Microland Announces Appointment of Sam Mathew as Chief Executive Officer
Microland, an AI‑first, platform‑led technology infrastructure services firm, announced Sam Mathew as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mathew, who has served as President for the past 18 months, will now steer global business and strategic growth, emphasizing AI, automation, and autonomous operations. Founder Pradeep Kar highlighted the move as part of a long‑term vision to keep the company relevant in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Kar will stay involved as a strategic advisor, ensuring continuity of culture and client relationships.
Alteryx Expands Regional Leadership with Sabya Sen to Lead IMEA & APAC
Alteryx announced Sabya Sen as Vice President for IMEA & APAC, overseeing India, the Middle East, Africa and Asia‑Pacific. Sen, formerly VP of UKI & Emerging Markets Europe at Alteryx and a 11‑year Salesforce veteran, will drive adoption of the...
TraceGains Adds Deeper Level of ESG Intelligence Into Food & Beverage Supply Chain Operations to Automate and Ensure Compliance for...
TraceGains launched Carbon Insights, a new capability that embeds ingredient‑level carbon intelligence into its compliance platform for food and beverage brands. Powered by emissions data from DitchCarbon and Sustained, the tool automates Scope 3 carbon tracking and links sourcing decisions with...
Appfire Appoints Marc Gemassmer as Chief Revenue Officer
Appfire announced the appointment of Marc Gemassmer as Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with steering the company’s global go‑to‑market strategy. Gemassmer brings more than two decades of enterprise software and security sales leadership, most recently scaling CloudBees to roughly $160 million in...
Bain & Company Appoints Hernan Saenz to Lead Its Global Strategy & Transformation Practice
Bain & Company announced senior partner Hernan Saenz as head of its Global Strategy & Transformation practice. Saenz, who spent more than 25 years at Bain, previously led the Performance Improvement practice, tripling its scale and doubling the Southwest region’s...
Cvent Closes Acquisition of ON24
Cvent announced the completion of its acquisition of ON24, merging the webinar and AI‑driven engagement platform with its end‑to‑end event management suite. The combined offering expands Cvent’s Total Event Program, allowing marketers to orchestrate in‑person, hybrid, virtual and webinar experiences...
SDLC Corp Launches Free Odoo WooCommerce Connector for Seamless Integration
SDLC Corp has introduced a free Odoo‑WooCommerce connector that provides real‑time, bidirectional synchronization between WooCommerce storefronts and Odoo ERP systems. The integration tackles common e‑commerce pain points such as inventory mismatches, delayed order processing, and fragmented customer data. It leverages...
Episolo Launches AI App Builder for Revenue-Ready Web Apps
Episolo unveiled an AI‑powered app builder that lets founders and product teams generate revenue‑ready web applications in minutes. Users simply describe the desired functionality in natural language, and the platform auto‑creates a working app with authentication, payments, database, email workflows,...
Datassential One Brings Real-Time Clarity to What’s Trending in Food and Beverage
Datassential announced a major upgrade to its Datassential One platform, adding an AI‑powered intelligence engine that links real‑time social conversation to actual market adoption for food and beverage brands. The new capability curates a "foodie" lens on influencer chatter, updates...
PCMI Appoints Nick Scissons as General Counsel to Lead Global Legal Strategy
PCMI, a cloud‑based provider of finance‑and‑insurance software for automotive dealers, announced Nick Scissons as its new General Counsel. Scissons will lead the global legal function, advising the executive team, board and investors on strategy, governance and risk. He arrives from...
Lakeland Fire + Safety Completes Sale of HPFR and HiViz Product Line
Lakeland Industries announced the completion of its sale of the High Performance Flame Resistant (HPFR) and High‑Visibility (HiViz) product lines to National Safety Apparel (NSA). The divestiture is part of Lakeland’s strategy to streamline its portfolio and concentrate on its...
Neolix Scales RoboVan-as-a-Service Model, Accelerates Expansion Across China and Overseas
Neolix announced that its RoboVan-as-a-Service (RaaS) model has processed over 1.5 million on‑demand delivery orders and logged more than 40 million kilometers of autonomous driving across Chinese cities. In Qingdao, the company now runs one of the largest single‑city autonomous fleets, handling...
Xerox Board of Directors Appoints Louie Pastor as Chief Executive Officer
Xerox Holdings announced that Steve Bandrowczak will step down as chief executive officer and the board has appointed Louie Pastor as the new CEO, effective immediately. Pastor, who most recently served as Xerox’s president and chief operating officer, led enterprise‑wide transformation, global...
Gateretail and JK Tech Partner to Advance AI-Powered Inflight Retail Intelligence
gateretail and JK Tech have expanded their strategic partnership to enhance the AI‑Powered Inflight Retail Operations Planning Suite, now driven by JK Tech’s JIVA Agentic AI Orchestrator. The joint solution integrates demand forecasting, promotion simulation, pricing recommendations and supplier order...
DataCamp and LangChain Partner to Launch AI Engineering Learning Track
DataCamp has teamed up with LangChain to introduce an AI Engineering learning track aimed at software developers and data practitioners. The curriculum, delivered through DataCamp’s AI‑native platform, covers building, evaluating, and deploying large‑language‑model applications using LangChain, LangSmith, and LangGraph. Real‑time...
Cyber Tech Squad Becomes Official IONOS Partner
Cyber Tech Squad, a specialist in managed Linux server services, has formalized a partnership with European hosting giant IONOS. The alliance gives Cyber Tech Squad direct access to IONOS’s scalable cloud, VPS, and dedicated hosting platforms, enhancing its ability to...
Cloud for Good Acquires EMS Consulting, Expanding Salesforce Expertise and Impact to the Financial Services Sector
Cloud for Good, a purpose‑focused Salesforce consulting partner, announced the acquisition of EMS Consulting, a specialist in Salesforce solutions for financial services. The deal adds deep industry expertise, a robust client base, and proprietary IP to Cloud for Good’s global...
Wishpond Appoints Jordan Gutierrez as Chief Executive Officer to Lead Next Phase of Execution
Wishpond Technologies Ltd., an AI‑enabled marketing solutions provider, announced that COO Jordan Gutierrez will become chief executive officer on March 26, 2026, succeeding founder Ali Tajskandar. Tajskandar will transition to CEO of SalesCloser, a newly spun‑out public company, while staying on Wishpond’s board. The...
Novartis Agrees to Acquire Excellergy, Building on Allergy Leadership With Next-Generation Anti-Ige Innovation
Novartis announced a definitive agreement to acquire Excellergy, a private biotech developing next‑generation anti‑IgE therapies. The deal values Excellergy at up to $2 billion in upfront and milestone payments, with closing targeted for the second half of 2026. Exl‑111, Excellergy’s lead...
Quantcast Sales Veteran Andrew Double Joins Adora as VP of Revenue
Adora, an AI‑native performance‑marketing platform, announced the appointment of Andrew Double as Vice President of Revenue. Double brings over 20 years of commercial leadership, most recently serving as Vice President of Commercial for North America at Quantcast, the programmatic advertising...
CB Insights Partners with Perplexity to Bring Curated Research Selection Into Perplexity’s Leading AI Platform
CB Insights has struck a partnership with Perplexity, licensing a curated selection of its private‑company research reports to Perplexity’s paid Max and Pro tiers. The integration, now live, lets users pull AI‑generated answers that are directly cited to CB Insights...
Pitcher Introduces a New Standard in Sales AI Roleplay with Live Avatar Practice
Pitcher unveiled Pitcher AI Roleplay, an AI‑driven sales role‑play tool that creates live avatars of actual CRM contacts for realistic practice. The platform pulls meeting history, content engagement and account details to build a dynamic buyer persona that reacts in...
DealWire and Capital Engine Announce Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Private Markets Intelligence with AI-Driven Data Solutions
DealWire and Capital Engine have formed a strategic partnership that blends DealWire’s autonomous AI agents and global data ingestion engine with Capital Engine’s investment‑banking technology. The combined platform delivers real‑time, cross‑border intelligence on private equity, venture capital and private credit...
N-iX and Cursor Partner to Power the Future of AI-Native Development
N-iX, a global AI software engineering firm, has entered a strategic partnership with Cursor, an AI‑powered development platform, to accelerate AI‑native software delivery for enterprises. The collaboration introduces an AI‑Augmented Team framework that blends Cursor’s intelligent coding environment with N‑iX’s...
Data Pipeline Failures Cost Enterprises $3 Million per Month, Fivetran Benchmark Finds
Fivetran’s 2026 enterprise data infrastructure benchmark, based on a survey of 500 senior data leaders at firms with over 5,000 employees, reveals that fragile data pipelines are costing large organizations roughly $3 million in lost revenue each month. Nearly 97% of...
G2 Introduces Innovations to Help Software Companies Build Trust and Win in the AI Answer Economy
G2 unveiled a suite of AI‑focused product upgrades designed to cement its role as the trust layer for B2B software buying. New structured FAQs, guided discussion prompts, and feature‑list reviews make buyer feedback easier for both humans and AI engines....
Conntour Transforms Video Intelligence with Limitless AI Search, Launches with $7M Seed Round
Conntour unveiled the first AI video intelligence platform that lets security teams search any camera feed using unrestricted natural language, operating entirely on‑premises. The startup closed a $7 million seed round led by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, SV Angel and Liquid 2 Ventures. Its...
EchoData and R. Michael Anderson Announce Strategic Partnership to Drive AI Leadership Transformation in Saudi Arabia
EchoData and leadership expert R. Michael Anderson have formed a strategic partnership to deliver AI leadership, governance, and transformation programs across Saudi Arabia in line with Vision 2030. The collaboration designates EchoData as the exclusive ground‑level partner responsible for client...
Rising Tide Capital Appoints Dr. Joynicole Martinez as Chief Executive Officer & President
Rising Tide Capital announced Dr. Joynicole Martinez as its new Chief Executive Officer and President, marking a planned succession as the nonprofit scales its mission to empower entrepreneurs. Co‑founders Alfa Demmellash and Alex Forrester are moving into innovation‑focused roles—Chief Impact...
Deck Commerce Powers Eddie Bauer’s Digital Expansion with O5 Group
Deck Commerce has been chosen by O5 Group to power Eddie Bauer's next‑phase direct‑to‑consumer expansion across North America. The modern order‑orchestration platform now links Shopify storefronts, Amazon, and other marketplaces with a network of U.S. and Canadian fulfillment partners. A...
Bain & Company Announces Expansion of Lead Global Management Consulting Partnership with Palantir to Bring World Industry-Leading AI Transformation Capabilities...
Bain & Company announced an expanded partnership with Palantir, deepening their collaboration to deliver enterprise AI transformation services. The deal adds Palantir’s AIP and Foundry platforms to Bain’s consulting toolkit, enabling end‑to‑end AI use‑case delivery. Over 1,500 Bain AI, data...
Leading Ecommerce Agencies Generate $170k in Revenue per SMB Client by Getting More From Their Audiences
A new Omnisend report of 717 agencies shows the top 10% generate an average $170,000 in annual revenue per SMB ecommerce client, equating to $16.70 per subscriber. The outperformance stems from a blend of SMS marketing, systematic A/B testing, and...
Transcend Welcomes Dianne Decena as Vice President of Partnerships
Transcend, a compliance layer for customer data, announced Dianne Decena as its new Vice President of Partnerships. Decena brings 20 years of experience scaling partner programs at SaaS firms such as ThoughtSpot and Medallia. Her hire comes as Gartner forecasts...
PossibleNOW and Convoso Announce Strategic Partnership to Align Compliance and AI-Powered Outbound Performance
PossibleNOW, a compliance‑focused SaaS provider, has entered a strategic partnership with Convoso, an AI‑driven outbound contact‑center platform. The alliance merges PossibleNOW’s Do‑Not‑Contact (DNC) governance tools with Convoso’s predictive dialing and workflow automation, allowing customers to scale outreach while mitigating TCPA...
Elemica Expands AI-Driven Capabilities to Transform Customer Onboarding and Order Orchestration
Elemica announced expanded AI-driven capabilities across its supply‑chain execution platform, adding agentic AI to its Launchpad onboarding service and new self‑service onboarding tools. The technology enables companies to onboard customers and order formats without heavy IT or data‑science involvement, reducing...
EHub Launches Pack, Inventory, and Orchestrate API to Power the Next Era of Carrier Orchestration
eHub, a leader in carrier orchestration, unveiled three platform upgrades—eHub Pack, eHub Inventory, and the eHub Orchestrate API. Pack adds dynamic cartonization that blends real‑time carrier rates, packaging constraints and shipping rules to select optimal packaging, cutting costs and boosting...
MariaDB Completes GridGain Acquisition to Power the Next Generation of Agentic AI
MariaDB plc announced the completion of its acquisition of GridGain Systems, the creator of Apache Ignite, to embed in‑memory computing into its database portfolio. The deal launches an AI‑Ready Operating Platform that unifies transactions, analytics, and vector search, delivering sub‑millisecond...
Vantage Data Centers Appoints Scott Beasley as Global Chief Financial Officer
Vantage Data Centers announced the appointment of Scott Beasley as its global chief financial officer, overseeing finance, accounting, capital markets, procurement, and corporate development. Beasley, based in Denver, brings extensive experience from leading Frontier Communications through a $12 billion fiber investment...
Launch of NetRise Provenance Reveals Who and What Are Behind Open Source, And How Risk Propagates Through the Supply Chain
NetRise, a software supply‑chain security firm, launched NetRise Provenance, a product that links open‑source components to their maintainers and assesses contributor risk across enterprise portfolios. The solution enriches SBOMs with provenance data, offering a policy engine that can automatically block...
Netsweeper Joins Age Verification Providers Association to Advance Privacy-Focused Online Safety
Netsweeper announced its membership in the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA), a global trade body that promotes privacy‑preserving age‑assurance standards. The move aligns the company with regulators and industry peers as governments tighten online‑safety rules. Through AVPA, Netsweeper will help...
Pulsar Appoints Enzo Brizzi to Grow Enterprise Connectivity in Africa
Pulsar International has named Enzo Brizzi as Director of Enterprise Market Expansion & Partnerships to spearhead the company’s growth in Africa. Brizzi, a veteran with more than 25 years in satellite and telecom, will drive strategic alliances and scalable operating...
RecVue Launches Revenue Recognition on Salesforce AppExchange
RecVue announced the launch of RecVue Revenue Recognition for Salesforce, now listed on the Salesforce AppExchange. The solution automates ASC 606 and IFRS 15 revenue recognition, embedding GAAP‑aligned logic directly within the Salesforce ecosystem. It integrates with RecVue’s Agentforce Revenue Management platform...
Summit and Aimpoint Technology Merge to Expand End-to-End Salesforce Services
Summit, a multi‑cloud Salesforce consulting partner, has merged with Aimpoint Technology, a specialist in public‑sector advisory and implementation, to form a unified company under the Summit brand. The deal combines Summit’s scalable delivery and AI‑driven analytics practice with Aimpoint’s deep...
SalesTechStar Interview with Dr. Mark Chrystal, CEO & Founder of Profitmind
Profitmind, a Pittsburgh‑based decision‑intelligence platform for retailers, announced a $9 million Series A round led by Accenture Ventures, bolstered by partnerships with Accenture and Microsoft. The AI‑powered solution sits atop existing retail tech stacks, enabling rapid integration in days rather than months...
Elastic Eliminates Per-Endpoint Pricing for XDR
Elastic announced it will no longer charge per‑endpoint fees for its Elastic Security XDR, a platform that earned a perfect 100% protection score in AV‑Comparatives’ 2025 Business Security evaluation. By removing the so‑called “endpoint tax,” Elastic claims customers can achieve...
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O9 Solutions Recognized in Three New 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Reports for Supply Chain Planning [Process and Discrete] and Decision...
o9 Solutions was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning – both Discrete and Process Industries, and a Niche Player in the inaugural Decision Intelligence Platforms MQ. The company is one of only two vendors...
Persistent Appoints Hari S. Abhyankar as Executive Vice President and Global Head of Private Equity and Professional Services
Persistent Systems announced the appointment of Hari S. Abhyankar as Executive Vice President and Global Head of Private Equity and Professional Services. Abhyankar will steer the firm’s AI‑led transformation strategy for private‑equity investors and their portfolio companies, from diligence through...
Appspace Expands Executive Team to Drive AI Innovation and Solidify Global Workplace Experience Platform Leadership
Appspace has bolstered its executive ranks by naming Eric Daggett as chief sales officer and Dan Ward as chief technology officer. The hires are timed with the rollout of Appspace Intelligence Assistants, an AI layer that aggregates data from digital...
Shipsy Launches AgentFleet, an AI Workforce for Logistics Operations
Shipsy has unveiled AgentFleet, an AI‑driven workforce that assigns virtual agents to core logistics roles such as customer experience, driver support, finance and dispute resolution. The agents monitor signals, make rule‑based decisions and execute tasks across TMS, ERP and third‑party...
ConnectM Acquires Defense Data Specialist Harry Kahn Associates, Targeting $50B+ Global Defense Sustainment Market and Expanding AI Infrastructure Platform
ConnectM Technology Solutions completed the acquisition of Harry Kahn Associates (HKA) by issuing 400,000 shares of common stock, adding an 80‑year‑old defense data specialist to its portfolio. HKA, which generated roughly $2 million in 2025 revenue, provides logistics data systems, technical...