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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 2, 2025
Amazon Releases an Impressive New AI Chip and Teases an Nvidia-Friendly Roadmap
Amazon Web Services unveiled Trainium 3, a 3‑nanometer AI training chip, at re:Invent 2025, powering the new UltraServer platform. AWS claims the system is over four times faster, offers four times more memory, and is 40 % more energy‑efficient than its predecessor, with the ability to link up to one million chips. Early customers such as Anthropic and Karakuri have already reported lower inference costs. AWS also previewed Trainium 4, which will support Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion, hinting at cross‑vendor interoperability for future AI workloads.
By TechCrunch Enterprise
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI Transforming Analyst Research and Vendor Evaluations
When you get Daniel Newman and me together in front of a microphone at Ingram Micro ONE a few weeks ago, you never know what we might say about research, vendor evaluations, and the role AI will play in an...
By Tiffani Bova
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Persistence Pays: Stay in the Game to Succeed
15 years, 1 exit, a semi-failed ecommerce brand, and 3 moderately successful agencies into my career, Alex Fine🌲 asked me for the best piece of advice I'd give my younger self, if I were just starting out today: Just stay...
By Eli Rubel
Blog•Dec 2, 2025
A Year Free of PostHog ($16,500 Value): The All-in-One Analytics, Experimentation, Feature Flag, Surveys, Session Replay, Error Tracking, Data Warehouse,...
In this episode, Lenny Rachitsky introduces PostHog’s all‑in‑one product analytics platform and announces a free year of PostHog Scale (a $16,500 value) for annual newsletter subscribers. He highlights how PostHog combines analytics, experimentation, feature flags, session replay, error tracking, data...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Stop Rebuilding ERP; Use AI to Build New Capabilities
“Every hour spent recreating Salesforce or Workday is an hour not spent building the proprietary capabilities that actually move the business forward.” This is one of the more essential reason why most companies are not going to have AI clone their...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy: Simple Kanban, No Corporate Bloat
INTRODUCING FIZZY Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bloatware? Trello put on 40 pounds of cruft. Jira started charging by the migraine. Asana tried to become everything to everyone. GitHub...
By Jason Fried
News•Dec 2, 2025
You Can Build a Website for Just $1 with IONOS Right Now - but This Deal Won’t Be Around for...
IONOS is offering its mid‑range Plus website‑builder plan for just $1 per month for a 12‑month commitment, a steep cut from the regular $22 price. The plan bundles AI‑driven page generation, text and image tools, SEO assistance, site analytics, and...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Vista Point Advisors Launches New NYC Office
I’m excited to share that Vista Point Advisors is opening a new office right in the heart of New York City! This is a big step for us as we keep growing and getting closer to the amazing founders, investors,...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Invest Time Upfront, Save Money and Avoid Vendor Lock
People saying I'm not valuing my time: Of course I do! At some point, I had to exchange my time for the money I'd use to pay for expensive cloud tools. Instead, I now pay upfront with a bit of my...
By Simon Høiberg
News•Dec 2, 2025
New Training Method Boosts AI Multimodal Reasoning with Smaller, Smarter Datasets
Researchers at MiroMind AI and partner universities introduced OpenMMReasoner, a two‑stage training framework that first fine‑tunes a base vision‑language model on a curated, high‑quality dataset and then applies reinforcement learning to sharpen multimodal reasoning. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Match CTAs to Audience Intent to Build Trust
You're not tricking anyone into buying anything. A "Learn More" CTA that goes to a form to contact sales, book a demo, or otherwise become a "lead" that will then be "nurtured" is not, in fact, increasing your conversion rate...
By Ashley Faus
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Binary Enemy Narrative Limits Growth; Embrace Both PLG and Sales
I picked the wrong enemy. When I started ProductLed , I studied how great categories were built. - Inbound Marketers declared war on Outbound. - CROs fought against "gut-feeling" updates. - Content Marketers hated pure advertising. The pattern was clear:...
By Wes Bush
News•Dec 2, 2025
Syntax Hacking: Researchers Discover Sentence Structure Can Bypass AI Safety Rules
Researchers from MIT, Northeastern and Meta showed that large language models often prioritize sentence structure over meaning, a phenomenon they call “syntax hacking.” By feeding syntactically correct but semantically nonsensical prompts, models like OLMo‑2‑13B‑Instruct still produced domain‑specific answers, revealing a...
By Ars Technica
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Real AI Tools Founders Use, Not the Hype
Craig Hewitt spent 100 days building SaaS with AI and documented everything on YouTube. I had Craig on the pod to share what he learned including: • The AI tools founders are actually winning with • The ones that are...
By Rob Walling
Social•Dec 2, 2025
B2B Must Match B2C Investment in Customer Research
B2C invests in knowing their customers. B2B invests in… another feature. In B2C, it’s normal (expected) to put a substantial amount of marketing budget into customer research (sometimes as high as 25-50%!) Why? Because they know the truth most B2B...
By Anna Furmanov
News•Dec 2, 2025
SaaS Has Evolved and Its Definition Should Too: Subscription-Ai-and-Software
Software‑as‑a‑Service (SaaS) has matured from early ASP models to a dominant cloud delivery framework, and its definition is now being refreshed to reflect pervasive AI integration. SaaS Capital’s leadership argues that the industry should be called Subscription‑ai‑and‑Software, highlighting that AI...
By SaaS Capital
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Stop Chasing Vanity Metrics; Prioritize Qualified Leads
The dangerous myth: more steps mean better qualified leads. I've been duped by this myth before as a Founder. So I'm sharing it here so it doesn't sabotage your pipeline generation efforts. 1. Optimizing for Vanity Metrics I watched Startup...
By TK Kader
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Entrepreneurs Drive Record BFCM Growth on Shopify
Entrepreneurs won BFCM, again. → Merchants’ sales globally were $14.6 billion, up 27% from last year → 81 million shoppers bought from Shopify-powered brands → 15,800+ entrepreneurs made their first sale → 136+ million packages tracked in the Shop App → 2.2 trillion edge requests →...
By Tobi Lutke
News•Dec 2, 2025
Glassworm Returns Once Again with a Third Round of VS Code Attacks
A new wave of the Glassworm campaign has resurfaced, introducing 24 malicious extensions to both the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and the OpenVSX Registry. The extensions conceal the Lumma infostealer using invisible Unicode characters, targeting GitHub, npm, OpenVSX accounts and...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 2, 2025
5 Biases That Drive Every Conversion
Here are 5 cognitive biases that quietly drive most of your conversions: 1. Loss Aversion: People fight harder to avoid pain than gain pleasure. 2. Mere Exposure Effect: The more often someone sees you, the more they trust you. 3. Authority Bias: If it sounds like expertise, people...
By Katelyn Bourgoin
News•Dec 2, 2025
Swiss Government Urges People to Ditch Microsoft 365 and Others Due to Lack of Proper Encryption
Swiss data protection officers have warned public agencies against using Microsoft 365, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, citing insufficient end‑to‑end encryption. They argue that US‑based SaaS providers remain vulnerable to the US Cloud Act, which can compel data disclosure even when...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Build Your Own Tools, Ditch Expensive SaaS
Rewardful didn't have the features we needed (and didn't want to add them). So we vibe coded our own partner platform. It took a week. Screen Studio only works for macOS. So I vibe coded my own for Linux. Took a...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI Ops and Vertical SaaS Attract Record Funding
This Week in SaaS — Nov 25 to Dec 1, 2025 Another packed week in SaaS—AI infra is getting the biggest checks, workflow automation is heating up, and consolidation continues across fintech, travel, and accounting. If you're building in mid-market...
By Ryan Allis
News•Dec 2, 2025
AWS Goes Beyond Prompt-Level Safety with Automated Reasoning in AgentCore
At re:Invent, AWS announced major upgrades to its Bedrock AgentCore platform, adding policy enforcement, episodic memory, and evaluation tools powered by automated reasoning. The new policy layer sits between agents and external tools, allowing enterprises to enforce guardrails after an...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI‑Powered Ops and Vertical SaaS Drive New Funding
Another packed week in SaaS—AI infra keeps attracting big checks, workflow automation is heating up, and consolidation is quietly accelerating across fintech, travel, and accounting. If you're building in mid-market or enterprise SaaS, the signals this week are clear: AI-driven...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Three-DC Deployment Delivers Sub‑80ms Latency Across Regions
Fizzy is deployed in three different data centers: US Mid-West (Chicago), US East (Ashburn), and EU (Amsterdam). Our writer is in US East, and the two other DCs are for reading. It's fast! P95 response time is 50 for readers,...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
News•Dec 2, 2025
With Nova Forge, AWS Gives Companies a Path to Build Foundation-Class Models without GPUs
AWS unveiled Nova Forge, a new service that lets enterprises fine‑tune its Nova 2 foundation models with proprietary data without needing costly GPU clusters. The offering creates custom “Novellas” that retain core reasoning abilities while gaining domain‑specific knowledge, and these...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy Opens Full Development History with 1,792 PRs
Unlike Campfire, where we shared a zero-history copy of the codebase, Fizzy's public codebase has the entire life of the product development cycle out in the open. 1,792 pull requests of historical fun and insight into how we make things...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy's HTML Bugs Fixed and Deployed in 124 Seconds
We're barely a few minutes into the public life of Fizzy, and @marcoroth_ has already tidied up some HTML errors, which we've already deployed to production in 124 seconds with Kamal 🤘 https://t.co/lYwPHqLBrg https://t.co/5XjCHUNsJz
By David Heinemeier Hansson
News•Dec 2, 2025
Arcee Aims to Reboot U.S. Open Source AI with New Trinity Models Released Under Apache 2.0
Arcee AI unveiled Trinity Mini (26B parameters) and Trinity Nano (6B parameters) as the first U.S.-trained open‑weight Mixture‑of‑Experts models released under an Apache 2.0 license. The models are available for free download on Hugging Face and can be accessed via a...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy Launches Under O'Saasy License, MIT‑style with SaaS Monetization
Fizzy is released under the O'Saasy License. Which is basically MIT with a carve-out for the original licensor to monetize the SaaS aspect of the code base. Feel free to use! https://t.co/guhoBdMBXC https://t.co/BtdlJBSC6n
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Jason's Fizzy Walkthrough Offers Deep Product and Code Insight
Jason's complete walk-through of Fizzy is a great way to get a feel for the product. And if you're technically inclined, you could even follow along in the code base to see every controller, every action, every view. https://t.co/XlaJRj0Ydt
By David Heinemeier Hansson
News•Dec 2, 2025
AWS Wants to Make Your AI Agents More Intelligent and More Human
At AWS re:Invent 2025 Amazon announced a suite of upgrades to Amazon Connect aimed at making AI agents sound and act more like humans. The enhancements leverage Nova Sonic speech models to deliver natural, multi‑language conversations with appropriate tone and pacing....
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy Launches Modern Kanban with Freemium SaaS
Fizzy is live! Our modern, beautiful spin on kanban for tracking just about anything. Nothing revolutionary, but just right, just nice. And we're launching our freemium SaaS version alongside an O'Saasy-licensed codebase for you to run it yourself too! https://t.co/AfDsofwNQ8...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
From Bootstrapped Success to VC Scaling: Duncan’s Journey
Bootstrap or raise? After scaling GoCardless into a multi-billion-dollar company, Duncan Barrigan knew he wanted to swing big — and VC was the path. Watch Episode 220 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #SaaS #AI #Lunos https://t.co/9ssXthmWdb
By Ben Murray
News•Dec 1, 2025
AWS Wants to Take the Strain Out of Modernizing All Your Old Code - and Ending Tech Debt Quicker than...
AWS announced new agentic AI features for its AWS Transform service at re:Invent 2025, promising to automate legacy code modernization across full‑stack Windows environments. The upgrade claims to cut manual effort by up to 70%, accelerate transformation speeds up to...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI Property Manager Automates Maintenance From Photo to Fix
Brickwise (@brickwise_ai) is an AI property manager that fully automates maintenance for landlords and real estate agents. Tenants can send a photo, describe the issue, and Brickwise diagnoses, troubleshoots, schedules contractors, and resolves the problem automatically. https://t.co/kCmJp6XptH
By YCombinator
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Campfire 1.3 Launches with Built‑In Ban Hammer
Campfire 1.3 has been released. Now includes a ban hammer, so it's easier to invite the world to a chat room without fearing it'll be overrun by spammers or savages. https://t.co/IIsmJWsFVA
By David Heinemeier Hansson
News•Dec 1, 2025
Shopify Resolves Outage Disrupting Merchants on Cyber Monday
Shopify experienced a significant outage on Cyber Monday, beginning around 6:45 a.m. PT, which prevented merchants from logging in and using point‑of‑sale systems. The disruption impacted an estimated 4,000 incidents, affecting merchants who collectively handle over 10 % of U.S. e‑commerce transactions....
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Dec 1, 2025
AI Turns Failed Ideas Into Scalable Sales Engines
My biggest learnings from Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (ex-Chief Business Officer at @Stripe, now @Vercel COO): 1. What failed seven years ago now works with AI. In 2017, Jeanne tried to build a system at Stripe that would automatically personalize outbound emails...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Dec 1, 2025
PE Fuels Growth for Companies at Scalability Inflection Point
What a private equity firm is particularly good at is identifying companies that have reached an inflection point in terms of scalability. If a firm can spot a company with a proven thesis, they can invest behind that knowing it's...
By Michael Lyon
News•Dec 1, 2025
Google's AI-Powered Antigravity IDE Already Has some Worrying Security Issues - Here's What Was Found
Google’s Antigravity IDE, an AI‑first development environment, has been found to allow its coding agent to execute terminal commands automatically under default settings. Researchers at PromptArmor demonstrated prompt‑injection attacks that let untrusted input trigger unintended code execution and file access....
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Master SaaS Finance Basics in 90 Minutes
PHX area founders! I'm holding in-person training this Wednesday in Tempe. 🙌 PHX FWD is hosting me for this founder-specific training session. Your financial engine can either accelerate your growth… or confuse it. Join me for a hands-on workshop to...
By Ben Murray
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Unity Catalog: Our Top Priority for Interoperability and Openness
I think Unity Catalog is the most important product we have developed at Databricks! This year we spend all our energy focus on UC interoperability and openness!
By Ali Ghodsi
News•Dec 1, 2025
SaasRise CEO & Founder Mastermind Call - Nov 27, 2025
Based on the SaaS CEO Mastermind meeting, this is what we discussed:
By SaasRise
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Empower Top Teams with Autonomy, Don’t Split Them
Almost never break up a top performing team Get them their own office Let then own a key feature set Let them own a segment to market to Let them keep selling together Scale with and around them
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
SaaStr Fund Backed Us Since Pre‑Seed
Boom!! Proud @saastrfund has been an early investor since pre-seed!!
By Jason Lemkin
News•Dec 1, 2025
Why a Minimal UX Philosophy Outperforms During Peak Season
During the peak "Golden Quarter," retailers who strip away excess banners, pop‑ups and complex checkout steps are seeing conversion lifts of up to 35 %. Research cited in the article shows 61 % of visitors leave if they can’t find what they...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Scale Demands a New You, Not Your Old Self
Every level of scale requires a different version of you. Don’t cling to the founder you were at $100K when you’re aiming for $10M.
By Dan Martell
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Record‑breaking Cyber Weekend: 1.5 Trillion Views, Zero Issues
Record-breaking day for our customers with flawless performance throughout the entire Cyber Weekend. That’s the power of the Salesforce Ohana—always delivering the seamless, reliable experience our trailblazers need to win big. 1.5 trillion page views and zero worries. ❤️🎅 https://t.co/AlOZ8h7xMJ
By Marc Benioff