Top exits, deals, news, and blog posts of the week
I break down when to raise venture capital, how much to take, from whom, and on what terms, plus how to protect your control and spend the money wisely once it lands.
The SaasRise Mastermind meeting on October 13, 2026 featured discussions among SaaS CEOs and founders on these topics.
October 13, 2026
This week's SaasRise discussions covered how SaaS leaders are adopting AI without sacrificing security, predictability, or customer trust. The conversations focused on agents and automation, enterprise data governance, new acquisition channels, and whether to build or buy the tools that run the business.
A new generation of CRMs reads your email, listens to your calls, and updates itself. Here is what one founder learned after switching, what it costs, and why another founder barely opens his CRM anymore.
SaaS is not dying, but the way software gets built, sold, and priced is changing fast. Here are the three moves that keep an established software company ahead, and the margin trap that catches AI-only businesses.
The SaasRise Mastermind meetings on September 30, 2026 featured discussions among SaaS CEOs and founders on these topics.
This is what we discussed today in the Enterprise SaaS CEO and Founder Mastermind
A founder who sold his last company and started fresh built an AI agent that turns event and webinar invites into a lead engine, because dated, specific asks get through people's AI filters when generic pitches don't.
One SaaS founder is building an outbound and lead-gen agency where internal AI tooling drives service costs down toward software margins. Here's the model, and what it takes to actually build it.
As founders wire AI agents into their CRM, project management, Slack, and email, direct one-off integrations stop scaling fast. Here's why a gateway layer, not more point-to-point connections, is the fix.
