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This Week in SaaS May 26 - June 1, 2026

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

By
Ryan Allis
June 1, 2026

💻 AI Coding Bootcamp - June 22-25, 2026

Registration is open for the SaasRise AI Coding Bootcamp (June 22–25), a four-day live Zoom workshop teaching companies how to implement AI-first agentic engineering workflows with QA, testing, security, CI, and Claude Code best practices. Separate beginner and advanced tracks help founders, PMs, engineers, and CTOs accelerate R&D velocity 5–10x. Four hours per day. Apply to join here. We recommend enrolling at least two engineers and one product manager per company.

📚 New Blog Posts

  1. Vertical SaaS MA VC Report 2026
  2. AI Coding: Using Claude Skills, MCP Servers, and Sub-agents
  3. CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of May 25 - 28, 2026

💸 Big SaaS VC Rounds

  1. Anthropic (frontier AI lab; AI SaaS / API; US) – raised a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation on May 28, 2026; funds will advance safety and interpretability research, expand compute to meet surging demand for Claude, and scale enterprise products and partnerships, pushing run-rate revenue past $47B and leapfrogging OpenAI in private-market valuation.

  2. Cognition (autonomous AI software-engineering agents; AI dev-tools SaaS; US) – raised more than $1B at a $26B post-money valuation on May 27, 2026, co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC, with Ribbit Capital, Atreides Management and Founders Fund participating; funds will scale its Devin coding agent (now writing >90% of internal code) and expand enterprise deployments at customers including Goldman Sachs, Mercedes-Benz, NASA and Santander after revenue run-rate climbed 13x year-over-year to $492M.

  3. Capchase (AI-powered vendor financing for enterprise tech sales; fintech SaaS; US) – raised $200M+ (≈$26M equity + $174M credit facility) on May 27, 2026, led by 01 Advisors with Caffeinated Capital, Thomvest Ventures, Scifi VC, Bling Capital and Invesco; funds will scale its embedded financing infrastructure globally and roll out its Agentic Lending Coordinator, which compresses 8-hour loan packaging into ~60-second automations.

  4. Corgi (full-stack commercial insurance platform; insurtech SaaS; US) – raised a $106M Series B at a $2.6B valuation on May 28, 2026, led by TCV with Prime Capital, Zone 2 Ventures, Kindred Ventures and others; funds will accelerate expansion into trucking, small business and sports verticals, three weeks after Corgi closed a $160M Series B at $1.3B — bringing total funding to $378M.

  5. Inherent (self-improving AI for scientific discovery; AI research SaaS; UK) – raised $50M on May 29, 2026, led by Index Ventures with Radical Ventures, NVIDIA's NVentures, Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures and Mythos Ventures; funds will build out the "Faraday" platform aimed at combining human research with AI to identify high-value scientific questions, in one of Europe's largest 2026 stealth-to-launch rounds.

  6. Saris (agentic AI workflow automation for banks and credit unions; vertical SaaS; US) – raised a $28.8M Series A on May 28, 2026, led by 8VC with Audacious Ventures, Homebrew, Btech Consortium and Service Ventures; funds will deepen integrations with Fiserv, Encompass and MeridianLink and expand AI agents that automate up to 70% of lending, compliance and operations tasks.

  7. LightTable (AI-native pre-construction QA/QC platform; vertical SaaS; US) – raised a $22M Series A on May 27, 2026, led by Innovation Endeavors with Blackhorn Ventures, DivcoWest Ventures, 9Yards Capital and existing backers Primary Venture Partners, MetaProp and Banter Capital; funds will scale the platform (which catches 70% of design errors vs. 30% for human-only review) and expand internationally.

  8. Solstice (AI-native pharma commercialization platform; vertical SaaS; US) – raised a $21M Series A on May 28, 2026, led by Transformation Capital with Twelve Below and Virtue Ventures; funds will accelerate product development and GTM expansion for an AI platform that takes pharma marketing assets from concept to MLR-approved in roughly 10 days, vs. 3 months traditionally.

  9. Tensormesh (KV-cache-based AI inference platform; AI infrastructure SaaS; US) – raised a $20M seed extension on May 27, 2026, with AMD Ventures, CoreWeave, NVentures (NVIDIA), Valley Capital Partners and Laude Ventures, bringing total funding to $24.5M; funds will accelerate product development, deepen integrations with AMD, CoreWeave and NVIDIA, and scale its serverless inference offering claiming up to 10x reductions in GPU spend and latency.

  10. Signos (AI + CGM-based metabolic health platform; digital health SaaS; US) – raised $20M on May 27–28, 2026 from Dexcom, GV and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama; funds will scale the platform alongside a new commercial partnership making Signos available through Dexcom's direct-to-consumer Stelo CGM system, capitalizing on a 10x growth surge over the prior six months.

  11. MokN (active identity recovery / anti-credential-theft platform; cybersecurity SaaS; France) – raised a $15M Series A on May 29, 2026, led by GV (Google Ventures' first French investment) with Datadog and existing backers Moonfire and OVNI Capital; funds will expand product portfolio, R&D and operations across France, the US and the UK for its "Baits" decoy-portal product protecting Fortune Global 500 customers.

  12. allO (AI-native operating system for restaurants; vertical SaaS; Germany) – raised a $14M Series A on May 27, 2026, led by Zigg Capital with LifeX Ventures, Aperture, Wecken & Cie., 20VC and Keen Venture Partners; funds will scale POS + AI-agent product (with active locations growing 6x and revenue 3.5x year-over-year) and launch its first Reservation and Ordering voice agent across Europe.

🤝 SaaS M&A Deals

  • Autodesk announced its agreement to acquire MaintainX (~$3.6B all-cash; AI-powered work-order and maintenance-management platform, vertical SaaS, US) – announced on May 28, 2026; the deal is Autodesk's largest acquisition ever and folds MaintainX (expected >$135M ARR in 2026, growth >50%) into a new Autodesk Operations Solutions unit alongside Tandem and Fusion Operations, extending Autodesk from design into factory and facility operations workflows. Closing targeted for as early as August 3, 2026, subject to regulatory approval.

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

-Ryan Allis, CEO of SaasRise