🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 3h agoWhat's happening: HighRadius launches outcome‑based pricing, tying fees to customer gains
HighRadius introduced an Outcome Based Pricing model for its Office of the CFO platform, removing implementation and subscription fees until the solution is live and then taking a share of verified financial gains. The model stems from a 24‑month controlled experiment that showed clear benefits when customers met mutually agreed success criteria.
Also developing:
- •AWS Middle East datacenter hit by unknown objects, causing outage
- •Infobip unveils AgentOS, an AI‑native platform for autonomous customer journeys
By the numbers: Miso Robotics acquires Zignyl (value undisclosed)
News•Nov 20, 2025
ChatGPT Atlas Just Got Its First Major Update - 3 New Features You'll Want to Use
OpenAI rolled out the first major update to its ChatGPT Atlas browser on macOS, adding three practical features: iCloud Passkeys support for secure logins, the option to set Google as the default search engine, and a vertical tab layout with multi‑tab selection and improved keyboard navigation. These enhancements address longstanding usability gaps, making Atlas feel less like a demo and more like a daily‑use browser. The update also includes UI tweaks such as Control‑plus‑Tab cycling, bringing the tab experience closer to that of Chrome or Edge. While Atlas remains in early stages and lacks Windows and mobile versions, the new tools aim to boost user trust and workflow continuity.
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 20, 2025
$500 Off FounderStack Lifetime Access to 5 Essential Tools
It's Black Friday! And yes! We're bringing the most banger offer of the year 🎉 FounderStack. $500 off the original price. Pay once. Own it for life. FounderStack gives you instant lifetime access to 5 founder essentials: ⭐ FeedHive (AI SMM tool) ⭐ Aidbase (AI support tool) ⭐...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Turn AI Buzz Into Your Unfair Competitive Edge
10 Reasons You Need to Be at SaaStr AI London December 1-2 This is it. The moment where AI stops being a buzzword and becomes your unfair competitive advantage. SaaStr AI London is bringing together 2,500 of the sharpest B2B operators...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 20, 2025
Microsoft and SAP Sign Deal to Keep EU Cloud Running, Even in "Times of Crisis"
Microsoft, SAP‑owned Delos Cloud and French sovereign‑cloud provider Bleu have signed a memorandum of understanding and a mutual‑assistance pact to ensure continuity of European cloud services in crisis scenarios. The agreement gives Delos legal rights to access Microsoft’s cloud code...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Top‑tier VC Managers Make 5x Returns Three Times More Likely
Great data from VenCap analyzing 1,900+ VC funds (2000-2019): ☹️22% lose money (return <1x) 👇64% never hit 2x 🚀Only 6% return 5x+ 🔥Just 2% hit 10x Translation: A randomly selected VC fund is 3.7x more likely to LOSE money than return 5x. But here's what changes...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 20, 2025
Ai2’s Olmo 3 Family Challenges Qwen and Llama with Efficient, Open Reasoning and Customization
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has released Olmo 3, a new family of open-source large language models available in 7B and 32B variants with a 65,000-token context window, enhanced reasoning traces, and improved coding capabilities. Three versions—Olmo 3‑Think (flagship...
By VentureBeat
News•Nov 20, 2025
The $5 Million Lesson: Why Accessibility Should Be Part of Your Risk Plan
Fashion Nova settled a class‑action web‑accessibility lawsuit for $5.15 million, the second‑largest such settlement after Target’s 2008 case. The dispute, which began with a single blind consumer’s complaint in 2020, escalated over five years and more than 200 filings, highlighting the...
By VentureBeat
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Prioritize Value Recovery, Fundamentals, and People for GTM Growth
And that's a wrap on our 2025 GTM Operating Partner Gathering Series! Six dinners. Hundreds of insights shared. And a curated, diverse group of Operating Partners representing intelligence from thousands of growth-stage SaaS companies. Our final stop was San Francisco — where...
By Lauren Goldstein
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Revenue Automation Solves Billing Pain at $2M ARR
Just dropped a new SaaS CFO Podcast with Aleks Đekić, CEO/co-founder of Alguna! 🎙️ 3 takeaways: 1️⃣ Billing pain starts at ~$2–3M ARR 2️⃣ Hybrid & usage models need smarter tools 3️⃣ Future is revenue automation + retention #SaaS https://t.co/hNvSH1JFSr
By Ben Murray
News•Nov 19, 2025
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Nov 19, 2025
The SaasRise Mastermind recap covered practical advice for SaaS CEOs across nine hot topics, from transitioning Google PPC in‑house and scaling multi‑channel cold outreach, to navigating private‑equity talks, SEO accountability, and trial lead validation. Key takeaways include prioritizing product insight...
By SaasRise
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Cursor Hits $1B ARR in Two Years, SaaS Record
New!! Cursor Hit $1B ARR in 24 Months: The Fastest Scaling SaaS Ever? https://t.co/kV5BNeeW4m
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Great Sales VPs Hire Fast, Retain Top, Cut Deadweight
Great VP of Sales, first week: - brings 2-4 great sales execs in ASAP. often week 1 - identifies top existing talent, does what it takes to keep them - begins to move out underperformers - jumps into all critical deals Mediocre VP of Sales,...
By Jason Lemkin
Blog•Nov 19, 2025
NEW: Upload Your Agency’s Logo and Customize Your Audience Research Graphs
SparkToro’s new feature lets Agency and Enterprise users upload their own logo and generate white‑labeled, high‑resolution PNG graphs for audience research reports, which can be exported directly from the browser. This upgrade streamlines branding for consultants, agencies, and in‑house marketers...
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Nov 19, 2025
High Agency Means Testing Ideas, Not Just Acting Fast
High agency is often mistaken for speed. People assume it belongs to the ones who decide quickly and move without hesitation. That version looks impressive, but it is not what actually drives results. The real marker of high agency is quieter....
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 19, 2025
PLG Drives $200M ARR with Minimal Marketing
Lovable hit $200M ARR under 12 months. Their revenue per employee is an insane $2-3M ARR. Here's how they pulled it off Most founders mostly chase growth with sales hires, CAC math, and funnel tweaks. Lovable took the PLG path: ship fast,...
By Ryan Allis
News•Nov 19, 2025
Warner Music Settles Copyright Lawsuit with Udio, Signs Deal for AI Music Platform
Warner Music Group settled its copyright lawsuit with AI music startup Udio and simultaneously signed a licensing agreement for a generative‑AI music creation platform slated for launch in 2026. The service will let subscribers remix, cover, and compose new tracks...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Ember Raises $4.3M to Slash Claim Denials
Congrats to @EmberCopilotAI on their $4.3M seed! Ember wants to solve America’s healthcare denial crisis. They prevent denials before they happen—documenting visits, reviewing charts, and ensuring claims comply with payer requirements. Health systems using Ember are already seeing results: 57% fewer denials,...
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Navigating Product Strategy in the AI Era
London: We're doing a Fin x Attio x Granola meet up next week! I'll be joined on stage by Nicolas Sharp (CEO, Attio) and Vas Zhovner (CTO, Granola) and we'll be discussing Product Strategy in the AI Era. Details Wednesday,...
By Des Traynor
News•Nov 19, 2025
OpenAI Debuts GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max Coding Model and It Already Completed a 24-Hour Task Internally
OpenAI has launched GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max, a new agentic coding model that replaces GPT‑5.1‑Codex as the default in its Codex developer environment. The model introduces a compaction mechanism that enables long‑horizon reasoning across millions of tokens, cutting token usage by about 30%...
By VentureBeat
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Scaling $50M AI Sales with Just Eight Reps
Caught up with an old colleague running sales at an AI company at $50m ARR. 蘆♀️They're building out their sales team now紐♂️ The goal? 5 more humans, for a total of 8. Yup. Just 8 total. Too few? Probably. But they get 10,000+ leads a month, and want...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Celebrating 8 Years, Expanding Microsoft Partnership for Next Decade
Super excited to deepen our partnership with Microsoft. Thanks Scott Guthrie for this partnership which we announced together 8 years ago! Looking forward to the next decade together. Check out our Ignite video below.
By Ali Ghodsi
News•Nov 19, 2025
Rising Data Center Electricity Use Risks Blackouts During Winter Storms
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warns that rising electricity demand from data centers could strain the grid during winter storms, with overall winter demand projected 2.5% higher than last year, reaching 20 GW. Data‑center growth in the Mid‑Atlantic, West,...
By TechCrunch Enterprise
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Parenting Redefines Success: Vision and Time Over Valuation
I've built startups, raised millions, and exited for $169M. But nothing changed my definition of success like becoming a parent..... When Apollo was born in 2022, success took on an entirely new meaning. Before: ARR. Exits. Valuations. After: • Sleepless nights with m sons •...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Customer‑First Design Transforms SurveyGate Into Multi‑Feedback Platform
11 years after selling my first SaaS for $3M, and after building 3 agencies in between, I'm returning to the software space with SurveyGate. Ironically, I built it wrong the first time as a result of committing a cardinal SaaS sin:...
By Eli Rubel
News•Nov 19, 2025
The Google Search of AI Agents? Fetch Launches ASI:One and Business Tier for New Era of Non-Human Web
Fetch AI announced a trio of products—ASI:One, Fetch Business, and Agentverse—aimed at building an "Agentic Web" where personal AI assistants can securely coordinate with verified brand agents to execute multi‑step transactions. ASI:One serves as an orchestration layer that stores user...
By VentureBeat
Social•Nov 19, 2025
AI Must Outgrow SaaS to Match Profitability
SaaS vs. AI economics...hype or reality? The tweet below inspired my latest post and template. What growth do we need to see in an AI company to match SaaS economics or make it more attractive than a SaaS company? I modeled several...
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 19, 2025
AI Ran My Startup for a Week, Revenue Soared
I just spoke to a group of 130 CEOs, CMOs and CROs about my backwards approach to AI. And despite all the AI guys thinking it's stupid, I seem to be the only guy who has an autonomous business… and...
By Adam Robinson
News•Nov 19, 2025
Google Patches Worrying Chrome Zero-Day Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild - Here's How to Stay Safe
Google has released a patch for a critical zero‑day vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑13223) in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine of Chrome, rated 8.8/10 by the NVD. The type‑confusion flaw could allow remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution via a crafted...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Align Story, Trust, and Media for Founder Brand Growth
Every great founder brand lives at the intersection of three forces: 1. Storytelling creates understanding. 2. Founder branding creates trust. 3. New media creates distribution. When those three align, everything compounds. Every launch, every post, every interview reinforces the same idea... Why this company exists...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 19, 2025
How Founders Should Navigate Private Equity Inquiries
When we bring on a new client, we often find they've been receiving calls/emails from private equity firms for some time. As part of those calls, PE firms tend to ask a lot of questions and founders aren't always sure how...
By Michael Lyon
News•Nov 19, 2025
Ray Clusters Hijacked and Turned Into Crypto Miners by Shadowy New Botnet
Cybersecurity firm Oligo has identified a new wave of attacks exploiting a critical flaw in Ray 2.6.3 and 2.8.0 that allows unauthenticated code execution via the job‑submission API. Threat actors, dubbed IronErn440, have been using AI‑generated payloads to infiltrate more...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Craft Client Meals Guests Actually Look Forward To
How do you run client meals that people actually look forward to? I've led hundreds of customer lunches and dinners over the years. As Erica Mansfield Robin Merritt Emily Wilkes Kat Leong Lauren Olerich know well, I have a very particular...
By Nick Mehta
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Customer-First Companies Win: 10 Proven Practices
all successful companies are alike, each unsuccessful company is unsuccessful in its own way... all successful companies are alike: actually, truly, seriously, customer-first below are 10 ways to explain what that means it's not just that they have Customer Support to...
By Anna Furmanov
Blog•Nov 19, 2025
The #1 Clear Sign a VP Will Fail. Be Honest With Yourself When You See It
Jason Lemkin argues that the single best predictor of a VP or C‑level executive's failure is whether they have stopped doing the core work of their function—selling, coding, marketing, or meeting customers. He illustrates how hands‑on involvement preserves market insight,...
By SaaStr
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Give Away Your Product, Watch Users Multiply Organically
The counterintuitive viral growth strategy that got Read AI to millions of users (without spending on ads): I asked David Shim how Read.ai scaled so fast. His answer surprised me. Most meeting note apps force you to visit their website to...
By Omer Khan
Social•Nov 19, 2025
AI Free Users Cost More Than Traditional SaaS
ChatGPT was rumored to cost ~$700,000 PER DAY to operate at scale early on. According to Google, an AI-powered search query can be up to 10x more costly than a standard keyword search. The reason I share these stats is because AI products need to...
By Wes Bush
News•Nov 19, 2025
How to Cancel Surfshark and Get a Refund
Surfshark, ranked #2 among VPNs for its streaming speed and built‑in security tools, allows users to cancel subscriptions and obtain refunds through a simple online process. To stop auto‑renewal, customers log into their account, navigate to the Subscription > Payments...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 19, 2025
SaaS Success Starts with Beautiful, Intuitive Product Design
The first step to building a successful SaaS business isn’t marketing — it’s beauty. Build a product that’s so intuitive, so visually clean, and so obviously useful that people fall in love the moment they touch it. Solve a Real Problem....
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Buyer‑side Agents Will Disrupt Martech by 2026
Buyer-side agents are the real disruption (a sneak preview of our Martech for 2026 report) https://t.co/emy5sjMTIh #martech https://t.co/iZu2dsRJza
By Scott Brinker
News•Nov 19, 2025
Cloud and AI Usage Is Still a Concern for Businesses - and the Worries Are only Set to Rise
AWS’s latest research shows that more than nine in ten companies worldwide plan to raise overall IT spending (93%), cloud spending (97%) and cybersecurity budgets (90%). While 56% of respondents view public cloud as more secure and 81% believe it...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 19, 2025
From Senior PM to Head of Product: Vanessa’s Journey
Dropping another internal Context episode. @vlaurenlee and I talk about how she ascended Shopify from senior PM to leading all of product. Vanessa is brilliant. Worth a watch for any builders. https://t.co/IQbZEEIsms
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Nov 19, 2025
AI Era Product Strategy: London Meetup with Attio & Granola
🚨London🚨 We're hosting a @Fin_ai x @attio x @meetgranola meetup next week It's me, @nicolasosharp (CEO, Attio) and @VasZhovner (CTO, Granola) discussing Product Strategy in the AI Era. When: Wednesday, November 26, 6pm Where: Mindspace, Shoreditch Link in comments
By Des Traynor
Blog•Nov 19, 2025
5 Interesting Learnings From Valve at $17 Billion in ARR
Jason Lemkin highlights Valve’s Steam platform as a model of ultra‑lean, high‑margin profitability, generating over $17 B in revenue with just 330‑360 employees and $50 M+ per Steam staffer. He extracts five lessons: charge premium commissions when you deliver outsized value; automate...
By SaaStr
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Own Mistakes Transparently to Build Trust
This is exactly how you speak about a mistake, detail an outage, take responsibility, apologize earnestly, and build up trust. It adds a layer of concrete rather than chips away at what's left. Bravo to @eastdakota and the rest of the...
By Jason Fried
Social•Nov 19, 2025
SaaS Beats AI on Profitability, Cash Flow Realities
New Post: The Real Economics of SaaS versus AI Companies https://t.co/aFVSWCkg0j
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Cortex Launches Enterprise AI Account Manager for B2B
Cortex🧠 from @ambral_ai brings an enterprise-grade AI Account Manager to every B2B customer. Congrats on the launch, @Sambrickman_ & Jack! https://t.co/bT7D6qk5iy https://t.co/QWKoc0nWu3
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 19, 2025
AI-Driven GTM: Top Marketing Tactics Revealed
SaaStr AI Live: Whats Working in Marketing as AI runs GTM https://t.co/ZsGOSMSkwk
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Feroot Secures $14M to Power AI Privacy Detection
Congrats to @FerootSecurity on their $14M Series A! Feroot's AI agents scan sites in seconds to catch privacy violations before audits do. Their research has exposed data leaks across healthcare, banking, e-commerce, and government sites, and even influenced federal legislation. https://t.co/IFScs4Zvib
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Trava Prevents Importers From Overpaying Duties
Trava (@travaHQ) helps importers stop overpaying on duties. Tariffs shift constantly, and costly errors slip through the cracks. Trava finds them before they erode margin. Congrats on the launch, @pushkarlanka! https://t.co/YRu5F6wA2l https://t.co/D9eS7dKEHK
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 19, 2025
Replit's New Design Mode Built in Under 30 Seconds
Nice job @Replit on new Design mode This took < 30 seconds https://t.co/WfMNd5HeS3
By Jason Lemkin