Today's SaaS Pulse
Salesforce Launches AgentExchange, a Unified AI Marketplace with $50M Builder Fund
Salesforce has merged its three app and AI stores into a single AgentExchange marketplace, offering over 13,000 ready‑made apps, AI agents, and automation components. The platform features intent‑aware search, one‑click buying, and instant activation within Salesforce or Slack, and includes a $50 million builder fund to encourage partner development.
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By the numbers: Loop raises $95M to scale its supply‑chain AI platform
Software Makers Say Piracy Is Becoming a Bigger Problem than Ever Before - so What Can Be Done?
New Revenera research finds that 31% of software makers now view piracy as a major source of revenue leakage, with unlicensed usage especially prevalent in China, Russia, India and rising in Germany, where engineering simulation and CAD tools are targeted. While 30% of vendors collect telemetry on software usage, an equal share admit they never analyze the data, creating a blind spot that hampers revenue growth. The report urges firms to leverage AI‑driven analytics and treat compliance data as a sales pipeline, noting that companies that integrate infringement insights into sales see higher conversion of unlicensed users. By 2027, many vendors plan to shift toward prepaid and post‑paid usage‑based pricing to improve predictability and curb piracy.
Masterclass: Storytelling & Conflict Drive AI Category Creation
I didn't want my team to publish this talk. It was too good. Should have only been for the memory of the people that went to Drive this year. But I'm also a marketer and understand the power of social...
WhatsApp Is Launching Third-Party Chat Integration in Europe
Meta is preparing to launch third‑party chat integration for WhatsApp across Europe to meet the EU Digital Markets Act, with rollout slated for the coming months. The first interoperable services, BirdyChat and Haiket, will allow users on iOS and Android...
The New Age of Layered Security: From Supply Chains to Endpoints
A 2025 global survey shows 72% of business leaders see rising cyber risks while the cybersecurity talent gap widens by 8% since 2024. Panasonic Connect’s Dominick Passanante argues that modern threats now target hardware and firmware, often originating in the...
Why “Old” Data Is the New Gold in the Age of AI
We speak to Seagate's Melyssa Banda to find out more
Full Money-Back Guarantee Boosts Checkout Conversions Instantly
If you're on the FounderStack checkout page and about to leave - this pops up. After adding this, we saw an immediate increase in sales. A full money-back guarantee is an S-tier move. Let visitors know that committing is a two-way door...
Align Success, Support, and AI for Scalable Growth
SaasRise CEO & Founder Mastermind Recap — Week of Nov 9–13, 2025 This week on the SaasRise Masterminds, SaaS founders and leaders shared practical strategies for scaling efficiently, improving customer success and leveraging AI to streamline operations. The conversations focused...
Baidu Unveils Proprietary ERNIE 5 Beating GPT-5 Performance on Charts, Document Understanding and More
Baidu announced ERNIE 5.0, a proprietary omni‑modal foundation model that the company claims matches or outperforms OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑High and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro on benchmarks for document understanding, chart reasoning, vision‑language tasks, and language coding. The model is delivered through Baidu’s...
Add AI Agents to Any Product with Minimal Code
Arcten (@arcteninc) lets you add AI agents to your products and internal tools with just a few lines of code. Use their components or bring your own UI, data, and frameworks— Arcten handles the runtime, scaling, integration, observability, and managed RAG....
Deploy Scalable AI Agents Quickly without Big Budgets
Lua (https://t.co/cmg7JWp2xX) makes it easy to build, deploy, and scale AI agents across your entire business—without the big budget lines, consultants, or multi-year implementations. Roll out agents that are deeply integrated, measurable, and under your control. In days, not months. https://t.co/RBQPl1T0A4
Thousands of Fake Packages Flood Npm Registry in Major Attack - Here's What We Know
Over 43,000 spam packages were uploaded to npm over a nearly two‑year period, accounting for roughly 1% of the registry and representing a coordinated campaign dubbed “IndonesianFoods.” Endor Labs traced the effort to at least 11 user accounts that generated...
Most Reps Prefer Inbound; Hire Outbound Specialists
95% of sales rep that have only done inbound ... won't start doing outbound, even if they are missing quota. Not really. They'll pretend a bit, send a few emails, but that's about it. 95% of sales reps that will do...
Seeking UX Feedback on AlertMouse Interface Design
UX friends (and anyone who's using @alertmouse)... Does this make sense to you? Any language or layout things you'd do differently?
Pakistan Restarts VPN Licensing in Fresh Bid to Control Online Space
Pakistan’s telecom regulator (PTA) has issued the first licences to five domestic VPN providers, creating a state‑approved pool of services that can be used without individual IP registration. The licensing scheme is presented as a cybersecurity and user‑convenience measure, but...
Distilling Tool-Calling Skills From Claude to Smaller Model
Ten months ago, DeepSeek collapsed AI training costs by 90% using distillation - transferring knowledge from larger models to smaller ones at a fraction of the cost. Distillation works like a tutor training a student : a large model teaches a...
DeepSeek Cuts AI Training Costs 90% via Distillation
Ten months ago, DeepSeek collapsed AI training costs by 90% using distillation - transferring knowledge from larger models to smaller ones at a fraction of the cost. Distillation works like a tutor training a student : a large model teaches...
Apple Halves Commissions for Mini App Makers
Apple unveiled the Mini Apps Partner Program, slashing the commission on in‑app purchases for web‑based mini apps to 15% and requiring use of its Advanced Commerce and Declared Age Rating APIs. The program extends the 2017 App Review Guidelines for...
GPT-5.1 Doubles Speed, Boosts Extraction Accuracy
We've been testing Box AI with GPT-5.1 for the past week to compare it to GPT-5 for enterprise content use-cases. It's a very strong upgrade from GPT-5. It's super fast, performing ~2X (or more) faster on our tests on long documents...
Cursor's 29x Valuation Suggests AI Bubble Cooling
Cursor just raised at a 29x multiple. Not as crazy as the SaaS 40x multiples of 2021... We might not be in an AI bubble....
Google Gemini Live Gets Its 'Biggest Update Ever' With 5 New Upgrades – Here's How to Try Them
Google has rolled out the "biggest update ever" to Gemini Live, its real‑time conversational AI, on Android and iOS. The upgrade adds five new capabilities – adjustable speaking speed, automatic tone modulation, a storytelling mode with character accents, seamless multi‑language switching,...
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of November 9 - 13, 2025
The SaasRise CEO Mastermind recap highlights practical strategies from ten sessions covering customer success vs. support alignment, AI‑driven lead generation, analytics optimization, and revenue expansion. Key takeaways include defining distinct success and support roles with growth‑linked incentives, leveraging AI tools...
Scammers Trick over 500,000 Victims with Fake Google, Bing Ads to Steal Personal Info
Cybersecurity firm Check Point identified a campaign dubbed “Payroll Pirates” that uses paid Google and Bing ads to lure employees to counterfeit payroll, HR, credit‑union and trading‑platform login pages, harvesting credentials and multi‑factor authentication codes. The operation, which has targeted...
Google’s NotebookLM Will Now Do ‘Deep Research’
Google announced that its NotebookLM AI workspace will integrate Gemini’s Deep Research agent, giving all users access within a week. Users can choose a fast or deep research mode, with the deep option delivering in‑depth analysis, source citations, and the...
From Fired to $17B: Turning Failure Into Fuel
“Startups are somewhere between completely impossible and very, very, very, very hard.” That's @parkerconrad, CEO of @Rippling, on the first episode of Long Strange Trip. Parker's got one hell of a story. Violently fired by David Sacks from Zenefits. Character assassinated in...
AI Founders Now Prioritize Real-World Use Cases over Models
Quick takeaways from yesterdays excellent CVAI conference: 1. So many inspiring entrepreneurs presented 2. Agentic pricing is still in the wild west 3. Same with agentic UX 4. Fascinating to see founders talking more about the underlying application use cases versus just the models...
CDAO Responsibilities Are Evolving: Why AI Strategy Now Starts at the Top
The Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) is rapidly becoming a core C‑suite role as companies shift from data collection to AI‑driven operations. A recent survey shows 73.7% of firms now have a formal CDO/CDAO, up from 12% a decade...
Turn Existing Customers Into a Low‑Cost Growth Engine
CMOs are sleeping on customer marketing 💤 instead of growing your company WITH existing customers, you're treating customers primarily as an advocacy channel (e.g. case studies, references) 🛑 customer marketing is too narrowly defined. limiting customer marketing to advocacy misses...
Understanding Market Adoption
By Geoffrey Moore Author – The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality The big words we are talking about here are mission, vision, strategy, and execution. Typically, they are prominent in the PowerPoint slides...
Google Drive Is Offering Dropbox Users an Easy Way to Spruce up Their Cloud Storage
Google Drive has launched a Data Migration Service that lets administrators transfer Dropbox files directly into Drive while preserving folder structures and permissions, but migrations must be done in batches of up to 100 users or team folders at a...
EBooks Lose Spark: Emily Kramer’s 2025 B2B Channel Forecast
B2B marketing whisperer Emily Kramer from the beloved MKT1 newsletter dishes on which channels are hot or not in 2025. You might be surprised about eBooks. Do you agree? Chime in below. --- If you <3 this clip, you'll love...
Join Us Live with Harry Stebbings at SaaStr AI London
We’re BACK and it’s GOOD TIMES folks!! And come see Harry Stebbings + me LIVE in London Dec 1-2 at SaaStr AI LDN!
Cash App Debuts a New AI Assistant that Answers Questions About Your Finances
Cash App rolled out a fall update that introduces Moneybot, an AI chatbot that can analyze users' spending, income and savings and suggest actions such as bill splitting or Bitcoin transactions. The assistant launches to a limited user group with...
AI Masks True Talent, Turning Hiring Into Stagecraft
Hiring used to break because companies moved too slowly. Now it breaks because candidates move too fast. AI gave every applicant the ability to look qualified before they have proved anything. Resumes are AI-polished. Writing samples are AI-written. Coding tests...
Customer‑owned AI Agents Poised to Disrupt Marketing
Putting the final touches on our big "Martech for 2026" report — over 100 pages of lovingly, human-written explanation of what's actually happening with #AI and #martech headed into the next 6-12 months. Of course, there's a lot about agents....
Monetize N8n Workflows with Lovable’s Simple UI
There is an incredible business opportunity using n8n & Lovable - and I don't hear anyone talk about it! n8n is getting serious traction. And because of this, YouTube and LinkedIn are now FILLED with people sharing really amazing workflows. What is a...
Monetize N8n Workflows with Lovable’s Simple UI
There is an incredible business opportunity using n8n & Lovable - and I don't hear anyone talk about it! n8n is getting serious traction. And because of this, YouTube and Twitter are now FILLED with people sharing really amazing workflows. What is a...
Lancey Automates PRs by Learning From Customer Channels
Lancey (@trylancey) is the multiplayer coding agent that builds what your customers want. Lancey scans your customer channels, builds an understanding of your codebase, and one-shots PRs. All in the background, without human prompting. Congrats on the launch, @_adipatel_ & @itsmeabhipatel! https://t.co/IpxLow4PtA
HireGlide Instantly Surfaces Top Candidates From Applications and Network
.@HireGlide screens inbound applications to immediately surface the best candidates. If the right person has not applied for the role, it surfaces perfect-fit matches from a pre-screened network of candidates seeking roles. Congrats on the launch, @theokitsberg & @axellapira1! https://t.co/BFwpm3V7re
Loyal Customers Start with a Team‑backed Culture
If you aspire to cultivate a base of loyal customers, the first step is to establish a culture that your team truly supports and believes in. https://t.co/Js4jyb8Ker
Turn Scattered Data Into Optimized Customer Routes
https://t.co/dqTuZpyd7w is the Google Maps for customer acquisition. It finds the most optimized routes to reach your customers and turns scattered data into clear next steps. It's the all-in-one GTM and marketing tool that gives one person the power of an...
Don't Claim PMF Until 12 Months of Retention
Stop shouting "we have product-market fit!" when you've got 5 customers and 6 months in business. It's way more accurate (and honest) to say: "I have early intuition that we might have PMF, but I won't know for sure until I...
ChatGPT Adds Basecamp Connector for Work Queries
Hey, look at what just showed up in ChatGPT this morning. A Basecamp connector! Now you can ask ChatGPT some Q’s about your work in Basecamp. Special thanks to the folks at @OpenAI and ChatGPT for making this happen. https://t.co/xPoSsMFSKS
GPT‑5.1 API Launch with 24‑Hour Prompt Caching
GPT-5.1 is now available in the API. Pricing is the same as GPT-5. We are also releasing gpt-5.1-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-mini in the API, specialized for long-running coding tasks. Prompt caching now lasts up to 24 hours! Updated evals in our blog post.
Get Certified Home Appraisals in 20 Minutes
Automax (https://t.co/h7TqSl2WHD) is the fastest way to appraise a home- accurate, compliant, and in just 20 minutes. Their mobile app analyzes 150+ features from a quick scan, and AI agents turn it into a complete valuation report signed & verified by...
Build Production-Ready Voice Agents in Minutes
With @vogentai's Voice Agent Wizard, you can create an effective voice agent with just a short description. Trained on the design processes of thousands of production agents, their wizard helps you go from idea to production voice agent in minutes. https://t.co/tcT4wV3IPb
Cursor AI's $2.3B Raise at 29x Suggests Cooling AI
. @cursor_ai just raised $2.3 billion. ... at a 29x revenue multiple. Not as "bad" as the 40x SaaS multiples of 2021.... Maybe we're not in an AI bubble? https://t.co/laqcS0YrUZ
Benchmark Your Pitch Deck Against 4,000 Startups
Wondering how you stack up? Try the new SaaStr VC Pitch Deck Analyzer. We’ll share how you stack up against 4,000 other start-ups. And we’ll provide you honest and confidential feedback on how to do better. Try it here -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a https://t.co/3M6fas5f2w
OpenBuilder: Free Open-Source App Builder with Unlimited Credits
OpenBuilder (@theopenbuilder) is the open source alternative to Lovable. Unlimited build credits and real developer support when you hit a wall. Built for non-technical builders to ship real apps. https://t.co/Wg51wSz5N9
Will AI Agent Apps Match 80% SaaS Margins?
25 years ago, @Benioff set a terrific precedent for the SaaS industry w their 80% gross margins. I wonder where that will settle out at for the ai native agent/app companies. Guesses?
Ideal VC Board Member: Five Essential Traits
If I had my pick of VC’s in my next round, I’d look for a “5 tool board member:” 1. Works at a top tier firm 2. Is a GP 3. Has relevant domain expertise 4. Has been an operator 5. Not an a-hole...