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Zap Energy, a Fusion Reactor Startup, Raises $130 Million to Power the Future! ⚡

Zap Energy, a Fusion Reactor Startup, Raises $130 Million to Power the Future! ⚡

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Fabien B
October 11, 2024

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🚀Latest in SaaS and Dev Tools Discover cutting-edge SaaS advancements and essential development resources.

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In the crowded B2B SaaS market, focusing solely on product features can limit the brand impact. Storytelling is essential for creating emotional connections, building trust, and driving conversions. While logic and data are important, emotional connections resonate deeper with customers, influencing 95% of purchasing decisions. Stories help SaaS brands stand out by making complex products relatable and memorable, bridging the trust gap, and enhancing brand recall. By aligning their voice and messaging with customer aspirations, brands can inspire action and build lasting loyalty, going beyond just transactional relationships.

What We Think

Storytelling gives you a powerful edge in a marketplace with similar SaaS products. It allows you to humanize your brand, build trust, and connect emotionally with your audience. Next time you're crafting your message, don’t just focus on features—tell the story of why your product matters and the impact it will make.

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As businesses move to the Cloud, FinOps is evolving to include SaaS management, which often involves complex, consumption-based pricing. By integrating FinOps with SaaS, companies can better manage Cloud expenses, ensuring their SaaS investments align with business objectives. Leveraging ITAM principles and conducting audits of SaaS usage enables cost control, compliance, and better long-term planning. This approach helps businesses maximize value from their Cloud investments while driving financial efficiency.

A recent Keepit survey highlights executives' lack of confidence in protecting SaaS data, with 31% of respondents reporting moderate to severe lapses. Compliance challenges and increasing data volumes are key concerns, particularly as regulations like NIS2 and DORA become stricter. Financial and reputational risks drive data protection priorities, but budget constraints and lack of expertise hinder improvements. The survey emphasizes the need for better SaaS data backup education, as many rely on native SaaS features without understanding the shared responsibility gap.

G2 has launched new capabilities to help SaaS marketers link buyer activity to revenue through integrations with marketing attribution providers like Dreamdata, Factors.ai, and HockeyStack. These tools enable multi-touch attribution modelling, offering visibility into buyer journeys and optimizing channel performance. With the new features, vendors can track G2's impact on revenue, refine audience targeting, and quantify marketing ROI. Additionally, enhanced attribution reporting via LinkedIn Matched Audiences and HubSpot provides deeper insights into campaign effectiveness and deal influence.

💻 DEV RESOURCES

Bun 1.0 has officially launched, designed to rival Node.js and Deno as a high-performance JavaScript runtime. Bun promises faster startup times, optimized module resolution, and built-in support for TypeScript and JSX. Developers can expect a significant boost in server-side performance for their web apps using Bun.

Angular 17's preview introduces the Signals API, which enhances Angular's reactive system by offering a more declarative way to handle state and side effects in applications. This update also improves debugging and optimizes the rendering engine, making Angular more efficient for high-performance web apps.

Spring Boot 3.2 adds enhanced support for GraalVM native images, making it easier to build lightweight, high-performance Java applications that run in cloud environments. The release also comes with new observability tools, enabling developers to better monitor and troubleshoot their applications in production.

🚀 Cool SaaS Tools

Discover innovative tools reshaping the SaaS landscape.

Wistia is a video marketing platform tailored for SaaS companies looking to create, host, and analyze video content. It offers advanced video analytics, customizable video players, and integrations with marketing tools, helping businesses boost engagement and drive conversions through high-quality video experiences.

An all-in-one workspace tool that combines note-taking, task management, and collaboration features. Notion enables SaaS teams to organize projects, documents, and workflows in a single, customizable platform, improving productivity and collaboration with its flexible structure and real-time updates.

A sales CRM tool designed to help SaaS companies manage their sales pipelines more effectively. Pipedrive provides features like deal tracking, automated follow-ups, and detailed analytics, helping sales teams close deals faster by focusing on the most promising leads and opportunities.

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💸 WHO RAISED?

Discover startups who just raised funds.

Pune-based Spry Therapeutics, a SaaS platform tailored for physical therapy professionals, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Flourish Ventures. Existing investors like Together Fund and Fidelity's Eight Roads Ventures also participated. Founded in 2021, Spry provides an integrated clinic management platform that automates administrative tasks, manages billing, and enhances patient engagement for physical, occupational, and speech-language pathology clinics. With this new funding, Spry plans to expand into the US, which already partners with over 105 clinics across 30 states.

Zap Energy raised $130 million in a Series D round to further its work on a scalable fusion energy system. The funds will help advance its Century fusion test platform and support efforts to build a commercial fusion power plant. Zap aims to create a commercially viable fusion reactor that produces clean energy without carbon emissions, speeding up the timeline for fusion commercialization.

Pune-based robotics startup Haber has secured $38 million in a Series C funding round led by Creaegis, with participation from Accel India and BEENEXT Capital. The funds will be used to support the company's growth and expansion. Haber develops AI-powered industrial robots that automate tasks like sample collection and chemical measurement, helping industries reduce chemical, energy, and water consumption. The company's post-funding valuation is approximately $148 million, with over $65 million raised to date.

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