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If you ever think “Should I fire this person?” even once—fire them kindly, but … well … now. This is going to be controversial. But hear me out. I used to think you should give people the benefit of the doubt. Coach them. Give them another quarter. Maybe they just need more time to ramp.... Continue Reading
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Co-founded by a former Uber Freight product manager, and backed by Uber's lead seed investor, FleetWorks is quickly scooping up customers in the trucking world.
Aquawise uses satellite images and a physics-based AI model to monitor and predict water quality at aquaculture farms.
Aquawise uses satellite images and a physics-based AI model to monitor and predict water quality at aquaculture farms.
Christopher Savoie, one of the original inventors behind the AI system that led to Apple’s Siri, has raised over 2M for SiC Systems, a startup combining agentic AI and quantum sensing technologies f...
Oura, the Finnish health tech startup known for its popular smart rings, has raised over $900m in a new funding round, valuing the startup at “approximately $11bn”, it said.The funding round was led b...
The Celbridge transition year student represented Ireland at Africa’s largest science fair. Read more: Kildare student wins international award for quantum cybersecurity project
Launch and monetize your own branded AI chat Discussion | Link
Fiona O’Carroll explains her working day and why you can't beat getting face to face with your team. Read more: ‘Digital tools dominate the workplace but nothing beats in-person interactions’
Strawberry, an agentic browser with built-in, personalised AI companions,has raised $6 million led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, withparticipation from founders of Lovable, Supabase, and Huggi...
London-based Clove, a new challenger inpersonal finance and wealth management, has emerged from stealth with a $14million pre-seed round led by Accel. The round also saw participation from Kindred Cap...
Sometimes the most compelling startup ideas are born from simple, everyday problems that demand a tech-first fix. Take two UK founders who bootstrapped through COVID and are now the global leader in t...
Anique Drumright, VP of Product for IT at Rippling, shared how Rippling does it at SaaStr Annual + AI Summit. And see everyone at SaaStr AI 2026 on May 12-14 in SF Bay!! Most B2B companies follow the same playbook: Build one product. Perfect it. Scale it. Move slowly and deliberately. Delegate early and often.... Continue Reading
Under the motto “Connecting Europe”, Bits & Pretzels once again underscored its ambition to be the central platform for founders, investors, and decision-makers in Europe. Coinciding with Oktoberf...
Dear SaaStr: How Many Calls Can an Enterprise AE Self-Source Per Week? The 50+ calls per day for a many SDRs still holds. But it doesn’t really work for an enterprise AE trying to generate a material portion of their pipeline themselves in large accounts. For enterprise AEs self-sourcing their own pipeline, the number of... Continue Reading
Hear, see and feel your own heartbeat Discussion | Link
The Serbia-born CEO of Nvidia-backed UK AI voice startup PolyAI has a nice way with words.The US is the “new Rome” which “demands loyalty”, says Nikola Mrkšić; meeting his wife during a spell internin...
Lachy Groom backs Airbound in $8.65M seed round as it launches pilot in Bengaluru.
As part of its strategy for a Dublin-based HQ, Foodhub is looking to hire for senior positions in technology, sales and customer service. Read more: Foodhub relocation of global HQ to create 35 new jobs in Dublin
RetailiPaaS provider Patchworks has closed a 5 million round to support its next phase of growth. The round was led by Gresham House Ventures, with growth lendingfrom Palatine Growth Credit.Retailers...
Exploration and innovation at NASA has taken a hit with the announcement that 10pc of staff at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory are to be laid off. Read more: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to lay off 10pc of workforce
Visa is introducing a new security framework designed to solve one of the thorniest problems emerging in artificial intelligence-powered commerce: how retailers can tell the difference between legitimate AI shopping assistants and the malicious bots that plague their websites.The payments giant unveiled its Trusted Agent Protocol on Tuesday, establishing what it describes as foundational infrastructure for "agentic...
French quantum hardware startup Isentroniq closed a7.5 million funding round led by Heartcore with participation from OVNICapital, Kima Ventures, iXcore, Better Angle, Epsilon VC, as well as the supp...
Afori, a new AI platform purpose-built for insurancebrokers, announced its official launch out of stealth alongside the closing ofa 4 million pre-seed funding round. The round was led by General Cata...
Arbio, a pioneer in the service-heavy property rental sector, is announcing a $36 million Series A funding round, bringing the company's total funding to over $45 million. Arbio is a full-stack AI-f...
A new study has found that women are at greater risk of dementia if they enter menopause at an earlier age. Read more: Galway study finds increased dementia risk with early menopause
Presented by Tulsa Innovation LabsTulsa was once called "the oil capital of the world,” and since its launch in 2022, Rose Rock Bridge (RRB), a Tulsa-based non-profit startup incubator led by Tulsa Innovation Labs, has been capitalizing on this heritage, aiming to source and support emerging technologies targeting the energy sector. To create a tech economy that becomes foundational to the future of the sustainable...
Build your won ChatGPT for $100 on a single GPU Discussion | Link
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are gaining renewed attention for developing and open sourcing a technique that allows large language models (LLMs) — like those underpinning ChatGPT and most modern AI chatbots — to improve themselves by generating synthetic data to fine-tune upon. The technique, known as SEAL (Self-Adapting LLMs), was first described in a paper published back in June and...
Enterprises often find that when they fine-tune models, one effective approach to making a large language model (LLM) fit for purpose and grounded in data is to have the model lose some of its abilities. After fine-tuning, some models “forget” how to perform certain tasks or other tasks they already learned.Research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign proposes a new method for retraining models that avoids...
Instantly blur your screen for privacy or content creation Discussion | Link
This Canadian Thanksgiving, there are a number of organisations with an Irish identity looking to add to their teams as they scale and grow. Read more: Which Canadian companies are recruiting in Ireland this Thanksgiving?
This Canadian Thanksgiving, there are a number of organisations with an Irish identity looking to add to their teams as they scale and grow. Read more: Jobs: Which Canadian companies are recruiting this Thanksgiving?