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Did Windsurf Sell Too Cheap? The Wild 72-Hour Saga and AI Coding Valuations

The last 72 hours in AI coding have been nothing short of extraordinary. What started as a potential $3 billion OpenAI acquisition of Windsurf ended with Google poaching Windsurf’s CEO and co-founders for $2.4 billion, while Cognition swooped in to acquire the remaining company. With Windsurf generating $82 million in ARR with enterprise revenue doubling... Continue Reading

Published on: July 14, 2025 | Source: SaaStr favicon SaaStr

Mistral’s Le Chat adds deep research agent and voice mode to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance

Mistral added deep research capabilities to its Le Chat platform, bringing it in direct competition against ChatGPT and Gemini.

Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’

Scientists unite to warn that a critical window for monitoring AI reasoning may close forever as models learn to hide their thoughts.

Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Dear SaaStr: When Is a Good Time for Founders to Sell Some of Their Stock?

Dear SaaStr: When Is a Good Time for Founders to Sell Some of Their Stock? What are the rough guidelines for “seconday” sales if you aren’t Stripe or Databricks or OpenAI? Secondary sales can be a great tool—when done right. I was offered secondary when Adobe Sign / EchoSign was crossing $10m ARR, and I... Continue Reading

Published on: July 19, 2025 | Source: SaaStr favicon SaaStr

Cognition acquires Windsurf after Google licensing deal

Cognition plans to integrate Windsurf’s capabilities into its own products. Read more: Cognition acquires Windsurf after Google licensing deal

Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Ordio secures €12M to revolutionize payroll automation

Ordio, the People Operating System designed for deskless industries, has raised 12 million in a Series A funding round to launch “Payroll Plus,” the first fully automated payroll solution for deskles...

Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering

Diarrha N'Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, hinted that one of the problems was tension between her and investors' expectations of a consumer retail business.

Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there

A senior engineer describes the thrill, chaos, and exhaustion of working at OpenAI this past year while launching its coding agent Codex.

Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

Rydoo acquires Semine to power next-gen finance automation across Europe

Expense management solutions provider Rydoo, a global leader in expense management solutions, has announced the acquisition of Semine, a provider of AI-powered accounts payable automation (APA) techno...

Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

10 Things Startups Get Wrong Selling to Developers and Engineers (from the CRO Who Scaled Databricks from

Lessons from Ron Gabrisco, CRO at Databricks, who joined when the company had less than $1M ARR and helped scale it to become one of the largest pre-IPO companies in the world. Selling to developers and engineers isn’t like selling to any other buyer. They’re skeptical of salespeople, they value technical depth over flashy demos,... Continue Reading

Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source: SaaStr favicon SaaStr