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This Week in SaaS June 30 - July 6, 2026

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

By
Ryan Allis
July 6, 2026

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📚 New Blog Posts

  1. How to Build a Combined and Deduped ABM Lead List
  2. CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of June 30 - July 2, 2026

💸 Big SaaS VC Rounds

  1. Together AI (AI-native cloud for open-source model inference and training; SaaS) – raised an $800M Series C at an $8.3B valuation on July 1; funds will expand its inference products and scale its infrastructure footprint roughly 50-fold over the next five years. Led by Aramco Ventures, with Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, NVIDIA, and Salesforce Ventures.

  2. Skello (AI-powered HR and workforce-management software; SaaS) – raised a €200M (~$217M) growth round on July 5; funds will consolidate its France leadership, accelerate European expansion, and grow headcount in AI roles. Led by Bridgepoint.

  3. Higharc (AI-native platform for the homebuilding industry; SaaS) – raised a $95M Series C on June 30; funds will scale AI product development and roll out its AI Estimating product for building-materials distributors. Led by Insight Partners, with Wellington Management.

  4. Venice AI (privacy-first AI platform offering 200+ models; SaaS) – raised a $65M Series A at a $1B valuation on July 1; funds will expand core engineering, procure GPU compute, and accelerate enterprise-grade zero-knowledge data-security solutions. Led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase Ventures.

  5. Jota (Brazilian conversational-AI fintech for MEIs and small businesses; SaaS) – raised a $30M Series A at a $185M post-money valuation on July 1; funds will launch an integrated lending product and Jota 3.0, a more proactive AI agent on a subscription model. Led by Haun Ventures.

  6. LinqAlpha (AI intelligence layer for institutional investors in public markets; SaaS) – raised a $22M Series A on July 2; funds will expand its global team, deepen market and alternative-data integrations, and accelerate its multi-agent platform across equities, macro, credit, and multi-asset strategies. Anchored by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures.

  7. Ognomy Sleep (virtual-first sleep-medicine platform; SaaS) – raised a $20M Series A on June 30; funds will expand its AI-enabled clinical platform, develop wearable-device integrations, and strengthen healthcare partnerships. Led by Catalyst Investors, with Blue Heron Capital.

  8. StirlingX (UK sovereign data-intelligence and autonomy platform for defence and critical infrastructure; SaaS) – raised a $20M Series A on July 2; funds will accelerate product development and scale operations with defence ministries and government agencies. Backed by Ventura Capital and Rokos Capital Management.

  9. Pie (AI-powered growth and customer-acquisition platform for small businesses; SaaS) – raised a $19.5M Series A on June 30; funds will scale its platform distribution model, deepen its AI product suite, and expand the team as it emerges from stealth. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Capital One Ventures.

  10. Sherpa.ai (privacy-preserving, federated-learning AI for regulated industries; SaaS) – raised $18M on July 6; funds will enhance its AI platform, expand international operations, and advance data-sovereign AI for healthcare, finance, and government. Led by Forgepoint Capital, with Mundi Ventures.

  11. AB180 (South Korean marketing-technology company behind the Airbridge measurement platform; SaaS) – raised a $15M Series C on July 4; funds will fuel AI and big-data R&D, global market expansion, and its AI-native Airbridge GO marketing agent. Led by Atinum Investment, with Storm Ventures.

  12. BR-DGE (Edinburgh-based payment-orchestration platform; SaaS) – raised a $13M growth round on July 1; funds will enhance platform capabilities, expand go-to-market activity, and support geographic growth ahead of new product launches in H2. Backed by Bettor Capital and existing investors.

  13. Kapture CX (India-based verticalized agentic-AI platform for enterprise CX; SaaS) – raised a $10M pre-Series B on July 2; funds will drive expansion into global markets and continued R&D as it targets 5x revenue growth. Led by Bajaj Finserv Ventures.

🚀 SaaS IPOs & S-1 Filings

  • Bending Spoons priced its IPO and debuted on Nasdaq (Milan-based consumer-software holding company behind Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove, StreamYard, Vimeo, and AOL; SaaS; Europe/U.S.) – priced its IPO at $29.00 per share on June 30 and began trading under ticker "BSP" on July 1; the company and selling shareholders raised roughly $1.68B, and shares closed their first session up about 40% at $40.50, implying a market capitalization near $25.7B and testing public-market appetite for acquire-and-optimize software portfolios.

🧠 Key Takeaways

  • Small, high-paid, high-intensity teams are becoming the AI-era edge – Jason Lemkin argues that AI won't shorten the workweek for winners; the companies pulling ahead pair lean, well-compensated teams with intense execution, and total software spend is still growing ~15% this year, so AI-first challengers are taking deals from slower incumbents.

  • You can't count on 2026 growth without tapping AI budgets – SaaStr makes the case that new AI line-items, not flat existing software budgets, are where incremental spend is flowing; founders should reposition their product to capture that budget rather than competing for shrinking legacy allocations.

  • Protect logo retention and GRR as CS gets restructured around AI – As AI absorbs a growing share of support tickets, Lemkin urges founders to keep customer success focused on gross retention and resist the trend of CS reporting into sales, so renewals and net revenue retention don't quietly erode.

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

-Ryan Allis, CEO of SaasRise