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
EzPaycheck Delivers Restaurant-Ready Payroll with Tip, Overtime, and Multi-Location Support for 2026 Compliance
Halfpricesoft.com unveiled a restaurant‑focused upgrade to its ezPaycheck payroll platform, adding built‑in tip, qualified overtime, and multi‑location processing tools to meet 2026 labor‑law requirements. The solution eliminates manual calculations, reduces costly errors, and operates without subscription fees, offering unlimited paycheck runs. Designed for single‑site cafés to expanding restaurant groups, ezPaycheck streamlines payroll for servers, bartenders, and back‑of‑house staff. A free trial is available, promising rapid deployment and paperless pay‑stub generation.
Customers Misinterpret Friction as Personal Inadequacy
"Customers lie." I remember hearing that from Bob Moesta for the first time in one of his talks about JTBD. And it never left me because I've seen it first-hand — especially when improving activation for our PLG SaaS clients....
Nimble Raises $47M to Give AI Agents Access to Real-Time Web Data
Nimble announced a $47 million Series B round led by Norwest to scale its AI‑driven web‑search platform. The service uses autonomous agents to query the internet in real time, validates results, and outputs them as structured tables that can be queried like...
AITech Interview with Gil Pekelman, Co-Founder and CEO, Atera
Atera’s IT Autopilot introduces agentic AI that autonomously resolves Tier 1 tickets, freeing technicians for higher‑value work. Unlike traditional script‑based automation, the platform operates with contextual understanding and strict guardrails, delivering faster resolutions and a better user experience. Early adopters reported...
Elevate Launches ELMA Agentic Capability
Elevate has introduced ELMA, an agentic capability that extends its cloud‑based ELM platform for in‑house legal teams. ELMA lets users create workflows via natural language and integrates with over 200 enterprise applications, automating document processing, data extraction, and browser‑based tasks....
Why Chief AI Officers Need to Become Change Agents
Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) are evolving from technical overseers to enterprise change agents, tasked with accelerating AI experiments while managing risk. Companies are shifting focus from low failure rates to high‑velocity learning, recognizing that each experiment adds strategic insight. The...
From ‘Prompt-and-Pray’ to Production: Straion Raises €1.1M to Govern AI Coding at Scale
Straion, a governance layer for AI‑generated code, closed a €1.1 million seed round led by Marathon VC. The startup aims to replace the “prompt‑and‑pray” development model by centralising organisational rules and validating AI‑generated plans before execution. Its platform integrates with tools...
OpenSpace Field Launches for Construction Teams
OpenSpace has launched Field, an image‑based mobile solution that lets construction crews capture snagging items, observations and issues in real time. The platform leverages AI autolocation to tag the exact spot of a problem using a smartphone and prior 360°...
Druva Launches Deep Analysis Agents to Cut Forensic Investigations From Days to Minutes
Druva unveiled Deep Analysis Agents as an extension of its DruAI platform, promising to shrink forensic and compliance investigations from days to minutes. The agents leverage the Dru MetaGraph, a graph‑powered data map, to automatically correlate telemetry, logs, identity data, and...
Building Secure SaaS Architecture: Why Identity Must Be Designed From Day One
SaaS founders must embed identity architecture from day one to avoid the most common breach vectors. A 2025 ReliaQuest study found 44% of cloud workload breaches stem from compromised credentials, underscoring the risk of retrofitting authentication later. Early design choices—separating...
Soundcheck Live Is a New Platform Modernizing the Backbone of Live Music
Soundcheck Live, an Austin‑based startup founded by Ben Ikwuagwu and Steven Tran, launches a dedicated operations hub for live‑performance teams. The platform consolidates gig documentation, real‑time scheduling, roster coordination, and show‑specific communication into a single dashboard. By replacing spreadsheets, email...
Freightos Revenues up Nearly 25% in 2025
Freightos reported $29.5 million revenue for 2025, a 24 % increase over 2024, driven by higher carrier participation and transaction volume. Adjusted EBITDA narrowed to a $11.2 million loss, improving from $12.6 million the prior year, while cash reserves remain sufficient to fund growth....
Tewke Secures £1.5M to Scale AI-Powered Home Energy Platform
London‑based Tewke closed a £1.5 million second‑stage round, backed by JamJar, Cur8, Energy Mix Ventures, Project Ventures and Revolut CTO Vlad Yatsenko. The company’s Tap device, engineered in the UK, retrofits without a neutral wire and can be installed in minutes,...
Master Your Passwordless Future: Introducing Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager
Thales has launched the Authenticator Lifecycle Manager, a SaaS solution that centralizes enrollment, replacement, and revocation of FIDO2 security keys across enterprises. The platform offers a single‑pane‑of‑glass dashboard, on‑behalf key registration, granular policy controls, and comprehensive audit logging. By automating...
LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ with Protégé, Replacing Lexis+ AI with an End-to-End Workflow Platform
LexisNexis announced the U.S. general availability of Lexis+ with Protégé, a unified legal platform that supersedes its earlier Lexis+ AI offering. The new solution integrates advanced generative AI, workflow automation, and analytics into a single end‑to‑end environment for research, drafting,...
How Smarsh Built an AI Front Door for Regulated Industries — and Drove 59% Self-Service Adoption
Smarsh deployed an AI‑powered support agent, Archie, on Salesforce Agentforce 360 to create a unified front‑door for regulated‑industry customers. The system lets users describe needs in plain language, routing them to the right solution and reducing navigation friction. Early results...
Businesses Prefer SaaS Over Costly In‑House Tool Development
I keep seeing this take and I just don’t think any serious business will waste time and resources on vibe coding internal tools to replace SaaS subscriptions. Some might give it a go and it makes a good headline for...
Cheaper Engineer Hiring Accelerates Software Ecosystem Growth
It's probably accelerating from here. More code, more software engineers. More apps, more SaaS usage and revenue. More cloud consumption. And a whole lot of tokens through it all. If the cost of hiring software engineers was previously a bottleneck on...
Global Scale, Local Presence: Fastly Object Storage Expands to New Regions
Fastly Object Storage has doubled its global footprint by adding five new regions—us-central-1, uk-east-1, eu-south-1, jp-central-1, and au-east-1—to its existing network. The expansion targets lower latency and egress‑free data delivery for developers building edge‑centric applications. Fastly also highlights regional redundancy,...
Ask Strangers, Not Survivors, to Test Onboarding
Your customers are survivors. They made it through the friction. That's why you shouldn't ask them to evaluate your onboarding. Talk to strangers instead. New ep on activation research: https://t.co/50jmNuc3qK…de-to-activation/
Scrape 10k Pages without Writing Any Proxy Code
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The 10 Best Apps For Lawyers In 2026
The 2026 roundup identifies the ten most effective legal‑tech apps, ranging from AI‑powered client communication platforms to cloud‑based billing and discovery tools. Selections were based on features, user ratings, security certifications, integration depth, and pricing. Apps such as Case Status,...
SAP's 2027 Deadline Forces Massive S/4HANA Migration Push
SAP's artificial 2027 deadline for moving off ECC and onto S/4HANA public cloud is creating a major challenge. They're pushing hard to migrate as many customers as possible. #SAP #CloudMigration #Tech https://t.co/5lkXAGmH30
SAP RISE: Convenience Gains, Control Losses
Choosing SAP RISE means more than just managed services; it's a trade-off. You gain convenience but sacrifice control over infrastructure, escalation, and future decisions for your SAP deployment. #SAP #Cloud #Business https://t.co/xfcMQ1Aj9q
Henry Schein Inc (HSIC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Henry Schein reported $3.4 billion in Q4 2025 sales, a 7.7% increase and the strongest growth in over three years. Non‑GAAP operating margin held at 7.42% while cash flow from operations jumped to $381 million. Cloud‑based Dentrix Ascend reached over 11,000 subscribers,...
Perfect Corp (PERF) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Procore Technologies reported Q4 FY2025 revenue of $349 million, a 15.6% year‑over‑year increase, and a non‑GAAP operating margin of 15%. The company added 2,700 $100,000‑plus ARR customers, now representing 66% of total ARR, and saw free cash flow rise 69% to...
Adapthealth Corp (AHCO) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
American Well Corp (AHCO) reported Q4 2025 revenue of $55.3 million, a 22.1% YoY decline, as the company completed its pivot from a multi‑product telehealth provider to a pure SaaS platform. Subscription revenue now represents 53% of total revenue, reflecting...
Founder-Product Fit: Solve Your Own Problem
I was building products nobody wanted, burning money on APIs, and watching SaaS after SaaS stall out. So yeah, not my finest chapter. And when you're stuck in that loop, you start asking different questions. The one that changed everything: "Am I solving MY...
The Specific Results From the B2B SaaS Growth Program That Just Finished
The B2B SaaS Growth Program transformed a cohort of founders from ad‑hoc experiments into a coordinated growth engine within sixteen weeks. Participants built ABM lead lists, AI‑personalized outbound sequences, matched‑audience and retargeting ads, and began weekly tracking of CPL and...
Simplify GTM: One Goal, One Audience, One Offer
If your GTM feels stuck, run this experiment. It will take you 30 days: 1. Pick ONE growth goal. Pipeline, activation, or expansion. Not all three. 2. Pick ONE audience. Not "SMB + mid-market + enterprise." One. 3. Pick ONE...
This Week in SaaS - Feb 17 - 23, 2026
SaasRise announced its 16‑week B2B SaaS Growth Program, opening applications until Feb 28 with only five spots available. The week also featured sizable VC investments, notably Code Metal’s $125 M Series B and Render’s $100 M Series C extension, highlighting strong capital flow into AI‑enabled...
Protected: On-Demand Webinar — Using RMIS as a Strategic Enabler: How Risk Leaders Turn Information Into Better Decisions
Origami Risk hosted an on‑demand webinar titled “Using RMIS as a Strategic Enabler,” highlighting how risk leaders can turn risk‑management information systems (RMIS) data into better business decisions. The session detailed the platform’s ability to aggregate insurance, safety, and claims...
Start with Bottom‑of‑Funnel, Flip Funnel, 44× SQL Growth
A cybersecurity SaaS came to us with a problem 👇 - Pipeline flat - About 1 demo per month - Marketing basically paused 12 months later: - 44x SQL volume - 1200% more opportunities - Deals closing 3x faster than...
Trimble Makes Project Management Platform Available in UK and Ireland
Trimble has launched its cloud‑based ProjectSight platform in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Benelux region, extending a tool that is already entrenched in the U.S. market. The solution offers real‑time capture and sharing of drawings, RFIs, submittals and site...
ERP App Marketplace Launched for Acumatica Customizations
Technology Leader Co and AcuPower have launched ERP App Marketplace, a joint venture that packages Acumatica customizations into reusable, embedded applications. The new marketplace debuts with a suite of modules built on AcuPower’s legacy IP, enabling partners to select proven...
Customers Buy Core Needs, Not Feature Overload
"We're the all-in-one solution." Cool. But that's not why they bought you. QuickBooks has 1,000 features. But people didn't hire it for 1,000 features. They hired it because of a few core struggles: they needed to get paid, pay others,...
FIXED: Empty Response Issue with Fireworks.ai Tasks
The Julius Agent using Fireworks.ai’s Kimi K2.5 model returned empty final responses after successful tool execution, confusing users into thinking tasks failed. The root cause was the model’s FinishReason::Stop state delivering an empty response.text field while earlier assistant messages contained...
Liminal Expands To MSPs With Secure, Multi-Model AI Platform
Liminal, previously focused on enterprise customers, is extending its secure, multi‑model AI platform to managed service providers (MSPs) targeting small‑ and medium‑size businesses (SMBs). The platform consolidates access to leading large language models—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity—while sanitizing sensitive...
Why Design Authority Is Crucial in Salesforce Architecture
The article argues that a Salesforce Design Authority (DA) is essential for maintaining architectural intent and preventing technical debt. It explains how architectural drift occurs when decisions are implicit and not revisited, and how a DA provides a forum for...
Nebius Price Target Lifted to $232 on $5.4B ARR Outlook
Nebius Group $NBIS price tgt raised to $232 at Northland Conservatively raising CY26 ending ARR estimate to $5.4B from $4B on strong 4Q25 incremental ARR and low end of CY26 capex plans. While we are not changing our...
Babble Turns to NinjaOne to Unify Legacy IT Stack
UK‑based managed service provider Babble has migrated from a patchwork of five legacy IT tools to NinjaOne’s unified management platform. The switch supports over 12,000 client devices, including those in regulated public‑sector environments, and aims to improve productivity, scalability, and...
Stop GTM Theater: Focus on ICP‑Driven Strategy
If your GTM looks impressive but revenue is flat, that’s not bad luck. You're stuck in the classic GTM Theater vs. GTM Strategy trap. Let me explain... GTM Theater is when... 1) You've got that Agency running ADs, and they're showing you all the...
SaaS Evolves Into Skills-as-a-Service, Delivering Outcomes Fast
SaaS will evolve to mean Skills as a Service. Selling the outcomes and results of a product. Cheaper and faster. It'll look archaic that we used to give people software that took days to setup and hopefully get results.
Launching SaaS Mastermind for $40K+ MRR Founders
I’m thinking of starting a SaaS mastermind ✨ Other SaaS founders ✨ Over $40,000 MRR ✨ Bootstrapped or seed only ✨ High intent / dialed in Any #buildinpublic people interested?
Beyond ARR: Key Metrics for Usage‑Based SaaS
What financial metrics do usage-based companies track when ARR isn’t the North Star? From revenue growth to NRR, AI adoption signals & RPO — here’s what truly matters 📊 Watch the full breakdown ➡️ https://t.co/g5IoWwadNz #SaaS #UsageBasedRevenue #SaaSMetrics https://t.co/hz15OquSg6
SaaS Stocks Plummet: Warning About Catching Falling Knife
Feb 2nd I warned clients about catching the falling knife in SaaS. I wasn’t kidding. $IGV #MAG7 https://t.co/AGnysZ3ZHV
AI Boom Boosts Demand for Compliance and Security
“We didn’t know the AI boom was about to happen.” But it’s now driving more demand for everything @DrataHQ does - compliance, security assurance, vendor risk. @markowitzadam on the difference between luck and positioning. Full episode: https://t.co/QqQ8deMpCS https://t.co/FaqsVeUjfP
SAP Pushes Cloud for Profit, Harming Customers
SAP's arrogance fuels customer issues. Believing they have all answers, they pressure clients to choose cloud over on-prem for sales reps' higher commissions. This isn't ethical, it's a reality of the current landscape. #SAP #BusinessEthics #Cloud https://t.co/PBEVWguzbD
7 Proven Tactics to Launch SaaS From Scratch
For the 2,300+ of you who bookmarked the full playbook. We both know you’re not reading all that. So I turned it into a list of the 7 things I see actually working right now for launching a SaaS from...