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Updated 37m 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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Blog•Nov 5, 2025
10 Coolest Things You Can Do on the New SaaStr.ai
Jason Lemkin showcases the ten live features of the revamped SaaStr.ai, from the AI‑powered valuation calculator and pitch‑deck analyzer to VC matchmaking, market benchmarking, and a suite of purpose‑built AI agents for SaaS founders. He highlights concrete usage metrics—500,000+ valuations, 1,300+ decks analyzed monthly, and a growing database of 137 VCs and 800+ investor profiles—demonstrating how each tool delivers actionable, data‑driven insights that can cut fundraising time and operational guesswork. The author’s tone is enthusiastic and pragmatic, positioning SaaStr.ai as an indispensable, ready‑today resource that turns complex startup tasks into quick, affordable, and informed actions.
By SaaStr
Social•Nov 5, 2025
AI Agents Thrive on Better Data Retrieval and Compute
Many AI agent problems are really just information retrieval problems. If the agent has a better way to find and comb through data performantly, you will get far better results. Compute is fungible so you can use it during indexing...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Big Funds Skip Follow‑on when Upside Seems Limited
I remember a few years ago, a SaaStr Fund portfolio company was struggling to get a Series A round done They found a lead to put in $8m, but wanted the insiders to put in the other $2m. I wasn't a very...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 5, 2025
Chat Control Isn’t Dead, Denmark Has a New Proposal − Here’s All We Know
Denmark has scrapped a draft law that would have forced all messaging services in the EU to scan every URL, image and video for child sexual abuse material, replacing it with a compromise that makes CSAM scanning voluntary but leaves...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Choosing the Right Term for AI-Driven SEO
AEO vs. GEO vs. AI SEO Optimizing content for AI-driven platforms has become incredibly complicated. There is currently no consensus on what to call what used to be "SEO." This article explains three main terms marketers use, all of which are...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Simplify SaaS Pricing: Ditch Per-Seat, Use Flat Rates
I’m working on adding a team plan to @groupthinkAI and I really hate the complexity of per seat +/or usage pricing. I just want to charge some number and then just have it be enough that you don’t think about...
By Danielle Morrill
News•Nov 5, 2025
Microsoft Teams Really Could Be Bad for Your (Security) Health - Hackers Spoof Bosses, Send Fake Messages, and More
Check Point Research uncovered a series of Microsoft Teams flaws (CVE‑2024‑38197) that let attackers edit previously sent messages without an “Edited” tag, spoof mobile and desktop notifications, and alter displayed names in private chats and call invitations. The vulnerabilities could...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Dream Big, Execute Small: Canva’s Blueprint
My biggest takeaways from @MelanieCanva: 1. Build a ladder to the moon with small rungs. You need both a crazy vision that reaches all the way to the moon and tiny, concrete steps to get there. Canva’s mission to “empower the world...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Nov 5, 2025
Microsoft Strengthens Its In-Country Data Processing Push with More Sovereignty Options
Microsoft announced it will extend in‑country data processing for its Copilot AI to 15 additional markets by the end of 2026, adding Canada, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE and the US, while Australia, India,...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 5, 2025
Millions of Developers Could Be Open to Attack After Critical Flaw Exploited - Here's What We Know
A critical‑severity flaw (CVE‑2025‑11953) was discovered in the @react-native-community/cli npm package, which powers the Metro development server for React Native apps. The vulnerability enables unauthenticated OS command injection via a POST request, allowing attackers to run arbitrary binaries on Windows,...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 5, 2025
Google Gets the US Government’s Green Light to Acquire Wiz for $32B
Google has secured clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice for its $32 billion acquisition of cloud‑security firm Wiz, moving the deal past the antitrust review stage. The purchase, first proposed at $23 billion in 2024 and renegotiated in early 2025, was...
By TechCrunch Enterprise
News•Nov 5, 2025
ChatGPT Memories Are Disappearing for some Users – Here’s What You Can Do to Protect Yours
Several ChatGPT users have reported that their saved "memories"—personalized data such as allergies or location—have vanished from the Manage Memory panel, with the issue appearing across desktop, mobile, and web apps. The problem has not been acknowledged on OpenAI’s status...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Simple Solo Stack Drives $10K MRR Micro‑SaaS
Most successful founders keep it dead simple. Building a $10K MRR Micro SaaS while staying solo is possible - but you need to keep it simple too. Here's the solopreneur stack I'd recommend 👇
By Simon Høiberg
News•Nov 5, 2025
Stability AI’s Legal Win over Getty Leaves Copyright Law in Limbo
Stability AI won most of its UK lawsuit against Getty Images, with the High Court rejecting Getty’s claim of secondary copyright infringement and finding only trademark infringement for watermark use. Getty had dropped its core claim that Stability trained on...
By The Verge
Blog•Nov 5, 2025
The Compounding Startup
Kyle Poyar analyzes ChartMogul data to show that the rare SaaS startups that break the $20 million ARR barrier do so by continuously improving their revenue mix—raising ARPA, boosting expansion and retention—rather than relying on early‑stage momentum alone. The outliers double‑digit...
By Kyle Poyar
Podcast•Nov 5, 2025•32 min
EP297 | How Freemius Aligns Pricing With Growth to Reduce Graduation Churn
In this episode, Vova Feldman, CEO and co‑founder of Freemius, explains how the platform evolved from a WordPress‑centric tool into a full‑service, self‑serve solution for indie SaaS and desktop software makers, handling payments, licensing, taxes, and compliance. He highlights the...
By CHURN.FM
News•Nov 5, 2025
Most Admins Say They Need a Major Overhaul of Data in Order to Succeed with AI
Salesforce data shows 76% of business leaders feel pressure to deliver value with data, yet 84% say their strategies need a complete overhaul to succeed with AI. Poor data quality leads 49% of data leaders to sometimes reach incorrect conclusions,...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 5, 2025
AI Tools Are Proving to Be a Massive Help for Financial Firms - but for How Long?
New Xero research shows UK accountancy firms have lifted profits by £338 million and added £10 billion to GDP after adopting AI, with 98% of firms now using the technology. Finance workers spend an average of three hours per day on AI,...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Dust Tackles Enterprise AI’s Last‑Mile Knowledge Gap
🎉 Thrilled to welcome @dusthq as a top Super Gold sponsor at SaaStr AI LDN Dec 1-2! Dust is solving one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI—making your company’s scattered knowledge actually useful. Their platform helps teams deploy AI agents...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Unauthorized Access Shows Need for Data Permission Controls
A small startup @promptwatch logged into my account today without permission and shared a screenshot of it. They were trying to show the app worked properly. But don’t do this yourself. It’s a violation of trust and more. Be...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 4, 2025
Acer Reveals Its Fanciest Chromebook yet - but Will It Be Enough to Convince Your IT Team to Upgrade You?
Acer announced the Chromebook Plus Enterprise 714 and 514, two 14‑inch ChromeOS laptops aimed at cloud‑first enterprises. The 714 is powered by Intel Core Ultra 5, the 514 can be configured up to an Intel Core 7, both with up to 16 GB LPDDR5X, PCIe Gen4 SSDs,...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Embrace Small Errors, Chase a Few Giant Wins
A thing often in common among great startup investors, founders, and researchers: Trading making a lot of small mistakes in exchange for getting a few giant wins. (Surprisingly many people seem to prefer a few big mistakes in exchange for a lot...
By Sam Altman
Social•Nov 5, 2025
AI CRM Automates 50,000 Workflows Monthly, 24/7
Item (@newitemco) is the AI-Native CRM that works for you — a system that knows your business like your best employee and works for you 24/7. Already powering 50,000 autonomous workflows every month. Start running autonomously → https://t.co/nt1qoQ9ozo https://t.co/5OUAfjyxUr
By YCombinator
News•Nov 4, 2025
OpenAI and AWS Team up in Potentially One of the Biggest Tech Partnerships Ever Seen - so What Will It...
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services have sealed a multi‑year partnership valued at $38 billion, granting OpenAI direct access to AWS’s high‑performance compute, including Nvidia‑based GPUs and EC2 UltraServers, with full deployment targeted by the end of 2026. The deal expands the...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 5, 2025
AI Eases Building, but GTM Talent Scarcity Spikes Demand
Noticing a trend: Lots of asks from early-stage founders looking for intros to great B2B GTM people. With AI making it so much easier to build, distribution/GTM is becoming harder to crack.
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Lemma Automates AI Feedback, Improving Agents for Product Teams
Lemma (@uselemma_ai) helps AI agents learn from real-world use, so they get better instead of breaking over time. They turn user feedback into automated prompt improvements, so teams can focus on shipping products. https://t.co/6FZ2p9oImQ Congrats on the launch, @zjearbear & @colegawin_!
By YCombinator
News•Nov 4, 2025
SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Nov 4, 2025
The post recaps a SaaS CEO mastermind call that focused on three challenges—sales positioning against better‑funded competitors, paid‑advertising strategy amid partner resistance, and how to budget revenue across departments—offering concrete tactics such as requesting competitor decks, rapid product parity, low‑budget...
By SaasRise
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Ignoring Data Leaks May Become Acceptable in 2025
If you posted a customer's data online, is it better to apologize or ignore it? @promptwatch did the latter with my data But maybe that's the right approach in 2025 https://t.co/6wZeI3hVNN
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Know Your Daily Processes to Unlock Growth
You may not think about operations, but operations is thinking about you. You're executing processes every day whether you've documented them or not. The question is: are they good processes? And are you aware of them? That awareness is what unlocks growth. https://t.co/MJ6dzxjNQq
By Asia Orangio
News•Nov 4, 2025
Nvidia Is Building an "AI Megafactory" For Samsung with 50,000 GPUs - Could This Be the Start of a New...
Samsung announced an "AI Megafactory" that will deploy more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and the Omniverse platform to embed artificial‑intelligence across its semiconductor, mobile and robotics operations. By leveraging Nvidia's cuLitho, CUDA‑X and GPU‑accelerated EDA tools, Samsung says it can...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Scott AI Launches Multi‑agent Coding Planner for Faster Specs
Scott AI (@scott_ai_) is building coding agent plan mode with superpowers. Run multi-agent swarms to find your best spec faster. https://t.co/irzLxLpGjU Congrats on the launch @davidmaulick and @Devin_BC! https://t.co/itxAfkub2i
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 5, 2025
AI-Powered Platform Reads Hardware Telemetry for Faster Troubleshooting
Telemetron (@telemetronai) is the support platform that understands hardware. AI agents connect to devices, read telemetry, run diagnostics, and troubleshoot issues - so customers, technicians, support agents, and engineers can resolve issues faster. https://t.co/fjwjZHQeaI
By YCombinator
News•Nov 4, 2025
The Firm Behind One of the Best Business VPNs Around Is Launching a Gen AI Tool - Here's What It...
Proton, the Swiss firm behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN, has introduced Lumo for Business, a gener‑ative AI assistant built on zero‑access encryption that ensures only users can decrypt their conversations. The service integrates with Proton Drive, is hosted in...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Explore SaaStr's New AI Tools in Live Demo
SaaStr AI Live: A Hands-On Guide to SaaStr's New AI Tools https://t.co/ZTGASBhFQa
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Automating Insurance Submissions Frees Brokers for Clients
Casey is building the infrastructure layer for insurance distribution - automating complex submissions so brokers spend less time on admin and more time with clients. https://t.co/lxZsmXMwXd Congrats on the launch, @MaxThoelen, @pascalkueng, and @nicohaenggi! https://t.co/r1Eer98FEm
By YCombinator
News•Nov 4, 2025
The Science of ABM, Demand Gen, and Scaling
The post argues that predictable SaaS growth comes from a systematic engine built on precise ABM, demand generation, and demand capture, all grounded in solid economics like CAC, LTV and churn. It walks readers through steps—from defining economics and ICP,...
By SaasRise
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Automated AI Customer Service Hits Uncanny Valley
When all is said and done, pre-generative AI "automated" customer service will be the ultimate "uncanny valley."
By Nick Mehta
Social•Nov 5, 2025
Early Surge Fades, Leading to Stagnation Plateau
🧵 The growth plateau pattern I see ALL the time: Growth during months 1-6. Slowing during months 7-12. By month 13+ it turns to "Why are we stuck? What are we missing?"
By Asia Orangio
News•Nov 4, 2025
Demand Generation Vs. Demand Capture
The post explains that SaaS growth requires two complementary motions: demand generation, which builds long‑term awareness and trust among ideal customers before they search for solutions, and demand capture, which quickly converts high‑intent prospects when they are ready to buy....
By SaasRise
Social•Nov 4, 2025
Beta Invites Rolling Out; Join Waitlist Now
Alright! The first handful of Fizzy beta invites have gone out! Over the next week or two, assuming all goes well, we'll send invites to the thousands who've signed up for the list prior to opening it up to the public. If...
By Jason Fried
Social•Nov 4, 2025
AI Sales Agents Do the Work Humans Won’t
$495 is a tough price point to hire a human sales rep for But an AI agent? 烙They don't mind. They don't mind -- at all. If nothing else, put AI agents + AI SDRs and AEs on the deals ... your...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 4, 2025
ABM Lead List Building
The post explains how building a high‑quality ABM lead list—starting with solid unit‑economics, defining TAM and ICP, and using tools like Apollo, Instantly, ListKit, and AI enrichment (Clay, LinkedIn) — can turn data into a growth engine that powered SaasRise...
By SaasRise
Social•Nov 4, 2025
Fin.ai Powers 50K Monthly Tickets, Exceeding Expectations
ZayZoon handle 50,000 tickets a month with Fin.ai And in their words "it's out-performing our wildest dreams" If you, too, would like to use AI handle an insanely large amount of work, then DM me and we'll get you setup.
By Des Traynor
Social•Nov 4, 2025
Ship Small Wins Daily to Boost Customer Delight
Never spend more time debating the priority of a product improvement than it would take to actually go ahead and do it. Small improvements add-up and they're morale boosters for both customers and the team. In the early times at HubSpot...
By Dharmesh Shah
News•Nov 4, 2025
ChatGPT Go Is Now Free in India – and U.S. Users Are Wondering if They’re Next
OpenAI has launched a 12‑month free promotion for ChatGPT Go, its lower‑priced, lightweight alternative to ChatGPT Plus, exclusively for users in India. The service bundles extended GPT‑5 access, image generation, file uploads, advanced data analysis and longer memory, though it offers fewer...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 4, 2025
Thursday's VC Deep Dive: IPOs, Valuations, Ownership Shifts
Coming Thursday with @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll + me: - The Navan IPO, and What It Really Takes Now - Why You Have to Have Reaccelerated by Thanksgiving - Why Harvey at $8B could be cheap - AgentForce is really good. What That Means. - Single...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 4, 2025
Launching $20M Rapid Fund for 123g Founders
We've set aside $20m to rapidly deploy into founders working with 123g! They are the best. Top notch operators now supporting founders.
By Nathan Latka
Social•Nov 4, 2025
Visual AI Builder Empowers Flexible Ecommerce Support Automation
Flows from @yuma_dot_ai is a visual AI agent builder for ecommerce customer support. It lets merchants define conditional logic and mix it with natural language to build flexible yet precise automations, seamlessly merging process-oriented AI agents and enterprise-grade workflows. https://t.co/XQbiCI32Ap
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 4, 2025
Get Real Fundability Scores by Uploading Your Deck
How fundable are you -- really? How well are you doing -- really? Just upload your deck here to SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/S5UFYzofhC And don't guess anymore https://t.co/80nrRXLnXb
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 4, 2025
Founders Must Master Sales, Branding, Marketing, Distribution
Your job as a startup founder is to learn sales, branding, marketing, and distribution because it isn’t just about the product.
By Andrew Gazdecki