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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Amazon has launched an embedded QuickBooks Online app inside Seller Central, fulfilling a promise made last year. The multi‑year partnership with Intuit lets sellers import financial data, view profit‑and‑loss trends, and monitor inventory across channels, with a three‑month free trial for new users. While Intuit touts a 20‑point higher success rate for QuickBooks users, sellers express concern over sharing sensitive sales data with Amazon and warn of steep subscription price hikes. The service is not free beyond the trial period, adding a new cost layer for merchants.

VAT will kill your international margins if you don't price for it upfront. Here's the mistake I see all the time: Brand launches in the EU. Pricing stays the same as in the US. Orders start coming in, and revenue looks good...

The Allen Institute for AI unveiled Ai2 Open Coding Agents, a family of open‑source developer agents that can be customized to any codebase. The flagship model, SERA‑32B, solves over 55 % of SWE‑Bench Verified problems, while the smaller SERA‑8B reaches 29.4 %—far...
Experian has partnered with Fincentive to launch a pension data platform that digitises the traditional annual pension payslip into up to twelve monthly digital updates. The solution leverages Experian’s data‑enrichment and PayDashboard infrastructure combined with Fincentive’s pension‑specific intelligence to provide...

Revolut Business has launched Subscriptions in the UK, an in‑app solution that lets merchants create, automate and manage recurring payment plans without additional billing software fees. The feature consolidates billing, payments and customer data, offering instant reconciliation, API access, free‑trial...

Risotto announced a $10 million seed round led by Bonfire Ventures, backed by Y Combinator and other investors. The startup builds an AI‑driven middleware that sits between ticket‑management platforms like Jira and the internal tools used to resolve issues. By leveraging prompt...
I spent about 36 hours with Claude Code over the weekend (was snowed in here in Dallas). Here are *all* the projects that went to Production: 1) I own the domain https://t.co/wXlXkIrr5p. I've always wanted to do something with it. So...

Sage Group reported a 10% revenue increase to £674 million for the quarter ending 31 December, led by a 15% rise in its Business Cloud segment. CEO Stephen Hare highlighted early AI monetisation through the Sage Co‑Pilot bundle, but stressed that large‑scale...
The post argues that B2B sales tactics from 2021 are obsolete in 2026. Buyers now expect AI‑driven solutions that install themselves, cost less, and eliminate migration friction. Demonstrations and lengthy calls no longer persuade when customers can “vibe‑code” their own...
You didn't start a company and become a Founder so you could sit down all day and cold email and cold DM people. What if your ideal customers actually came to you as inbound leads? What if they consumed your content,...

Databricks’ 2026 State of AI Agents report shows multi‑agent workflow usage exploding 327% over four months, yet only 19% of surveyed enterprises have deployed agents at scale. The study, based on activity from over 20,000 customers—including 60% of the Fortune 500—highlights...

Airtable unveiled Superagent, an AI‑driven multi‑agent platform, even as its market cap slumped from $11.7 billion to roughly $4 billion. The new product coordinates specialized AI assistants to produce interactive market analyses, drawing on premium data such as FactSet, Crunchbase, and SEC...

NYC‑based Nerd Apply, a privacy‑first college counseling platform, announced a $3.2 million seed round. The round was led by Riverpark Ventures and featured investors such as Alumni Ventures, 1.61 Ventures, Google Ventures CEO David Krane, and others. Nerd Apply currently supports...
The article highlights that typical B2B enterprises rely on six to ten disparate systems to support a single customer journey, leading to fragmented experiences and slow commercial change. It argues that true unified commerce is not about consolidating all functions...

Leaptree announced a suite of AI‑powered enhancements to its Optimize platform, enabling full‑coverage quality assurance across voice, email and chat within Salesforce. The new features automatically audit every interaction, generate dynamic scorecards, and deliver real‑time trend dashboards. By embedding these...

GRIN, a leading creator management platform, introduced instant, self‑serve access with month‑to‑month pricing, eliminating demos, contracts, and long‑term commitments. The new offering includes a 30‑day free trial and credit‑card billing, allowing brands of any size to launch and scale creator...

Swimlane unveiled its AI Agent workforce, branding the new Hero AI agents as native extensions of the Turbine platform. The agents claim to perform work equivalent to over 60,000 SOC analysts each day and can be dragged into low‑code playbooks via...
A new free scanner called the EU‑Sovereignty Audit lets website owners instantly assess reliance on non‑EU services such as Google Fonts, Analytics, CDNs, video embeds and more. It checks eight categories—hosting, fonts, analytics, CDN, video, chat, social and maps—to reveal...
My Main AI Inc. launched a $49‑per‑month subscription that combines text, image, voice, and video generation tools into a single platform. The plan draws on more than 100 large‑scale AI models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and...
Notte’s Demonstrate Mode, unveiled on Dec 18 2025, lets users create web automations by simply performing a task once in their browser. The tool records each click, keystroke, and navigation, then instantly outputs editable, production‑ready code without requiring prompts or syntax knowledge....
Over 500 registrations so far for tomorrow’s AI Onboarding webinar with Mickey Alon ! Every SaaS company these days is claiming they’re "AI-native," but very few actually are. Most are just taking old SaaS onboarding and bolting on a chatbot. Tomorrow, we are...
How are Customer Success team's incentivized? Despite WHERE we tend to put CS on the P&L, they are NOT paid like sales I surveyed 132 companies on their CS compensation structures. And the VAST majority of CSMs are on plans where 20%...
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Studocu, founded by four TU Delft students in 2013, has grown into a global EdTech platform serving 60 million monthly users in over 100 countries. Its library now hosts more than 50 million study documents from 120 000 schools, with roughly 50 000 new...

Idaho Farm Bureau Insurance adopted Akur8’s advanced pricing platform to replace fragmented, manual pricing processes. The insurer moved beyond traditional GLMs, integrating penalisation, credibility techniques and spatial analysis for more stable, long‑term rate predictions. Real‑time dashboards now let actuaries and...

DoControl unveiled an AI‑powered, agentic alerting system that continuously learns a company’s SaaS usage to spot genuine risk. Unlike static rule‑based alerts, the new solution analyzes patterns, intent, and business context from HRIS and identity sources, dramatically cutting noise. It...
Vertical SaaS firms confront unique billing challenges that generic pricing platforms cannot meet. Industry-specific workflows demand pricing logic tied to units such as locations, providers, or transactions. Purpose‑built monetization engines align charges with delivered value, reducing errors and accelerating sales....

Symbiotic Security, a Paris‑based AI‑first customer research firm, announced a $10 million seed round. The round was led by Alven and Drysdale with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo, Factorial Cap and angels from Hugging Face and Adaptive ML. The capital will fund rapid product...
Archyl launches an AI‑powered platform for documenting C4 model architectures, enabling automatic discovery of system structures directly from source code. The tool offers natural‑language conversations to query, visualize, and modify diagrams, create ADRs, and retrieve documentation without leaving the developer...

In this episode of Lenny's Reads, the host announces seven new premium partners—Canva, ElevenLabs, Manus, Factory, Amp, Railway, and Framer—added to the Product Pass, boosting the total value of a paid subscription to over $25,000. He walks through each tool’s...

Recent research from Carnegie Mellon and Penn State demonstrates that large language models can be trained to reflect human cognitive styles, producing adaptive or innovative responses based on prompt framing. Adaptive prompts steer LLMs toward feasible, structured solutions, while innovative...

Brickanta, a Stockholm‑based AI platform for construction, closed an $8 million seed round led by Northzone, with participation from tech‑savvy angels and Y Combinator. The startup’s AI‑native operating system focuses on pre‑construction workflows such as bid analysis, cost estimation, and procurement. It...
Revolut Business has launched a native recurring billing tool that lets merchants automate subscription payments without paying for separate billing software. The feature is built into the existing Revolut Business platform, so users incur no additional subscription fees. It integrates...

AICA Data International unveiled an AI‑powered Product Classification Platform that automates mapping to UNSPSC and GS1 GPC standards. The solution delivers over 95% accuracy, handling 40,000 to 6 million items per hour, and provides a Reliability Score for each output. It...

Canadian retailers are under pressure to rebuild consumer trust and deliver personalized experiences as inflation curtails spending, according to SOTI’s latest global retail tech study. The survey of 1,000 Canadians shows 83% are shopping more carefully, while 53% expect retailers...

Conquer has introduced Voice Plus, a mobile‑first app that lets field sales reps capture calls, meetings and notes in under 30 seconds, removing the need for end‑of‑day CRM admin. The solution is built natively within Salesforce, syncing activity instantly to...

New Relic’s 2026 AI Impact Report, based on 6.6 million users in 2025, shows that engineers leveraging the platform’s generative AI and AIOps features ship code 80% more frequently than peers without AI. AI‑strengthened observability cuts alert noise by 27% and...

Wonderful introduced Agent Builder, an autonomous AI system that creates, tests, and refines enterprise agents. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, it ingests policy documents, knowledge bases, and call recordings to iteratively meet production standards. The tool claims up to 50% faster...

London‑based Flowla, an AI‑assisted automation platform for sales and customer success, closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Revo Capital. The funding will accelerate development of its buyer‑journey automation engine and fund a U.S. go‑to‑market team. Flowla’s no‑code digital sales...
Roots is an open‑source daemon that orchestrates Docker containers for game servers, exposing a full‑featured HTTP/HTTPS API, WebSocket console streams, and SFTP file access. It reads a YAML configuration (default /etc/roots/config.yaml) that defines panel integration, daemon networking, Docker settings, storage...

DemandScience’s 2026 State of Performance Marketing reveals a pervasive "Marketing Data Mirage," where 99% of marketers rely on signals that don’t reflect real buyer intent. AI tools amplify the problem by producing generic, non‑data‑driven content that erodes brand distinction. The...

Compensation platform Compa secured $35 million in Series B financing, led by Jump Capital with participation from Crosslink, Storm Ventures and others. The AI‑driven solution aggregates nine million real‑time market observations to replace traditional salary surveys, delivering instant pay analytics across salary,...

Per latest data from @cartainc, from 2023-2025: VC Deals Up Only 3%, But Dollars Up 130% From Q1 2023 to Q4 2025, the number of deals went from 802 to 823. Basically flat. But dollars deployed? $12.8B to $29.5B. That's 2.3x. VCs...

Claude and ChatGPT have very limited memories So I decide to build one with an infinite memory To remember everything about your business, goals, plans, etc. Try it and LMK what think -> https://t.co/KDuiuVY1GI https://t.co/4uuvWjUo8J

ChatGPT cannot continue a task once a reply turn ends, meaning it cannot run background processes such as long‑hand OCR transcription. The model’s “helpful” prompts often overstate its capabilities, leading users to expect continuous work that never materializes. In a...
Your competitors are sending their whole leadership team to SaaStr AI 2026. You can skip it. But don't be surprised when their AI roadmap is 6 months ahead of yours by June. May 12-14. SF Bay. https://t.co/4U2DOAE1gc

Meta announced it will pilot premium subscription plans across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, offering exclusive features and enhanced AI capabilities. The bundles will integrate the recently acquired Manus AI agent and the Vibes video‑generation tool, while Instagram users could gain...
Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Calendar, introducing a "Suggested times" feature that automatically scans attendees' calendars to recommend optimal meeting slots based on availability, work hours, and conflicts. The tool also provides a one‑click rescheduling banner...

This week SaasRise beta‑launched Pulse, an AI‑curated technology news app that pulls articles, videos and social posts into a single daily feed for community members. The edition also spotlighted a surge of large SaaS funding rounds, including €175 M for Pennylane...
My biggest takeaways from Jason Cohen : 1. “Too expensive” is never the real reason customers cancel. They already saw your pricing and decided to buy, so something else changed. When customers cite price, dig deeper—the actual reason might be changing...
The episode highlights why early Q1 is the ideal time for founders to reassess their email and SMS platforms, emphasizing that many stay on suboptimal tools out of fear of disruption during peak seasons. It explains that switching during low‑traffic...