What'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.
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The 2026 B2B SaaS Growth Program launches on March 12, 2026, offering a 16‑week, done‑with‑you experience for SaaS firms with $1M‑$100M ARR. It moves beyond theory, guiding teams week‑by‑week to build a predictable, repeatable revenue engine covering outbound, paid ads, content, and unit‑economics. The cohort limits participation to four team members per company, ensuring hands‑on ownership of the growth system. Success is measured by scalable leads, profitable CAC and a six‑month payback, positioning companies for sustainable growth and exit readiness.
Your AI wrote a perfect email. Their AI wrote a perfect response. Nobody said anything. You know exactly which thread I'm talking about. A customer was crashing out over email. Every message was longer, more detailed, more structured. And more useless. He...
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The SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind call highlighted three critical challenges facing SaaS firms: a senior developer juggling two full‑time jobs, a hotel‑software API provider transitioning to a self‑serve model, and a company negotiating earnout terms amid multiple acquisition offers. For the...
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The author outlines a step‑by‑step playbook for building a SaaS company that can command a $100M‑plus exit. He advises bootstrapping to roughly $500K‑$1M ARR before raising capital, mastering unit economics, and making outbound and paid acquisition core growth engines. Community,...
Clawe is an open‑source, multi‑agent coordination platform that mimics Trello for AI squads. Built on the OpenClaw gateway, it lets developers run several agents with unique personalities, each waking on cron schedules to handle tasks. A Kanban‑style web dashboard powered...
Public Media Venture Group (PMVG) introduced TechBundle, a modular suite that combines master control, transmission monitoring, traffic, and streaming services for local public media stations. By negotiating system‑wide pricing, the bundle offers enterprise‑grade tools at lower costs than separate contracts,...
Entrepreneurs: private equity firms OVERVALUED SaaS companies during 2020-21. NOW, those “overvalued” companies are getting marked down 30-60% 🤯 If you’re an investor = BUY distressed assets LOW If you’re a startup founder = CASHFLOW CASHFLOW

Kochava unveiled Atlas Performance, the first Supply Performance System designed for premium publishers and platforms. The solution integrates with existing ad servers, SSPs, and DSPs, delivering privacy‑safe first‑party data ingestion, AI‑driven optimization, and independent outcomes verification. A leading CTV OEM...
The open‑source "stripe-no-webhooks" library lets developers integrate Stripe payments without writing webhook code. It syncs product plans, subscriptions, credits, wallets and usage data directly into a PostgreSQL schema, handling all webhook processing automatically. The package includes a CLI for initializing...
HN Companion is a free, open‑source web extension that adds AI‑generated summaries directly to Hacker News comment threads. It understands thread hierarchy, highlights key debates, and lets users jump to specific comments via a summary panel. Users can choose from...

Datadog has launched a generally‑available Feature Flags service that tightly couples feature management with its observability platform. The new product links each flag to real‑time APM and RUM telemetry, enabling instant visibility into performance and reliability impacts. Automated canary rollouts,...
Over 20 no‑code AI app builders were evaluated, with seven emerging as production‑ready. Platforms like Zite, Bubble, FlutterFlow, Figma Make, Base44, ToolJet and Glide each excel in specific use cases, from business workflows to native mobile apps. Zite stands out...
Rowboat is an open‑source, local‑first AI coworker that continuously harvests email, calendar and meeting‑note data to build a persistent knowledge graph stored as plain‑text Markdown. The system uses that graph to generate context‑aware artifacts such as slide decks, meeting briefs,...

Cisco has deepened its partnership with Real Madrid, turning the Santiago Bernabéu into a fully‑connected venue. The alliance adds an AI‑ready data centre, a 100 Gbps backbone linking the stadium to Real Madrid City, and a campus‑wide Wi‑Fi 7 rollout. Club CIO...
Linkup announced a $10 million seed round headed by Gradient, with participation from Elaia, Seedcamp and several angel investors. The San Francisco‑Paris startup offers an API that feeds AI systems with real‑time, verifiable web information, moving beyond static training datasets. Founded by...

Planview unveiled its Connected Work Graph, an AI‑driven module embedded in the Planview Anvi platform. The solution maps relationships across OKRs, initiatives, teams, and resources, delivering real‑time visualizations of dependencies. By continuously analyzing millions of work connections, it flags bottlenecks...

Private equity firm Permira has completed a majority acquisition of Germany‑based enterprise software provider TeamViewer through a public tender offer, while the company remains listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The deal, finalized in January 2026, gives Permira control to...
The article argues that a crowded competitive landscape does not prove a large or attractive market. It explains that excess venture capital, low barriers to entry, and an oversupply of founders can create a swarm of startups even in modest...

Toast announced a partnership with Instacart, linking its restaurant platform to the Instacart Marketplace and making Instacart Business available for same‑day grocery procurement. The integration adds SmartScan barcode optimization and catalog attribution tools, enabling restaurants to quickly add items and...
GitLab CEO Bill Staples says AI coding assistants haven’t accelerated enterprise software delivery because developers spend only 10‑20% of their day writing code. The remaining 80‑90% involves reviews, pipeline runs, security and compliance checks that remain untouched by AI. GitLab’s...

Microsoft confirmed a service outage affecting the Microsoft 365 admin center for some business and enterprise administrators in North America. The disruption also extends to the M365 app, with users experiencing degraded functionality and inability to raise support tickets. Thousands...
Former GitHub CEO launches Entire, a developer platform built for AI agents, backed by a $60 million seed round led by Felicis. The company’s first offering is an open‑source CLI that records agent context as versioned "Checkpoints" alongside Git commits. Entire...
There is a strategic difference between creating advantage and assuming responsibility. Mission-critical systems of record are designed to manage compliance, auditability, and operational consistency across industries. Replacing them with AI-built alternatives transfers that responsibility to internal teams for the life of...
In this episode Shopify’s CRM strategist Kristen Makin explains why 70 % of CRM projects fail and outlines a nine‑step roadmap for a high‑ROI rollout in 2026. The discussion emphasizes treating CRM as a strategic, cross‑functional operating model rather than a...
We’re about to be flooded with: – average MVPs – look-alike products – tools with no point of view – software that works but doesn’t matter What actually wins now isn’t speed to “something.” Today, anyone can prompt their way to an MVP. You can get 80%...
On February 10, 2026, GitHub reported a service incident that degraded Pull Requests performance. The platform experienced intermittent timeouts on several pages beginning at 15:07 UTC, with updates confirming degraded service at 15:08 UTC. The outage primarily affected developers’ ability to create,...

Oracle announced new capabilities in its Fusion Cloud SCM suite tailored for process manufacturers. The updates introduce AI‑assisted recipe synchronization, dynamic batch sizing, and granular yield modeling to handle blending, mixing, and batch‑based production. Enhanced traceability features include lot‑specific unit‑of‑measure...

Hauler Hero announced a $16 million Series A round led by Frontier Growth, bringing its total venture funding above $27 million. The Boston‑based startup offers an all‑in‑one AI‑powered platform that manages CRM, billing, routing and now three AI agents for vision, chat and...

Upland Software launched AI Conversational Search for its Panviva Sidekick browser assistant, letting frontline agents query enterprise knowledge in plain English. The feature combines Retrieval‑Augmented Generation with large language models, pulling only from approved, compliance‑driven content to curb hallucinations. It...

42% of CMOs rank word of mouth #1. 2% rank paid ads #1. That's a 20x gap between what drives consideration and where most budgets go. We asked 101 B2B SaaS CMOs to rank what actually gets a vendor into their consideration set. %...
Why your lead gen isn’t working: 4 systemic blind spots you’re missing. Most B2B Marketers and Founders think their lead gen is broken because of tactics, but the real causes run deeper. 1. Chasing Volume Over Relevance I’ve seen so many teams obsess...

In this episode the host shares eight months of experience running 20+ AI agents across SaaStr's go‑to‑market function, generating $4.8 M in additional pipeline and $2.4 M in closed‑won revenue. He explains that the results are additive but require daily hands‑on management,...
Oxide announced a $200 million Series C round, doubling the size of its recent Series B. The capital was raised exclusively from existing investors, reflecting strong backer confidence despite the company already achieving product‑market fit with its hardware offering. Oxide argues the infusion...

Newo Inc. announced a $25 million Series A round to accelerate its AI receptionist platform for small and medium‑sized businesses. The solution provides human‑like voice, SMS and chat agents that handle calls, appointment booking, lead qualification, and handoffs using a Zero‑Hallucination Architecture....

Matia announced a $21 million Series A round, led by Red Dot Capital, bringing its total funding above $31 million. The startup offers a unified DataOps platform on AWS that merges ETL, reverse‑ETL, observability and catalog functions into a single interface. It can...

Spire.AI announced Knowra, a domain‑aware Contextual AI platform that overlays a knowledge‑graph‑driven intelligence layer onto existing enterprise data and AI stacks. The solution unifies fragmented data, semantics, and business rules to deliver decision‑ready outcomes while preserving governance and explainability. Built...

Coveo unveiled its Hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a secure interoperability layer that links the company’s AI‑Relevance platform to leading large‑language models such as ChatGPT Enterprise and Anthropic’s Claude. The MCP Server lets AI agents query Coveo’s unified content...

I talk with a lot of founders who want to go to market on @acquiredotcom unprepared to save some time and see if it's worth it. The problem with this is how buyers evaluate startup acquisition opportunities. Most will require and expect,...
Flo Crivello , founder of Lindy told me he gave early users a product that was oily, half-broken, and rough around the edges. His no-code AI automation platform wasn't ready. Not by traditional standards. The first people through the door didn't judge...
Salesforce announced a new round of layoffs affecting roughly 1,000 employees across marketing, product management, data analytics, and its Agentforce AI unit. The cuts follow a series of workforce reductions over the past two years as the company pivots toward...

$40K profit for helping people stop scrolling. Live on @acquiredotcom: screen time app that automatically boots users out when their timer runs out. > $48K TTM revenue > $40K TTM profit > 500+ paying users Full listing: https://t.co/iTEIt81XrI https://t.co/vb6LdS8811
When was the last time you were excited to buy a pre-AI SaaS tool? When was the last time you felt like you were overpaying on a renewal for a pre-AI SaaS tool, and thought about cancelling? Hence, the markets

Alpaca Markets announced the integration of U.S. corporate bonds into its Broker API, adding over 500 investment‑grade and high‑yield issues alongside its existing Treasury bill offerings. The fintech also raised its excess SIPC protection, now covering up to $75 million in...
Application software vendors are struggling and providing weak guidance, quality infrastructure software firms' revenue is accelerating. Infrastructure software vendors are attractively valued now and their stocks appear poised for a multi-month rally.
Pipelock is a single‑binary, zero‑dependency security harness designed for AI coding agents that need shell access and API keys. It isolates the agent process from unrestricted internet by routing all web traffic through a fetch‑proxy that applies a seven‑layer scanning...
"How we built $4.8M in pipeline from our AI agents, $2.4M closed already - Deal volume has doubled - Win rate has doubled - Agents work 24x7 - Agents have more context to pull from - $100k deal closed on Saturday" https://t.co/JjohuS42oM

Gartner projects European sovereign cloud IaaS spending will more than triple, rising from $6.7 billion in 2025 to over $23.1 billion in 2027, outpacing the global market whose spend is expected to double. This rapid expansion positions Europe as the third‑largest spender...

SMAART Company is close to launching KoreCRM, a proprietary platform that consolidates revenue‑operations functions into a single system of record. The solution links lead generation, sales execution, automation, communications, and analytics while natively integrating Google Workspace. SMAAD also bundles Salesforce...
Viche Financials launched Finance Flow, an intelligent financial‑orchestration platform that consolidates cash‑flow, receivables, payables, scenario modelling, alerts and funding‑strategy insights into a single dashboard. The solution applies time‑series analysis, machine‑assisted pattern recognition and predictive analytics to forecast cash gaps and...

Ambience Healthcare announced Mike Valli as chief revenue officer and chief value officer, merging commercial leadership with outcome accountability. Valli brings over 15 years of experience from symplr and Optum, overseeing multi‑solution portfolios and large hospital partnerships. The dual role...