Today's B2B Growth Pulse
RecVue launches Revenue Share app on Salesforce AgentExchange
RecVue introduced its Revenue Share solution on the Salesforce AgentExchange marketplace, enabling automated partner, channel and multi‑party revenue‑share calculations within Salesforce Revenue Cloud and Agentforce Sales. The tool replaces spreadsheets and custom code, offering audit‑ready traceability and contract‑specific compliance.
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By the numbers: Planetary raises $17.44M Series A
Optimism Unveils OP Enterprise
Optimism and OP Labs CEO Jing Wang announced OP Enterprise, a new suite that lets enterprises launch native blockchains within the OP Stack. The service promises end‑to‑end deployment in 8‑12 weeks across three builder tiers, from simple OP Mainnet launches to fully managed native chains. By integrating into an ecosystem that already hosts over $6 billion in TVL across 50+ chains, OP Enterprise aims to attract fintech players such as Robinhood and Stripe amid improving regulatory clarity. The rollout coincides with a 12‑month OP token buy‑back program, though the token fell 10 % amid a broader market sell‑off.
Vulnerability Becomes Leaders' Superpower in AI Era
⁉️ Is vulnerability the missing piece in your AI strategy? 🦸♀️ As we integrate AI into our companies, the role of a leader is shifting. In this insightful Forbes interview, Workday CMO Emma Chalwin discusses why vulnerability is becoming a...
Commercial Solar Panels for Businesses – Benefits, Grants & Expert Advice
Excel Energy UK outlines a comprehensive guide for UK businesses considering commercial solar panel installations, highlighting cost reductions, sustainability gains, and property value boosts. The guide compares monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and thin‑film technologies, emphasizing monocrystalline’s superior return on investment. It details...
The Cross-Border CFO Playbook: Using Local Collections for Growth
The article highlights a growing gap between outbound payment innovation and inbound collection capability for mid‑market firms expanding internationally. While large multinationals have long relied on local entities and bank accounts, smaller companies still depend on global cards and cross‑border...
Payoneer Expands Capabilities in Mexico and Indonesia
Payoneer announced new local collection capabilities in Indonesia and an expanded Mexican peso collection service, allowing SMBs to receive payments from regional marketplaces faster and cheaper. The enhancements target the world’s largest Southeast Asian ecommerce market and the rapidly growing...
SAP Tops Estimates but Cloud Backlog Miss Rattles Investors
SAP reported Q4 2025 revenue of $11.6 billion and operating profit of $3.1 billion, beating estimates and delivering a 27% profit surge. Cloud revenue rose 19% to $6.7 billion, pushing the operating margin to 29.2% and free cash flow to $1.2 billion. However, the...
Toimi Expands SEO Optimization Capabilities Using AI-Powered Analytical Tools
Toimi has launched AI‑powered analytical tools to overhaul its SEO workflow, focusing on content structure, semantic clustering, and search intent analysis. The technology processes massive datasets, enabling strategic planning of site architecture rather than chasing short‑term ranking spikes. AI insights...
Stop DIY Taxes—Automate with Anrok for Scale
4 signs you should not be going it alone, tax-wise: 1. You are not, in fact, an accountant. 2. You crossed the $1M annual sales mark and your tax filings went from 2 --> 40, overnight. 3. You did not...
Summit Launches New Data, Analytics, and AI Services Portfolio to Strengthen Data Foundations and Accelerate AI Impact
Summit, a Salesforce Summit‑tier consulting partner, unveiled a unified Data, Analytics, and AI Services portfolio aimed at strengthening data foundations and accelerating AI impact across the Salesforce ecosystem. The nine‑service offering combines strategic advisory, data health checks, governance, integration, analytics,...
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RobotLAB unveiled RobotDepot™, the first certified pre‑owned marketplace for commercial service robots, offering refurbished cleaning, delivery and customer‑service units at lower prices. Every robot is inspected, tested, upgraded and validated through a multi‑point certification process before shipment. Purchases include professional...
B2B Marketers Shift From Paid Ads to Events, Partnerships
The great paid ads pullback of 2026 is here. We surveyed 50 mid-market B2B marketing leaders with Wynter. The data is violent. 72% are actively slashing budgets for paid ads, content syndication, or agencies. This isn't a "hot take." It is a capital...
Making Payments Part of the Workflow: Embedded Finance in 2026
Embedded finance is becoming the connective tissue for large enterprises, allowing payments to flow directly within existing workflow applications such as travel booking and expense management. In an interview, Eva Reda, Executive Vice President of Global Commercial Services Products at...
ACH B2B Volume Hits 8.1 Billion Payments
ACH network B2B payments climbed to 8.1 billion in 2025, a 9.9% increase from 2024. Overall ACH volume reached 35.2 billion payments, valued at $93 trillion, while Same‑Day ACH surged 16.7% to 1.4 billion transactions. Healthcare claim payments rose 7.3% to 548 million, underscoring broader...
All Strategies Work—Pick One and Stop Paralyzing
Today a journalist emailed me one of those questions that looks innocent and absolutely isn’t. What unexpected opportunity came from starting your own business and what advice would you give others about recognising opportunities. Which is really asking, what did...
Built Our Own AI VP Marketing Using Replit Stack
We build our own AI VP Marketing on @Replit + @salesforce + @clay + @claudeai + @zapier Why? We couldn't find an AI Agent that could do it More in deep dive from SaaStr AI Day below: https://t.co/jrxnHQMwYd
Particular Audience Introduces Modular Retail Media Solutions to Cut Costs and Accelerate Innovation for RMNs
Particular Audience unveiled a Modular Retail Media (MRM) suite comprising 13 interoperable modules that can be added to existing retail media networks without replacing legacy adtech. The AI‑driven components, ranging from semantic search to automated product bundles, promise higher‑margin ad...
Clients Pay for Results, Not Hours Worked
Clients do not pay for hours. They pay for outcomes and competence. Don’t forget that.
Wrong Leaders Cost Years of Lost Potential
Picking the wrong VP reverberates for 2+ years Picking the wrong cofounder reverberates for 10+ years You don’t fail, it’s just you could have done so much more. And that compounds, too.
Webflow and Google Ads Narrow the Gap Between Ads and Site Results
Webflow has launched a native Google Ads integration that lets marketers create, run, and monitor campaigns directly from the Webflow design environment. The new app, available in the Webflow Marketplace, supports Google’s Performance Max campaigns and pulls site assets such...
Unlimit Appoints Pedro Azevedo as Head Off EU Sales
Unlimit has appointed Pedro Azevedo as Head of Sales for the European Union, operating from Lisbon. Azevedo will steer the company’s commercial strategy, scaling its enterprise sales organization and deepening partnerships with merchants, banks and digital platforms across Europe. His...
impact.com Launches Geodesix, a New Data Marketplace Connecting Premium Publishers With AI Systems
impact.com has unveiled Geodesix, a data marketplace that connects premium publishers with AI systems by licensing commerce content and instituting a revenue‑share model. The platform tackles the growing imbalance where AI models profit from journalistic and creator content without compensating...
CognyX AI Launches Chatbix.AI: A No-Code AI Agent Platform for Customer Support
CognyX AI unveiled Chatbix.AI, a no‑code platform that lets businesses build, train, and deploy AI agents for customer support across web, messaging and inbox channels. The solution centralizes disparate knowledge—FAQs, policy pages, product docs—so agents can generate grounded answers while...
How to Cultivate Content Creativity: A Framework for Marketers
In this episode, host interviews content strategist Melanie Deziel about reviving stale marketing through a two‑phase creativity framework. She explains how separating ideation into divergent thinking (generating many wild ideas) and convergent thinking (refining and selecting the strongest concepts) can...
Attention Without Sales Means Missing the Conversion Bridge
If your content is getting attention but not buyers, you’re building interest without a bridge.
Shield Opens New Hub in Lisbon
Shield, a Gartner‑ranked top‑3 DCGA vendor, announced the opening of a new hub in Lisbon to scale its European operations. The expansion follows a 40% growth in its Lisbon team over two years, adding capacity in R&D, product, and customer...
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The Way Your Agency Handles Leads Will Define Success in 2026 [Webinar] via @Sejournal, @Hethr_campbell
The webinar hosted by Search Engine Journal highlights that agencies’ ability to manage leads after capture will determine their success in 2026. It stresses that missed calls, delayed follow‑ups, and poor handoffs are eroding conversion rates and wasting ad spend....
Introducing the Klaviyo App in ChatGPT
Klaviyo has launched a new app that embeds its marketing automation data directly into OpenAI’s ChatGPT. By tagging @Klaviyo, marketers can query real‑time campaign performance, revenue trends, and unsubscribe drivers, receiving results as interactive cards and plain‑language recommendations. The integration...
EDO Launches ‘EDO Always-On’, Delivering Automated, Scaled Outcomes Measurement for Convergent TV
EDO announced the launch of Always‑On, a cross‑platform measurement solution that streams automated outcomes data into media partners' analytics platforms. NBCUniversal and Paramount Global are the first to integrate the service, feeding real‑time performance insights for linear and streaming inventory....
Contio Launches to Transform Every Meeting Into a Decisive Moment That Accomplishes Great Things
Contio has launched MeetingOS, the world’s first Decision Acceleration Platform, to turn inefficient meetings into decisive, outcome‑driven sessions. Powered by the Contio Intelligence Engine, the platform automatically drafts agendas, surfaces real‑time insights, and generates detailed notes and action items. Three...
The State of Browsing in 2026: Why Digital Burnout Is Now a Marketing Problem… and Opportunity
Shift’s 2026 State of Browsing Report finds digital burnout now prevalent in browsers, with 62% of U.S. adults reporting recurring fatigue. Users juggle many tabs—one in five has 11+ open—and experience frequent attention loss, costing significant time. Marketers are implicated...
Adcom Transforms Communication Training with Its AI-Enabled Communication Labs
Adcom Designs, a Bay Area learning firm, launched AI‑Enabled Communication Labs that replace lecture‑based training with hands‑on, practice‑focused sessions. The labs integrate artificial intelligence from the start, offering customized workshops lasting two hours to two days for groups of ten...
On Appoints Frank Sluis as Chief Financial Officer
Swiss sportswear brand On announced the appointment of Frank Sluis as chief financial officer, effective May 1. Sluis arrives from Ahold Delhaize, where he served as CFO for Europe & Indonesia, and previously held finance roles at Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever and Hoogwegt Group. He...
OpenX Elevates Key Leaders Across Strategy, Marketplace Quality, and Product to Build the Industry’s Most Intelligent SSP
OpenX Technologies promoted three senior leaders—Andrew Goode to SVP of Strategy, Chris Hallenbeck to VP of Marketplace Quality, and Rich Calkins to VP of Product—to accelerate its AI‑driven, performance‑focused roadmap. The appointments leverage Goode’s agency and LLM expertise, Hallenbeck’s 25‑year...
StackAdapt Achieves EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework Certification
StackAdapt announced it has earned certification under the EU‑U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the European Commission‑approved mechanism that legitimises transatlantic personal data flows. The certification confirms the platform’s GDPR‑aligned privacy program and eliminates the need for supplemental transfer tools such as...
Master Your Pitch, Meet Top VCs, Secure Term Sheets
- Know your worth - Hone your pitch - Meet the best VCs - Collect term sheets That's SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OqGr https://t.co/qulPugatLR
Ep. 205: How to Use AI for B2B Storytelling Without Losing Your Brand | Nick Usborne
In this episode, Nick Usborne explains how B2B marketers can harness AI for scalable content while preserving their brand’s unique voice. He stresses that the only defensible moat is a company’s authentic story, not generic narratives or tone, and reveals...
Strong Revenue Performance Sends IBM Stock Soaring After-Hours
IBM reported a 9% fourth‑quarter revenue jump, the strongest in three years, driven by rapid software and infrastructure growth. Software now represents 45% of the company’s revenue, up from 25% in 2018, and free cash flow rose to $7.6 billion, a...
Azure Hits $103B Run Rate, up 38% YoY
Azure at a ~$103B run rate growing 38% constant currency Quarterly YoY growth trends below
Prioritizing Guided Onboarding for Complex Data Platform
I spent 2025 building out the best product I could for brand and category tracking, and my current next product focus is making sure that I surround it with a strong onboarding and training experience. The double-edged sword of adding...
In Early-Scale Growth, the Dominant Cost Is Not CAC. It’s Time.
The episode argues that for early‑scale startups with clear product‑market fit and ample runway, the biggest cost isn’t customer‑acquisition spend but the time lost to slow learning. It explains why obsessing over CAC too early can double burn by extending...
Leaders' Excuses Limit Teams; Ask, Don’t Assume
"The team won't do it" is rarely about them. It's about you. We were talking about having CSMs tell customers when they're getting in their own way. Not being rude. Just direct. "We can only help you if you do...
Clean Customer Data Powers Personalized LLM Responses
Tealium gives LLMs what they usually lack: real customer context. Things like cross-channel behavior, lifecycle stage, affinities, and history flow into prompts and workflows, so AI responses stop feeling generic and start feeling more like they’re written for one person....
Toolstation Launches New Small Format Store Concept
Toolstation has unveiled Toolstation GO, a new small‑format store aimed at high‑street locations. The first outlet opened in London’s Battersea, offering plumbing, electrical, power tools and DIY essentials both in‑store and via click‑and‑collect. Self‑service kiosks let customers bypass queues, while extended...
AI‑Powered Concept Testing Eliminates Product Validation Bottleneck
The bottleneck in product development is moving towards knowing what to build. Ignoring it is going to lead to bloated products. Pre-AI it was already common to skip validation. But as execution speeds up, and you need to feed the...
Most Companies Overestimate Storytelling; New Scale Reveals Gaps
Most companies think they’re great at storytelling. That is, until they look at this… We recently created a framework called the Storytelling Maturity Scale. It rates your organization from 1 to 5 based on how well your teams can tell...
Food Waste Cuts that Protect Margins Witha Shelf-Life Strategy
Food waste in U.S. grocery stores stems from ambiguous date labels, poor rotation, and cold‑chain lapses, turning sell‑through potential into costly shrink. A shelf‑life strategy that standardizes dating rules, embeds FEFO rotation, and enforces repeatable temperature checks can cut write‑offs...
Startups Should Ditch Annual Plans for Quarterly Reset
Annual planning is one of the most over-copied “big company” rituals in startups—and it quietly creates a lot of bad decisions. In large companies, annual planning makes sense. They’re hiring hundreds (sometimes thousands) of people, mobilizing new strategies, changing systems,...
Stop Complaining, Boost Energy: Simplify Teams for 2026
Folks that complain consume about 20x the energy of those that just get sh*t done Simplify the team for 2026
ChatGPT's Recommendations Vary Widely, Challenging Brand Tracking
NEW research: https://t.co/yE1LogIFHO If you give ChatGPT the same request for product recommendations 100X, will you ever get the same list twice? And what does that answer mean for folks who try to track their brand presence in AI tools? Finally, some real...
AI Revolutionizes Enterprise Sales and Organizational Structure
New @ThePeelPod with @JacquelineSYC19 How AI is changing data, getting enterprise customers from cold emails during YC, building an AI BDR in-house, why most functions at @artie_labs report to the CTO (not CEO), and what it's like raising a Series...