Renato Marinho

Renato Marinho

Founder | Author | OSS Advocate

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Renato Marinho is an entrepreneur and engineer — someone who doesn't dissociate strategy from execution. With over two decades building high-availability systems and leading teams across multiple countries, he combines technical depth to navigate complex problems with a founder's vision to turn them into product, business, and concrete impact.

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5mo ago

What VCs and investors are not looking for in SaaS?

Today, I read a TechCrunch article about what investors are no longer looking for in SaaS, or rather, what to avoid if you don't want to lose their interest.

The red flags were:

  • Too easy to replicate light AI wrappers, generic horizontal tools, basic CRM clones, generic productivity or project management tools.

  • No real depth products where differentiation is mostly UI and automation, anything without proprietary data, surface-level analytics.

  • Becoming obsolete workflow automation tools that coordinate human work (agents are taking over), integrations as a moat (MCP is making connectors a commodity), and "workflow stickiness" products trying to keep humans inside their software.

5mo ago

mcp-fusion - Route 5,000+ AI tools into one. Stop LLM context bloat.

Standard MCP breaks at scale. Exposing 50+ tools to Claude or Cursor destroys the context window, skyrockets API token costs, and causes routing hallucinations. mcp-fusion is an open-source TS gateway that multiplexes thousands of endpoints into ONE mathematically perfect tool. Stop burning tokens. Ship one tool.
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