🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: HighRadius launches outcome‑based pricing, tying fees to customer gains
HighRadius introduced an Outcome Based Pricing model for its Office of the CFO platform, removing implementation and subscription fees until the solution is live and then taking a share of verified financial gains. The model stems from a 24‑month controlled experiment that showed clear benefits when customers met mutually agreed success criteria.
Also developing:
- •AWS Middle East datacenter hit by unknown objects, causing outage
- •Infobip unveils AgentOS, an AI‑native platform for autonomous customer journeys
By the numbers: Miso Robotics acquires Zignyl (value undisclosed)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Global Payments Inc (GPN) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Global Payments reported Q4 2020 results that beat expectations, delivering double‑digit earnings‑per‑share growth and a 210‑basis‑point increase in operating margin. Adjusted net revenue reached $6.75 billion, a modest 5% decline year‑over‑year, while technology‑enabled services now represent 60% of the business. The company announced strategic, multi‑year partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Google to accelerate cloud‑native merchant and issuer solutions. It also highlighted its role in distributing over $2.5 billion of COVID‑19 stimulus payments, underscoring operational resilience.
By Motley Fool – Earnings Transcripts
News•Feb 18, 2026
GitLab Backs 99.9% Availability with Service Credits for Ultimate Customers
GitLab announced a 99.9% availability service‑level agreement for Ultimate customers on GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated, backed by service credits when monthly uptime falls short. The SLA covers core DevSecOps experiences such as issues, merge requests, Git operations, Container and Package...
By GitLab Blog
News•Feb 18, 2026
Figma Inc (FIG) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Figma reported Q4 2025 revenue of $304 million, a 40% year‑over‑year increase, and full‑year revenue of $1.056 billion, surpassing guidance. Net dollar retention rose to 136% for customers above $10 k ARR, while AI credits are now used weekly by 75% of those...
By Motley Fool – Earnings Transcripts
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Stop Juggling AI Tools—Vora IQ Streamlines Founders
Most first-time founders don’t fail because of bad ideas. They fail juggling 6 AI tools and starting from scratch every time. Vora IQ is an AI-powered business OS with specialized agents that hold your full business context. Every answer is grounded...
By Man of Skillz
Blog•Feb 17, 2026
From SAP Emarsys To SAP Engagement Cloud: Powering The Next Era Of Engagement
In this episode Sara Richter announces the rebranding of SAP Emarsys to SAP Engagement Cloud, highlighting its evolution from a marketer‑first personalization tool to an enterprise‑wide, AI‑enabled engagement platform. She explains how the new solution integrates real‑time customer insights, operational...
By eCommerce Fastlane
News•Feb 17, 2026
Enlil Launches Milestone View for Its Medtech Product Lifecycle Traceability Software
Enlil unveiled Milestone View, the industry’s first evidence‑based milestone interface for medical device product development. The new capability embeds directly within Enlil’s unified traceability platform, linking each milestone to underlying requirements, design outputs, risk controls, change histories and regulatory evidence....
By Medical Design & Outsourcing
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Stock Crashes Stem From Multiple Compression, Not Revenue Loss
Fab article about which vertical software will be hurt and which could be made stronger... "But here's the thing the market already understands: you don't need revenue to decline for the stock to crash. You need the multiple to compress. A...
By Samantha LaDuc
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Stop AI Lies: Four Prompt Tricks for Accurate Research
Everyone's using AI to do data analysis. Almost everyone is getting answers full of lies. Made-up quotes. Invented evidence. Completely wrong conclusions—all presented with total confidence. Today post by UXR veteran Caitlin Sullivan shares four prompting techniques that will prevent and catch...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Feb 17, 2026
KDDI Selects Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing for Telecom Billing Modernization
Japanese telecom KDDI selects Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing to replace its legacy billing system. The cloud‑native platform on OCI will handle real‑time charging for mobile, broadband and digital services, aiming to cut costs and boost agility. KDDI expects...
By ERP Today
News•Feb 17, 2026
What Happens to a Car when the Company Behind Its Software Goes Under?
Modern vehicles increasingly rely on cloud‑based software to operate core functions, making them vulnerable if the underlying service provider collapses. Recent bankruptcies of Fisker and Better Place left owners with bricked cars and no recourse, highlighting a new failure mode...
By Ars Technica – Cars Technica
News•Feb 17, 2026
FirstLook 1.0 Launches with New Player Relationship-Tracking Features
FirstLook 1.0 launched after extensive playtests with studios like Krafton, Skybound and Bad Robot Games. The platform, now used by Remedy Entertainment, System Era, Dreamhaven, Avalanche Studios, Build A Rocket Boy, 11 Bit Studios and New Tales, adds creator campaign management...
By GamesBeat
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Retention Beats Acquisition: Tight Onboarding Drives PLG Success
I sat down with Melissa Kwan, founder of eWebinar, and one line stuck with me: “Getting customers to sign up is the first date. Not the last day with you.” Melissa has built eWebinar to just under $2M ARR. No full-time employees. 13 full-time...
By Wes Bush
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Shopify Veteran Amer Grozdanic Joins Unofficial Podcast
I met @AmerGrozdanic at Shopify https://t.co/Q6R0IzWT4z in Toronto. You might know him from the ASOM pod, or from Hulk Apps, which he co-founded and exited. Turns out he's a fellow agency owner @PraellaAgency just 20 minutes from my studio in...
By Kurt Elster
News•Feb 17, 2026
Quest Trusted Data Management Platform Makes It Easier for Organizations to Create Reusable Data Products
Quest Software unveiled the Trusted Data Management Platform, a unified suite that combines data modeling, cataloging, governance, quality, and a marketplace to deliver AI‑ready data across enterprises. The solution promises up to 54% faster data‑product delivery, up to 40% cost...
By SD Times
News•Feb 17, 2026
Dynatrace Announces Accelerated Growth and Innovation with AWS
Dynatrace announced accelerated growth by surpassing $1 billion in AWS Marketplace sales and earning the AWS Financial Services Competency. The company reported sustained triple‑digit growth over three years, driven by cloud‑native procurement demand. It also secured the AWS Agentic AI Specialization,...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
Social•Feb 17, 2026
AI Agents Boost Productivity Fivefold and Unlock New Revenue
While SaaS stocks got destroyed because of the threat of AI, we were spinning up AI agents at @ListKitio that make our team 5x more productive. Agentic workflows helping our AMs do work for our customers they can't and don't...
By Lincoln Murphy
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Quantifying Qualitative AI Conversations with Claude Console
Nearly every AI research tool promises insights. Many still can’t tell you how much they matter. And very few connect them to what your whole company should do next. so I decided to try and build a better way Day 4: been using...
By Anna Furmanov
News•Feb 17, 2026
AI-Powered Worksite Safety Startup Fyld Raises £32m Series B
London‑based AI startup Fyld has closed a £32 million Series B round, led by Energy Impact Partners with participation from Partech’s Growth Impact Fund. The funding will fuel the expansion of its real‑time safety and compliance platform for frontline workers into the...
By Sifted
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Unify Your Messaging Across Channels to Boost Conversions
Here's a quick exercise: 1. Open your homepage. 2. Open your latest paid campaign. 3. Open your sales deck. Now ask: Do they all describe the same ICP pain and the same unique solution? Or does each one position your company differently? We see this...
By devbasu
News•Feb 17, 2026
Mistral Seals First Acquisition Deal with Cloud Startup Koyeb
Mistral AI announced its first acquisition, buying French serverless cloud startup Koyeb. The move aims to accelerate Mistral's AI compute offering and build a sovereign AI cloud platform. Mistral, founded in 2023, has raised nearly €2.8 bn and is valued at...
By Sifted
News•Feb 17, 2026
Hackajob Announces Its AI Recruiting Agent Has Surpassed $1 Million in ARR
Hackajob announced that its AI recruiting agent, Archer, generated $1 million in annual recurring revenue within just 90 days of launch, making it the fastest‑growing AI‑native recruiting product. The platform qualified 35,000 double‑opt‑in introductions, achieved a 20:1 candidate‑to‑hire ratio and blocked...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 17, 2026
SpendRule Launches AI-Powered Contract Intelligence Platform with OSF HealthCare and MemorialCare
SpendRule has launched an AI‑driven contract intelligence platform that adds a fourth validation layer—contract terms—to traditional three‑way matching in hospital accounts payable. The solution targets the $323 billion purchased‑services spend category, where industry analysts estimate $32 billion in preventable overpayments each year....
By HIT Consultant
Podcast•Feb 17, 2026•25 min
The Signal: The Real "Payment Meets Fraud" Journey with Brian Rust at Worldpay | Episode 467
In this episode, Brian Rust, SVP and Deputy CISO at Worldpay, explains how fraudsters now target SaaS platforms and ISVs by exploiting weak onboarding, transaction logic, and refund processes. He outlines the fraud kill‑chain—from synthetic business creation and card‑testing spikes...
By Leaders in Payments
News•Feb 17, 2026
URecruits’ Agentic AI Helps Recruiters Cut Admin Tasks and Reduce Candidate Ghosting
uRecruits has launched an Agentic AI platform that automates core recruiting tasks such as job creation, resume parsing, candidate ranking, and interview scheduling. The autonomous agents cut administrative work by up to 60 % and reduce candidate ghosting by 50 %, while...
By HR Tech Series
Podcast•Feb 17, 2026•17 min
37 | Why Retention Is Now Driving Software Company Valuations
In this episode, managing director Mike Lyon and senior associate Sarabeth Sandweiss discuss how retention metrics have become a pivotal factor in software company valuations, detailing the heightened scrutiny buyers now apply. They explain the investor framework for assessing retention,...
By The Path to Exit
News•Feb 17, 2026
Will AI Eat Your Revtech Stack?
The episode examines how AI is reshaping revenue technology (revtech) stacks, contrasting two dominant narratives: AI as a replacement that could shrink seat‑based pricing, and AI as an augmentor that boosts productivity without major headcount cuts. It highlights that AI’s...
By Forrester Blogs
News•Feb 17, 2026
Checkmarx Enhances IDE-Native Agentic Application Security in Kiro
Checkmarx announced that its AI‑driven Developer Assist tool is now embedded directly within the AWS Kiro integrated development environment. The integration scans source code and dependencies in real time, surfacing security findings inside the IDE and synchronizing them with the...
By SD Times
News•Feb 17, 2026
Cloud On Demand & StorVault Announce Partnership to Strengthen Local Data Protection
Cloud On Demand and South African backup specialist StorVault have announced a partnership that combines scalable cloud delivery with locally‑grounded, immutable data protection. The joint offering targets ransomware, hardware failures and endpoint vulnerabilities that threaten hybrid workforces, while delivering point‑in‑time...
By IT News Africa
News•Feb 17, 2026
TNS Upgrades TNS Data Usage Optimizer with Launch of Interactive Customer Portal
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has upgraded its Data Usage Optimizer (DUO) with an interactive customer portal, giving buy‑side and sell‑side firms direct, on‑demand access to cost‑analysis tools. The portal transforms raw vendor entitlement files into actionable dashboards that pinpoint unused...
By FX News Group — Feed
News•Feb 17, 2026
Operational Discipline in Streaming Is Now Non-Negotiable
Streaming operators are moving from growth‑focused strategies to strict cost discipline as subscriber acquisition slows and infrastructure expenses rise. Igor Oreper argues that profitability now depends on tightly controlled workflows, AI‑driven automation, and smarter cloud‑native architectures. He highlights concrete levers...
By Streaming Media
News•Feb 17, 2026
Cintoo Embraces Ricoh-Native 360 Data
Cintoo has launched a new 360 Edition that natively ingests Ricoh 360° video and merges it with 3D scans, BIM and CAD models in a single cloud‑based environment. The platform offers unlimited automatic camera‑path processing, manual alignment tools, and Gaussian‑splat visualisation for...
By AEC Magazine
News•Feb 17, 2026
Aptean Unveils Aptean Intelligence as a Service
Aptean, a global provider of industry‑specific enterprise software, announced Aptean Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), a managed AI‑agent offering built on its AppCentral 2.0 platform. The service delivers custom, industry‑trained AI agents that embed into existing workflows, handling everything from...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 17, 2026
Mondrian Picks FundGuard to Update Investment Ledger
Mondrian, a European asset manager, has selected FundGuard’s cloud‑based investment ledger to replace its legacy accounting system. The new platform will provide real‑time transaction processing, automated regulatory reporting, and seamless integration with tokenisation workflows. Migration includes historic data transfer and...
By Funds Europe – ETFs
News•Feb 17, 2026
Retail Brand Monitoring Software: Track What Customers Say
Retail brand monitoring software transforms the way retailers listen to digital word‑of‑mouth, using AI to aggregate mentions across social, review sites, forums and emerging AI‑generated answers. The tools deliver real‑time alerts, sentiment scores and competitor share‑of‑voice, turning scattered feedback into...
By The Retail Bulletin
News•Feb 17, 2026
How to Use Zapier for Social Media Automation
Zapier, the leading AI‑orchestration platform, enables marketers to automate repetitive social‑media tasks such as posting, resharing, and responding. By linking content sources—RSS feeds, blogs, or AI writers—to networks like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram, teams can maintain a constant presence without...
By Zapier – Blog
News•Feb 17, 2026
Paket Mutfak Raises $3.8M to Grow Multi-Brand Cloud Kitchen Model
Turkish cloud‑kitchen software startup Paket Mutfak announced a $3.8 million financing round, bringing its total capital to $12.3 million. The round was led by existing backers Nokta Yatırım Holding, Ünlü & Co, and Fırat İşbecer, with new investors including Ali Sabancı and...
By Tech.eu
Podcast•Feb 17, 2026•53 min
Google Alerts for Insurance? Visualping Brings New Technology for Risk Assessment
In this episode, Visualping co‑founder and CEO Serge Salager explains how his company is turning real‑time web monitoring into a "Google Alerts for insurance," delivering instant risk insights to underwriters. He outlines emerging data sources—such as property changes, environmental alerts, and...
By The Insurance Podcast
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Monthly Subscriptions Beat One‑time Sales for Lasting Growth
I'm much more bullish on the indiehacker doing $2k MRR on $50 / mo subs, than I am on someone who did $10,000 sales of lifetime deals. Getting people to buy something on a "one time" basis has gotten easier, in...
By Jon Yongfook
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Multiple Bidders Boost Leverage, Valuation, and Deal Success
A competitive sales process includes multiple buyers bidding against each other, each investing considerable time and resources to win the bid. This competition increases: * Your negotiating leverage * Your valuation * Your probability of a closed deal #founders #pathtoexit
By Michael Lyon
News•Feb 17, 2026
How to Use Close Forms with Workflows (and Never Miss a Lead Again)
Close’s native Forms and Workflow tools let inbound teams capture a prospect’s information and instantly trigger a series of automated actions. When a form is submitted, a lead is created or updated in the CRM, assigned to an owner, set...
By Close Sales Blog
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Onshore Secures $31M Series B for AI Tax Automation
Congrats to Onshore on their $31M Series B! Onshore is building an AI-native platform that replaces manual CPA workflows with continuous, automated tax intelligence. Instead of relying on spreadsheets and fragmented documentation, Onshore automates data collection and analysis while keeping expert...
By YCombinator
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Continuous Security Audit Across 62,000+ Open Skills
We partnered with @socketsecurity, @snyksec, and @gendigitalinc to continuously audit https://t.co/NfXI7skfWe for security vulnerabilities. There are now 62,000+ skills in the open ecosystem https://t.co/rtwkKCBeBz
By Guillermo Rauch
News•Feb 16, 2026
Mortgage Originator Maestro AI Announces $1.2M Pre-Seed
Maestro AI, an AI‑powered platform for mortgage origination, secured $1.2 million in pre‑seed funding led by New Stack Ventures, with participation from Family VC, ZFO, Roark’s Drift, and local angels. Founded by industry veteran David Rogove—who previously built and sold Wemlo...
By Crowdfund Insider
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Poor Communication Fuels Disputes, Refunds, and Churn
what causes disputes causes refunds causes churn... what escalates each of those to the next is poor communication
By Lincoln Murphy
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Own a Compelling Idea, Not Just an Audience
Don't "build an audience" Find an idea you can own that people want to buy into
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Built Rails Infrastructure for Per‑Customer SQLite, Even When Plans Shifted
The original plan for Fizzy was to ship the SaaS version with one sqlite database per customer. That didn't end up happening, but we built all the Rails infrastructure needed to make it possible. Mike goes through it all here:...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Feb 17, 2026
SaaS Pricing Has Moved Beyond Seat‑based Models
If you think most SaaS is still predominantly priced based on seats, you're at least six years out of date.
By Patrick Campbell
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Measure Five Key Metrics, Not Just CPL, for Predictable Pipeline
SaaS teams debate CPL vs volume. Wrong focus. Track 5 metrics if you want predictable pipeline: • MQL→SQL rate • Lead response time • Lead→Customer rate • Customer LTV • Cost per qualified lead Which one are you not measuring? https://t.co/sYhVKy6dXN
By devbasu
Social•Feb 17, 2026
SureThing Automates Gmail, Calendar, and More Offline
Seriously curious about @getsurething. The fact that it can automate my Gmail, my Calendar, and a zillion other apps while I’m offline seems wild 👀
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 16, 2026
Human Value Shifts to Distribution as AI Dominates Creation
As AI eats more of product building (autocompleting code -> writing 100% of code -> reviewing its own code -> deciding what to build in the first place -> judgement to know what is great), where will human brains be...
By Lenny Rachitsky