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
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 14 million British citizens over 60. The plan is anchored by a nurse‑led navigation team that helps members choose between NHS and private options. Founders Laura Ashforth and Steven Mendel bring experience from insurtech unicorn Zego and pet‑health unicorn ManyPets.
Refute Raises £5M Seed Round to Address Disinformation Threats
London‑based Refute, an AI‑driven counter‑disinformation startup, closed a £5 million seed round led by Amadeus Capital Partners, with participation from Playfair, Episode 1, Osney Capital and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund. The funding will accelerate development of its platform that detects...
AI Compute Is the New Bottleneck for Teams
You used to ask people on your team “what are you constrained by” and the bottlenecks would be process, lack of certain talent, waiting on some other function to do its work, and so on. Increasingly, the right question is...
Fieldguide Raises $75M on $700M Valuation to Scale Agentic AI for Audit and Advisory Firms
Fieldguide Inc., an AI‑native platform for audit and advisory firms, announced a $75 million Series C round that values the company at $700 million. The funding, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives with participation from Geodesic, Bessemer, 8VC and Thomson Reuters, will be used...
AI Agents Shift From Commands to Autonomous Supervision
We're building systems that need babysitters. People think agents are smarter chatbots. Ask a question, get an answer, move on. Background agents are different. They check your email while you sleep and schedule things without being asked. These systems run on their...
Palantir Rallies as Revenue Jumps 70% and Guidance Leaves Wall Street Behind
Palantir Technologies posted a stellar fourth‑quarter, with revenue soaring 70% year‑over‑year to $1.407 billion and adjusted earnings per share climbing to 25 cents. The surge was powered by a 93% jump in U.S. revenue, driven largely by a 137% rise in...
GitHub Experience Various Partial-Outages/Degradations
On February 2, 2026 GitHub reported a series of service disruptions affecting its core developer tools. A major outage crippled GitHub Actions, causing hosted‑runner jobs to queue and fail, while Codespaces suffered a major outage that blocked cloud workspace creation. Pages and...
Adobe Animate Is Shutting Down as Company Focuses on AI
Adobe announced it will discontinue its 2D animation tool Animate, ending sales on March 1, 2026. Enterprise customers will receive support until March 1, 2029, while all other users get assistance through March 2025. The company cited a strategic shift toward AI‑driven products and offered...
AI-Driven Competition Slashes Figma’s IPO Gains
Figma had one of the biggest IPO debuts in years. Six months later, its stock is down 75%. Here’s how AI crashed the IPO hype 👇 When Figma went public, the story looked clean. The stock jumped over 250% in...
'Just Remember, You Have to Be Ahead for All Time to Come': Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Reveals AI Chip Shopping...
Microsoft has begun deploying its first in‑house AI processor, Maia 200, in select Azure data centres. The chip is tailored for inference‑heavy workloads, emphasizing memory bandwidth and SSD throughput. Despite the launch, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the company will continue purchasing Nvidia...
The Cost of Poor Cloud Resilience Is Often Paid in Ransom, Rubrik Warns
Rubrik warned that inadequate cloud resilience is turning ransomware attacks into costly ransom payments. The company showcased a tabletop exercise, “Zero Hour Horizon Retail,” which simulated a breach that escalated because backups were compromised and identity misconfigurations granted attackers full...
AI Will Shift Sales to 80% Selling Time by 2026
As the AI era evolves, one of the most difficult aspects of predictions is how quickly humans will be abstracted away from today’s “point of work.” Take something as simple as building a toy. The first level of abstraction is...
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This Week in SaaS Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2026
SaastRise unveiled Pulse, an AI‑curated news app that aggregates content from publishers, social platforms and blogs, and offers personalized email digests. The week saw a wave of SaaS funding, with fourteen companies raising $300 million+ across AI contract management, cloud cost...
SaaS Built on One Platform Faces Existential Risk
I'm trying to build a billion-dollar SaaS, but the only problem with that is 100% of our business depends on a company that could kill us tomorrow. We make it possible for brands to email people who never opted in. Every...
Adobe Firefly Now Offers Unlimited Image and Video Generation for Subscribers
Adobe has lifted usage caps on its Firefly generative AI suite, granting subscribers unlimited image and video creation across all plans. The upgrade unlocks a roster of models—including Google Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image Generation, Runway Gen‑4, and Adobe’s own...
Micro‑lists & AI Boost Cold Outreach Reply Rates
CEO Friend: Is cold outreach working for you guys? Me: It wasn't until mid-November. CEO Friend: What? How? Ours dried up. Me: We closed 50 customers from cold email over the past 60 days. CEO Friend: TELL ME HOW Me:...
The 8 Best AI Detection Tools in 2026
In 2026 AI‑generated text has become ubiquitous, prompting a crowded market of detection solutions. Modern detectors now analyze writing rhythm, predictability, and hidden architecture rather than relying on simple phrase cues. No tool achieves perfect accuracy, and false positives remain...
We Choose Complexity to Avoid Simple Accountability
We resist simple changes with big impact. We retreat to complexity because it's safer. If the fix is complex and you don't do it, that's logistics. Resources. Timing. Reasonable. If the fix is simple and you don't do it, that's...
Metrics Can Gamify Products, Distracting From Real User Value
Now that I'm tracking user and account metrics for Storybook , I'm really starting to appreciate how much they can make you gamify things that don't necessarily improve the user experience. For example, Storybook's data updates monthly, which means that...
Autonomous Organization Workflows: Decreasing Manual Work in 2026
In 2026 businesses of all sizes are turning to autonomous workflows to eliminate repetitive manual tasks. Cloud‑based POS platforms like Epos Now automate sales recording, inventory tracking, and reporting, delivering real‑time data across locations. The article outlines how these systems free...
Hiring Senior PLG PM In‑House Can Cost More Than Expected
Our Senior ProductLed Implementer, Henrique Soares, just watched a SaaS company spend 5 months learning an expensive lesson about hiring for PLG. They needed a Senior Growth PM focused on product-led growth. They looked at the OTE and thought: "We'll...
AI Ops Now Cost $50K Monthly Across Business
Our AI bill just hit $50K in a single month. This is what building with agents actually looks like. Support. Sales. Onboarding. Product. Every part of the business now runs on intelligence - and intelligence isn't free. Not gonna lie,...
Tricentis Expands Leadership to Scale AI-Powered Software Quality
Tricentis announced two senior executive appointments: Jason Bliss as EVP and President of Business Operations and Todd Horst as Chief Growth Officer. Bliss will oversee post‑sales functions, including customer growth, professional services, support, international operations and M&A, while Horst will...
‘I Don’t Write Code Anymore’: Anthropic, OpenAI Engineers Say AI Now Writes 100% of Their Code
Top engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their production code, with developers shipping dozens of pull requests generated entirely by large language models. Boris Cherny of Anthropic reported writing no code by hand for over...
AI Generates Full Lead Magnets Instantly for Founders
You've heard of Vibe Coding. But now Vibe Marketing is here better than ever. We're rolling out a v2 of our most popular feature for Instant where our AI will create an entire Lead Magnet, Landing Page and Middle-of-Funnel Content...
Effective SaaS Ads Require
Many SaaS teams believe more ad spend = more pipeline. But here are 3 layers they skip: 1. A pipeline strategy that starts at the bottom of the funnel, not the top. 2. A quality-first mindset that prioritizes best-fit leads...
LogicGate Celebrates Landmark Year with Industry Recognition and Growth
LogicGate announced a landmark 2025, posting roughly 50% year‑over‑year ARR growth from large enterprises and earning a Leader position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for GRC tools. The company also collected multiple awards, including Best Risk Management Platform at the...
Linq Raises $20M to Enable AI Assistants to Live Within Messaging Apps
Linq announced a $20 million Series A round to scale its API that embeds AI assistants directly within native messaging apps such as iMessage, RCS and SMS. After pivoting from a digital business‑card tool, the company doubled its annual recurring revenue and...
ConcertAI Launches Accelerated Clinical Trials, Leveraging Agentic AI to Radically Shorten Trial Timelines
ConcertAI unveiled Accelerated Clinical Trials (ACT), an enterprise platform powered by its CARAai agentic AI, to automate end‑to‑end trial processes. The solution claims to shorten overall trial timelines by 10‑20 months and cut design and amendment costs by roughly half....
Snowflake Bypasses Microsoft to Strike Multiyear Deal with OpenAI
Snowflake announced a $200 million multiyear partnership with OpenAI, bringing OpenAI’s generative AI models directly into its data platform. The agreement makes OpenAI models native to Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence, allowing customers to run AI workloads on governed data...
Listing Isn’t Enough—Actively Drive Your Startup Sale
Sometimes founders list their startup and then wait. They assume buyers will just show up, ask questions, and magically move things forward. That almost never happens. Selling a business requires running an actual sales process. After NDAs are signed, you need to reach...
UK Government Launches Fuel Forecourt Price API
On 2 February 2026 the UK government launched Fuel Finder, a public service that publishes real‑time fuel prices from forecourts across the country. The platform provides price, location, brand, amenities and timestamp data via a RESTful API, CSV downloads and email subscriptions,...
Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-Style Inference Engine Works
Nano‑vLLM is a minimal Python implementation that reproduces the core features of the widely‑used vLLM inference engine, including prefix caching, tensor parallelism, and CUDA‑graph optimizations. Benchmarks show it matches or slightly exceeds vLLM’s throughput despite its 1,200‑line codebase. The architecture...
01C Launches Amara to Generate Full 3D Worlds From Simple Prompts
London‑based startup 01C has launched Amara, an AI‑powered platform that lets designers, game developers and 3D artists generate complete, production‑ready 3D environments from simple text or photo prompts. The tool is built natively for Unreal Engine and plugs directly into...
What I’d Say to Me Back Then – Build Relationships Before You Need Them, Says BlackLine’s Tammy Coley
Tammy Coley, BlackLine’s Chief Transformation Officer, traces her journey from EY auditor to finance leader at Cox Communications and now to a tech executive championing cloud‑finance automation. Her experience highlights the challenges of being a Black woman in a predominantly...
Menotracker Wants to Fix Menopause Symptom Tracking — without Selling User Data
Menotracker, an AI‑powered menopause‑tracking app, has launched with privacy‑tech firm ConsentKeys to ensure user data is never stored or sold. The platform lets women log symptoms, connect wearables, and generate doctor‑ready reports while assigning pseudonymous identities that protect against breaches....
BNF Bank Migrates to Temenos Transact with Validata’s ConnectIQ
The project has seen the bank replace its legacy Banka 2 core system with Temenos Transact R23 SaaS.
A Notable Development - Pegasystems Taps Into the Notes Replacement Market Opportunity
Pega announced Notes to Blueprint™, a specialized extension of its AI‑driven Blueprint platform aimed at modernizing legacy Lotus Notes applications. By leveraging assets from the recent Adopteq acquisition, the solution can analyze, extract, and re‑architect Notes databases into cloud‑native workflows....
IManage Delivers Trusted AI Search with Ask iManage
iManage has upgraded its Ask iManage AI assistant to answer natural‑language questions across the entire iManage Work platform, delivering structured, cited responses without pre‑selecting documents. The feature, now generally available at no extra charge, adds instant summaries, side‑by‑side comparisons and...
Biorce Raises $52M to Support Global Rollout of Its AI Clinical Trial Platform
Barcelona‑based health AI firm Biorce closed a $52 million Series A round, led by DST Global Partners and supported by existing backers Norrsken VC, YZR Capital and Mustard Seed Maze. The financing brings total capital raised above $60 million and will fund the...
Why Software Stocks Are Getting Pummelled
Software stocks suffered a sharp sell‑off on Jan. 29 after SAP warned of a slight cloud‑business deceleration, sending its shares down 15%. ServiceNow fell 13% despite beating revenue expectations, while Salesforce and Workday slipped 7‑8% without any fresh announcements. The broader...
Higher Engineer Output Expands Roadmaps, Fuels Competition
This is the question every software company is asking themselves right now. What happens to our roadmap if an engineer can produce 2X or 5X more output. The general direction will be roadmap expansion. Companies that just use this leverage to...
Intentional Culture Shapes Future Alumni Impact
When you create a company culture, it carries forward not only into your startup but also into where your alumni go in the future. One more reason to be very intentional about it. You're putting something into the world. Make sure...
Kiki – The Accountability Monster for People Who Are Easily Distracted
Kiki is a productivity app that forces users to focus on a single task by blocking all non‑essential apps and websites, similar to a Pomodoro timer but without an early‑exit option. Users specify one task, whitelist needed tools, and the...
Tiny Sales Team Thrives by Chasing Small Deals
"We went from 8 humans in sales to 1.25. We do about the same. Why? The agents don't mind chasing small deals. They never quit." @tbpn https://t.co/FWKsr1UXzZ
Build Deployable AI Workflows at SaaStr AI 2026
Not just talks. At SaaStr AI 2026, we're running 100s of hands-on workshops where you'll build actual AI workflows for your company. Sales. CS. Product. Ops. Leave with something you can deploy Monday. May 12-14. SF Bay. https://t.co/IsMOos9H4H
10 Bloop Alternatives & Competitors For 2026
In this episode Aaron Orendorff walks listeners through the top ten alternatives to Bloop for loyalty and rewards, highlighting each platform’s key features, from Yotpo Loyalty’s strategic partnership model to Smile.io’s Shopify‑centric simplicity. He stresses three pillars for choosing a...
Show HN: Craftplan – I Built My Wife a Production Management Tool for Her Bakery
Craftplan is an open‑source ERP designed for small‑scale artisanal manufacturers and craft businesses. It consolidates catalog, inventory, order processing, production planning, purchasing, and CRM into a single self‑hosted platform. Key features include versioned bills of materials with automatic cost rollups,...
WACC, Not Terminal Value, Drives SaaS Repricing Uncertainty
W.A.C.C.: WACC Ate Cloud Companies One way to think about the repricing of SaaS is to go back to the Discounted Cash Flow formula itself. While this is an oversimplification, we can think of 3 core elements: * Expected Cash Flows * Weight...
I Wrote Off $4M to $0. My Co-Investor Marked Up the Same Deal to $30M. Here’s What Founders Need to...
The author wrote off a $4 million SaaStr Fund investment to zero, while a co‑investor marked the same deal up to $30 million. The divergence stems from the co‑investor’s need to showcase a strong TVPI while fundraising for a new fund, prompting...