All Posts

This Week in SaaS Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2026

Top exits, deals, news, and blog posts of the week

By
Ryan Allis
February 2, 2026

✨ Pulse Update

Last week we beta launched Pulse, an AI-curated technology news application. Please create an account and follow SaasRise and Ryan Allis. It’s the first application of its kind to curate and summarize tech and business news from traditional news publishers as well as YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, Twitter, and blogs. Pulse also creates AI-generated daily and weekly email newsletter digests for each topic. Follow a few of your favorite topics, creators, publishers, companies, and investors to curate your own daily “My Pulse.” Here are the most active topics so far. 

The B2B SaaS Growth Program Cohort 5 will start on March 12. Apply here for your company.

📚 New Blog Posts & Videos

  1. How to Get Ahead of 99% of SaaS Companies 🎥
  2. Enterprise SaaS Marketing in 2026: What’s Actually Working
  3. The Modern AI Coding Revolution
  4. The New Way to Build a SaaS in 2026 With AI Coding Tools
  5. How to Actually Do SEO in 2026
  6. What Is a Good Monthly and Annual Churn Rate for a SaaS Company?
  7. How to Scientifically Scale Ad Spend to Acquire More Customers
  8. A Masterclass in Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
  9. CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of Jan 26 - 29, 2026

💸 Big SaaS VC Rounds 

  1. Summize (AI contract lifecycle management; SaaS) – raised a $50M growth investment on Jan 27, 2026; funds will accelerate global expansion and advance AI contract intelligence across the CLM suite.

  2. Adaptive6 (cloud cost governance / FinOps; SaaS) – raised a $44M Series A on Jan 28, 2026; funds will expand product and customer rollout to detect/remediate cloud waste in engineering workflows.

  3. Outtake (digital trust / anti-impersonation security; SaaS) – raised a $40M Series B on Jan 28, 2026; funds will scale the unified platform to protect orgs from AI-driven impersonation and identity fraud.

  4. Memcyco (real-time digital risk protection; SaaS) – raised a $37M Series A on Jan 27, 2026; funds will expand go-to-market and accelerate adoption of its agentless prevention for impersonation and account takeover.

  5. Phia (AI shopping + brand alignment layer; SaaS) – raised a $35M Series A on Jan 27, 2026; funds will build its “alignment layer” between brands and consumers and grow partnerships across commerce.

  6. Fiddler AI (AI observability + security; SaaS) – raised a $30M Series C on Jan 27, 2026; funds will build the “control plane” for AI agents and expand enterprise deployments.

  7. Fulcrum (insurance brokerage workflow automation; SaaS) – raised $25M (combined Seed + Series A) on Jan 27, 2026; funds will bridge legacy systems and AI to modernize servicing, submissions, and document-heavy ops.

  8. Checkbox (legal intake + workflow automation; SaaS) – raised a $23M Series A on Jan 28, 2026; funds will expand its “AI Legal Front Door” to unify intake, triage, and reporting for in-house legal teams.

  9. Northslope (applied AI apps for Palantir-native enterprise workflows; SaaS) – raised a $22M Series A on Jan 29, 2026; funds will scale its forward-deployed engineering model and expand its AI application platform.

  10. Opendate (booking, ticketing & marketing OS for live events; SaaS) – raised a $14M Series A on Jan 27, 2026; funds will hire and accelerate product development for venues/promoters managing end-to-end event operations.

  11. Concourse (AI agents for finance teams; SaaS) – raised a $12M Series A on Jan 27, 2026; funds will expand access and capabilities of enterprise-grade finance agents (connect data, automate workflows, analysis).

  12. Datatruck (AI-native operating system for long-haul trucking; SaaS) – raised a $12M Series A on Jan 28, 2026; funds will accelerate product development as carriers replace legacy TMS platforms.

  13. Mesh Security (cybersecurity mesh architecture execution; SaaS) – raised a $12M Series A on Jan 28, 2026; funds will advance autonomous/agentic execution and scale sales & customer support.

  14. Chamelio (legal intelligence for in-house teams; SaaS) – raised a $10M Seed on Jan 27, 2026; funds will scale its end-to-end legal intelligence platform to unify workflows and institutional knowledge.

  15. Risotto (autonomous help desk / ticketing automation; SaaS) – raised a $10M Seed on Jan 27, 2026; funds will expand its AI-powered help desk that sits on top of existing ticketing systems.

🤝 SaaS M&A Deals 

  • G2 agreed to acquire Gartner’s Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp (~undisclosed; software marketplace/reviews; SaaS discovery; US/global) – announced on Jan 29, 2026; this acquisition consolidates major software discovery properties under G2 to strengthen AI-driven buyer intent and recommendation workflows.

  • Deloitte completed the acquisition of SimplrOps (~undisclosed; enterprise SaaS for Workday/SAP/Oracle operations; US) – announced on Jan 27, 2025; this acquisition expands Deloitte’s capability to automate and streamline enterprise system operations/implementations.

  • Transit Technologies completed the acquisition of Vehicle Installs (~undisclosed; deployment + installation services supporting telematics/GPS/camera systems; fleet-tech SaaS-adjacent; US) – announced on Jan 27, 2026; this acquisition strengthens end-to-end deployment capacity to reduce implementation risk and speed time-to-value for fleet modernization customers.

  • SUNRATE acquired an experienced payments team plus mature acquiring systems (~undisclosed; acquiring infrastructure + treasury/payments platform; fintech SaaS; Singapore/global) – announced on Jan 28, 2026; this acquisition launches SUNRATE’s global acquiring services and broadens its end-to-end payments stack.

  • CyberCatch agreed to acquire Atriarch (~undisclosed; multi-authority attributes-based encryption; cybersecurity software/SaaS-adjacent; Canada) – announced on Feb 2, 2026; this acquisition expands CyberCatch’s security offering aimed at mitigating risk in AI/quantum-era threat models.

🧠 Key Takeaways

  1. Define concrete ramp metrics for new GTM hires (quota, lead flow, 30/60/90 milestones) up front — shorter ramp guidance leads to faster accountability and replacement decisions.

  2. Treat AI adoption as a security program: pair product rollouts with data-handling controls (access policies, telemetry, encryption) to reduce enterprise procurement friction.

  3. Zero Trust / SASE adoption is accelerating but execution gaps remain — founders selling security/network products should prioritize measurable deployment playbooks and professional services to shorten time-to-value.

📰 Community News

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

-Ryan Allis, CEO of SaasRise