Today's B2B Growth Pulse
Cognism claims top spot as EMEA’s most GDPR‑compliant B2B data provider
Cognism positions itself as the premier EMEA B2B data source, emphasizing GDPR‑compliant sourcing, a five‑step verification process, and the deepest European coverage. The analysis contrasts Cognism with rivals ZoomInfo, which has limited DNC screening and fragmented local data, and Apollo.io, whose low‑cost freemium model sacrifices accuracy.
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By the numbers: Hong Leong Asia acquires Yong Tai Loong for $66M
Turbo Energy and Hithium Link AI Optimization to Battery Storage Across Europe and Latin America
Turbo Energy announced a strategic partnership with battery maker Hithium to integrate its AI-driven optimization platform into Hithium’s storage systems, aiming to roll out software‑defined energy assets across commercial and industrial sites in Europe and Latin America. The deal builds on Turbo Energy’s recent $53 million, 366 MWh contract in Spain and leverages Hithium’s global battery scale.
Greenhouse Appoints New Vice President of Marketing to Drive Growth
Greenhouse announced the appointment of a new Vice President of Marketing, aiming to strengthen its marketing function as the company seeks to expand its recruiting software platform. The hire underscores the firm’s focus on scaling go‑to‑market efforts amid intensifying competition.
Pricer and JRTech Land $51M Digital Shelf Deal with Sobeys
Pricer AB and its Canadian partner JRTech Solutions have signed a $51 million hardware contract with Sobeys to roll out multicolor electronic shelf labels and the Pricer Plaza cloud platform across 300‑350 stores. The 18‑month deployment, beginning in May 2026, underscores...
Dicker Data Launches Solution ConX Partner Marketplace
Australian distributor Dicker Data has unveiled Solution ConX, a partner‑to‑partner marketplace that lets resellers augment their Microsoft cloud offerings with specialist services. The initial catalog includes an end‑to‑end Azure Virtual Desktop solution (AVD Ninja), an automated Intune deployment tool (SureDeploy),...
Adobe Unveils CX Enterprise, an AI‑Driven Platform to Orchestrate Customer‑Experience Workflows
Adobe announced CX Enterprise at its Summit conference, a new end‑to‑end AI platform that coordinates agents across the entire customer lifecycle. The suite, built on Adobe Experience Platform’s trillion‑experience data layer, promises sales and marketing teams a single governance layer...
Laughing Giraffe Launches New Luxe T‑Shirt Color Heather Collection
The Laughing Giraffe announced the 2026 Luxe T‑Shirt Color Heather Collection, introducing three new retail‑ready shades—Cantaloupe, Wisteria and Ice Blue—for its premium 65% polyester/35% cotton blanks. The expansion targets custom printers, online retailers and wholesale buyers seeking modern palettes and...
Victory Live Appoints Kate Howard as CRO to Accelerate Ticketing Revenue
Victory Live announced that Kate Howard, a veteran of NFL and StubHub, has been named chief revenue officer. Reporting to CEO Sam Soni, Howard will steer global revenue strategy, partnerships and go‑to‑market execution for the ticketing technology firm. The hire...
INVIA Secures $1.2M Seed Round to Launch AI‑Powered Financial OS for Egyptian SMEs
Cairo‑based fintech INVIA announced a $1.2 million seed round to accelerate its AI‑powered financial operating system for small and medium‑sized enterprises. Founded in 2023 by Yehia Ashour, Ahmed Zeinhom and Omar Aboulmagd, the startup will use the capital to expand engineering,...
AXOM Partners Hires Tricia Shaw to Boost Tech M&A Advisory
AXOM Partners announced that former Morgan Stanley technology investment banker Tricia Shaw has joined the firm as a partner, raising its partnership roster to six. Shaw brings 15+ years of deal experience, including work on Udemy‑Coursera and Tesla‑SolarCity, positioning AXOM...
Multithreading in Sales: The B2B Selling Framework
Multithreading in B2B sales replaces the outdated single‑thread approach by engaging multiple stakeholders early in the buying committee. By mapping the full decision‑making group, sellers expose weak support, align messaging to each role’s pain points, and improve forecast accuracy. AI‑powered...
Adobe Launches CX Enterprise, Uniting AI Agents and Global Agency Network
At Adobe Summit, the company rolled out CX Enterprise, an agentic AI platform that links over 20,000 brands with cloud providers and global agency networks. The move aims to eliminate fragmented AI tools, giving sales and marketing teams a single...
Aptean Unveils AppCentral AI Platform for Business Central On‑Premises Users
Aptean announced the preview of its AppCentral AI platform and a suite of ten AI agents for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on‑premises deployments. The solution, showcased at Directions North America, promises partners a ready‑to‑sell, rapid‑deployment AI capability that keeps...
Diversified Names Tyler Affolter CRO to Accelerate Global Media‑AV Growth
Diversified, the audiovisual and digital‑experience integrator, announced Tyler Affolter as its new chief revenue officer. The veteran executive will steer the firm’s global commercial organization as it expands media, collaboration and broadcast services. The move signals a push to capture...
HockeyStack Raises Funding, Pushes Total Capital Past $50 Million for AI Revenue‑agent Platform
San Francisco‑based HockeyStack announced a new financing round that lifts its cumulative capital to over $50 million. The round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Y Combinator and Uncorrelated Ventures, will fund product development and broader rollout of its AI‑driven Revenue Agents....
AgiBot Hits 1.05 Bn Yuan Revenue as UBTECH Scales Humanoid Sales in Europe
AgiBot announced 2025 revenue of 1.05 bn yuan, a jump from 60 m yuan in 2024, while UBTECH posted a 22‑fold rise in humanoid robot sales and partnered with European integrator Terra Robotics. The moves underscore accelerating demand for embodied‑intelligence robots and...
Nomura Research Institute Appoints Steven Rivera as CRO of North America to Accelerate B2B Growth
Nomura Research Institute (NRI) announced today that Steven Rivera will serve as Chief Revenue Officer for its North American operations. Rivera, a 26‑year veteran of cybersecurity, managed services and consulting, will oversee sales, marketing, demand generation and strategic partnerships as...
Design Shows for Clipability, Harvest Millions of Views
TBPN is a 7k-live-viewer pod that sold to OpenAI for $200M because their average clip gets 257k views. Everyone's talking about the strategy. Here's the structure: 1. Format is engineered for clippability, not the other way around 3 hours/day, live, 5 days a...
Why Districts Are Walking Away From Core Platforms
The Curve Weekly highlights a decisive shift in K‑12 district buying: funding mechanisms, political mandates, procurement rules, and teacher workflow are reshaping platform choices. Federal SEED and Charter grant competitions now route money through state intermediaries, while Texas’s revised social‑studies...
China’s Train of Glamour Joins EHL Alliance, First Chinese Luxury Rail Member
China’s high‑end Train of Glamour officially joined the European Luxury Hotels (EHL) Alliance on April 20, 2026, becoming the network’s first Chinese member. The move expands the alliance beyond hotels into luxury rail, offering affluent travelers a curated Chinese rail...
Convoso Rolls Out AI‑Driven Outbound Call Center Suite at LeadsCon 2026
Convoso announced a slate of AI-powered outbound call center features at LeadsCon 2026, including a Salesforce‑integrated campaign manager, Agentic AI for automated outreach, and real‑time analytics. The rollout, timed with the company’s 20th anniversary, targets higher answer rates and conversion...
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16 of the Best B2B Data Providers and Vendors [2026]
The B2B data provider market is rapidly expanding, and a new guide ranks the 16 most trusted vendors for 2026. It breaks down each platform’s best‑fit use case, geographic coverage, and pricing structure, from compliance‑focused Cognism in Europe to budget‑friendly...
ARRW Names Ahmed Taalab as CEO to Accelerate Revenue Growth
ARRW announced the appointment of Ahmed Taalab as chief executive officer. The veteran executive brings more than 20 years of leadership experience at Procter & Gamble and The Coca‑Cola Company. The move is positioned as a catalyst for the company's...
Trading Technologies Names Nick Garrow CSO and Hires Josh Monroe as CRO
Trading Technologies International announced that longtime CRO Nick Garrow will become the firm’s first Chief Strategy Officer, while veteran fintech executive Josh Monroe joins as the new Chief Revenue Officer. The moves aim to accelerate TT’s expansion into new asset...
Detailed Lead Dossiers Drive Higher LTV and Revenue
One simple thing our revenue agents do is a full on dossier on all inbound leads. Company size, company news, best questions to ask as it relates to what we do and one of my favorite - recommending potential angles for...
RapidScale Launches Ascend Partner Program With More Structure for Channel Partners
RapidScale unveiled the Ascend partner program, creating two structured tiers—Authorized and Premier—to deepen collaboration with technology‑services distributors and channel partners. The initiative emphasizes managed and professional services, advisory support, training, incentives, and co‑selling resources, moving partners from simple referrals to...
Removing Nav Bars Boosts Conversions by 52%
If you make this well-intentioned mistake, it hurts your conversion rates. So remember to remove the nav bar from your landing pages. Conversions can increase by 52% according to new research by SubjectLine.com
Is Microwave Popcorn Ready for Disruption? Opopop Thinks So
Opopop, a Colorado‑based popcorn startup founded in 2018, is moving from a direct‑to‑consumer model into mass retail with a Walmart rollout after a successful Target test. The company has reengineered its premium, flavor‑wrapped kernel kits into single‑use microwave bags that...
Angelfish Marketing Expands AEO and AI Search Services for B2B Brands
Angelfish Marketing has broadened its Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) and AI Search services to help B2B tech, SaaS and financial brands appear in AI‑driven results from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. The offering blends technical SEO, structured data,...
AI Lead Search Eliminates Hours of Email Hunting
🚨 Wild that in 2026 you can know someone's exact title, company, tenure, and ICP fit - and still spend 2 hours hunting for a verified email. A few weeks ago I needed to build a prospect list for my media...
Align Sales & Marketing to Turn Leads Into Revenue
Is your sales and marketing team pulling in different directions? I'm leading a workshop at HARDI Focus Conference on aligning sales and marketing across your customer buying journey. If your leads aren't turning into revenue, it's not a volume problem....
Iren's AI Cloud Pivot Secures 1.6 GW Land, Targets $3.4B ARR
Iren Limited announced the acquisition of an additional 1.6 GW of grid‑connected land in Oklahoma, expanding its AI‑focused data‑center footprint to 4.5 GW. The company now projects $3.4 billion in annual recurring revenue from just 460 MW of capacity, underscoring the rapid monetization of...
Race Day Starts Before You Get to the Track: StubHub and New Era Team Up for F1’s North American Season...
StubHub and apparel brand New Era have announced a strategic partnership to sell bundled ticket and merchandise packages for Formula 1’s North American races. The collaboration will debut ahead of the 2024 season, covering the Miami Grand Prix, the United States...
The Money Engines that Built Fawry’s $1 Billion Business
Fawry, Egypt’s largest mobile‑money platform, has scaled from a modest e‑payment switch in 2008 to a $1.3 billion market‑cap fintech by 2026. Revenue surged 1,900% to EGP 8.65 billion ($166.7 m) in 2025, with net profit of EGP 3.1 billion ($59.7 m). Transaction fees remain the core...
Earth Observation Weekly Briefing - April 20, 2026
The Earth Observation market saw significant government‑backed activity this week, with LiveEO landing a seven‑digit ESA grant to advance its Twinspector satellite constellation and PlanetiQ securing a $15 million U.S. Air Force STRATFI contract for atmospheric instruments. Vantor announced a strategic...
TVU Networks Teams with Tencent Cloud to Launch Global Live‑Streaming Production Platform
TVU Networks announced a strategic partnership with Tencent Cloud at NAB 2026 to deliver a next‑generation cloud‑native live‑streaming production and distribution platform. The solution leverages TVU’s microservices architecture and Tencent’s global edge network to offer ultra‑low latency, AI‑driven editing and...
Nebius Secures $46 Billion in AI Cloud Deals, Fueling AI‑Focused SaaS Growth
Nebius Group announced a $46 billion backlog of AI cloud contracts, including a $19.4 billion deal with Microsoft and a $27 billion agreement with Meta. The contracts, backed by a $2 billion Nvidia equity investment, could reshape the AI‑driven SaaS infrastructure market.
Amazon to Acquire Globalstar for $11.6 B, Expanding Satellite IoT Services
Amazon announced a $11.6 billion deal to buy Globalstar, securing 24 operational satellites, spectrum licenses and direct‑to‑device capability for its Leo network. The acquisition dovetails with an Apple partnership and positions AWS to offer satellite‑backed IoT solutions to remote enterprises.
Upgrade to AI‑Driven Social Selling for 2026 Success
Why Your Sales Strategy Needs an Upgrade: "Social Selling and Influence" (2026 Edition) The digital sales landscape isn't just "changing", it has fundamentally shifted If you’re still using a 2022 playbook in a 2026 world, you’re not just behind; you’re invisible I am...
SBI Remit Adds Tottori Bank, Reaches 26 Partners
BIG: 🇯🇵 Ripple-powered SBI Remit partners with Tottori Bank to expand remittance and payroll services for foreign workers in Japan, bringing total bank partnerships to 26 https://t.co/g3IvnOMAH9
How to Follow Up Without Sounding Desperate
Mark Hunter warns salespeople that generic "just checking in" follow‑ups signal desperation and kill deals. He advocates delivering new, concise value in every touch—whether an industry tip, a best‑practice insight, or a tailored observation. Hunters’ "10‑list" method encourages reps to...
Target Influencers First, Then Decision‑Makers in New Digital Territory
When entering a new “Digital Territory,” who should I target first: the decision-makers or the influencers within that space? https://t.co/OJa5Sg1oQj via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Marketing #MarketingSuccess #MarketingStrategy #ArtificialIntelligence
Why Molteni Group’s Contract Business Is Booming Despite the Slowdown
Molteni Group’s contract and hospitality division now generates half of its 2025 revenue, propelling the luxury furniture maker past a sluggish consumer market. Sales climbed to €562 million (about $607 million), up from €520 million the prior year, despite U.S. tariffs and a...
Victoria Racing Club Announces Long-Term Partnership with Asahi Beverages
The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has sealed a seven‑year partnership with Asahi Beverages, naming the Japanese‑owned firm the official beer and cider provider at Flemington. The deal brings brands such as Carlton Draught, Asahi Super Dry, Balter XPA and Somersby cider...
Logisteed and REXEV Team Up to Accelerate Electric Truck Adoption
Logisteed and REXEV have announced a partnership to advance electric truck electrification, aiming to speed up zero‑emission freight solutions. The collaboration signals growing momentum in the EV truck market as logistics firms seek greener fleets.
U.S. Legal Support Buys American Reporting Services, Expands Northern California
U.S. Legal Support announced the purchase of American Reporting Services, a veteran court‑reporting firm in Northern California. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, adds a regional specialist to a network that already spans more than 12,000 on‑demand offices...
UK Planning Consultancy Planning By Design Shows Profitable AI Rollout in Land‑Use Planning
Planning By Design, a UK planning consultancy, has turned its AI experiment into a profit centre, automating customer engagement, project management and sales workflows. The firm credits its custom assistant Aisa and a problem‑first approach for delivering measurable efficiency gains...
LearningRx CEO Kim Hanson Grows Franchise to 170 Sites on Faith‑Based Principles
Kim Hanson, chief executive of LearningRx, has steered the brain‑training franchise to more than 170 centers across 40 countries by embedding faith‑based values into its growth strategy. Her tenure, which began as EVP in 2004 and moved to CEO in...
Microsoft Ads Adds Google Performance Max NCA Goals, Shifting B2B Paid‑Media Playbook
Microsoft Advertising announced that its platform can now import Google Ads Performance Max campaigns that use new‑customer acquisition (NCA) goals. The change removes a key barrier for B2B teams seeking to extend prospecting strategies beyond Google without rebuilding acquisition logic...
GrubMarket Acquires Century-Old Schoenmann Produce to Boost Gulf Coast Reach and AI Supply Chain
GrubMarket announced the acquisition of Houston‑based Schoenmann Produce, a distributor with more than a century in the Gulf Coast market. The deal adds a 90,000‑square‑foot cold‑storage hub and gives Schoenmann access to GrubMarket’s AI‑driven software suite, positioning both firms for...
ALM Corp Releases 2026 Benchmark of 20 AI Sales‑Outreach Platforms
ALM Corp published a 2026 benchmark that evaluates 20 AI‑powered sales‑outreach platforms across email, LinkedIn, calling and AI‑SDR workflows. The guide ranks tools by use case, core strength and trade‑offs, giving sales leaders a data‑driven way to avoid mismatched purchases.