What's happening: FoodOp secures £4.4 million to scale AI‑powered kitchen SaaS
FoodOp, a SaaS platform for professional chefs, raised £4.4 million in a round led by MK Capital to accelerate its rollout in the UK and US. The service is used daily by over 2,000 chefs across more than 700 kitchens, automating procurement, menu planning and budgeting with AI‑driven tools.
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Google is beta-testing a Gemini feature called “Import AI chats” that lets users upload conversation histories from ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms, preserving context for continued interactions. The tool would store imported chats in the user’s Gemini activity and use them to further train Google’s models, raising data‑privacy considerations. The feature appears as a simple file‑upload within Gemini’s attachment menu and is part of a broader push that includes higher‑resolution image generation and a video‑verification “Likeness” setting. No official launch date has been announced.
BIG NEWS: I just launched Pulse. The world's first news reader that cuts research from 2 hours to 5 mins👇 As a founder, I was drowning in information: • Scrolling Twitter for hours • Checking 20+ sites for tech news • Reading newsletters that were...
The article highlights the vague usage of “async agents” across blogs, product announcements, and developer discussions, noting that existing definitions—long‑running tasks, cloud‑based execution, or event‑driven triggers—are inconsistent. It clarifies that an agent is an LLM loop with contextual continuity, while...
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Manufacturing, a suite of pre‑built AI agent templates designed for manufacturers. The solution promises to scale operations without adding headcount by automating routine ERP tasks. Achyut Jajoo, Salesforce’s SVP and GM, highlighted the necessity for ERP systems...
I now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and...

Salesforce announced it will cease developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service, moving the product to a sustaining‑engineering model that emphasizes stability, security and support. Existing customers can keep using and renewing Heroku, but the company will no longer sell...

Pluria, a Romanian‑founded hybrid‑work platform, has seen its strongest growth in Latin America, especially Colombia, Mexico and Argentina, with 2025 revenue expanding 2.5 times versus the prior year. The company entered the region opportunistically, bypassing traditional market analysis, and quickly...
It's 2026. If you're a SaaS founder, you're probably screwed. Anything you do that works gets copied, CAC is up, LTV is down. Here are the 7 things I see that ARE working - in a world where most things...
Buyers and investors will commonly request exclusivity as part of a transaction process. As a founder, you should be hesitant to grant that request. Exclusivity is a period of time in which a seller is locked into negotiation with just one...

Carl Eschenbach has resigned as CEO of Workday, handing the reins back to co‑founder Aneel Bhusri. The transition follows a series of cost‑cutting moves, including an 8.5% staff reduction and a recent 2% layoff, as the firm grapples with AI‑driven market...
Discord will launch a global age‑verification system next month, automatically placing every user in a teen‑appropriate mode unless they prove they are adults. Unverified users will lose access to age‑restricted servers, stage channels, and will face stricter content filters and...
If your content is getting views without an increase in pipeline for your B2B SaaS, then the reason is simple: You’re not matching what buyers need at each stage of their journey. Here’s what happens: - Snackable LinkedIn posts spark interest, but don’t...
Jacob Bank runs Relay.app (growing 300%+ YoY) with a few employees and hundreds of AI agents. Most SaaS teams think Product-Led Growth requires: – a full growth squad – endless experiments – complex tooling – months of setup That used to be true. It isn’t anymore. AI agents...

TransformativeMed has been named the 2026 Best in KLAS winner for Clinician Digital Workflow, recognizing its CORES platform’s ability to streamline electronic health record interactions. The award highlights the company’s deep EHR integration, clinician‑centric design, and consistent high marks for...

Microsoft has announced a series of MS365 feature retirements for 2026, including the removal of SharePoint Alerts and the deprecation of Exchange Web Services. These changes affect a broad set of services such as Teams, SharePoint, Entra, and pricing structures,...

New Canto research reveals that 88% of online retailers struggle to keep product information consistent across channels, while 78% juggle multiple disconnected tools. Traditional approaches—spreadsheets, generic PIMs, and conventional DAMs—each fall short of the unique needs of product‑centric retailers. Canto...
Enterprise SaaS firm Loyyal unveiled Perxi AI, the first AI‑driven loyalty agent that operates entirely within WhatsApp. The solution lets small and medium businesses launch and manage branded loyalty programs instantly at zero cost, eliminating traditional software, staffing, and app‑installation...
Last call: we're at 90% capacity for our Marketing Leadership Retreat next month. Still time to grab tickets if you're interested: March 18-20 in Scottsdale, AZ with 100 CMOs and VPs who understand your world, with plenty of time to dig into...
Every Monday I get a deep AI analysis of our metrics across every product area to enjoy with my coffee. Anomalies, growth, trends, recommendations. AI spots patterns human analysts easily miss. I can @ the agent for further questions. AI will soon...
Backblaze’s Q4 2025 network report reveals a sharp rise in AI‑driven traffic to GPU‑centric neocloud providers, peaking in October before settling at a higher baseline. The surge was concentrated in US‑East data centers, highlighting latency‑sensitive AI data movement. Analysts from McKinsey...

$28M ARR with 33 people… $0 in funding. This is the org chart that made it possible: https://t.co/wYZX8rJB2v
We are adding Salesforce and ServiceNow to the IVES AI 30 list after taking them off in early December with this software Armageddon sell-off the last few weeks assuming software/tech behemoths like Salesforce and ServiceNow are structurally broken…and we strongly...
A new open‑source repository provides a minimal, standards‑driven authentication stack for Cloudflare Workers, featuring PBKDF2‑SHA384 password hashing, a dual‑token JWT scheme, and strict TypeScript typing. The implementation follows NIST SP 800‑63B, NIST SP 800‑132, OWASP ASVS, and RFC 8725, and includes over 250...

MuseCool, a London‑based music school, has launched an AI‑powered practice assistant called The Muse to address chronic practice gaps in traditional music lessons. The system records lesson audio, analyzes performance, and automatically creates short, game‑like practice sessions with analytics for...

Global Automotive Group, Europe’s largest tyre distributor, is replacing its five disparate ERP systems with a suite of low‑code applications built on OutSystems. CIO Ron Linssen opted for a big‑bang migration beginning in 2026 after a two‑year rollout that involved...
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Port introduced a highly requested “View as” feature that lets organization administrators instantly experience the platform with any user’s effective permissions. The tool enables rapid reproduction of permission errors, validation of RBAC changes, and secure troubleshooting without needing screenshots or...

Algolia announced that Chief Technology Officer Xavier Grand will speak at AI Day 2026 in Paris, joining leading French tech figures for a panel on the GenAI UX revolution. The event, hosted at Station F by France Digitale, will attract roughly...
Tai Software announced an integration with OpenTrack that embeds AI‑native, end‑to‑end container visibility directly into its transportation management system. The connection streams real‑time milestones, exception alerts, and operational data into Tai’s Shipment Location History and Check Call modules, eliminating manual...
In this episode, Jodi interviews Kris Rudeegraap, Co‑Founder & Co‑CEO of Sendoso, about how the company built a multi‑tiered B2B community that fuels a $7 million pipeline and boosts account spend by 71%. Kris explains the ROI of personal advisory groups,...
U.S. regulators are set to ban any Chinese‑origin software in cloud‑connected vehicle systems, forcing automakers to certify by March 17 that core code contains no Chinese provenance. The rule also covers advanced autonomous‑driving software and will expand to connectivity hardware by...
We asked every speaker coming to SaaStr AI 2026 one question: 🤖"What's actually working with AI in your business right now?" No theory. No hype. Just what's shipping and what's converting. May 13-15 in SF Bay https://t.co/A02gn7heZm
The post argues that AI "skills"—executable English‑written programs—transform conversational agents into operators capable of performing specific tasks. It highlights the rapid growth of public skill repositories, with tens of thousands of community‑built skills amassing thousands of GitHub stars. For consumers,...
Toma, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 startup, raised a $17 million Series A round led by a16z to build an AI platform for underserved sectors such as automotive and healthcare. The company is hiring founding engineers—full‑stack developers familiar with Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript...
I was in a board meeting for a breakout AI B2B leader at $100m+ ARR and the team was excited … but stressed. Why? So many of their largest customers were happy to sign relatively large checks for the AI Agent....
Roundcube Webmail’s HTML sanitizer failed to treat the SVG element’s href attribute as an image source, allowing external URLs to load even when the “Block remote images” setting is enabled. This oversight lets attackers embed an invisible 1×1 SVG...
Bun v1.3.9 introduces powerful script orchestration with --parallel and --sequential flags, adding Foreman‑style prefixed output and full workspace integration. The release also adds Symbol.dispose support for mock() and spyOn(), enabling automatic restoration of test doubles via the using keyword. Performance gains span SIMD‑accelerated...
Security researchers uncovered a billing bypass in Microsoft Copilot that exploits subagents and agent definitions to run premium models without charging the user. By initiating a chat with a free model such as GPT‑5 Mini and spawning a subagent configured for a...
Fantastic article by John Maeda on building systems for exponential growth vs. merely delivering ouputs that track to linear growth — and why this distinction is crucial in the AI Age. -- LINEAR GROWTH: "Linear growth is steady and visible. You ship something...
GitHub Agentic Workflows let developers describe repository automation in plain‑language markdown, which the `gh aw` CLI compiles into secure GitHub Actions workflows. The system runs AI agents—such as Copilot or Claude—in isolated containers to perform tasks like issue triage, documentation...

Most founders ask “how do I get a higher valuation?” The answer is boring and kinda annoying. Build a business buyers actually want. > Automate your processes and operations so growth isn’t tied to you. > Improve retention. CAC Be prepared...

At my work every month we look at customer retention. A single churn rate doesn't tell the whole story. You need to show when customers are leaving. Here's how you can do it with a cohort analysis heatmap in python
The episode explains virtual warehousing—a cloud‑based system that gives ecommerce merchants a single dashboard view of inventory across multiple physical locations, from warehouses to stores and 3PLs. It outlines key benefits such as centralized visibility, lower storage costs, faster fulfillment,...
Vouch introduces an explicit trust‑management layer for open‑source projects, letting maintainers vouch for or denounce contributors through GitHub issues, discussions, or a CLI. Unvouched users are blocked from contributing, while denounced users can be globally excluded. The system stores trust...

I've been thinking about this math a lot and weighing if that 2% chance of $50m is worth it. I've built DataExpert.io to $2M ARR over the last three years. I could exit for $8-10m now. In 3 years not...

Cool microSaaS finding high intent leads on social. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI-powered social listening that alerts you when people are actively looking to buy. > $63K ARR > $26K TTM profit > 2000% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/4n3HSzCddv https://t.co/nou58zuOi3
The episode explores how Scale AI, under new CEO Jason Droege—formerly of Uber—thrived after the $14.5 billion acquisition of founder Alexandr Wang by Meta. Droege explains that Scale achieved a record‑breaking revenue run‑rate by splitting its business into two tracks: one...
48 hours into the AI takeover experiment and the most surprising thing isn't the automation—it's the decision-making. Bond (my AI) doesn't just execute tasks. It prioritizes, adapts, makes judgment calls about what's worth my time vs what to handle automatically. That's the...
Every piece of enterprise software has to become a platform play in some capacity. We’re moving to a world where agents will do vastly more work with tools and data than people ever did. Your business model, feature set, and...

Starling Bank is shifting its growth strategy by selling its Engine banking software to U.S. lenders, targeting regional banks with $5‑50 billion in assets. The fintech has hired Deloitte and PwC to scout partners and expects its first U.S. client by...
The growth engine behind Moltbook's explosion to 1.5 million AI agents is a bit sinister. Everyone's sharing screenshots of bots debating philosophy and having existential crises. Good content. Very shareable. But it's a distraction from what's actually happening underneath. Mason Hall, ex-a16z...