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
Linda AI Raises €2.6M to Expand AI Workflows for Dental Practices
Linda AI, a health‑tech startup automating dental front‑desk tasks, closed a €2.6 million pre‑seed round led by 6 Degrees Capital. The platform uses voice‑AI agents to schedule, confirm, and follow up on appointments, integrating with existing practice‑management systems. Early adopters report a 15% rise in overall bookings, a 30% drop in no‑shows, and over ten saved administrative hours per week. The funding will fuel engineering hires, senior sales expansion, and rollout across Ireland and the UK.
Yellow.ai Launches Nexus, the Industry’s First Universal Agentic Interface
Yellow.ai unveiled Nexus, the industry’s first Universal Agentic Interface, promising a shift from traditional SaaS tools to a "Service as Software" model. In early access, Nexus achieved a 98.9% success rate, autonomously building 77 AI agents for brands across eight...
Zendesk Appoints Craig Flower as Chief Operating Officer
Zendesk announced Craig Flower as its new chief operating officer, tasking him with accelerating the company’s AI‑first transformation and tightening operational performance. Flower, who previously served as Zendesk’s chief information officer, will lead AI tool adoption, create a center of...
AI Agents Unlock Enterprise’s Hidden Unstructured Data
The reason we’re all in on AI agents at Box is because agents can now process all of the unstructured data in an enterprise at scale. Companies are sitting on mountains of valuable information that they can tap into for...
AI‑Powered SaaStr: 47% Revenue Rise, 3‑Person Team
We've spent the last year rebuilding SaaStr with 20+ AI agents. Revenue is up 47%. Team down to 3 humans. It's been the most intense learning curve of my career. I'm sharing all of it at SaaStr AI 2026. May...
AI Startup Phylo Nabs $13.5M for Its ‘Integrated Biology Environment’
Phylo Inc., an AI‑driven biology software startup, announced a $13.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund and other investors. The company’s flagship product, Biomni Lab, acts as an integrated biology environment that links...
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SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Feb 3, 2026
The SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind call dissected three core growth levers for SaaS founders: selling into large enterprises, scaling cold‑email outreach, and preparing for M&A. It highlighted the need to map buying committees, set clear procurement expectations, and “lose fast” to...
Fix Upstream Processes, Not Churn Dashboards
You already know what needs to change. You've known for a while. You keep searching for justification to not act. You just keep listening to podcasts hoping someone will tell you something different. Founder talks about building unicorns. He says...
Socure Unveils Unified Risk Platform for Government Agencies
Socure announced SocureGov RiskOS, a unified risk platform for government agencies to modernize digital identity verification. The solution merges Socure’s existing public‑sector offerings with new AI‑powered analytics, replacing fragmented legacy systems with a single ecosystem. It leverages behavioral analytics, device...
SaaS Success Secrets: From Startup to $169M Exit
Former iContact CEO shares the playbook that turned a $50 M ARR SaaS into a $169 M exit. He stresses choosing an exit‑oriented game plan, bootstrapping to early ARR milestones, and building systems that operate without the founder. The article highlights disciplined...
'Vibe Coding Kills Open Source'
A trio of economists from Central European University, Bielefeld University and the Kiel Institute built a general‑equilibrium model showing that "vibe coding"—AI agents that automatically select, assemble and modify open‑source packages—breaks the traditional funding loop for open‑source projects. The model...
Know Your Customer Celebrates 10 Years Redefining Corporate Onboarding for Global Banks
Know Your Customer (KYC) marks its 10th anniversary as one of the few RegTech firms from the post‑2008 era still thriving. Founded in 2015, the company built a platform that pulls real‑time, registry‑sourced corporate data from 146 jurisdictions, delivering authoritative...
Deno Sandbox
Over the past year Deno Deploy customers have increasingly generated code with large language models that runs instantly, exposing API keys and network access. Deno now offers Sandbox, lightweight Linux microVMs that isolate untrusted code, enforce network‑egress policies, and keep...
Too Many AI Tools Overwhelm Buyers, Stalling Adoption
One thing that’s interesting in the AI Apps world these days - everyone competes with everyone. And for customers, it's confusing to figure out the right approach. For example, if you're trying to grow your pipeline, do you? * Buy an AI...
Corti Launches Multi-Agent AI Framework for Healthcare
Corti Inc unveiled the Corti Agentic Framework, a production‑grade, multi‑agent AI platform designed for healthcare and life‑science workflows. The framework embeds deterministic rules and guardrails to stop small errors from cascading into larger patient‑safety or financial issues. It offers a...
French Healthtech MyC Secures €10M to Digitise Medical Operations for Complex Worksites
French health‑tech startup MyC has closed a €10 million funding round led by Hi Inov, with participation from IXO, Elaia and OSS Ventures. The company offers a cloud‑based platform that centralises occupational health, first‑line medical care and regulatory reporting for complex, multi‑site...
Index Slumps, 24 of 25 Stocks Tumble, Palantir Sole Gainer
📊 https://t.co/D1x4RaX5t7 Market Pulse - Tue, Feb 3 The https://t.co/D1x4RaX5t7 Index experienced a brutal trading session on February 3, 2026, with 24 of 25 stocks declining and an average drop of -6.44%. Only Palantir managed to post gains at +4.70%, while...
Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
Modelence, a Y Combinator S25 startup, released an open‑source full‑stack framework built on TypeScript and MongoDB to streamline AI‑driven app development. The platform bundles authentication, database, cron jobs and observability, letting both AI agents and human developers focus on product logic....
The Year of the AI Agents? More Outages? Here’s What Lies Ahead for IT Teams in 2026
The 2025 wave of high‑profile outages highlighted an over‑reliance on a few hyperscalers and exposed lingering legacy technical debt. In 2026, AI agents are poised to take over routine monitoring and remediation, enabling self‑healing infrastructure. Organizations will adopt chaos‑engineering drills...
M&A Often Beats IPO for Founder Liquidity
Many founders view an IPO as the ultimate goal, but going public doesn’t always deliver what founders actually want: true liquidity and diversified financial risk. In this video, I talk through why M&A is often the more practical and rewarding...
AI Agents Will Replace SaaS Revenue Streams
All SaaS revenue is trending to zero. AI agent revenue will take over. You’re better off giving SaaS away for free today as lead magnets and then upselling product qualified leads to managed AI agents where you have forward deployed engineers...
AI as the Key to Overcoming Retail’s Next Challenge: Achieving Operational Excellence
UK retailers are confronting shrinking footfall, rising costs and a leaner workforce, with roughly 97,000 jobs cut this year. Artificial intelligence offers a way to streamline back‑office processes and free staff for higher‑value, customer‑facing activities. AI can automate routine admin...
Umanitek Launches Guardian Agent to Tackle AI Hallucinations, Deepfakes and Identity Abuse
Umanitek AG unveiled Guardian Agent, a decentralized AI identity protection platform that combats large language model hallucinations, deepfakes, impersonation, and IP infringement. The service monitors hundreds of millions of accounts, delivering real‑time risk scores and generating verifiable evidence packs to...
Avaap Named Snowflake Premier Partner
Avaap announced its elevation to Snowflake Premier Partner, underscoring its deep expertise in cloud data platforms and AI‑ready analytics. The designation grants early access to Snowflake’s roadmap, advanced training, and joint go‑to‑market initiatives. Avaap leverages this status alongside its Workday...
Derapi Raises $7M in Seed Funding
Derapi, a San Francisco‑based software firm developing connective infrastructure for the distributed energy ecosystem, announced a $7 million seed financing round. The round was led by Earthshot Ventures and featured participation from Tuesday Capital, Susquehanna Sustainable Investments, WYVC, Breakthrough Venture Capital,...
Opsera Launches New Advanced Reasoning AI and Autonomous Remediation Agents for Agentic DevOps
Opsera unveiled advanced reasoning AI and autonomous remediation agents that extend its Agentic DevOps platform. The new capabilities provide deep contextual awareness, plain‑English query insights, and policy‑as‑code governance across more than 150 integrated tools. By automatically identifying root causes and...
Breg and PatientIQ Announce Marketplace Partnership
Breg and PatientIQ have partnered to embed Breg’s cold‑therapy devices into PatientIQ’s EHR‑integrated digital care pathways, allowing orthopedic providers to prescribe the therapy at optimal moments before and after surgery. The collaboration automates patient outreach, tracks engagement, and alerts staff...
Alaffia Health Raises $55M to Expand Agentic AI for Health Plan Claims Operations
Alaffia Health announced a $55 million Series B round to scale its agentic AI platform for health‑plan claims operations. The startup, founded in 2020, blends clinician expertise with AI analysis to improve payment integrity, cut review cycles from weeks to days, and...
TaxNova Gets Backing From A16z’s Accelerator and Revolut and Miro Operators
London‑based TaxNova emerged from stealth with $1 million pre‑seed funding, backed by a16z’s speedrun accelerator and operators from Revolut and Miro. The AI‑driven platform automates R&D tax credit claims by pulling data from tools like GitHub, Jira and Slack, cutting claim...
ShareVault Achieves ISO 42001 Certification, Setting a New Global Standard for Responsible AI in Virtual Data Rooms
ShareVault announced it has earned ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the first international standard for responsible AI management systems. The certification covers all AI‑powered capabilities in its virtual data room platform, including OCR, AI redaction, document chat, and automated translation, and validates...
Revive Stale Marketing: Fresh Ideas with Mike Stelzner
Has your marketing become boring and repetitive? Has your team stopped suggesting new and interesting ideas? I break down why (and how to fix it) in this interview with Michael (Mike) Stelzner on the Social Media Marketing Podcast from Social...
Windsor Boosts In-Store Traffic By 48% With The Happy Returns BORIS Solution
In this episode, Steve Hutt discusses how Windsor, a major women’s fashion retailer, leveraged Happy Returns’ BORIS solution and Return Bars® to turn product returns into a driver of in‑store traffic and loyalty. By shifting 74% of returns to physical...
Privy Acquires Sendlane to Strengthen Its Position as an Ecommerce Growth Platform
Privy announced the acquisition of Sendlane, an email and SMS marketing platform, to strengthen its unified ecommerce growth solution. The deal follows Privy’s 2023 purchase of Emotive and builds on a client base of more than 6,000 brands. Privy reports...
India’s Supreme Court to WhatsApp: ‘You Cannot Play with the Right to Privacy’
India’s Supreme Court delivered a stern rebuke to Meta, warning it cannot compromise Indian users’ right to privacy. The court questioned how WhatsApp, with over 500 million Indian users, obtains meaningful consent for data‑sharing and monetization of metadata. A ₹2.13 billion penalty...
Bunny Database
Bunny Database launches a public preview as a managed, SQLite‑compatible service that automatically spins down when idle. It offers one‑click deployment, SDKs for multiple languages, and multi‑region replication across 41 locations, promising up to 99% latency reduction for distant users....
Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Product Designer
Emerge Career, a Y Combinator S22 startup, is hiring its first product designer‑engineer in New York to accelerate a tech‑powered workforce‑development platform for justice‑impacted individuals. The company’s pilot program boasts an 89% graduation rate and 92% job placement, with graduates earning an...
RapidFort Raises $42M to Push Continuous Remediation for Software Supply Chain Security
RapidFort Inc. announced a $42 million Series A round to accelerate its continuous remediation platform for software supply chain security. The funding, led by Blue Cloud Ventures and Forgepoint Capital, will expand go‑to‑market efforts, enhance automated container hardening, and deepen adoption in...
First Customer’s Offer Propelled Qualia to $100M ARR
Most founders say they're "close to their customers." Nate Baker took it further than anyone I've interviewed. When he started Qualia , he was 21 with zero industry experience. His first customer didn't just sign a contract. He made Nate...
Base44’s Super Bowl Debut Is As Simple As Its App Building Platform
Base44, an AI‑powered no‑code app builder, debuted a Super Bowl commercial just a year after its launch. The platform, part of the emerging "vibe coding" movement, lets users create live apps from simple text prompts without programming. In June, website...
Technology Brings Flexibility to Workspace Group
Workspace Group, London’s largest provider of flexible offices, studios and light‑industrial units, is leveraging technology to enhance customer service and operational efficiency. After five years of leading its connectivity programme, Head of Technology Chris Boultwood oversaw the rollout of enterprise‑grade...
AI Agents Are Choosing Our Software Vendors for Us
"More and more we'll pick the vendors our AI Agents just tell us to." @tbpn @johncoogan @jordihays "I picked Resend, WorkOK and other app -- because the AI Agent told me to." https://t.co/RiNx0d9UAQ
Raising $6.1M in Seed Funding, Airrived Says Agentic AI’s Breakthrough Moment Has Arrived
AI startup Airrived announced a $6.1 million seed round led by Cannage Capital, with participation from Plug and Play Ventures and other investors. The company introduced Agentic OS, an operating layer that makes agentic AI a native capability for enterprise workflows, allowing...
Building a Complete Tax Compliance Architecture for Global Scale
Global indirect tax compliance now hinges on three interlinked obligations—real‑time CTC e‑invoicing, periodic VAT reporting, and granular SAF‑T audit files—all derived from the same transaction data. Tax authorities expect these outputs to be consistent by design, turning fragmented point solutions...
DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved
The article demystifies DNS by walking through a real‑world domain migration that stalled due to TTL caching. It explains the hierarchical structure—from root servers to TLDs, domains, and subdomains—and details the core record types (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT). The...
Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K Vs. MirrorMaker2
Cross‑region replication between AWS MSK clusters was benchmarked using Lenses K2K and Apache Kafka MirrorMaker 2. The tests covered at‑least‑once, exactly‑once, and resource‑constrained scenarios, all achieving 100 % reliability. K2K consistently delivered 14‑32 % lower end‑to‑end latency, 51‑78 % faster producer writes, and up...
Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
RentAHuman.ai launches a marketplace that lets AI agents hire humans for physical tasks, bridging the gap between digital automation and real‑world execution. The service offers an MCP integration and REST API, enabling developers to programmatically request on‑demand labor for activities...
Belstaff Retail Digital Transformation with Unified Retail Integration
British heritage brand Belstaff completed an end‑to‑end digital transformation by replacing its legacy stack with a headless Shopify e‑commerce platform backed by NetSuite as a single source of truth. Integration specialist Patchworks provides the middleware that synchronises inventory, orders and...
$26M Funding Round Backs Veremark’s International Expansion and Service Rollout
Veremark, a London‑based workplace‑trust platform, secured $26 million in Series B funding led by Gresham House Ventures, with existing backers and a debt facility from Salica Partners. The round follows Veremark’s acquisition of Agenda Screening Services, expanding its checks to over 180...
Artificial Labs Raises $45M in Series B Funding
Artificial Labs, a London‑based digital broking and underwriting platform for specialty and commercial insurance, secured $45 million in Series B financing. The round was led by CommerzVentures with participation from Move Capital Fund I and existing backers. The capital will fund a...
Healthcare and Financial Wellbeing Startup for over 60s Lateral Raises £2.5M
UK‑based startup Lateral has closed a £2.5 million seed round led by Augmentum, with participation from Triple Point and TinyVC. The funding will launch its inaugural Lateral Health Plan, a combined private‑health cover, care‑navigation service and preventive‑benefit package aimed at the...