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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•Nov 18, 2025
The Sovereignty Shift: How UK and Irish SMEs Can Regain Control of Their Data
Amid rising data concerns, UK and Irish SMEs are urged to reclaim control through digital sovereignty.
By TechRadar
News•Nov 18, 2025
5 Black Friday Security Software Deals You Can't Afford to Miss: Quality Savings on All Your Security Essentials
TechRadar’s security editor Benedict Collins has compiled five Black Friday offers that slash the price of essential cyber‑protection tools by at least 50%. The deals include Bitdefender Antivirus Plus (57% off, $30 for the first year), NordPass password manager (58%...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Master 4 Core SaaS Skills to Scale Solo
Are you a technical founder wondering if you need a co-founder? Like so many things, I think "it depends". In episode 807, I explore: - A new mental model around the 4 Core SaaS Skills every startup will need - How...
By Rob Walling
Social•Nov 18, 2025
B2B Neglects Deep Customer Research Compared to B2C
customer research in B2B vs. B2C: B2B: - UX product research B2C: - focus groups - surveys - 1:1 interviews - at home ethnographies - shopper research at the store - website heatmap - social media monitoring - 3rd party trends studies - etc. b2c gets it, b2b is still very very very...
By Anna Furmanov
News•Nov 18, 2025
Windscribe's Entire VPN Network Gets a Next-Gen Speed and Stability Boost
Windscribe has completed a full migration to its next‑generation server stack, FreshScribe, replacing the legacy Boringtun user‑space WireGuard implementation with a kernel‑space version across its entire global VPN network. The upgrade eliminates WireGuard jitter, boosts throughput and stability, and benefits...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 18, 2025
How AI Tax Startup Blue J Torched Its Entire Business Model for ChatGPT—And Became a $300 Million Company
In the winter of 2022, as the tech world was becoming mesmerized by the sudden, explosive arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Benjamin Alarie faced a pivotal choice. His legal tech startup, Blue J, had a respectable business built on the AI...
By VentureBeat
Podcast•Nov 18, 2025•16 min
34 | Assembling Your Software M&A Dream Team
In this 16‑minute episode, Managing Directors Mike Lyon and Mike Greco explain why software founders must assemble a dedicated M&A dream team—including legal, financial, tax, and operational advisors—early in the sale or fundraising process. They highlight how each specialist adds...
By The Path to Exit
News•Nov 18, 2025
Cloudflare Outage Takes Down X One Month After Musk Mocked AWS Customers
The infrastructure service Cloudflare faced massive outages on Tuesday morning, cutting off access to ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X, and other platforms.
By TechCrunch Enterprise
News•Nov 18, 2025
ChatGPT Is Down - Everything We Know About the Latest AI Outage Impacting OpenAI
OpenAI products including ChatGPT and Sora are experiencing major outages.
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Cut Cloud Costs 90% by Switching to Bare Metal
I'm leaving the cloud +80% of my SaaS portfolio now runs on bare metal. Why? I have at least 3 major reasons. One of them is, obviously, cost. This year, I've been able to reduce my monthly cloud bill on AWS from $7800 on...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Reducing Churn Drives Biggest ARR Growth for SaaS
Churn isn't a Customer Success problem. It's a *business* problem. And it might be why you miss the 2026 plan. Just look at the 3-year ARR impact of different growth initiatives^ for a typical $10M ARR SaaS co: - Increase prices...
By Kyle Poyar
News•Nov 18, 2025
ChatGPT Free vs Paid: Will Upgrading Actually Improve Your Experience?
You can use ChatGPT for free, but depending on how much you want to use it, it could be time to upgrade to a paid-for version.
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 18, 2025
New Pricing Models Demand Advanced Billing Solutions
Have you noticed all the LI posts and conversations on how pricing models are evolving? The reality is that subscription pricing based on seats (users) is a hallmark of traditional SaaS... ...and new pricing models like Usage-Based, Outcome-Based, Value-Based, Hybrid (Subscription +...
By Ray Rike
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Business Model Shift Ends Advisor Role, Not Performance
Today was a tough founder decision. We simplified our sales motion at ProductLed, which meant the Advisor role we'd been testing came to an end. And with that shift, Matthew Baker is now back on the market. Matthew stepped into an early-stage...
By Wes Bush
News•Nov 18, 2025
Hire with Confidence- Save $20 on Your First Background Check with Checkr
This Black Friday, we are bringing you an exclusive deal from Checkr so you can speed up your hiring process.
By TechRadar
News•Nov 18, 2025
Need to Get some Work Done? There's No Need Create a Fake Meeting to Get some Time to Yourself, Thanks...
Google Calendar might actually help you be more productive at last.
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Beautiful UI Is the New SaaS Baseline
Make Your SaaS UI/UX Beautiful ✨ The first step to building a successful SaaS business isn't marketing...it's beauty. Build a product so intuitive, clean and obviously useful that people fall in love the moment they touch it. Solve a Real Problem. Beautifully. Start...
By Ryan Allis
News•Nov 18, 2025
Lock in 25% Savings on Webflow’s Annual Site and Workspace Plans
Webflow is running a Black Friday promotion from Nov 17 to Dec 2 that gives customers 12 months of service on its Site or Workspace annual plans for the price of nine months – a 25% discount equivalent to three months free. The offer...
By TechRadar
Podcast•Nov 18, 2025•33 min
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Rob Walling answers listener questions about whether technical SaaS founders should bring on a sales‑and‑marketing co‑founder, introducing his "Core Four" model of essential early‑stage SaaS skills. He explains how to prioritize or outsource these skills, argues that sales‑led growth can...
By Startups For the Rest of Us
Podcast•Nov 18, 2025•54 min
201. Jeppe Schytte-Hansen, CEO, Omnidocs - Why 1+1 = 1.8 in M&A (Until It Suddenly Becomes 3)
In the episode, Omnidocs CEO Jeppe Schytte‑Hansen explains how his company turned a profitable SaaS business into a buy‑and‑build platform, detailing a 14‑point M&A framework, the inevitable slowdown after acquisitions, and the "integration foxtrot" of alternating fast and slow phases....
By The SaaSiest Podcast
Podcast•Nov 18, 2025•19 min
Lemlist Revenue Hits $40M: CEO Charles Breaks Down $25M Claap Acquisition Deal
In this episode, Lemlist CEO Charles Tenot reveals that the company has surpassed $40 million in revenue and outlines a strategic plan to reach $100 million by 2028. He breaks down the $25 million acquisition of Claap, explaining how the deal was financed...
By SaaS Interviews with CEOs
News•Nov 18, 2025
Top 10 AI Chatbot Do's and Don’ts to Help You Get the Most Out of ChatGPT, Gemini, and More
The article outlines ten practical do’s and don’ts for using AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, emphasizing safe and productive applications. It recommends using chatbots for brainstorming, proofreading, tutoring, code generation, and entertainment while warning against cheating, accepting...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Check Out Our Latest Blog Posts
📚 New Blog Posts 1. Make Your SaaS UI/UX Beautiful 2. CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of November 9-13, 2025 3. Create a B2B Content Marketing Machine 💸 Big SaaS VC Rounds 1. Parallel Web Systems...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI-Driven SaaS Funding Surge Fuels M&A Activity
This Week in SaaS: Nov 11–17, 2025 Big SaaS VC Rounds Parallel Web Systems – $100M Series A to fuel AI-search infrastructure & GTM Beacon Biosignals – $86M Series B to accelerate neuro-diagnostics insights Scribe – $75M Series C for enterprise workflow AI Sweet...
By Ryan Allis
News•Nov 18, 2025
Microsoft’s Agent 365 Shifts AI Agents From Sandbox Tools to Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure
Microsoft unveiled Agent 365 at its Ignite conference, positioning it as a unified control plane that delivers observability, governance, and security for AI agents across the enterprise. The platform supports both Microsoft‑built and third‑party agents—such as those from Adobe, Databricks,...
By VentureBeat
News•Nov 18, 2025
Google Antigravity Introduces Agent-First Architecture for Asynchronous, Verifiable Coding Workflows
Google has launched Antigravity, an agent‑first coding platform that lets development teams build and run autonomous coding agents powered by Gemini 3 and other leading LLMs such as Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.5 and open‑source GPT models. The service is now in public preview...
By VentureBeat
Blog•Nov 18, 2025
NEW: AI Tool & Social Network Usage Graphs Are in SparkToro
The post announces a major upgrade to SparkToro’s data visualizations, now showing the exact percentage of a target audience that uses specific search engines, AI tools, and social networks rather than just country‑level averages. It highlights the ability to customize...
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Databricks Unifies Iceberg V3 and Delta Lake
Super excited to announce Apache Iceberg v3 support in Databricks! This marks the unification of the data plane of Iceberg and Delta Lake inside Databricks. Great job by everyone in the community that made this possible! https://lnkd.in/gvBqW-Hi
By Ali Ghodsi
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Agentforce Instantly Taps Your Salesforce Data for Contextual Emails
“Here’s what I think most people miss about Agentforce: it knows everything your Salesforce knows. That’s the beauty of it. It has all your Salesforce data if you click a button and want it to – and then you can...
By Marc Benioff
News•Nov 17, 2025
How ChatGPT Works: A Guide to Its Interface on Mobile and Web
The guide walks users through the ChatGPT interface on both mobile and web, detailing how to access account settings, upgrade to Plus, and connect services like Gmail. It explains where to find chat history, how to enable temporary chats, and...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI Agents Unlock Solutions We Couldn’t Scale Before
The vast majority of AI use will be for things we don’t even do today. The real impact of AI agents will be that we can affordably solve problems that we couldn’t solve before, lower the cost of needed services...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Rapid Growth, Not Just Features, Defines an AI Native
How to know if you are an “AI Native” start-up: 🚀 You are growing much, much faster than last year Otherwise, you just have AI Features
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 17, 2025
Google Calendar Can Finally Block Off Time without Faking a Meeting
Google Calendar now lets users block off time for tasks, marking themselves as busy and automatically rejecting meeting requests, effectively turning tasks into pseudo‑meetings. The feature, long‑requested by Workspace users, adds options such as adjustable time blocks, “do not disturb”...
By The Verge
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Founders Make Best Marketers in Ever‑Changing Channel Landscape
Marketing is a creative and adversarial game. Channels get discovered, exploited, and discarded. New products need new distribution. It’s hard to hire rule-breakers, so the best marketers tend to be the founders themselves.
By Naval Ravikant
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Production AI Teams Favor Open‑Source Models and Database‑Backed Agents
70% of production AI teams use open source models. 72.5% connect agents to databases, not chat interfaces. This is what 375 technical builders actually ship - & it looks nothing like Twitter AI. 70% of teams use open source models in...
By Tomasz Tunguz
News•Nov 17, 2025
Microsoft Unveils Its First "AI Superfactory" - Here's What the Future of Computing Will Really Look Like
Microsoft unveiled its first AI superfactory, linking large AI datacenters in Wisconsin and Atlanta via a dedicated fiber network that acts as a virtual supercomputer for massive model training. The facilities pack GPUs densely across two floors, employ Nvidia Blackwell...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Acquisitions Close Quickly, but Relationships Take Years
If you want to potentially get acquired — start now. It often really, quietly takes years. What do I mean? Well for sure, acquisitions themselves technically often happen very quickly. The acquiring CEO reaches out, they meet up...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Data, Not Algorithms, Fueled the AI Revolution
My biggest takeaways from Fei-Fei Li: 1. Just nine years ago, calling yourself an AI company was considered bad for business. Nobody believed the technology would work back in 2016. By 2017, companies started embracing the term. Today, virtually every company calls...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Nov 17, 2025
This Week in SaaS Nov 11 - 17, 2025
This edition of "This Week in SaaS" delivers a concise roundup of the week’s most notable SaaS activity, highlighting dozens of sizable AI‑driven funding rounds, two high‑profile M&A deals and an IPO opening, alongside three fresh blog posts on UI/UX,...
By SaasRise
Social•Nov 17, 2025
AI Startups Should Prioritize Upmarket Strategy over Quick Downmarket Wins
Last week, we brought together more than 325 founders, LPs, and go-to-market leaders at Google NYC HQ for the Stage 2 Capital Summit. It continues to be my favorite day of the year, as I get a front-row seat to...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Gamma Raises $68M, Hits $100M ARR, Remains Ultra‑Lean
Gamma just raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation while already doing $100M ARR. Here’s how they’re building one of the leanest AI companies in the world👇
By Ryan Allis
News•Nov 17, 2025
Your Online Reservations Are Telling Restaurants All About You
OpenTable is rolling out an AI‑assisted tagging feature that surfaces diners’ habits—such as preferred drinks, spending level, review activity, and likelihood of cancellations—to restaurant staff via its reservation and table‑management platform. The tags are generated from POS data collected across...
By The Verge
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Gamma Scales to $100M ARR with 50‑person AI Team
Gamma just raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation while already doing $100M ARR. Here's how they're building one of the leanest AI companies in the world For 35 years, presentation software barely changed. People kept using legacy tools built in the...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Investors Chase Metrics; Strategics Chase Product Fit
Is the process the same for M&A vs. a capital raise? While the process is largely the same, there are some differences. The biggest difference: investors tend to be hyper focused on metrics, while strategics tend to be more focused on...
By Michael Lyon
News•Nov 17, 2025
How to Create a B2B Content Marketing Machine
The post outlines how to build a repeatable B2B content marketing machine that drives massive audience reach and revenue growth, emphasizing a weekly anchor piece of content that is systematically repurposed across newsletters, blogs, LinkedIn, video, and ads. It stresses...
By SaasRise
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Strong SaaS Finance Starts with Clean Data Foundations
I had a CFO coaching session today and spoke with a coaching prospect. The recurring theme? Our finance data foundation. We can have great software in place to do a lot of things for us, but data is the big roadblock. My 4...
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Get Instant Funding Verdict by Uploading Deck
Wondering if you can get funded ... or not? Wonder no more Upload your deck to SaaStr AI VC and we'll tell you -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a https://t.co/VLRaBqjNa3
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Castari Offers Vercel‑style Platform for Deploying AI Agents
Castari (@castari_dev) is building the Vercel for AI agents. They manage the infrastructure needed for you to deploy sandboxed agents into production. https://t.co/Q2EyM0JR53
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Seeking Public Index for Customer Acquisition Costs Across Industries
is there a publicly available index for cost of customer acquisition across various types of businesses? this feels like one of those secrets hiding in plain sight…
By Danielle Morrill
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Code Execs Correctly to Safeguard SaaS Metrics
Where should you code your execs on the SaaS P&L? Most teams get this wrong — and it wrecks their metrics. Here’s how to code leaders to the right cost centers and protect CAC, gross margin, and OPEX accuracy. Watch: https://t.co/BFmus5yUp7 #SaaS https://t.co/1ZU2FBx4Be
By Ben Murray