What's happening: Ease Health lands $41M Series A to boost AI‑driven health‑tech platform
Ease Health, a New York‑based AI‑native CRM, EHR, and RCM platform, closed a $41 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The funding will expand product and engineering teams and accelerate AI automation across its suite, underscoring investor confidence in integrated health‑tech solutions.
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Kyle Poyar argues that raw traffic is becoming a misleading growth metric as AI‑driven search, especially ChatGPT, delivers far higher‑intent leads that convert six times faster than Google. He shares seven insights from Webflow’s VP of Growth, including the need to prioritize ChatGPT, combine SEO with answer‑engine optimization, and track visibility, comprehension and conversion rather than visits. The post also provides three quick tactics—automated content refreshes, repurposing webinars into multiple assets, and leveraging Reddit for citation‑rich signals—to help marketers adapt to the volatile AI search landscape.

The fastest way to kill momentum on a new initiative is to launch it without preparing your team first. The best founders set the stage before launching one. They make sure everyone has the context they need and create an environment where...
I got this spot for FounderStack for $699. So far, it's generated: - +400 website visits - 1 sale ($799) So I'm breakeven. And it's only been 3 days. 2 more sales, and the ROAS is similar to the ads I run on Facebook, and I...

Assistant UI, a TypeScript/React library backed by Y Combinator, has become the de‑facto standard for AI chat interfaces, pulling in over 200,000 monthly downloads and adoption by firms such as LangChain, Athena Intelligence, and Stack AI. The library offers composable...
I signed up for Rewardful. But they didn't have the features we needed. After a quick chat with support: They didn't have any plans to add it. So we're now vibe coding our own! (And honestly, ours is already better 😂) Stay tuned, we're about to...
This is a great anecdote from Atlassian. The fear everyone was that AI agents would somehow compress the role of enterprise software. Generally the opposite will be true, assuming the software company executes effectively (either startups or existing players). Enterprise...

Semrush unveiled Semrush One, a platform that fuses its traditional SEO analytics with AI‑driven visibility tools that track brand presence in large‑language‑model search engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Leveraging a dataset covering more than 808 million domains and trillions...

confusing. copy clearly says "this plan is free" so why do they need my cc? low-trust onboarding experience @AppTweak https://t.co/A65vSbb3hm
Founders at $5m+ revenue move fast. Speed wins. You can’t move fast if your calendar is back to back all day Ryan is smart

SaaS founder Jason Lemkin reports that SaaStr’s AI‑driven pitch‑deck analyzer, after reviewing over 1,600 decks, shows a stark shift in VC expectations for companies with $2‑10 million ARR. While a 200% YoY growth rate at $3 M ARR once guaranteed a Series A,...

Wondering if your VC pitch is good enough? SaaStr AI will tell you. Try the FREE SaaStr AI VC Pitch Deck Analyzer here -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a Try it now. We'll grade it, tell you the exact odds you'll get funded, and...
- Do customers even care if your sales reps is AI or human? Not if the AI is better than a human - #1 top advice to get going on AI + GTM: deploy an AI agent -- yourself. ...

New research highlighted by 1Password’s 2025 Annual Report shows that over half of employees (52%) have installed unauthorized apps and a third ignore AI usage policies, exposing firms to data leakage and cyber‑attack risk. The rapid adoption of AI‑driven SaaS...
A lot of startups get stuck in the mud between 200 and 2000 employees. Here are my tips: 1. Ye old "hire slow and fire fast" is still true. 2. Push off the director layer as long as you can....
Is Triple Triple Double Double good enough anymore? $1m ARR -> $3m ARR -> $9m ARR -> $18M ARR -> $36m ARR -> rocketship Here's the thing. On the one hand, of course it is. That compounds to 50%+ growth...
Automattic is collaborating with the Internet Archive to launch a WordPress plugin that automatically redirects users to archived versions of pages that have gone offline, mitigating link rot. The tool detects broken links, fetches a snapshot from the Wayback Machine,...
Seeing more and more product managers use AI for showing functional product prototypes. It’s accelerating the ideation phase of a product by probably 5-10X. Partly this is because you can show off an idea much more quickly, which gets the...
Agentic AI and FP&A? Let's find out! Join me for an exclusive live demo and conversation with FutureView Systems, showcasing their new Agentic AI Platform B*EZ, built specifically for FP&A and controller teams. We'll explore real, tactical AI use cases that are already reshaping how finance teams...
CrowdStrike and NVIDIA unveiled an open‑source AI ecosystem that pairs CrowdStrike’s Charlotte AI agents with NVIDIA’s Nemotron foundation models, synthetic‑data tools, and NIM microservices. The agents continuously ingest telemetry from Falcon Complete’s managed detection and response service, delivering autonomous threat...
Welcome to this week's edition of AI to ROI: Just the News Edition I write the newsletter twice weekly with my friend Peter Buchanan Our Saturday edition is called "AI to ROI: Just the News" Our Tuesday morning edition includes four sections: ...
For a very long time as CEO of HubSpot, I thought I was supposed to have all the answers. Life got easier for everyone (especially me) when I got over that.
SaaStr has launched an AI‑driven deal‑flow platform that lets founders upload their pitch decks directly to a centralized hub. In its first weeks the service has collected more than 1,542 decks and performed over 556,387 AI‑generated startup valuations. The platform...
Narrative (@narrativevideo) is Cursor for video editing. Narrative is the AI video editor that automates the tedious parts, like searching footage, pulling selects and syncing cameras— so pros can edit hours of content in minutes. https://t.co/FsxR3v0CiP
Too many founders fail because they build what’s really trendy rather than what’s really painful to customers.

Anthropic has unveiled Claude for Excel, an AI assistant that can read, edit, and generate spreadsheets from a sidebar while tracking its actions and citing source cells. The beta, limited to about 1,000 Max, Enterprise and Teams customers, connects to...
We helped a founder sell their bootstrapped startup for $3,500,000 this week at @acquiredotcom. Another life changing outcome. Proof you don’t need a billion dollar startup to win. A profitable SaaS is enough. Huge congrats to the founder and to the next one...
SaaS apps are much, much slower since AI It's OK because they do much, much more But not something I would have expected 24+ months ago

Anthropic’s Claude AI tool contains a vulnerability in its Code Interpreter that can be exploited via prompt injection to exfiltrate private user data. The interpreter, recently given network request capability, can be tricked into reading files, storing them in the...

I sleep better knowing my agents work through the night. Less work for me in the morning. My podcast processor transcribes & analyzes conversations. I started on my laptop, needed a little database to collect podcast data & metadata, & booted...

I sleep better knowing my agents work through the night. Less work for me in the morning.

In this episode, Brent Adamson—co‑author of *The Challenger Sale* and founder of A to B Insight—explains that most SaaS deals fail not because of competition but due to buyer indecision, and that sales teams must shift from teaching buyers what...
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close

The terms of an investment will range on a scale of founder-friendly to investor-friendly. Investors won't always give you the full sense of that range. When presenting a given term (like % of a transaction placed in escrow), investors will...

The piece warns that the government’s proposed compulsory BritCard digital ID would duplicate existing passport‑based verification tools, waste £140 million‑£1 billion in setup costs and add £10 million‑£100 million in yearly expenses, and create a single point of control that threatens civil liberties. It...
AI is coming for your seats. And it doesn't even mean to. What do I mean? We've gone from 0 to 12 AI Agents at little team SaaStr this year, and as part of that ... we don't need...
I have a long-running list of these surprises for first-time Founders and CEOs. Here are a few that weren’t on Brian’s list. 1. Your calendar becomes everyone else’s calendar. Every gap gets filled. 2. The hardest conversations are never on the calendar....

Businesses are drowning in unstructured data—PDFs, emails, scanned invoices—stored in disparate, unmanaged locations, creating a digital “junk drawer” that hampers finance, HR and operations. The fragmentation leads to duplicated effort, audit delays, compliance risk and lost productivity. Intelligent Document Processing...
Margins by Revenue Stream Is Your CFO Superpower If you offer 2 or more revenue types, you must construct your P&L in the proper format. I can't tell you how many times I've corrected the gross profit and margins by revenue stream...
ChatGPT hit 1B+ daily searches 9 years faster than Google. At this pace, it could match Google by 2030. Here's how the future of search is changing Google still dominates with about 14 billion daily searches. ChatGPT handles around 2.5 billion prompts...

The article outlines the emergence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as a modular, context‑aware computing layer that links AI‑powered applications to distributed data sources across cloud, edge and on‑premise environments. Unlike traditional siloed servers, MCP servers dynamically allocate resources,...
32% of RB2B's $6.5M ARR comes from one channel. (And no, it's NOT my Linkedin) It's COLD EMAIL. But when I ask most founders about cold email... They say it's dead. So I just recorded a video breaking down... - Why most cold email fails - The...

This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close https://t.co/479woZt0Ew
Slightly lighter this week. Knocked 25 tasks off my hit list this week thanks to Unstoppable Flow. Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn36Ab
Locus (@paywithlocus) gives your AI agents the ability to spend without losing control. A secure way to connect your agents to funds, with identities, budgets, and permissions. Make them pay: for anything, anywhere. https://t.co/Sw9dURzTLS Congrats on the launch, @coledermo & @eliotlee33!

Testing NEW deal pages for AppSumo. One is up 38%... https://t.co/l7ZXNKwXkt
This is a great episode. All aspiring SaaS founders should listen 👇

🤷♀️Getting funded shouldn't be a mystery 🔮Knowing the odds VCs will say Yes shouldn't be opaque 🤝 Meeting investors shouldn't require connections We're here to help. SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OYvZ https://t.co/XbFWOuetFF
Aside (@AsideAI) shows live suggestions during sales calls, helping sales reps answer technical questions. Connect your docs, Slack, and past winning calls — Aside surfaces the right answer in 0.8s. No more “Let me get back to you.” https://t.co/fbWzP2caKy
Times are good But Navan IPO’ing at ~$5B at ~$800M ARR run rate And JAMF selling for ~$2B at 3x ARR Well, they do make me wonder about some VC rounds these days
“If you want to be a billion-dollar company, you’ll never get there with services.” 💡 Nathan Gwilliam, CEO of PodUp, joins The SaaS CFO Podcast to talk SaaS vs. services, scaling strategy, and valuation growth. 🎧 Watch: https://t.co/YLrLMsWUCR #SaaS https://t.co/ny8PqM1viO