Today's SaaS Pulse
OpenAI acquires Ona to embed secure workspaces for autonomous AI agents
OpenAI announced the acquisition of Ona, a 79‑person cloud development environment provider, to embed secure, persistent workspaces for autonomous AI agents. Ona’s platform has seen a 13‑fold rise in weekly agent sessions across banks, pharma firms, and sovereign wealth funds. Analysts estimate the deal value between $450 million and $500 million.
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By the numbers: NinjaOne raises $400M Series C extension
Gartner Urges Friday‑Afternoon Ban on Microsoft Copilot to Curb User Complacency
At the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney on Tuesday, Gartner research VP Dennis Xu suggested that enterprises temporarily ban Microsoft 365 Copilot on Friday afternoons. He warned that tired employees are more likely to accept toxic or insecure AI‑generated content without proper review, posing a heightened security risk for organizations using the SaaS assistant.
Japanese SaaS Stocks Are Undervalued Growth Gems
The bull case for Japanese software: - Revenues in yen so not hurt by JPY appreciation - SaaS penetration rate is 5-7 years behind the US - Growth is hard to find in Japan, but in SaaS - yes - Incremental margins in...
One Command Gives Claude & Cursor Vercel Superpowers
1️⃣ Install the Vercel plugin for your favorite coding agent 2️⃣ There’s no step two. You just gave Claude Code & Cursor production deployment superpowers Running 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚙𝚕𝚞𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚍𝚍 gets you every Skill and keeps them updated. So slick
Surf AI Secures $57M Series B to Power AI‑Driven Enterprise Security Platform
Israeli cybersecurity startup Surf AI announced on Tuesday that it has raised $57 million in a Series B round led by Accel, with participation from Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures. The capital will accelerate development of its AI‑driven security operations platform for enterprise...
Knox Systems Secures $25M Series A to Launch AI‑Managed Cloud with 90‑Day FedRAMP at 90% Lower Cost
On March 18, 2026, Knox Systems announced a $25 million Series A funding round to accelerate its AI‑managed cloud platform, which it claims can achieve FedRAMP authorization in 90 days at a cost 90% lower than traditional approaches. The round, led...
Alibaba Unveils Enterprise AI Platform as China’s Agentic AI Market Booms
On March 18, 2026, Alibaba Cloud announced the launch of a new enterprise AI platform in China, aiming to help businesses build and deploy AI agents. The rollout comes amid a surge of interest in “agentic AI” across Chinese tech...
Marlink Launches Cloud Platform for Maritime Customers
Marlink introduced XChange NextGen, an edge cloud platform for maritime operators, on March 17. The solution consolidates connectivity, network management, cybersecurity, cloud services, and IIoT applications into a single scalable architecture. It aims to reduce capital spend, eliminate fragmented onboard...
Hello Group Inc (MOMO) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Hello Group Inc (MOMO) reported its first full‑year GAAP net profit for 2025, driven by a 13% year‑over‑year revenue increase to RMB 105.2 million. Developer subscription revenue reached a record RMB 61.9 million, while gross profit rose 23% to RMB 69.7 million, the highest in 16...
AI Agent & Copilot Summit 2026: Microsoft Predicts Agent-Operated Orgs as Partners Preach User Adoption
At the AI Agent & Copilot Summit 2026 Microsoft unveiled Agent365, refreshed M365 Copilot capabilities, and previewed Work IQ. James Oleinik emphasized a shift from user‑driven interfaces to AI agents that autonomously navigate systems and complete tasks. Copilot will serve as...
5 Best Identity Verification Software Providers for Marketplaces
Marketplaces face coordinated identity fraud that threatens payouts, chargebacks, and brand trust. A specialized identity verification layer can quickly approve legitimate buyers and sellers while blocking malicious actors. The article ranks five top providers—AU10TIX, Jumio, Entrust IDV, Trulioo, and Shufti Pro—highlighting...
New Platform Launches to Help Independent Podcasters Reach Their Potential
Podtential, founded by veteran radio executive Wade Kingsley, has launched a growth platform for independent podcasters. The service centers on a proprietary diagnostic tool called PRO that evaluates 100 data points across ambition, concept, audience, content, marketing and commercial strategy....
Recover 20‑30% Lost SaaS Revenue with AI‑Powered Churn Prevention
I built a skill for Claude Code that designs cancel flows and save offers so you stop losing subscribers you could have kept. It builds the entire churn prevention system — exit surveys that identify why people are leaving, personalized save...
Island Launches Australian Operations
Island, the enterprise‑browser firm, has launched its Australian operations from a new Melbourne office, appointing Nick Lennon as managing director for Australia and New Zealand. The move follows growing global momentum and aims to capture the region’s strong enterprise sector. Island’s...
OpenAI Preps for IPO by End of Year, Tells Employees ChatGPT Must Be 'Productivity Tool'
OpenAI is preparing for an initial public offering as early as the fourth quarter of 2026, signaling a shift from pure research to a market‑focused enterprise strategy. CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff the company will reframe ChatGPT as...
FM Services Provider Intesia Selects Planon Platform to Streamline Operational and Work Order Processes Across Europe
Intesia Group has selected Planon’s Facility Services Business Solution (FSBS) to digitize and standardize its facility management operations across 15 European countries. The FSBS Accelerator will accelerate rollout, delivering unified work‑order, preventive‑maintenance, mobile, subcontractor and financial automation. Integration with Schneider...
PROPTECH-X : AscendixRE for Land Brokers: A Purpose-Built CRM for a Complex Asset Class
Ascendix Technologies has launched AscendixRE for Land Brokers, a Salesforce‑based CRM engineered specifically for the land‑brokerage segment. The platform centralizes parcel, owner, buyer, and transaction data, delivering a 360‑degree view that replaces spreadsheets and siloed tools. Integrated prospecting, geo‑search, pipeline...
Flourish Launches Mortgage Platform to Help RIAs Retain Assets
Flourish, an advisor‑tech provider, has launched Flourish Lending, a residential mortgage platform that lets registered investment advisors originate loans up to $10 million. The service, now available to more than 1,100 RIA firms, covers refinancing, cash‑out and new‑home purchases for primary...
Nexudus Launches “Fractional Offices” To Help Operators Monetize Hybrid Work Demand
Nexudus introduced Fractional Offices, a feature that lets workspace operators divide a single private office into multiple part‑time contracts aligned with specific weekdays. The tool addresses the mismatch between five‑day leases and the hybrid work model, enabling two or three‑day‑per‑week...
MetaRadio Returns to NAB Show With V2.6
MetaRadio unveiled version 2.6 at the NAB Show, adding remote web access, advanced image management, and enhanced message scheduling with live‑data overrides. The platform continues its integration with the HD Radio Artist Experience, enabling stations to push dynamic cover art...
Finally Some Good News For Copilot 365 Victims
Microsoft announced it will stop automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on new Windows devices outside the European Economic Area. The change follows backlash from forced installations and a December 2025 EU ruling that blocked the rollout in the...
Six G2 Badges Showcase How SAP LeanIX Supports Real EAs
G2’s Spring 2026 Grid® Report has again highlighted SAP LeanIX as a leader across six key categories. The vendor earned six distinct badges, ranging from usability to market presence, confirming its strong performance in the enterprise architecture (EA) space. The...
Salesforce Teams with NVIDIA to Bring AI Agents Into the Flow of Work
Salesforce and NVIDIA have announced a partnership to embed AI agents directly into everyday workflows. The collaboration leverages Salesforce's Agentforce platform and Slack alongside NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano model, which features a 1 million‑token context window for deep reasoning. Organizations can run these...
LivePerson Partners with Coral Active to Launch LivePerson Sync
LivePerson announced LivePerson Sync, a real‑time integration platform developed with Coral Active. The solution links the Conversational Cloud to major CRMs such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics and ServiceNow, delivering customer data directly within the agent workspace. Sync supports four deployment...
Wise Agent Launches Lead Pipeline
Wise Agent has introduced Lead Pipeline, a visual workflow tool that centralizes lead management for real‑estate professionals. The feature lets agents track prospects from initial contact through closing using customizable stages such as New Lead, Active Buyer, and Under Contract....
Vercel Slashes Build and Deploy Times by up to 30%
Last 6mo of @vercel build & deploy perf ships: ① 𝙼𝚊𝚛 𝟼 - 𝟷.𝟸𝚜 - 𝟹.𝟽𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 🆕 Deployment step now 15% faster ② 𝙹𝚊𝚗 𝟸𝟹 - 𝟼𝟶𝟶𝚖𝚜 - 𝟻𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Faster deploys with improved function caching ③ 𝙹𝚊𝚗 𝟷𝟺 - 𝟸.𝟾𝚜 - 𝟷𝟸𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Reduced...
An Evolution in SaaS: The Median Company Has a Positive Operating Margin
The SaaS Capital Index shows the median publicly‑traded SaaS company posting a positive operating margin for the first time in over a decade, reaching +3% in February 2026 after a low of –21% in mid‑2022. This improvement arrives amid a broader...
Sauce Labs Introduces Sauce AI for Test Authoring
Sauce Labs announced the general availability of Sauce AI for Test Authoring, an AI agent that converts business intent into framework‑agnostic, executable test suites for web, Android and iOS. The tool promises 90% faster test case generation, 99%+ automated coverage,...
Databricks, Accenture Launch Joint Business Venture Focused On Spurring AI Development
Databricks and Accenture have launched the Accenture Databricks Business Group, a joint venture designed to accelerate enterprise adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for AI and data workloads. Backed by more than 25,000 Databricks‑trained professionals, the group will help...
Sell When You're Thriving, Not When Growth Slows
Many founders wait until growth slows before thinking about selling or raising capital, but the irony is: buyers and investors are often most interested when a business is performing at its best. In this episode of Vista Point Advisors The...
Box CLI Launches, Offering Free 10GB Cloud Storage
The official Box CLI is here. Now you can use Box via Claude Code, Codex, Perplexity Computer, OpenClaw & more as a full cloud file system for agents. Available to all users, including free users with 10GB of free...
Azilen Technologies Becomes Merge Service Partner to Accelerate HRTech and HRIS Integrations
Azilen Technologies has been named an official Merge Service Partner, linking its HR integration expertise with Merge’s unified API platform. The collaboration will help HRTech SaaS providers design, launch, and scale HRIS integrations across North America and Europe more quickly....
Workday's Sana Transforms Apps Into AI Execution Engines
Announcing Sana to turn its enterprise apps into execution engines, @Workday gets serious about agentic AI https://t.co/t6YAeF1TGB I shared my thoughts with @CIOonline about a major new entry in vertical AI agents.
Colab Becomes Open, Extensible Host for MCP Agents
"By establishing Colab as an open, extensible host, you can now treat Colab as an automated workspace for any MCP-compatible agent." https://t.co/YEXI75WM1d < use the new @GoogleColab MCP server to offload to the Colab runtime, and use notebooks as a...
New Base Customers Module: Built-In CRM for B2B Sales
Base has launched a new Customers module that embeds a lightweight B2B‑focused CRM directly into its platform. The tool automatically creates company records from VAT numbers and consolidates every order under a single customer ID, regardless of sales channel. Users...
GStack Automates Role‑specific Review Tracking for Startups
New innovation: Just as at a well-run startup, there are CEO, engineering manager and design reviews, GStack now helps you keep track of what reviews are run, figures out what is appropriate (e.g. CEO doesn't have to look at infra...
UK/EU Fiscal Data Feed Launches with Instant, Historic Data
This week has our BIGGEST launch in a while... UK and EU coverage is coming to the Fiscal Data Feed. This means the financials for 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 will have: ⚡ Instant data deliverability 📊 As-reported and Standardized 🔍 Click-thru audit number to filing 📈 20...
AppZen Completes Workday Integration for AI-Powered Expense Audit
AppZen has completed a Workday Design Approved Integration, adding its AI‑driven Expense Audit app to the Workday Marketplace. The integration creates a bi‑directional, near‑real‑time link between Workday Expenses and AppZen’s Mastermind AI platform, enabling autonomous compliance checks and fraud detection....
Crunchbase Wins 31 G2 Badges, Multiple Leader Honors
Feeling lucky this St. Patrick’s Day? 🍀 Crunchbase earned 31 badges in G2’s Spring 2026 Report, including multiple Leader recognitions, thanks to customer feedback from teams using our platform to discover opportunities faster. See what others are saying on G2. 👉 https://t.co/RaOjiq91S7
Launch Everywhere at Once, Beat Incumbents Globally
"It's really hard to enter a market if there's an existing incumbent." So Zhong Xu launched Deliverect in every country at the same time. 7 years later: #1 or #2 in all of them. https://t.co/fbRQrowVSQ
British Business Bank Promises £50m for SuperSeed’s Physical AI Fund
The British Business Bank has pledged up to £50 million as a cornerstone commitment to SuperSeed Fund III, a seed‑stage vehicle focused on B2B AI and SaaS firms building physical AI for manufacturing, energy, construction and autonomous systems. The investment, made...
RPO Reveals Winners and Losers in SaaS Apocalypse
The real signs of SaaSpocalypse will show up in RPO. Which is the key metric to watch as the winners and losers of software diverge. https://t.co/cARNgY6haE
We Solved OpenClaw's Hardest Problem!
KiloClaw’s one‑click, 60‑second deployment removed the infrastructure hurdle for AI agents. However, users quickly hit a second wall: configuring external integrations and defining workflow logic. The company discovered that documentation alone didn’t move users past this point. To solve it,...
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What Is Salesforce Connect? [Powerful Tool for Data Integration]
Salesforce Connect enables real‑time access to external data by mapping external tables to virtual Salesforce objects, eliminating the need for data replication. It supports OData, cross‑org, and custom Apex adapters, allowing seamless integration with ERP systems, databases, SharePoint, and other...
Workday Rolls Out Sana, Its Conversational AI Gateway to Enterprise Work
Workday announced the general availability of Sana, an AI‑powered conversational interface that replaces traditional menus for its HR and finance applications. The launch includes three components: Sana for Workday, the Self‑Service Agent that automates routine queries and complex workflows, and...
Gamma Adds AI Image-Generation Tools in Bid to Take on Canva and Adobe
Gamma has unveiled Gamma Imagine, an AI‑driven image‑generation tool that lets users create brand‑specific marketing assets such as charts, infographics, and social graphics from simple text prompts. The product plugs into a suite of integrations—including ChatGPT, Claude, Zapier, Atlassian, n8n,...
Lab Thread’s Unified Lab Software Platform Available to Academic & Non-Profit Researchers for Free
Lab Thread has launched a free version of its Unified Lab Software Platform for academic and non‑profit researchers, allowing up to five users per organization. The cloud‑based suite bundles an electronic lab notebook, DNA sequence viewer, templates and project‑management tools...
Exclusive: Candex Extends Series C To $40M+ To Help Enterprises Easily Onboard Global Vendors
Candex has extended its Series C round to $40 million, bringing total funding above $120 million, with HSBC joining as an investor. The New York fintech acts as a master vendor, allowing large enterprises to pay one‑off or irregular suppliers without separate onboarding,...
Summit Holdings Launches MSP-As-A-Service Platform To Help MSPs Scale Faster
Summit Holdings announced the launch of MSP‑as‑a‑Service (MSPaaS), a platform built on its recent acquisition of NOCDOC, a 24×7 NOC/SOC provider. The service delivers a U.S.–based operational backbone—monitoring, security, and support—while allowing partner MSPs to retain branding and sales control....
OpenViktor Undermines $2K/Month AI Startup Model
This just killed half the "AI productivity" startups charging monthly fees. OpenViktor does everything a real hire does: → organizational memory → 3,000+ tool integrations → daily reports, code generation, app building No $2,000/month SaaS. No waitlist. No BS. PH Link: https://t.co/LrjYP8hMqw
Miro’s CEO Is Betting AI Will Change How Teams Work
Miro, the browser‑based whiteboard pioneer, is launching an “AI Innovation Workspace” that embeds generative AI directly into its collaborative canvas. The new Sidekicks feature helps teams turn sketches into clickable prototypes and automates workshop outcomes, reaching over 250,000 organizations, including...