Tuesday, October 20, 2026
The Dealer Brief #10
This week: Sellfy cut its Starter price to $29, otter.ai raises $320 million from general catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool — plus what's free, and what's new in the index.
Prices that moved
Read off each vendor's own pricing page, and their archived copies. Only changes we can separate from our own measurement error are listed.
What moved in AI this week
7 stories worth the click, newest first.
- Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting toolTechCrunch AI
- Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurantTechCrunch AI
- A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hubMIT Technology Review
- MPS in PyTorch 2.15Hugging Face
- The fossil fuel comeback is hereThe Verge AI
- CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problemThe Verge AI
- OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in CustodyWIRED AI
The software business
Funding, pricing and how SaaS companies are actually doing.
- How To Build A Billion-Dollar Company Without Venture CapitalCrunchbase News
- Fintech Funding Fell 21% In Q3 As Deals Grew ScarcerCrunchbase News
- AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation 4 months after launchTechCrunch Startups
- 5 Interesting Learnings From Anthropic’s Data on Its Own Workforce: Junior Technical Hiring Down From 27% to 9%, Agents Working 6x the Hours of Humans, and Agents Waiting on a Human 80% of the TimeSaaStr
Start free this week
Tools in the index with an ongoing free plan — not a countdown trial.
In the index
A few listings worth knowing about if you missed them.