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Updated 19m agoWhat'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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News•Dec 11, 2025
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of December 8-11, 2025
The SaaS Rise CEO Mastermind week of Dec 8‑11 tackled ten high‑impact growth challenges, from fake review mitigation to AI‑driven data scraping. Participants received actionable tactics such as temporary premium Trustpilot upgrades, swapping PDF lead magnets for direct sign‑ups, and building location‑based sales compensation with equity. The sessions also highlighted niche LinkedIn ABM workflows, cost‑effective South African talent for marketing, and strategic positioning on SaaS marketplaces. Overall, the mastermind delivered a playbook for SaaS founders to accelerate revenue while safeguarding brand reputation.
By SaasRise
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Most AI CRO Tools Miss Core Fundamentals
A lot of teams are trying new AI tools because the demos look smooth and the promise feels real. But when we evaluated each analyzer across the core dimensions of CRO, a surprising number scored zero. They failed on the fundamentals: Who is...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 11, 2025
AI-Driven Finance: MCP Bridges Data to Real Answers
The next era of finance won’t be dashboards and spreadsheets. It’s going to be AI sitting on top of clean, structured data and understanding how your business works. A few months back I got my hands on Maxio’s MCP (Model...
By Ben Murray
News•Dec 11, 2025
Google Debuts ‘Disco,’ a Gemini-Powered Tool for Making Web Apps From Browser Tabs
Google unveiled Disco, an AI experiment powered by Gemini 3 that creates custom web applications—called GenTabs—from users' open browser tabs. The tool proactively suggests interactive apps tailored to browsing activity, such as study visualizations, meal plans, or travel itineraries, and allows...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Scale Revenue by Targeting the Right Customers First
I asked 100 successful sales leaders why startups fail to scale revenue. Their answer? It was not because the product is bad. They stall because they’re growing on the backs of the wrong customers. In this The Science of Scaling...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Dec 11, 2025
AI‑driven Startups Will Hit $100M per Employee
Surge CEO Edwin Chen expects to see many $100M revenue/employee startups in the next couple of years "When we started Surge, we wanted to build it differently. With a super small, super elite team. What's crazy is that we actually...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Dec 11, 2025
Disney Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI, Licenses 200 Characters for AI Video App Sora
Disney announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a three‑year licensing deal for the Sora AI video generator. The agreement lets Sora users create short clips featuring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT will...
By Ars Technica
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Embrace Pushback: It Signals Product‑Market Fit
If no one's complaining that your SaaS or service is too pricey, you're probably pricing too low. If your MVP is not buggy and ugly (at least a bit), you launched too late. If no one's giving you hate on social, you're...
By Simon Høiberg
News•Dec 11, 2025
Are You a Startup Looking to Build Your Website? Webflow Is Offering a Crazy Deal- Get 100% Off Your First...
Webflow is giving qualifying startups a 100% discount on the first year of its Business plan, effectively making the $39‑per‑month CMS site free for twelve months. The offer targets companies with fewer than 50 employees, under $15 million in funding, and...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Prioritize Year-End Fixes to Own Q1 Success
The new year doesn’t wait for January to start. By the time the calendar flips, Q1 outcomes are already in motion. What you choose to tighten or ignore in these last weeks is what you end up managing in March....
By devbasu
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Orchestrated AI Agents Meet Japan’s High Security Expectations
Japan has been one of the earliest countries to truly embrace automation, and one of the first places UiPath expanded to as a company. Every time I return, I’m reminded how open and forward-thinking this market is. Spending the past...
By Daniel Dines
News•Dec 11, 2025
ICO Levies £1.2 Million Fine Against LastPass — Data Breach Compromised Info on 1.6 Million Users
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has imposed a £1.2 million fine on password‑manager LastPass after a 2022 breach exposed personal data of 1.6 million users. The attack began with a compromised laptop, allowing hackers to steal AWS and decryption keys and extract a...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Build Vision‑Driven Products, Not Customer Feature Requests
Your customers don't know what they want. Every time a founder tells me "we're just building what customers asked for" I know they're in trouble. When a customer asks for a feature, they're describing a trunk. They feel their pain...
By Omer Khan
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Reliability Drives Massive Shift From Airflow to Lakeflow
This post explains why we've seen massive migration from Airflow to Lakeflow in Databricks over the last 3 years. We started 3 years ago to focus on these workloads because reliability is the most important thing when you're running data...
By Ali Ghodsi
News•Dec 11, 2025
Disney Signs Deal with OpenAI to Allow Sora to Generate AI Videos Featuring Its Characters
Disney has forged a three‑year partnership with OpenAI, investing $1 billion in equity and granting the AI firm access to more than 200 of its iconic characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars for the Sora video generator. The deal also...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Dec 11, 2025
Quantifying the Hidden Costs of Cloud Sovereignty Gaps
Recent outages at AWS and Microsoft exposed how European firms depend on US hyperscalers for critical control planes. When those control layers sit outside the EU, latency, egress fees, and regulatory constraints turn global incidents into local disruptions. The article...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 11, 2025
Hackers Distribute Thousands of Phishing Attacks Through Mimecast's Secure-Link Feature
Hackers exploited Mimecast’s secure‑link URL‑rewriting feature to conceal malicious destinations, allowing phishing emails to bypass filters. Check Point observed over 40,000 such emails targeting more than 6,000 organizations within two weeks. The campaign focused on consulting, technology, and real‑estate firms,...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Founder Mode: CEO Change, Timeless Marketing, Personal Updates
Why did we make a CEO change at Exit Five? What does that mean about my role in the company? Why am I wearing sunglasses? Do I think I am cool? Am I on drugs? I sat down in my...
By Dave Gerhardt
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Four AI Agent Pricing Models, One Dominates Adoption
Everyone seems to be talking about AI agents. The biggest problem not enough people are talking about: how to monetize & capture the value of them. Earlier this year Manny Medina (founder of Outreach & Paid ) analyzed patterns from...
By Kyle Poyar
News•Dec 11, 2025
Opera Wants You to Pay $20 a Month to Use Its AI-Powered Browser Neon
Opera has officially released Neon, its AI‑powered browser, after a limited beta phase. Access to Neon now requires a $19.90 per month subscription, marking a shift from free testing to a paid model. The browser integrates generative AI tools such...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Continuous Listening Beats One‑Time ICP Checklists
A few years ago, I was telling my buddy Noah about the hard time I was having recruiting for a role. He challenged me: how much effort have I put in? Did I hop on airplanes and take potential candidates...
By Peep Laja
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Continuous ICP Listening Beats One‑Time Research Every Time
A few years ago, I was telling my buddy Noah about the hard time I was having recruiting for a role. He challenged me: how much effort have I put in? Did I hop on airplanes and take potential candidates...
By Peep Laja
News•Dec 11, 2025
Save up to 40% with Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment Collection
Autodesk is offering up to 40% off its Media & Entertainment Collection when customers select any three applications from a list that includes 3ds Max, Maya, MotionBuilder, Arnold, Golaem, Mudbox and ReCap Pro. The most popular bundles—3ds Max, Maya and MotionBuilder or Maya,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 11, 2025
16TB of Corporate Intelligence Data Exposed in One of the Largest Lead-Generation Dataset Leaks
Cybersecurity researchers uncovered an unprotected 16 TB MongoDB database containing nearly two billion records of personal and corporate intelligence. The dataset, estimated at 4.3 billion documents, appears to have been scraped from LinkedIn and Apollo.io and was likely operated by a lead‑generation firm....
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Value‑first Cold Email Sequences Build Trust, Not Spam
How to Write a B2B Cold Email Sequence If you want cold email to actually work...not feel spammy or desperate...this guide walks you through how to craft a sequence that people want to open. We’ll talk tone, timing, value drops,...
By Ryan Allis
News•Dec 11, 2025
Cohere’s Rerank 4 Quadruples the Context Window over 3.5 to Cut Agent Errors and Boost Enterprise Search Accuracy
Cohere has released Rerank 4, expanding its context window to 32 K tokens—four times larger than Rerank 3.5—and promising higher ranking accuracy for enterprise search. The model arrives in Fast and Pro variants, targeting speed‑critical and deep‑reasoning workloads respectively. Rerank 4 also introduces self‑learning...
By VentureBeat
Podcast•Dec 11, 2025•51 min
SaaS as an Orchestra | How to Conduct CX, Content & AI Into One Seamless Journey
In this episode, Arman Eshraghi, founder and CEO of Qrvey, argues that SaaS founders should target smaller, high‑pain markets rather than chasing larger TAMs, and explains how embedded analytics and AI tailored for multi‑tenant SaaS can outshine generic dashboards. He...
By SaaS Stories
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Decision Cadence Beats Co-Location: Design Remote Immediacy
The phrase captures something teams feel long before they can describe it. Early stage work depends on a level of shared pressure that only forms when people experience the same uncertainty at the same time. The speed of communication inside...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 11, 2025
8 Costly Mistakes on the Road to $20M ARR
In 44 months, I grew Retention(.)com from $0 to $20M ARR. These are the 8 BIGGEST mistakes I made along the way (and the revenue levels I made them at) 🧵
By Adam Robinson
News•Dec 10, 2025
The 70% Factuality Ceiling: Why Google’s New ‘FACTS’ Benchmark Is a Wake-Up Call for Enterprise AI
Google’s FACTS Benchmark Suite, released with Kaggle, evaluates large language models on factuality across four real‑world scenarios—parametric knowledge, search‑augmented retrieval, multimodal interpretation, and text grounding. The initial leaderboard shows Gemini 3 Pro topping the chart with a 68.8% overall score, while GPT‑5...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Free Startup Essentials Bundle From Top Tech Partners
Startups: We've partnered with our friends at @stripe, @elevenlabsio, @attio @linear @meetgranola @asana @Lovable and 25 other great companies to build a monster bundle of all every product a startup needs for FREE. ...
By Des Traynor
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Open Source Must Let You Fix and Contribute Instantly
Any definition of open source that doesn't include this flow is broken. I've used many a SaaS that I wish was this open source, so I could just fix my own annoyances on the spot and submit a PR!
By David Heinemeier Hansson
News•Dec 10, 2025
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Dec 10, 2025
The Dec 10, 2025 SaasRise Mastermind brought SaaS CEOs together to solve concrete growth problems, from targeting physicians on LinkedIn to acquiring contested domains. Attendees shared tactics like using Sales Navigator with Eva Boot or Wiza, enriching lists in Clay, and shifting ad...
By SaasRise
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Timeless Marketing Lessons and 2026 Plans Unveiled
5 timeless marketing lessons + recapping last month at Exit Five, naming a CEO, plans for 2026 and more - good to be back podcasting https://t.co/fvEdzYz62p
By Dave Gerhardt
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Marketing Quality Determines Customer Fit and Startup Success
Building a startup is realizing: Great marketing → great-fit customers OK marketing → bad-fit customers Bad marketing → no customers
By Jonathan Rintala
Social•Dec 11, 2025
AI-Native ERP Solves Pain Points, Fuels Efficient Growth
Great convo with John Glasgow of Campfire—AI-native ERP, real pain point solving, efficient growth. Must-watch 👇 https://t.co/TSr37V0Z82 #SaaS #AI https://t.co/5q2R5kdnMJ
By Ben Murray
Social•Dec 11, 2025
Choose Early B2B Clients Wisely; They Shape Your Future
One of the biggest decisions for a B2B startup is picking the right early clients. There is path dependency from those customers as you build your company for them. Selling to anyone who wants to buy can be dangerous.
By Nick Mehta
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Finding Purpose Fuels My Rapid Growth at Parloa
Two weeks into my journey at Parloa, and it has already been eventful. From my first board meeting, to connecting with the team, the experience has been filled with excitement and exponential growth. What truly resonates with me is the...
By Latane Conant
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Sign Year-End Deals Only When Vendor Delivers Value
So I’m starting to get emails from sales reps I’ve interacted with over the past months trying to get a deal done by year end. The problem? They added zero value. There’s really no reason to sign a contract for...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 10, 2025
ROSE Metric to Benchmark Public Companies' Efficiency FY27
The ROSE Metric is coming to public companies in FY27! Have you heard of DISE? Public companies must disclose Employee Expenses and Selling Expenses starting in FY27. This will be really interesting to compare the org efficiency of the large...
By Ben Murray
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Fix Tiny Pipeline Leaks for Rapid Growth
The biggest gains don't always come from new channels or big swings. They come from tightening the basics: • Clearer paths to book a demo • Targeting that filters out the wrong buyers • Offers that match where prospects are...
By devbasu
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Daily Film Review Drives Scaling and AE Self‑Sourcing
In a recent episode of #TheScienceOfScaling , I interview Ron Gabrisko , the Founding #CRO of Databricks . He has scaled Databricks over a nine-year period (so far) from essentially $0 to $2.5 billion in ARR. Here are a few...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Dec 10, 2025
AI Handles Low-Value Leads, Boosts Revenue by 15%
We deployed 20+ AI agents & replaced our entire SDR team. 60K hyper-personalized emails. 70% open rates on ghosted leads. 15% of London ticket revenue from AI alone. The 5 things that actually work: 1⃣AI crushes the work humans refuse to do...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Sidekick Reveals Your Store's Top New Features via /Editions
By the way, Sidekick knows about all the 200 new features. So if you go to admin and do /editions it will tell you which of the features are most relevant to your store
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Dec 10, 2025
One-Click Script Moves
Rob's gifts keep coming. Move from Asana to Fizzy with the flip of a script. Aiming to get these migrations into Fizzy proper with UI and all, but for now, at least you can explore on your own.
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Founder-CEO Traits that Attract Money, Talent, Customers
Here's the criteria I use to evaluate founder-CEOs: First principles Lovable Obsessive Chip on shoulder Knowledgable I do each of these on a scale of 1 to 10 after every pitch. Founders who rank high have money, talent, and customers "FLOCK" to them.
By Brian Halligan
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Open‑source Zero‑webhook Payments with AI‑driven Pricing
.@flowglad is an open-source, zero-webhook payments provider. Their full-stack SDK lets you check customers' features and usage credits in real time, based on billing state. And their AI generates a setup prompt for your pricing model and stack, so you can one-shot...
By YCombinator
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Translate, Don’t Copy: Context Matters in Strategy
"We should do what [competitor] is doing" But your competitor has: - Different funding - Different team - Different stage - Different customers Copying their strategy without their context = wasted runway. The best founders don't copy, they translate. https://t.co/7bDC7My53I https://t.co/CywuwdIQAZ
By Asia Orangio
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Customer Problem Narratives Beat Extra Sprint
You can learn more about what to build by studying how customers explain their own problems than by running another sprint.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Visualize Software as Aerodynamics: Trim the Drag
Version 1 is about making the most aerodynamic object you can. Eliminating all the little things that create drag. If your software was physical, how would it look in a wind tunnel? What would obviously be sticking out, ruining the...
By Jason Fried