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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•Oct 14, 2025
Gmail Now Uses AI to Help You Find Meeting Times
Google has introduced a new AI-powered feature in Gmail called "Help me schedule," which streamlines the process of finding and suggesting meeting times based on users' Google Calendar availability and the context of email exchanges. By utilizing the Gemini AI, this feature allows users to quickly insert suggested time slots into their emails, facilitating smoother scheduling interactions. Currently, the tool supports one-on-one meetings and is being rolled out to Workspace customers and Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. This innovation not only enhances user productivity but also reinforces Google's competitive edge in the AI-driven productivity space, potentially increasing user engagement with its suite of applications.
By The Verge
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Greeting the Community with a Friendly Hello
Hi everyone,
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Blueprint Hub Delivers Proven
It's one thing to put a tool in people's hands. It's another to show them exactly how to use it to achieve the results they need. That's why I'm SO excited about the new Blueprints hub our team just launched! We're putting...
By Latane Conant
Blog•Oct 14, 2025
If You Ever Think “Should I Fire This Person?” Even Once … Well, Then It’s Time
A new article emphasizes that managers should act decisively when doubts about an employee's performance arise, suggesting that if a leader contemplates firing someone even once, they should proceed with the termination. The piece argues that extending additional chances may...
By SaaStr
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Master Venture Capital to Accelerate SaaS Growth
Lesson 19 of 30 SaaS Growth System: How to Raise Venture Capital 滋 In this lesson, I dive into the world of venture capital, growth funding and the intricate process of securing investments for high-growth technology companies. I share insights on the...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Founder Q&A: Prioritize Exit Strategies, Marketing, and Product Fit
You're working hard, but are you focused on what really matters? In this solo episode, I answer founder questions about: → Management buyouts vs traditional exits → Marketing that's not scaling → How to find product-market fit with a product already built → Where...
By Rob Walling
Blog•Oct 14, 2025
Everyone Should Be Using Claude Code More
In a recent discussion, Lenny highlighted the transformative potential of Claude Code, an AI tool that operates locally on users' devices, significantly enhancing productivity for non-technical individuals. Unlike cloud-based solutions, Claude Code boasts capabilities such as file organization, image enhancement,...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Interactive Demos Unlock Real User Insights Beyond Video
What does it mean to be a Navattic Fanatic? 論 論 論 I've been a huge fan of Navattic before interactive demos were even a big deal. (Now they are bc they're amazing at letting ppl test drive your product...
By Anna Furmanov
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Connecting with Product‑led Founders at SaaStock Dublin
We're live from SaaStock Dublin If you're a product-led founder here, let's connect!
By Wes Bush
Podcast•Oct 14, 2025•32 min
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In this solo episode, Rob Walling tackles listener questions about SaaS growth, explaining how to respond when marketing channels stop scaling and offering strategies for promoting a product still seeking product‑market fit. He advises founders to publish early‑stage content on...
By Startups For the Rest of Us
Social•Oct 14, 2025
SaaS & AI Landscape Shifts: Funding, M&A, IPO Surge
Major SaaS and AI funding rounds, notable acquisitions, and big moves from Salesforce and Google. It also highlights new IPOs and key takeaways on consolidation, M&A readiness, and the shifting SaaS market landscape.
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 14, 2025
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This Week in SaaS | Oct 6 – 13, 2025 SaaS VC Rounds >$15M EvenUp (AI legal & insurance claims): $150M Series E, $2B+ valuation; fuels product scale & global expansion. DUOS (AI + digital health): $130M growth equity; expands platform across...
By Ryan Allis
Blog•Oct 14, 2025
Everyone Should Be Using Claude Code More
How to get started, and 50 ways non-technical people are using Claude Code in their work and life
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Oct 14, 2025
The B2B SaaS Growth System: How to Build a Predictable Engine for Scaling
The post presents the B2B SaaS Growth System, a step‑by‑step framework designed to help mid‑market and enterprise SaaS firms break the $3‑10M ARR ceiling by creating a predictable, data‑driven customer‑acquisition engine. It centers on four pillars—account‑based marketing list building, a...
By SaasRise
News•Oct 14, 2025
This Week in SaaS Oct 6 - 13, 2025
The post recaps the week’s major SaaS activity, highlighting ten large VC rounds (including EvenUp’s $150M Series E and several AI‑focused raises) and a wave of strategic M&A deals such as Itron’s $325M acquisition of Urbint and Caterpillar’s $728M purchase of...
By SaasRise
Podcast•Oct 14, 2025•50 min
From One Email to a Global SaaS: Sam Spencer on Product-Market Fit, Team Building, and the Power of Process
Sam Spencer, CEO of Aristotle Metadata, explains how a single urgent email sparked product‑market fit and set the stage for a decade of SaaS scaling driven by process and incremental steps. He emphasizes building a scrappy prototype over perfect plans,...
By SaaS Stories
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Know Buyers' Past Valuations to Set Realistic Expectations
In terms of valuation, it's important to consider a buyer's historical track record. Understanding how buyers have valued businesses in the past will give you clues to whether they're a value buyer or premium buyer. Also, in the event that a...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Mod AI Slashes Invoice Processing Time by 83%
Mod AI (@usemodai) automates the manual work of processing invoices for growing enterprises. They've already helped accounting teams of 1-20+ streamline and cut invoice processing time by 83%. https://t.co/jabxZXj7kM https://t.co/wXpEWZwxa8
By YCombinator
News•Oct 13, 2025
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Oct 8, 2025
The SaasRise Mastermind recap delivered a rapid‑fire set of tactical recommendations for SaaS founders, covering finance (capitalizing development costs to boost EBITDA), AI integration (simple OCR pipelines, sandboxed APIs, and short‑term AI‑driven email outreach), and market‑specific pricing (usage‑based models for...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Proof Over Potential: Deliver, Learn, or Be Replaced
The market doesn’t care about your potential. It rewards proof. Every demo, every launch, every interaction is just a test of whether you can translate conviction into clarity. You either learn faster than the world changes or you get replaced...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Ergo Adds AI Layer to Transform Messy CRMs
Ergo (@joinergo) is building the AI layer Salesforce forgot to ship. They turn messy CRMs into reliable revenue engines for companies like @rhobusiness, @getdelve, and @WhopIO - updating data, surfacing at-risk deals, and delivering the insights GTM teams actually need. https://t.co/6sgtv7jZ8d
By YCombinator
News•Oct 13, 2025
Webinar: The B2B SaaS Growth System
The post promotes a webinar and upcoming 16‑week Done‑With‑You B2B SaaS Growth Program that teaches a seven‑step system for building a repeatable customer acquisition engine, covering ABM lead list creation, AI‑personalized outbound, content scaling, digital ad strategies, and SDR/AE team...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Trust Your Vision Over VCs After Market Shifts
💡 “Even the smartest VCs can be wrong — you need conviction.” Brett Carlson, CEO @ServiceUp, shares how market shifts after Facebook’s IPO taught him to trust his vision over investor noise. 🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/Oal69L1wsJ #SaaS https://t.co/DU8heVIQ6y
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 14, 2025
AI-Driven Digitization Boosts Infrastructure Safety and Efficiency
"We're excited to see this level of investment and focus placed on the safety, efficiency, and security of these industries. Digitizing the world's infrastructure unlocks real-world value, and Al is improving the resiliency of these operations," Sanjit Biswas, CEO @Samsara...
By Meagen Eisenberg
News•Oct 13, 2025
This Week in SaaS: Sep 29 – Oct 6, 2025
The post reviews a wave of AI‑centric SaaS fundraises, highlighting major rounds for Vercel, Glean, and others, and notes that 2025 venture capital remains strong, especially for AI‑native companies. It also details a series of strategic M&A moves, such as...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Early ICP Focus Drives Faster, More Efficient Growth
"The sooner you focus on that ICP, the more efficient you can be." -- Every Founder I work with after we do an ICP exercise and growth ensues. https://t.co/fGNWM6wYxM
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 14, 2025
AI Assistants Boost Leads and Jobs for Home Services
Bravi (@BraviApp) is building AI voice & chat assistants for home service companies. Their platform helps installers & manufacturers capture every lead, respond instantly, and close more jobs. https://t.co/wwixfsipaX https://t.co/uIbSlD0B4W
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Designers Coding Their Own UI Speeds Product Cycles
3 big AI improvements to quality & quantity of design at @intercom, @Fin_ai 1. All designers ship code - fixing not filing bugs, improving product UX 2. Vibe coding the roadmap - see the future and accelerate design cycles 3. Owning the frontend...
By Des Traynor
Social•Oct 14, 2025
Benchmark Your SaaS Marketing with 2025 Survey
You should fill out The 2025 State of SaaS Marketing Survey, hosted by @coreyhainesco. It’s short, just a few minutes, and will help you + other founders and marketers understand how you stack up against the rest of the industry. https://t.co/Z83nhGRe5L
By Rob Walling
Social•Oct 13, 2025
2000+ Public Agents, 54k Citizen‑Built Private Agents
Woo hoo! There are now 2,000+ public agents on Agent.ai and we've made it easier to search/discover them. And, if you can't quite find what you're looking for, you can use our Agent Builder to create your own. 54,000+ private...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Legal Micro‑dramas Surge when Success Finally Arrives
The Problem Folks Don't Talk About Enough: The Stressful Legal Micro-Dramas That Come Just as Thing Start Getting Good
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Strong M&A Offers in Frothy Markets Rarely Improve Later
There are many good reasons to say “No” to a strong M&A offer. Many of our top leaders in tech had multiple M&A offers on the way at a small fraction of their current value. Ross Perot famously offered to buy...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 13, 2025
OpenAI's Bubble Burst Could Cripple the Entire AI Economy
Will OpenAI be the canary in the coal mine? AI Story of the Week: It's OpenAI's Bubble, and We're Just Living in It... For those of you who primarily know me for SaaS Metrics - there is something else that I have...
By Ray Rike
Social•Oct 13, 2025
UiPath Drives Real Results with Open Agentic AI Partnerships
Thank you Jon Fortt and Morgan L Brennan for having me on Closing Bell Overtime today to speak about the momentum we are seeing at UiPath. As I shared, the growth of agentic AI is not hype and the customers taking...
By Daniel Dines
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Re‑imagining the SDLC for a Post‑AI World
Tomorrow in New York I'll be speaking at Canvas( Miro's massive customer event) on AI Transformation and how to re-imagine your SDLC (software development lifecycle) for a post-AI World. (example slide included) Yes it will be recorded & live streamed...
By Des Traynor
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Title Your Startup Manifesto to Fuel Growth
Every Founder must write a Manifesto. Writing one is one of the most effective way to generate attention and pipeline. But here's the thing... You can't call it a Manifesto. You have to give it a meaningful title. On this week's Unstoppable episode, I go...
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 13, 2025
AI Is Redefining Buyer Behavior—GTM Must Evolve
Congrats to the Topline team on their launch of Topline Media! AI is reshaping buyer behavior. GTM needs to keep up. I'll be sharing a few perspectives in an upcoming post, but also looking forward to learning from others in...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Oct 13, 2025
AI Defies SaaS Rituals; Embrace Hypothesis over Fixed Roadmaps
SaaS let you win by drawing straight lines. Requirements in, code out. QA ran their checklist. Customers got exactly what the roadmap promised. The whole machine ran on one idea. If you could predict it, you could control it. AI ignores your...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Design‑First Philosophy Drives Linear’s Fast, Quality Products
Karri Saarinen (@karrisaarinen), co-founder and CEO of Linear, was the first designer at Coinbase and a lead designer at Airbnb. On Design Review with YC's @aaron_epstein, he shares how his design background shaped Linear's product philosophy, why quality and craft matter...
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Interview with Canva's Most
I’ve got @MelanieCanva, CEO of Canva, coming on the podcast this week. She’s the most successful female tech founder in history. And one of the most successful founders in history, period. What would you love to learn from her?
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Nanonets Launches OCR2: Image-to-Markdown for All
After 1M+ downloads of their previous model, @nanonets is launching Nanonets-OCR2, a next-gen suite for image-to-markdown conversion & visual QA. From LaTeX math & tables → mermaid charts, signatures → watermarks. It handles it all. https://t.co/qK76htUkO6
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Aim for ROSE $1.50+ to Scale SaaS Efficiently
Want a PE exit or a durable SaaS business? Track this metric. 💡 ROSE = Return on SaaS Employees It shows how efficiently your team drives recurring revenue. Hit $1.50+ and you’re scaling smart. 🎥 https://t.co/VPN9Qc0set #SaaSMetrics #SaaSFinance https://t.co/91Z4lKzqGJ
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Pulse AI Unveils Ultra Nano: Self‑Hosted Enterprise Document Extractor
.@Pulse__AI just launched Ultra Nano, their new enterprise-focused document extraction model with complete self-hosting, already running across Fortune 50s, insurers, investment firms, banks, and foundational model labs. https://t.co/Yvoajxl8Gy Congrats on the launch, @sid_mnk and @ritvikpandey21!
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Close Deals via DMs, Skip Endless Zoom Calls
It’s wild how people still spend hours on Zoom trying to close deals… Half won’t ever buy. The other half ghost you. When I started closing deals in DMs, everything changed. Zero sales calls, but my company keeps growing. How? Comment "SALES" for my Sell...
By Dan Martell
Social•Oct 13, 2025
AI Analyzer Instantly Scores Your Pitch Deck's Funding Odds
Don't go into fundraising ... in the dark Try the NEW SaaStr AI Pitch Deck Analyzer Find out in seconds: - Where you stand - Odds of getting funded - Where to improve your deck ...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Create Studio-Quality AI Video Ads in Minutes
🐦@_claybird is an agent that plans, generates, and edits your AI video ad. Marketers rely on slow, expensive agencies to produce ads. With Claybird, they go from idea to studio-quality ad in minutes. https://t.co/PFE7rJVOPl Congrats @_AbdullahNauman & @sadjamz_! https://t.co/5yANw2t8hj
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Dbt Labs and Fivetran Merge, Creating $600M ARR Powerhouse
Huge congrats to the @dbt_labs and @fivetran teams on their merger! Cant wait to see what they accomplish together The combined company will have ~$600m ARR and north of 10k customers https://t.co/6mGdI01dap
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Automate Recruiting Back‑Office, Cut Costs 60%
Clicks (https://t.co/gxJWa7Xl6V) automates repetitive back-office work for recruiting & executive search firms, saving 60% on costs while reducing time-to-close. Describe your process via video call or documentation, and they'll ensure it's automated exactly your way. https://t.co/R6f6da7EYS
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Automation Slashes Compliance Time and Consulting Costs
ComplyDo (@ComplyD0) automates how enterprises comply with hundreds of global regulations. Already used by leading global players to replace months of manual work, reduce consulting hours, and accelerate market access. Without a fleet of consultants. https://t.co/VpcLqrcbeT Congrats on the launch, @SchuhmannLeo, Moritz, and...
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 13, 2025
Top Sales Reps Do the Heavy Lifting for Prospects
A great sales rep does most of the work for the prospect: Does the scheduling Does the demos Solves the problem Helps sell other stakeholders Follows up Simplifies deployment Yes, this is a lot more work than sending a Calendly link the next day, I do admit
By Jason Lemkin