders and investors such as former Slack CTO Cal Henderson and Intercom co‑founder Des Traynor,...
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How to Set Up an Outbound Cold Email System for B2B Outreach in 2026
Cold email remains a viable B2B channel in 2026 when treated as a scalable infrastructure rather than a sporadic tactic. Companies calculate the required volume—often millions of messages annually—to achieve systematic market coverage, breaking it down to a few thousand...
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How to Sell a $5M ARR SaaS Firm
Reaching $5 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) marks a pivotal inflection point for SaaS founders. At this scale, buyers treat the company as a serious acquisition target, yet the firm remains too small for a full‑scale investment banker process. The article...
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How to Do Enterprise SaaS Sales
Enterprise SaaS sales is a distinct discipline, not a scaled‑up version of SMB selling. Founders must first determine whether they are replacing an existing solution or pursuing a first‑time buy, as this shapes the timeline and risk. Mapping the three...
Access P
If you want to check out P9 without leaving your terminal window, now you can. ssh ssh.pointnine.com PS: I've vibe-coded this in the last 1-2 days, still a bit buggy, and I have some ideas to make it better.
Canadian Retailers Turn to Contact Intelligence Platforms to Source Specialized Talent Amid Workforce Shortage
Canadian retailers are increasingly deploying contact‑intelligence platforms to locate niche talent for e‑commerce, supply‑chain and analytics roles, a shift driven by a widening skills gap. The technology has slashed time‑to‑hire for technical positions by roughly 40 percent, while specialized roles...
Bootstrapped Growth: $28‑33M Run Rate, 25% Profit Rise
My predictions for Retention.com and RB2B for 2026: TOP LINE: $28m run rate to $33m run rate (+17%) PROFIT: $12m run rate to $15m run rate (+25%) CHURN: Stays horrible. TEAM SIZE: Flat at 33 FTE. This would be considered...
BoldVoice Raises $21M Series A to Give a Billion Non-Native English Speakers Their Own AI Voice Coach
BoldVoice announced a $21 million Series A round led by Matrix, with participation from Flybridge, Xfund, Corazon Capital, Alumni Ventures, Umami Capital and Y Combinator. The AI‑powered voice‑coaching platform has surpassed five million downloads and generated $10 million in annual recurring revenue. Its proprietary speech...
I Made an Open-Source Juypter Alternative
more-compute is an open‑source, locally‑run Python notebook environment that mimics Jupyter, Marimo, and Google Colab. It stores notebooks as .py files with # %% cell markers and includes a built‑in converter to and from the traditional .ipynb format. Installation is supported...
Retail Mobile CRM Guide 2026: Features, Use Cases, and Top 3 Apps
The episode defines mobile CRM for retail as a frontline‑focused system that lets associates capture context, act quickly, and trigger follow‑ups, distinguishing it from simply shrinking a desktop CRM onto a phone. It outlines essential features—fast in‑the‑moment UX, offline‑first access,...
Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring Product Engineers (NYC, In-Person)
Converge, a YC S23 startup, is hiring senior product engineers in New York to bolster its vertically integrated marketing data platform. Backed by $5.7 million in funding, the company already exceeds $1 M ARR with over 180 customers while operating a six‑person core...
Embedded Payments Give SaaS a Lifeline as AI Reshapes Workflows
AI-driven agentic systems are unsettling traditional SaaS subscription models, prompting a sharp sell‑off that saw software indexes tumble over 14% and marquee names like Thomson Reuters and Salesforce plunge double‑digit percentages. Investors fear that conversational AI could bypass entire application...
Pear Deck’s Deal Showcases High Value, Competitive Bidding, Low Risk
Pear Deck was a fantastic company to work with. Some of the highlights from their transaction include: * A strong enterprise value resulting from high growth * A highly competitive process with multiple buyers * A short exclusivity period with...
Microsoft's Copilot Chatbot Is Running Into Problems
Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, the centerpiece of its AI‑first strategy, is encountering significant hurdles. Users and former staff cite confusing branding and poor interoperability with other Microsoft tools. Adoption among enterprise customers remains modest and is slipping relative to rivals like...
Don't Let “We Tried That” Kill Innovation
"We already tried that." Did you though? Did you try it with the right people? The right timing? The right execution? Or did you half-ass it once, it didn't work, and now it's dead forever? "We tried that" isn't wisdom....
Clients Demand AI‑Integrated Consultants Over Traditional Advisors
Why did it take me so long to see this? really, to accept it Had a conversation yesterday that finally crystallized what's been happening in the market. 👇 Companies aren't looking for traditional consultants anymore. They're looking for AI-Powered Consultants....
Palantir: The Greatest Enterprise Software Company Of All Time Ever? Could Be.
Palantir reported a record Q4 2025, generating $1.4 billion in revenue—a 70% year‑over‑year jump that pushed its run‑rate above $5 billion. The company posted a Rule‑of‑40 score of 127, driven by 57% adjusted operating margin and 139% net‑dollar‑retention, while U.S. commercial revenue...
Voxtral Transcribe 2
Mistral AI today launched Voxtral Transcribe 2, a pair of next‑generation speech‑to‑text models: Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch processing and Voxtral Realtime for live transcription. The realtime model delivers sub‑200 ms latency with a 4 B‑parameter footprint and is released as open‑weights under...
Xurrent Names New CEO to Scale Its AI-Powered ITxM Platform
Xurrent announced Brian Wenngatz as its new chief executive officer, bringing experience scaling AI‑driven enterprise software after steering Sentera to a John Deere acquisition. The move follows Kevin McGibben's transition to executive chairman, ensuring continuity in strategic direction. Xurrent’s AI‑powered...
Dualboot Partners Achieves AWS Small and Medium Business Competency
Dualboot Partners announced it has earned the Amazon Web Services Small and Medium Business (SMB) Competency, a distinction that validates its expertise in helping smaller enterprises adopt cloud solutions. The award highlights Dualboot’s AI‑driven modernization accelerator, 3PO, which promises to...
Flat Budgets Lose Clicks as CPCs Soar
Finance of B2B SaaS: “Your paid search and social budget is flat this year. We still need to grow pipeline by 20%.” Marketing team: “But clicks are down, and so are demos.” Here’s why: Click inflation is real. Paid search...
Ataccama Sees Record Q4 Enterprise Wins as Data Trust Fuels AI
Ataccama reported record enterprise wins in Q4 2025, achieving a 30% compounded annual growth rate over the past three years. The company closed more than thirty $1 million-plus deals, while 75% of new customers adopted its generative AI capabilities as a...
Top 10 Investment Management Software Providers
The investment‑management software market is projected to grow from $8.5 billion in 2025 to $25.95 billion by 2035, reflecting an 11.8% CAGR. Regulatory pressure, rapid market swings, and client demand for transparent reporting have turned these platforms into core infrastructure. The article...
Collate Joins Industry Leaders to Advance OSI for Data and AI
Collate, the creator of the OpenMetadata project, announced its membership in the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), a Snowflake‑led open‑source effort to define a vendor‑neutral semantic metadata specification. OSI seeks to harmonize fragmented data definitions across business intelligence, data governance, engineering,...
RingCentral Recognized as a Top Provider in Metrigy’s 2025 MetriStar UCaaS Report
RingCentral has been named a Top Provider in Metrigy’s 2025 MetriStar UCaaS Report, one of only three vendors to achieve this distinction. The company earned the highest overall customer sentiment score and outperformed peers in voice quality, security, value, analytics,...
The Payment Facilitator Model as a Growth Strategy for ISVs
The episode explores how the payment facilitator (PayFac) model is becoming a key growth engine for independent software vendors (ISVs) amid the rise of SaaS, AI, and embedded finance. It highlights the superior merchant experience PayFacs deliver—simplified onboarding, ongoing risk...
BPX Optimizes Resource Utilization with WalkMe’s Software Usage Analytics and Process Intelligence
BPX, a global process‑consulting firm, has integrated WalkMe’s Software Usage Analytics and Process Intelligence into its service portfolio. The platform provides real‑time visibility into how employees interact with enterprise applications, exposing usage patterns and workflow bottlenecks. Leveraging these insights, BPX...
Turn a Simple Shopify Pain Into a Sellable App
Renata Raya (@reraya) built a profitable Shopify app called GoRecover and sold it on @acquiredotcom. She was running a Shopify agency in Mexico City and kept seeing the same issue. Customers abandoned carts and email recovery wasn’t working. Most merchants were...
Expert Intelligence Raises $4.7M to Automate Decision-Making in Laboratory Environments
Expert Intelligence announced a $4.7 million seed round to commercialize its Limited Sample Model (LSM), an AI platform that automates decision‑making in regulated laboratory environments. LSM learns from as few as 30 representative samples, enabling labs to transform raw instrument data...
Accel Doubles Down on Fibr AI as Agents Turn Static Websites Into One-to-One Experiences
Fibr AI announced a $5.7 million seed round led by Accel, bringing total funding to $7.5 million. The Boston‑based startup uses autonomous AI agents to convert static webpages into real‑time, one‑to‑one experiences for each visitor. Early adoption is picking up among large...
Missing Roadmap Turns AI Pilots Into Hallucination Hazards
A company shipped a customer-facing AI bot. It worked well enough that they felt confident putting it live. Then one day, a customer asked about a product feature. The bot answered confidently. It gave the feature name, the pricing, and...
Free Platform for Laid‑Off Journalists Boosts Beehiiv
One of my favorite Win Win marketing moves: Offering people in need free digital product A kind gesture from Team @Beehiiv for any journalists that've been laid off. They get a free platform, Beehiiv gets trial from mainstream media writers. Win win....
Tensor Ventures And Others Invest $4 Million US in London-Based AppFactor
Tensor Ventures led a $4 million seed round in London‑based AppFactor, joined by Begin Capital and Adara Ventures. The startup’s platform monitors and modernizes legacy enterprise applications in‑operation, eliminating downtime for end users. Deployments are already live at a major UK...
AI Coding Multiplies Software Options, Boosting Choice and Personalization
AI coding will lead to 100X more software. That to me doesn’t conclude that every customer wants to be responsible for owning and managing their own ERP. It concludes that customers will have more choice, better features, and far more...
How to Scale to $12M ARR: The Serial Founder Playbook for Vertical SaaS and Agentic AI
In this episode, Matt Spiegel, founder and CEO of Lawmatics, walks through how his vertical SaaS company scaled to $12M ARR by focusing on high ARPU, agentic AI, and disciplined capital strategies. He shares tactics for acquiring the first 100...
PayPal-Backed Modulr Banks First Full-Year Profit
PayPal‑backed UK fintech Modulr announced its first full‑year net profit for 2025, reversing a £11 million pre‑tax loss recorded in 2024. CEO Myles Stephenson said the profitability milestone gives the company control to invest in new products, expand globally and pursue...
Leuven-Based AI Running Analysis Platform Runeasi Raises €1M for Global Growth
Leuven‑based AI spin‑off Runeasi has secured €1 million in a funding round led by Smarter Ventures, with participation from existing backers and angel investor Sean Gourley. The company’s AI‑powered motion sensor belt enables physiotherapists, coaches and running retailers to perform rapid...
Standing at the Crossroads - PwC on the Difficulties of Getting Productivity Gains From Copilot
Microsoft reported 15 million paid seats for its 365 Copilot, roughly 3 % of the 450 million Office 365 subscribers. PwC, an early adopter, logged 49 million Copilot interactions between October and January, estimating two to six minutes saved per use. Despite a 200 % pipeline...
OutSystems Achieves FedRAMP Authorization
OutSystems announced it has earned Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization, allowing its low‑code development platform to be used by U.S. federal agencies. The certification, achieved in partnership with cloud provider Knox, confirms that the platform meets stringent...
Product Walkthroughs, the Next Open Source Product & Other Listener Questions
In this episode, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson answer listener questions, covering how they record unscripted product walkthrough videos, the upcoming open‑source product Writebook, and the way the 37signals team combines Basecamp with their new kanban tool Fizzy. They...
Marketers Have the Data. Audience+ Finally Puts It to Work.
Stirista launched Audience+, a next‑generation audience platform that consolidates first‑party data, third‑party identity graph information, and website interactions into a single workspace. The tool offers real‑time audience building, multichannel activation and built‑in compliance safeguards, aiming to eliminate data silos that...
SME Bank Selects Flagright to Enhance Transaction Monitoring and Screening
SME Bank, a digital‑first lender for SMEs in the Baltics, Finland and the Netherlands, has selected Flagright’s AI‑native, no‑code platform to modernise its transaction monitoring, watchlist screening and investigations. The implementation will provide real‑time, risk‑based controls and a unified workspace,...
AutoCount Cloud Accounting Adds AI Expense Recognition for Malaysian SMEs
AutoCount Cloud Accounting has launched AI‑driven expense recognition alongside automated bank reconciliation, mobile document capture, and built‑in e‑invoice processing for Malaysian small and medium enterprises. The enhancements embed e‑invoicing directly into daily workflows, positioning SMEs to meet Malaysia’s mandatory electronic...
CoSchedule Expands Social Media Management Capabilities With Mobile Publishing To Every Network
CoSchedule has upgraded its mobile app to let users publish content to every major social network, adding support for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Mastodon, and Google My Business. The enhancements mirror the desktop experience, offering improved previews, color‑coded labels, first‑comment insertion,...
Say Hello To GoogleSQL
Google has retired the ZetaSQL name, rebranding its open‑source SQL analysis and parsing project as GoogleSQL. The change is purely nominal, with the underlying code, features, and team remaining unchanged. Internally, Google already referred to the dialect as GoogleSQL across...