What'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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AWS has added an interactive incident‑report generation feature to CloudWatch that automatically aggregates telemetry, user inputs, timelines, impact assessments and remediation recommendations to produce post‑incident reports in minutes. The capability, rolling out across major US, Europe and Asia Pacific regions, arrives shortly after a high‑profile outage affecting Ring and third‑party services and aims to address criticism of AWS’s outage communications. By automating forensics and aligning with recent CloudWatch enhancements (including ML‑driven RDS for SQL Server insights), the move bolsters AWS’s observability offering and could blunt competitor gains from faster incident detection while helping customers improve operational resilience.
Reflex (@getreflex) is an AI app builder for creating production-grade web apps entirely in Python, powered by its own open-source framework. Just connect your data and enter a prompt. It generates production-ready apps that integrate any data source, API, or Python...

Congrats to @chrispisarski, @thechowdhary, @manmohitg, and @crustdata on their $6M seed! Crustdata is building real-time B2B data APIs to power AI sales, recruiting, and investment agents. While traditional databases provide outdated data and aren’t built for signal-driven workflows, Crustdata’s real-time enrichment...

Palantir has struck a multi‑year strategic partnership with Lumen Technologies to embed its Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform into Lumen’s edge computing, broadband and digital services, a deal Bloomberg says will top $200 million over several years. Lumen says the...
Ecom is the top target for accessibility lawsuits. And it's not even close. 77% of web accessibility lawsuits last year were against ecom sites. Because most of the internet's accessibility issues happen right when someone wants to buy. But the risks go way beyond...

Six industry experts advise agencies to pick website builders that mirror agency workflows and scale with clients, highlighting features like multi‑site management, team collaboration, AI‑assisted design, performance optimization, multilingual support and exportable content. Vendors cited include Duda (hosting over 1...
Fun fact for my fellow marketers: Inbound leads followed up in under 5 minutes are 21x more likely to convert. Twenty-one times! 勞 But here's the real question — how many of us are actually following up that fast? Not...
Boom is the AI growth team for e-commerce brands. Most online stores convert less than one percent of their visitors. Boom helps brands recover those lost sales by giving them an AI team that works 24/7. It answers product and order questions,...
A survey of 400 senior tech executives by MIT Technology Review Insights and Snowflake finds 77% of data engineers report heavier workloads despite widespread AI tool adoption, with 83% of organizations using AI data tools and engineers' time on AI...
What I see CEOs at struggling start-ups do: - Go dark - Hide - Lash out - Tweet about lots of things non-work - Invest time on tiny expenses - Argue internally What should do: - Be Present - Be Honest - Be the Rock - Be Realistic/Optimistic You just plain grow...
Tally just doubled their ARR from $2M to $4M in less than a year. I interviewed their founder Marie Martens back in February when they were at ~$2M ARR. Their new article breaks down the entire journey, but one section (screenshot below)...

The UK government has struck an agreement with OpenAI to offer UK-based data residency for ChatGPT from October 24, 2025, allowing British customers and developers to store content—files, images, conversations, code interpreter outputs, ChatGPT Memory and custom GPTs—on UK servers...
Having worked with a number of SaaS CEOs at the $10M+ ARR level, I've started to notice some patterns about some weird things that start happening at this level: Bucket A: everything is great. they don't need my help. keep cranking. Bucket...
Product development has completely changed for us. Three steps. One seamless flow. Step 1: Lovable. Sketch. Prototype. MVP. Ideas take shape fast - design to build, all in one place. Step 2: GitHub + Copilot. Delegate repeat work. Track issues, review PRs. No manual coding - just smart...
WooCommerce 10.3 was released ahead of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, introducing checkout improvements, built-in tracking for cost of goods sold, and a beta MCP server that lets AI assistants (like Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP-compatible clients) interact directly with...
Something people don't realize about B2B buying: Deals are being won and lost before sales calls even happen. Dentsu's massive B2B buyer study - over 14,000 interviews - reveals a shift that's rewriting the rules of how enterprise software gets purchased....

It’s been almost two months since I became CEO of Crazy Egg. Last month we shipped Free Website Surveys. Tonight we’re shipping Free Web Analytics. And I can’t wait to show you what we’re shipping next month. We’re moving fast, but with purpose. Everything...
Venture investor Tomasz Tunguz argues product-market fit (PMF) is no longer a one-time milestone but a continuous condition because rapid advances in AI are constantly reshaping customer needs and technical possibilities. He points to firms that lost PMF between 2021–2024,...
.@vogentai just released Vogent-Turn-80M: an open-source, state-of-the-art turn-detection model for voice AI. It improves any voice AI stack by detecting when to wait and when to speak, reducing interruptions and making conversations more humanlike. https://t.co/4jmYvazctk https://t.co/NDadilx3Z6
⌨️@TypeOS is Cursor for Google Docs. Students and professionals use it to learn and work faster. From editing and grading research papers, to creating invoices, contracts, or synthesizing articles, videos, and PDFs into a doc.

Datadog launched Updog, a free web dashboard that shows real‑time status of dozens of major SaaS and cloud providers (AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Slack, etc.) and is positioned as a lightweight complement to its paid monitoring tools. Datadog says Updog uses...
Patent Watch (@PatentWatchai) is building AI for patent infringements. Upload your patents and find infringing products so you can sell licenses or litigate. It generates detailed claim charts in 20 minutes instead of months, showing exactly which products infringe and how. https://t.co/Q1UX9iCwLR Congrats...
We're back! @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll + me: 🧵 1⃣The Great VC Shuffle: Benchmark's big hire 2⃣Why billion-dollar ARR companies that are "still early" 3⃣Why the smartest money might be doubling down on winners instead of hunting for the next big...

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority has designated Apple and Google as having “strategic market status” for their mobile platforms — covering operating systems, app stores, browsers and browser engines — enabling targeted regulatory interventions to boost competition. After investigations...
Being the best-kept secret is not a winning strategy for your business. You can’t sell to an empty room.

What's next, Adobe? Asking for a lien on my house to "protect against losing access to my Adobe plan"? https://t.co/ciqEYa3qqP
"The problem with prematurely turning your application into a range of services is chiefly that it violates the #1 rule of distribute computing: Don’t distribute your computing!" https://t.co/mYbAKIRvCf
The majestic monolith remains undefeated for the vast majority of web apps. Replacing method calls with network calls makes everything harder, slower, and more brittle. It should be the absolute last resort. https://t.co/ZuyGrwrM0Q
We just launched Crazy Egg Web Analytics. Clarity in one dashboard. Free forever. https://t.co/SKfnnQnTtF

Just dropped a new episode of The SaaS CFO Podcast with Ali Hussain, CEO & Co-founder of Tabs! 🚀 We dug into the rise of Revenue Automation, AI in finance ops, and what’s next for CFO tech stacks. Watch here 👉 https://t.co/DnEm2UuQMc #SaaS...
New!! "Who Will Buy The SaaS Companies?" https://t.co/m1tppdUsFM

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Congrats to @Saturn__OS on their $15M Series A! Saturn uses AI to automate compliance and admin work in UK financial advisory—cutting tasks that once took paraplanners 4 hours down to 20 minutes of review. This drops the cost to serve from £2,000...

AI is making everything look the same. Everything is trending towards a big text box asking "What do you want to do?" It won't be obvious how to respect our made-up product boundaries for users. For example why is "Show...

AI + video = huge market. This tool on @acquiredotcom helps creators generate and schedule short-form videos automatically. You can spin up YouTube Shorts, TikToks, and AI-style clips (even Pixar-like animations). Zero editing skills needed. > $107K TTM revenue > $79K profit > 100+ customers >...
Essential SaaS Metrics for Your Series A Raise My latest post is live. Prep now. Not later. https://lnkd.in/g9AvcStd
Smooth by @circlemind_ai is a real-time AI browser agent - and the fastest and most reliable one yet. It can autonomously perform any task on the web using mouse and keyboard. Infinitely scalable, production-ready, and secure, it's now available as a...
Most people think OpenAI is chasing WeChat's playbook. In reality, it's building something even bigger. Here's what's really happening In China, chat became the internet. You can book flights, pay bills, or order dinner inside one message window. That started in 2017 when WeChat...

We're hosting an event next week for CFOs and Finance Teams in San Francisco. Hear from CFOs and leaders who have adopted AI to reduce risks, drive better decisions, and deliver efficiencies across FP&A, including: Amol Hardikar, CFO @Replit @john__glasgow, CEO & Co-founder...
Somewhere along the way, growth stopped meaning progress and started meaning more. More features. More dashboards. More categories to chase. Every successful product faces this moment. You build something people love. It works. Then comes the temptation to widen the story....
Many of the private SaaS founders we work with don't realize that recognizing revenue in accordance with principles of GAAP and accrual accounting is not just a practice for publicly traded companies. We've found that SaaS founders, for convenience and in...
The "AI black box" is killing momentum in GTM teams. And it's no longer just a technical challenge, it's an architecture problem. That's the idea I explored in Chapter 2 of Ignite Your GTM with AI, a project brought to life by...
“Self-driving SaaS” @karrisaarinen has put into words what some of us SaaS junkies have been ranting to each other about privately.
No matter how great you are at acquiring new customers… If you keep losing customers due to churn… You’ll never reach significant amounts of revenue. SaaS businesses only work if you have churn under control. Here’s the big question…
Ruth from @VendrHQ is the AI negotiation agent for SaaS. Trained on data billions in spend data, she helps you benchmark prices, plan negotiations, and save money. https://t.co/7Y962NhyWR https://t.co/7mYfR4sVsy
Mulligan (https://t.co/KlkcVLe0fK) is an end-to-end AI automation platform for commercial insurance brokerages. It can quote, generate submissions and proposals, compare policies, and more. https://t.co/JgQmbPdU3T Congrats on the launch, @araghuvanshi2! https://t.co/onyFYz8ylh
Tempo (@Tempo_Labs) has raised $5M to build the best design tool for design engineers. Unlike other vibecoding tools, Tempo integrates with any React codebase and allows designers to control every pixel by hand. Congrats to the team! https://t.co/GmPMka8o0H https://t.co/27HsMZBzkd
Users don’t remember how much you can do. They remember how easy it was to do the thing they came for. Focus is a feature. Treat it like one.
Articulate (@Use_Articulate) is the construction and solar painkiller. It catches design issues early, auto-detects clashes, and generates RFls. It also streamlines crew communication and procurement to save millions of dollars and prevent costly delays. https://t.co/yrwr7oqADo Congrats on the launch, @milinds24 & @BlakePasse!
I discussed the problems with centralizing the internet (on us-east-1 in particular!) with @lexfridman just this summer: How we've strayed from DARPA's original design, forgotten how enjoyable and profitable owning servers can be, yet still can be thankful for the...