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This Week in SaaS July 7- July 13, 2026

The top M&A deals, venture deals, news, and blog posts of the week

By
Ryan Allis
July 13, 2026

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💸 Big SaaS VC Rounds

  1. Prime Intellect (enterprise AI agent training platform; SaaS) – raised a $130M Series A on July 8, 2026 at a $1B valuation; funds will scale its compute and reinforcement-learning tooling that lets enterprises train and run their own AI agents without relying on frontier labs.

  2. Oxylabs (web-data infrastructure for AI; SaaS) – raised a $130M growth investment from Warburg Pincus on July 9, 2026 at a $3.6B valuation; funds will accelerate its evolution from a premium proxy service into a full-stack web-data infrastructure platform for agentic applications.

  3. Ollama (open- and local-model AI runtime; SaaS) – raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, 2026; funds will expand its platform for running open-source and proprietary models locally and at scale.

  4. Velocity (revenue infrastructure for AI applications; SaaS) – raised a $27M seed round on July 8, 2026; funds will build out monetization and distribution rails for AI apps under a founding team of former ironSource and Unity executives.

  5. Alta (AI go-to-market agents for revenue teams; SaaS) – raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture on July 8, 2026; funds will expand its coordinated AI-agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development and add new CRM and advertising integrations.

  6. Agave (AI for construction financials; SaaS) – raised a $15M Series A led by Accel on July 7, 2026; funds will expand its AP automation, expense, compliance, and analytics tools used across 80,000+ construction projects.

  7. Infinia (fintech infrastructure; SaaS) – raised a $13.5M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures and Variant Fund on July 10, 2026; funds will expand its infrastructure connecting traditional banks with digital assets.

  8. EdVisorly (AI enrollment platform for higher education; SaaS) – raised a $13.3M Series A led by Breachway Capital on July 8, 2026; funds will scale its AI platform that automates college admissions and the transfer process for enrollment teams.

  9. wert Intelligence (patent and IP data solutions; SaaS) – raised a $10.88M Series B led by Altos Ventures on July 9, 2026; funds will grow its South Korea–based patent and intellectual-property data analytics platform.

🤝 SaaS M&A Deals

  • Infobip completed the acquisition of SocketLabs (undisclosed; enterprise email infrastructure, SaaS, US) – announced on July 9, 2026; this acquisition adds SocketLabs' deliverability observability and vendor-agnostic routing to Infobip's AI-first CPaaS platform and strengthens its Email Deliverability Agent.

  • Banyan Software acquired a majority stake in WIZE (undisclosed; wealth and asset management, SaaS, Switzerland) – announced on July 9, 2026; this acquisition brings WIZE's portfolio, CRM, and compliance platform serving 120+ institutions across 27 countries under Banyan's permanent-capital, buy-and-hold model.

  • Assent completed the acquisition of iPoint (undisclosed; supply-chain sustainability compliance, SaaS, Germany) – announced on July 9, 2026; Assent's first acquisition adds material and product compliance tooling to its supply-chain transparency platform.

  • Perfect Corp. agreed to be taken private by ProjectNY (~$2.00 per share, 48% premium; AI/AR beauty-tech, SaaS, Taiwan/US) – announced on July 10, 2026; the definitive merger led by Chairwoman Alice H. Chang's entity will take the Nasdaq-listed company private, giving it room to invest in AI and AR product development away from public-market pressure.

🚀 SaaS IPOs & S-1 Filings

  • Gloo Holdings (technology platform for faith and flourishing organizations; SaaS; US) – priced a public offering of 7.0M Class A shares at $3.25 for roughly $20.4M in net proceeds during the week (Nasdaq: GLOO); proceeds will fund general corporate purposes including acquisitions, technology investments, and working capital.

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See you next week with the next edition ofThis Week in SaaS.

-Ryan Allis, CEO of SaasRise