Today's SaaS Pulse
Australian‑origin order‑management platform Fresho has acquired UK ERP provider Nation Wilcox, forming the biggest software offering for food wholesalers in Britain. The combined suite now serves more than 400 wholesalers and caterers and processes over £2 billion (≈ $2.5 billion) in annual gross merchandise value.
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By the numbers: NinjaOne raises $400M in Series C extension
ChatGPT 5.1 Could Launch Soon - 5 Features We’d Love to See From OpenAI’s Next Generation Chatbot
OpenAI is expected to roll out ChatGPT‑5.1 soon, after internal code traces labeled “gpt‑5‑1‑thinking” surfaced. The upgrade targets a smarter long‑term memory that selectively retains relevant context, richer creative multimodality that fuses text, images and audio, and tighter factual grounding with source citations. It also aims for greater autonomous automation—letting the model use tools, calendars and past preferences to complete tasks without constant supervision—and a more consistent personality that remembers a user’s preferred tone. Together, these enhancements would make the chatbot more reliable, efficient and user‑friendly.
Stop Over‑Giving Free: Tie Upgrades to Desired Outcomes
I've watched dozens of SaaS companies kill their freemium motion in the past year. They wonder why conversion rates are stuck at 2% and users ghost them after signup. Our ProductLed Implementer 🔥 Anastasia Kudrow recently helped a client fix...
Four Tools Power a Solo 7‑Figure SaaS Business
4 tools. That's literally all you need. You can run a 7-figure SaaS business, solo. Here's the stack I use for 90% of my business ops. 1️⃣ Cursor - Vibe Coding. AI can now do 90% of your product development. 2️⃣ FeedHive - Vibe Marketing. Creates content,...
Google Explains the Gemini Home Rollout 'Confusion' – and Reveals when to Expect a Full Launch
Google clarified that its Gemini AI will replace Google Assistant in the Google Home app, with the rollout beginning in the United States now and expanding to other markets by the first quarter of 2026. The upgrade is applied per...
On-Demand B2B SaaS Growth System for Predictable Scale
B2B SaaS Growth Program - On-Demand Edition 🔥 Scaling B2B SaaS is hard...but it doesn’t have to be guesswork. Over the last 23 years, I’ve built and scaled B2B SaaS companies, including iContact to $50M ARR and a $169M exit...
Master AI Transformation and Agent Building at Web Summit
Tomorrow I'm speaking twice (in the space of just 90 mins 💅🏻) at Web Summit . Talk 1: Becoming an AI Company, 10:35am, Stage 5. (this is largely about transitioning a business from one world to the next, if you're...
Software Budgets Are Being Wasted on Over-Engineered IT Tools
A Freshworks survey of more than 700 IT, CX, finance and operations professionals found that one‑fifth of software budgets – roughly $1 of every $5 spent – is wasted on over‑engineered tools that fail to deliver expected ROI. Over half...
AI‑Driven SaaS Secures Massive Funding and Billion‑Dollar Deals
This Week in SaaS — Nov 4–10, 2025 AI-powered SaaS continues to dominate funding headlines. From $500M rounds in checkout-free parking to NVIDIA’s bets on AI simulation, this week’s action shows investors still have deep conviction in applied AI and...
Smart Execution and Applied AI Drive SaaS Investment
SaaS is moving fast, and this week proves that the next frontier isn’t just about flashy growth...it’s about smart execution, vertical focus, and applied AI that actually solves real-world problems. From $500M mega-rounds in AI-powered parking infrastructure to NVIDIA doubling...
200. Fabian Q. Veit, CEO, Make - 15× Revenue, 7× Team, 100K+ Paying Users: Inside Make.com’s Hypergrowth!
In this episode, CEO Fabian Veit discusses scaling Make.com from a modest team to a hypergrowth SaaS with 15× revenue, 400 employees, and over 100,000 paying users, highlighting the shift from enterprise‑sales‑led models to a product‑led growth approach powered by...
Ecosystem Is the Next Big Growth Channel
In this episode, Emily Kramer explains how the AI‑driven market has eroded traditional growth tactics and why companies now prioritize ecosystem strategies—leveraging partners, creators, communities, and integrations that already command audience trust. She defines the ecosystem flywheel, outlines its six...
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Rob Walling talks with Missive co‑founder Philippe Lehoux about how a small, bootstrapped team grew the collaborative email platform to $8 M ARR, covering the early idea, landing first customers, and the decision to stay independent of VC funding. They explore...
Datadog CEO Discusses $100M ARR Milestone Pre‑IPO
Ahead of SaaStr AI London on Dec 1-2 (See you there!) we're taking a look back at some of our favorite sessions from our European events. It was so great when Olivier Pomel, founder CEO of Datadog, joined us as...
Learning TOFU, MOFU, BOFU Reshaped My GTM Strategy
TOFU. MOFU. BOFU. When I learned these three terms as a Founder,... It changed my view of GTM.
Looking to Slice Your Cloud Bill? This New Service Lets You Rent Lenovo Workstations 50% Cheaper than Public Cloud Alternatives
IMSCAD has launched a Workstation‑as‑a‑Service that rents Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Ultra machines, hosted in Equinix data centres, to users needing high‑performance graphics. The dedicated workstations feature up to a 6.0 GHz Gen 9 Intel CPU and Nvidia GPUs with up to 24 GB VRAM, and...
Turn Supabase UI Into a Micro SaaS Lifetime Deal
💡 Micro SaaS Idea: - Clone Supabase repo - Pull out the tables/queries UI - Turn it into a small web app Sell on a lifetime deal.
Built 10 Apps in 125 Days, Showcased at Replit All‑Hands
Had ton of fun at @Replit HQ tonight all-hands, sharing 10 apps we’ve vibe coded into production in just 125 days! Thanks to @kodylow @amasad + everyone for having us!! https://t.co/Ya2Srv5Apf
This Week in SaaS - Nov 4 - 10, 2025
This week’s SaaS roundup spotlights a surge of AI‑focused funding, with notable rounds for Metropolis, Armis, Beacon Software and several others raising between $20M and $500M, underscoring the market’s appetite for AI‑driven infrastructure and go‑to‑market platforms. Major M&A activity includes...
Agentforce 360 Wins Pearson’s Teacher’s Pet Award
Agentforce 360 just became teacher’s pet at @pearson 🍎 https://t.co/XzbtkbN8Nl
AI SRE Companion Automates Alert Investigation, Cuts Firefighting
Deeptrace (@deeptraceai) is an AI SRE and debugging companion that automatically investigates every production alert and surfaces a clear root cause, so your engineers spend less time firefighting and more time building. https://t.co/CAQGUInYRE Congrats on the launch, @srinth32 & @andys_lee!
ABM List Building with Apollo, Instantly, ListKit, Clay, and LinkedIn
The post outlines a step‑by‑step ABM list‑building playbook that leverages Apollo, ListKit, Instantly, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Clay to create a high‑quality, enriched prospect database for B2B growth. It emphasizes defining a clear ICP, using each tool for data acquisition,...
SMB Sales Provide More Deals, Faster Growth, Longer Tenure
So there’s a lot of angst on social media (esp LinkedIn) about CROs and VPs of Sales getting fired. But let give tell you a tip: maybe go SMB. What do I mean? I see so many of the top sales...
AI B2B Sales Teams Halved, Efficiency Soars
AI B2B companies do need sales teams. Almost all of them. The question is just … how large of a sales team? It’s a question no one fully questioned until recently. But now founders & CEOs are asking: - is...
Chronosphere Takes on Datadog with AI that Explains Itself, Not Just Outages
Chronosphere, the $1.6 billion New‑York observability startup, announced AI‑Guided Troubleshooting built around a Temporal Knowledge Graph that continuously maps services, dependencies and change events. The feature delivers data‑backed “Suggestions,” investigation notebooks and natural‑language queries, keeping engineers in control by showing the...
Precision Over Volume: Learn Faster, Scale Smarter
I’m still glowing with gratitude after an incredible week in London for the Turing × SYSTM Growth Summit. I met so many lovely people — finally connected with friends I’d only known online, made new ones altogether, ate incredible food,...
Hyper‑Growth Blueprint: $10M ARR Without Brand Fame
How do you go from $0-$10m ARR in under 18 months when you AREN'T Lovable, Cursor, or Replit? 👇 I can't say that I know... I only got to $6m ARR in 18 months... But Alan D'Souza founder of Zapmail.ai...
How to Use ChatGPT to Create ABM Account Lists for Niche ICPs
The post explains how to leverage ChatGPT as a research and data‑analysis tool to build highly targeted ABM account lists for niche ideal customer profiles, outlining a step‑by‑step workflow from defining the ICP to prompting ChatGPT, enriching results with tools...
How to Use Clay to Build and Enrich an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Lead List
The post is a step‑by‑step guide on using the Clay platform to create, enrich, and activate a unified account‑based marketing (ABM) lead list, covering everything from defining the ideal customer profile to adding verified work and personal emails, phone numbers,...
Expert‑Generated Data Fuels Billion‑Dollar AI Startup
Three 22-year-olds just beat Mark Zuckerberg’s record as the youngest self-made billionaires. Here's how the co-founders of Mercor did it👇 In 2023, Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha built a simple recruiting tool. It helped US startups hire engineers...
How to Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to Build an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Lead List
The post explains how to leverage LinkedIn Sales Navigator to create a high‑quality ABM lead list, starting with a precise Ideal Customer Profile, using Navigator’s filters, and exporting data via Chrome extensions or outsourced help. It then details enriching and...
Datadog's Platform Shift Drives 25% Quarterly Growth
Datadog is becoming a platform company, & its Q3 2025 results underscore how successful this transition is. If nothing else, the consistency around 25% growth for the last 12 quarters exemplifies this point. Net dollar retention underpins this growth, combined...
Product‑Obsessed Startups Secure Billion‑Dollar Valuations
Two of my portfolio companies announced blockbuster rounds today: Gamma ($68M Series B at $2.1B valuation) and Scribe ($75M Series C at $1.3B valuation)! What they have in common, besides incredible founders: a maniacal focus on the product and user...
Patreon Is Adding Tweet-Like Features and More Recommended Content
Patreon announced a suite of new social‑media‑style tools, including "Quips"—short text, photo or video posts that are public by default and open for comments—to showcase content and attract prospective patrons. The platform will also enable creators to collaborate on posts...
AI Curiosity Outpaces Capability; Innovators Reinvent, Not Trim
The latest McKinsey State of AI 2025 report just dropped and I'll cautiously say it's pretty good. (Cautiously, because I'm a bit leery of reports from big management consulting companies -- they're often very mega-enterprise focused and I'm a startup/SMB...
Don’t Trust Big Tech with Your Storage? Try This Proton Plan, Now on Sale for an Incredible 60% Off This...
Proton Drive, the Swiss privacy‑focused cloud service, is offering its 200 GB plan for $1.99 a month—a 60% Black Friday discount from the regular $4.99 price. The plan includes end‑to‑end encryption, automatic photo backup, secure file sharing and a 30‑day money‑back guarantee,...
Join the 7th SaaS Tech Stack Survey for Free Resources
What tech is used in your back office? 🤖 I think we'll see big change in several categories. The 7th Annual SaaS Tech Stack Survey is here! If you work in software, SaaS, or AI and know your back office...
From $25K Debt to $1.2M Freedom: Startup Resilience
Just a few weeks before this video, which was shot 12 years ago, I was $25K in debt because of my past failed startup. It was called “Tell It In 10”, and it went absolutely nowhere. Most nights I’d stare...
It’s Not Just You. Everyone Is Paying a Lot More for AI Engineers. Especially Equity.
In this SaaStr AI episode, Jason Lemkin highlights Carta’s data showing AI engineers’ equity grants soaring up to 40% while salary growth remains modest, driven by an "AI or Die" mindset, big‑tech poaching, and perceived massive upside. He warns founders...
AI-Native Status Now Essential, Even for Legacy Firms
Today, legal software @goclio announces a round at $5B and presentation software @GammaApp at $2.5B valuations What do they have in common? Both were around well before the AI Era. Clio in 2008, Gamma in 2020. Being “AI Native” is critical to...
Jarmin: Your 24/7 AI Engineer for Production
https://t.co/meeYOYUPva is your 24/7 ML engineer employee that builds and ships production-ready AI features for you. Just talk to Jarmin (@jarmin_ai) like any other employee, and Jarmin handles your AI/ML work from there, from data prep to deployment. https://t.co/sCoHG7wybr
Traditional SaaS May Be Dying. But It Might Also Be Your Fault.
Jason Lemkin argues that traditional SaaS models are collapsing because vendors are exploiting existing customers with aggressive price hikes, mandatory AI bundles, and hostile renewal tactics, turning customer success into a sales funnel. He illustrates the fallout—lost advocacy, higher churn,...
AI Demo Agent Scales Product Walkthroughs 24/7
Karumi (@karumihq) is an AI demo agent that makes product demos scalable — it talks, clicks, and personalizes every walkthrough, 24/7. https://t.co/8zAlTgMlcq
AI Travel SaaS Hits $345K Revenue, 300% Growth
Big fan of AI plays like this. Vertical AI SaaS built for travel customer experience. > $345k TTM revenue > $265k TTM profit > 300% YoY growth High-margin + Lean ops Check out listing @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/W8PNmLJqTD https://t.co/xuUCVn0BpK
Incogni Vs. Privacy Bee: Which Data Removal Service Should Keep Your Info Off the Internet?
Incogni, launched by VPN provider Surfshark in 2022, automates removal requests for over 420 data‑broker sites and custom requests for more than 2,000, offering a hands‑off experience, detailed request‑by‑request transparency, and four pricing tiers ranging from $16 to $30 per...
Slack Shifted Email From Core to Peripheral Collaboration Tool
Slack didn’t kill email. It made it much less relevant and useful for internal company collaboration.
Align ARR Growth with Sales & Marketing Spend
Are you spending the right amount to grow ARR? Learn how to align ARR growth with sales & marketing spend using two key metrics: 👉 OPEX profile 👉 Cost of ARR Watch here: https://t.co/UFx233fpYg #SaaSMetrics #SaaSFinance https://t.co/pu2gGLs6aW
Edit React UI Directly From Browser Elements
JSX Tool (@jsxtool) is an in-browser IDE for building React UIs. Click on any element in the browser to jump straight to the relevant line of code and edit it yourself or provide precise context to an LLM to make updates....
Seeking Discussion on CLI‑First Headless SaaS
Anyone thinking about CLI-first SaaS (headless) and want to chat?
Even Serious B2B Benefits From Simple Link Integration
For years @patrickc + @collision told me "You should add @link, it'll increase your conversion rate" I always figured Link was only useful for consumer-y impulse buys, not Serious Business Stuff™️ But...TL;DR: we added @link and it increased our conversion rate. Lesson...
Captain Raises Enterprise Knowledge Search Accuracy to 95%
Captain (@RunCaptainRAG) delivers unprecedented accuracy in enterprise knowledge search. It connects directly to cloud file stores and improves today's RAG pipelines from 78% to 95% accuracy. https://t.co/jtXm3o58Aj