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
China Bans E-Commerce Platforms From Forcing Lowest Prices or Abusing Algorithms
China’s regulators have issued a 29‑article rule that bars e‑commerce platforms from forcing merchants to offer the lowest price or from using algorithms to set discriminatory prices without consent. The National Development and Reform Commission, State Administration for Market Regulation and Cyberspace Administration prohibit traffic throttling, search‑ranking demotions and algorithmic penalties as coercive tools. The measure seeks to restore merchant pricing autonomy and protect consumers from predatory pricing tactics. It directly targets dominant players such as Alibaba, JD.com and Pinduoduo, demanding major compliance overhauls.
How AI Broke the Smart Home in 2025
In 2025, generative‑AI‑powered voice assistants like Alexa Plus and Google Gemini for Home still falter at routine smart‑home tasks, often failing to turn on lights or start coffee. While they offer richer conversational abilities and can handle complex commands, their reliance...
Chinese AI Startup Z.ai Takes On OpenAI Via Cheaper Prices
Chinese AI startup Z.ai has released the full weights of its language model under an MIT license, enabling anyone to download and run the model locally. By removing the need for cloud‑based API calls, Z.ai eliminates ongoing usage fees that...
Keep Growing During Due Diligence, Don't Stall Valuation
Common deal killer I see at @acquiredotcom? Stalled growth during due diligence. When you decide to sell your startup, it’s tempting to shift 100% of your focus to the deal. You stop shipping features. You pause marketing. You start mentally checking out. But buyers...
Companies Reinvest AI Productivity Gains Into More Automation
EY’s U.S. AI Pulse Survey of 500 decision‑makers shows firms are channeling AI‑driven productivity gains into further automation, research and talent development rather than cutting jobs. Nearly half of respondents are expanding AI capabilities, while only 17% report AI‑related headcount...
Oracle's New AI-Enhanced Support Portal Leaves Users Fuming
Oracle launched an AI‑enhanced My Oracle Support (MOS) portal in early December, promising streamlined navigation, AI‑driven search and better knowledge access. Within weeks, customers and support engineers reported missing tickets, broken links, and an inability to locate critical patch notes...
OpenAI Debuts Personalized Year-in-Review ChatGPT Experience for Users
OpenAI has launched a personalized Year‑in‑Review experience within ChatGPT, delivering each user a curated recap of their most frequent topics, queries, and milestones from the past year. The feature automatically surfaces highlights, offers shareable graphics, and suggests new ways to...
Google Cloud Reveals All-New Channel Program - Here's All the Key Details
Google Cloud is overhauling its Partner Network for a 2026 launch, shifting from activity‑based metrics to rewarding genuine customer outcomes. The program introduces three pillars—simplicity, outcomes, and automation—eliminating traditional business‑plan requirements and emphasizing pre‑sales influence, co‑innovation, and post‑sales support. A...
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Rob Walling reviews TinySeed’s progress at the end of 2025, highlighting that the accelerator has invested in over 210 B2B SaaS companies, raised just under $60 million across three funds, and returned capital from its first fund. He notes emerging trends...
4 AI Automations Behind Million Dollar Businesses With No New Hires
An article outlines four AI automation strategies that let businesses generate million‑dollar revenues without adding staff. It highlights how AI can handle content creation, lead generation, workflow management, and predictive analytics, effectively replacing traditional hires. By leveraging these tools, entrepreneurs...
Nissan Confirms Customer Data Was Involved in Red Hat Security Breach
Japanese automaker Nissan confirmed that a security breach at its software partner Red Hat exposed personal data of roughly 21,000 customers in Fukuoka. The leaked information includes names, addresses, phone numbers and partial email addresses, but no financial or credit‑card details....
AI Isn’t Broken, It’s Just Missing Real-Time Context
Enterprises face pressure to prove AI investments by 2026, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are emerging as a key lever for delivering real‑time context to large language models. MCPs act as open‑standard intermediaries, connecting LLMs to external data, tools,...
New AI Agent Integrators Will Redefine Enterprise Workflows
To get the full benefit of AI agents you often need to change your underlying workflows, and keep up with a very fast moving AI space. Because of this, there are at least 2 entirely new categories of business models...
Parallel Due Diligence Compresses Timeline and Boosts Competition
How long should due diligence take? Ad hoc diligence begins Day One of a process, but the detailed, confirmatory diligence right before closing the deal should last roughly 3-4 weeks (assuming you run a tightly controlled process). If it were...
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The Best Marketing Strategy for B2B SaaS in 2026
B2B SaaS firms scaling from $5M to $50M+ ARR are abandoning channel‑first tactics in favor of a coordinated growth system. The model hinges on four pillars: market‑level ABM, AI‑driven outbound, layered digital ads, and a weekly content engine that creates...
Moonshot AI CEO Shares AI CRO Scaling Secrets
🎙️ New SaaS CFO Podcast w/ Aviv Frenkel, CEO of Moonshot AI 🚀 🤖 AI-powered CRO for e-commerce 🌍 Global GTM from day one 💸 $10M raised & scaling fast Episode 224 👇 ▶️ https://t.co/4EAZEOUVMC #SaaS #AI https://t.co/MYaKCp7TD6
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If I Started a SaaS Business in 2026, I'd Do This First
The post argues that reaching the first million in SaaS is effort‑driven, but scaling beyond $10 M requires disciplined systems and deep unit‑economics insight. It stresses mastering five core metrics—CAC, ARPA, churn, lifespan, and LTV—before spending on growth channels. With a...
AI Agents Will Outprice Human Labor by 2026
11 Predictions for 2026 Every year I make a list of predictions & score last year’s predictions. 2025 was a good year : I scored 7.85 out of 10. Here are my predictions for 2026 : 1. Businesses pay more for AI agents...
Forcepoint X-Labs Warns of Holiday Phishing Campaign Combining Docusign Scams and Fake Loan Offers
Forcepoint X‑Labs has identified a surge in holiday‑themed phishing that blends fake DocuSign credential‑harvesting emails with deceptive loan‑offer spam. Attackers send DocuSign‑styled messages from unrelated domains, routing victims through disposable hosting services before landing on credential‑stealing pages. The campaign then...
Freemium AI Conversions Hover Around 2%—Scale Requires Tens of Millions.
The AI Freemium Math is Brutal — But It Works at Scale 1⃣ChatGPT: 800M users → 15M paid (2%) → $20B ARR 2⃣Gemini: 650M users → Est. 2-3% → Part of Google 3⃣Claude: 30M users → Heavy API/Enterprise → $5B ARR 4⃣Perplexity: 30M users...
ChatGPT Launches Its Version of Spotify Wrapped - How to Get Your Year-End Review
OpenAI has introduced "Your Year with ChatGPT," a year‑end recap that highlights themes from users’ conversations. The feature, reminiscent of Spotify Wrapped, is automatically offered on iOS, Android, and web when memory and chat‑history settings are enabled. It is accessible...
This Week in SaaS - Dec 16 - 22, 2025
The week of Dec 16‑22 saw a wave of mega‑funding rounds, highlighted by Databricks’ >$4 B Series L and Lovable’s $330 M Series B, underscoring sustained investor appetite for AI‑native SaaS platforms. Major M&A moves included Red Hat’s purchase of Chatterbox Labs and Permira/Warburg Pincus taking Clearwater...
Things I Learnt About Passkeys when Building Passkeybot
Passkeybot.com launched a hosted sign‑in page that lets developers add passkey authentication with minimal server code. The author details technical insights gained, from Apple’s Secure Enclave and the distinction between user presence and verification to attestation’s privacy trade‑offs. New WebAuthn...
Sigma Launches Privacy-Focused AI-Native Browser with Local LLM
Sigma Browser OÜ unveiled Eclipse, a privacy‑first browser that embeds a local large language model, keeping all queries and chat data on the user’s device. Unlike Chrome’s Gemini or Firefox’s AI add‑ons, Eclipse never sends data to the cloud and...
Foxit PDF Editor Gains New Collaboration Safeguards and AI Features
Foxit released PDF Editor v2025.3 for Windows and Mac, adding privacy‑focused collaboration safeguards and a suite of AI tools. The update introduces region‑specific consent prompts, audit‑logged consent data, and automatic anonymization for users who decline. Integration with Microsoft Sensitivity Labels...
EaseUS Adds Fragmented File Recovery Tech to Data Recovery Wizard
EaseUS released Data Recovery Wizard 20.1.0, adding a SmartSector Rebuild (SSR) engine that targets fragmented files on heavily used removable storage. The SSR technology analyzes data signatures, metadata, and block proximity to reconstruct files that standard tools miss. EaseUS claims up...
Jagged vs Smooth AI: Incumbents Win Edge, Disruptors Dominate Core
Banger by @emollick. His Jagged Intelligence concept really has become one of the most important ideas in AI. In B2B AI, you could argue that it reveals a framework for disruptor versus incumbent success: * Jagged Intelligence area => advantage to incumbents,...
Facilitating Energy Management with a Unified, Scalable, and AI-Powered Operations Platform
Schneider Electric introduced EcoStruxure Foresight, an AI‑powered unified platform that integrates electrical and mechanical building systems to optimize energy use. The solution promises up to 50% efficiency gains, 90% faster issue resolution, and up to 50% reduction in engineering time. It...
This Week on How I AI: How to Get Your Whole Team Excited About AI
In this episode, product designer Brian Greenbaum shares a repeatable playbook for turning a team into AI enthusiasts, emphasizing fast tool experimentation, hands‑on workshops, and a clear adoption roadmap that won over leadership. He explains how championing AI accelerated his...
NordProtect Rolls Out Expanded Monitoring Features for Identity Theft Detection
NordProtect, Nord Security’s identity‑theft protection service, has added expanded monitoring capabilities to detect fraud earlier. The upgrade includes credit monitoring across all three major bureaus, short‑term loan tracking, and comprehensive financial‑account alerts. Users also receive a TransUnion credit‑lock feature and...
Why Flaky Tests Are Increasing, and What You Can Do About It
Flaky tests in mobile development have surged, with Bitrise Mobile Insights reporting a jump from 10 % in 2022 to 26 % in 2025. The rise coincides with a 20 % increase in pipeline complexity and faster release cadences, turning occasional glitches into...
Welcome To America's New Surveillance High Schools
Beverly Hills High School has installed a $4.8 million AI‑driven surveillance suite that combines facial‑recognition cameras, behavioral analytics, bathroom listening devices, drones and license‑plate readers. The district argues the system is essential for a high‑profile Los Angeles campus amid a wave of...
A 5‑minute Nudge Turns Site Drop‑offs Into Deals
We worked with a founder who helps leaders become thought leaders on LinkedIn. Had a major issue with drop-offs that he couldn’t track down, so he added RB2B to his site. Every week, he checked who visited. Sorts them as ICP...
EU Offers UK Early Gift: Data Adequacy Until 2031
The European Commission has renewed its GDPR adequacy decision for the United Kingdom, extending frictionless data transfers until 27 December 2031. The six‑year extension, subject to a review after four years, follows a brief technical extension that prevented a lapse at the...
Is Xbox Betting on Cross-Platform Gaming?
Microsoft reported a 2% decline in overall gaming revenue and a 29% plunge in Xbox hardware sales for FY2026, with the Series X/S experiencing a 70% sales drop in November. CEO Satya Nadella signaled a strategic pivot toward an "everywhere"...
NHS England Tech Provider Reveals Data Breach - DXS International Hit by Ransomware
DXS International, a key NHS England technology supplier, disclosed a ransomware attack discovered on December 14 that was quickly contained and remedied. The unknown threat actor, identified as the DevMan group, claims to have stolen 300 GB of company data, though clinical...
ChatGPT’s New Personality Settings Let You Pick the Vibe — and It Ranges From Corporate Calm to Chaotic Bestie
OpenAI has introduced a new suite of personality controls called Characteristics for ChatGPT, allowing users to tweak warmth, friendliness, enthusiasm and other traits via three‑level presets. These settings sit alongside the existing Base style and tone options—Professional, Friendly, Quirky, etc.—so...
AWS Leans on Partners to Spin up Mainframe Modernization Agents
Amazon Web Services introduced AWS Transform Composability, a platform enabling partners to create AI-driven agents that automate mainframe‑to‑cloud migrations. The solution lets service providers encode industry‑specific knowledge—such as COBOL insurance claims or government records—into reusable, containerized agents hosted in Elastic...
AI-Powered Fin Platform Unveils New CX and Topic Tools
We're sharing some product updates in a fun new casual style these days, hear from Brian , Christine , and Dawn P. Here's the key feature callouts CX Score - AI tells you what your customers are *actually experiencing* (1:30)...
Chatting with Google Calendar via Claude Code CLI
got Claude Code set up with its own Oauth token for Google Calendar access from the CLI cannot unsee the ability to be chatting with my time organization in context and so much more composable than with a pre-set app...
Dear SaaStr: When Should You Sell Your Startup?
The SaaStr post outlines practical signals for when founders should consider selling their SaaS startup and when they should hold off. It advises exiting before cash runs out, when the team cannot be strengthened, or when a founder’s personal “magic...
Query ShopifyQL From Python for Instant Dashboards
Did you know you can query ShopifyQL directly from python? Use it in your jupyter notebooks or tell calude code about it to get any dashboard you want https://t.co/LCNN7Mu23X
AI Unifies Marketing, Sales, and Support Into One Agent
"AI is converging marketing, sales & support. They are becoming 1 AI agent. Not 10 different pre-AI SaaS products. In fact, it's already happening in e-commerce." The latest with @rodriscoll @HarryStebbings + me https://t.co/Uhpain34qX
Microsoft Brings Ask Copilot and Agents to the Windows 11 Taskbar for Business Users
Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7523, adding Ask Copilot and AI Agents directly to the taskbar for commercial users. The opt‑in feature integrates Microsoft 365 Copilot, contextual Work IQ data, and voice or text interaction in a single click. Agents can be invoked via...
Automate Freight Billing, Get Paid 5 Days Faster
Lighthouz AI (@lighthouzai) helps freight brokers and 3PLs improve their cash flow and get paid 3-5 days faster. They automate freight bill audits and invoicing—turning long processing cycles into hours, enabling teams to handle 4-5x more volume without adding headcount. https://t.co/IAWfd57O3O
Master the Ordinary, Skip the Trend Chase
In marketing everyone is searching for the next big thing. My advice? Stop chasing trends. Instead figure out how to do common things uncommonly well.
What the AWS Outage Taught CIOs About Preparedness
The October outage of AWS US‑East‑1 rippled through SaaS tools, home monitoring, and even school sites, highlighting hidden third‑party dependencies. Deluxe’s CIO, Yogs Jayaprakasam, traced over a dozen major cloud failures in the past year and concluded that preparedness, not...
"It Doesn’t Matter Which Industry You Belong to, Data Is Your Lifeblood" - Veeam CEO Tells Us Why Getting Security...
Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran says data security and resilience are prerequisites for any AI initiative. The company’s $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI is meant to create a unified platform that protects data across its entire lifecycle, from creation to backup to...