Today's SaaS Pulse
Shutterstock launches a human‑led, AI‑powered creative platform
Shutterstock introduced a new platform that combines its extensive asset library with generative image and video tools, AI‑driven editing, conversational search, and prompt‑enhancement features, enabling creators to move from concept to finished product within a single application.
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By the numbers: GIA acquires 30% stake in De Beers' Tracr blockchain platform
CarCollect Secures Backing From Main Capital to Scale Automotive Remarketing Platform
CarCollect, a Dutch B2B SaaS platform that digitises the used‑vehicle remarketing workflow, has secured investment from Main Capital Partners. The platform, now used by over 14,000 automotive firms, supports 15 languages and 10 currencies across ten European countries. The new funding will fund a suite of product enhancements, including a dedicated stock‑management solution, and fuel further cross‑border expansion. CarCollect also plans a selective acquisition strategy to broaden its remarketing capabilities.
Akin Deploys NetDocuments ndMAX AI Suite Firmwide in $700K Rollout
Akin, the Am Law 100 firm, has rolled out NetDocuments' ndMAX generative‑AI suite firmwide, spending a high‑six‑figure sum. The deployment follows a 100‑lawyer pilot that began in January 2025 and reflects the firm’s strategy to embed AI inside its long‑used...
Free QuickBooks Online Cheat Sheet From Top Finance Leaders
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Salesforce Confirms Professional Edition Has Reached End of Sale
Salesforce has confirmed that its Professional Edition, a mid‑tier CRM licence priced around $75‑$80 per user per month, reached end‑of‑sale (EOS) last year. The plan is no longer available to new customers and is being replaced by the newer Starter,...
ShinyHunters Breach Hits Canvas, Shutting Down UCSD, SDSU and Hundreds of Campuses
The hacking group ShinyHunters forced Instructure's Canvas learning platform into maintenance mode, locking out students at UC San Diego, San Diego State and dozens of other institutions. The attackers say they have exfiltrated up to 280 million records from roughly 9,000...
Ramp in Talks for $750M Raise, Targeting $40B+ Valuation
Fintech startup Ramp is in advanced discussions to raise $750 million at a pre‑money valuation exceeding $40 billion, a steep jump from its $32 billion post‑money valuation just six months earlier. The fundraising follows a year of rapid revenue growth and an AI‑centric...
Microsoft Launches Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager to Automate Governance of Thousands of Clusters
Microsoft announced Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, a new service that automates governance across thousands of Kubernetes clusters spanning cloud, on‑premises and edge. The platform extends GitOps with fleet‑scale controls, aiming to simplify compliance, security and rollout for SaaS operators.
Datadog Shares Jump 29% After Strong Q1 Results, Highlighting Enterprise Cloud Monitoring Demand
Datadog, Inc. saw its shares climb over 29% to $185.43 following a robust first‑quarter earnings report. The surge reflects accelerating adoption of cloud‑monitoring tools among enterprise customers and positions the company as a leading growth story in B2B SaaS.
Guest Post: Amazon’s Next Act–Supply Chain as a Service
Amazon has launched Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), a “supply chain as a service” platform that opens its global logistics network to businesses of any size, including competitors’ sellers. In 2025, Amazon’s logistics revenue hit roughly $172 billion, far outpacing traditional...
Streamline Data Capture and Automate EHR-to-EDC Data Transfer
Paradigm Health introduced eSource Casebook, an EHR‑integrated platform that extracts both structured and unstructured clinical data, auto‑populates electronic case report forms, and streams the information directly to sponsor EDC systems. The tool tackles the industry‑wide surge in manual data entry,...
"Customers Pay when the Agent Works" - How HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan Plans to Remove Every Blocker to AI Adoption
HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan announced outcome‑based pricing for its AI agents, charging $0.50 per resolved conversation for the Customer Agent and $1 per qualified lead for the Prospecting Agent. The company also introduced a 28‑day trial for key AI use...
Software Company Barespace Launches Embedded Finance Platform
Irish AI‑driven SaaS firm Barespace has unveiled Barespace Capital, an embedded finance platform that lets salon owners secure growth funding directly within the booking and operations system they already use. The launch follows a €2.9 million seed round (about $3.2 million) and...
RingCentral Brings Always-On AI to the Front Lines of Customer Engagement
RingCentral announced new capabilities for its AI Receptionist (AIR), extending the service to shared SMS inboxes, call queues and integrations with Shopify, Calendly and WhatsApp. The AI agent now supports multi‑language detection for ten languages and can be deployed in...
Stonly Launches Knowledge Agents to Keep Customer Service Knowledge Current, Accurate, and AI-Ready
Stonly unveiled Knowledge Agents, an AI-driven capability that continuously monitors source documents, detects knowledge gaps, and drafts precise updates for customer‑service knowledge bases. The agents audit content health, generate a knowledge health score, and respond to natural‑language prompts for bulk...
Google Launches AI Health Coach to Interpret Wearable Data
Wearables can measure every vital sign or health parameter that matters in adjusting your lifestyle. But what the user does with the data remains the biggest challenge. Now Google wants to solve that too. After OpenAI and Anthropic came up with...
Alchemer Expands Digital Capabilities to Help Organizations Capture and Act on In-App Feedback
Alchemer unveiled the latest version of Alchemer Digital, adding recurring prompts, multi‑target interactions, and a faster, more secure SDK to its in‑app feedback platform. The solution now reaches over 500 million users monthly, with more than 55 million interactions each month, and...
The Morning Briefing: Reassured Debuts SAINT.AI to Cut Non-Disclosure Risk; Sir David Attenborough and the 100-Year Client
Reassured, a UK protection‑market specialist, has launched SAINT.AI, a generative‑AI engine designed to scan medical questionnaires and flag potential non‑disclosure gaps before underwriting. The platform promises faster, more accurate risk assessment, aiming to cut underwriting time by up to 30%...
Why South Africa Is Zoho’s Third-Fastest-Growing Market
Zoho has become the third‑fastest‑growing market among its top 15 regions, driven by pricing its SaaS suite in South African rand rather than dollars. The local‑currency model creates a sizable cost advantage as the rand weakens against the greenback, especially...
AI Agents Will Drive Surge in Cloud CPU VMs
I think demand for cloud virtual machines might be about to explode. Think about it. The hottest thing in AI right now is getting AI to use your computer. People don’t just want to ask these models questions, they want...
OpenAI’s New Audio APIs Aim for Conversational Voice Agents
OpenAI unveiled three real‑time audio APIs—GPT‑Realtime‑2, GPT‑Realtime‑Translate and GPT‑Realtime‑Whisper—on its developer platform, extending the company beyond text‑only chat and transcription. The models enable live listening, translation, and action during conversations, handling interruptions and maintaining context over extended sessions. Early adopters...
Why Nobody Is Scoring the Road Ahead (And What It’s Costing Insurers)
In this episode, Gertz Weber, CEO and co‑founder of RootRisk AI, explains how his company is creating a forward‑looking, route‑level risk score for commercial fleets that predicts danger before a truck departs. He contrasts this approach with traditional, backward‑looking methods...
Sage Future 2026: Jon Fasoli
At Sage Future 2026, Jon Fasoli, SVP of Sage Intacct, outlined the platform’s strategic direction, emphasizing AI‑driven analytics, deeper customer integration, and cross‑functional collaboration. He highlighted how innovation and agile governance are essential for enterprises to stay competitive amid rapid...
The Best Payroll Software for Nonprofits in 2026
The article reviews top nanny payroll services for household employers, highlighting five providers—Poppins Payroll, SurePayroll by Paychex, HomePay by Care.com, GTM Payroll Services, and HomeWork Solutions. It compares starter pricing, tax‑account setup, year‑end form preparation, and support options, recommending Poppins...
Me&u Founder Stevan Premutico’s New Startup Is Tackling Another Restaurant Pain Point: Phone Calls
Stevan Premutico, the founder behind Dimmi and me&u, has launched Hey Buddy, a voice‑AI platform that answers restaurant phone calls and converts them into reservations. In Australia, about one‑third of restaurant calls go unanswered—over 22 million missed calls annually—resulting in lost...
Gresham and FundGuard Partner on Total Portfolio Data Solution
Gresham, a leader in enterprise data management, has teamed up with FundGuard, an AI‑enabled cloud‑native investment accounting platform. The partnership merges FundGuard’s multi‑book accounting engine with Gresham’s data‑governance tools, giving institutional investors a single, auditable source of real‑time data across...
If You Have the Will, You’ll Have the Skill
The author describes a shift from simple ChatGPT prompting to autonomous AI agents that run daily operations for an AI‑driven recruiting platform. By using markdown‑based “skills,” non‑technical staff can instruct language models to screen candidates, catch errors, and ship updates...
How SaaS Companies Are Valued: Why the Multiple Is only the Surface Story?
The article debunks the myth that SaaS valuation is a simple ARR‑multiple calculation, arguing that the multiple is merely the output of a deeper analysis. Buyers focus on the quality of recurring revenue, retention rates, growth efficiency, and unit economics...
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Enterprises evaluating Kubernetes management must choose between SaaS and hosted software delivery. The SaaS market is expanding 18% annually, with 70% of CIOs valuing agility and scalability. Hosted Rancher provides dedicated instances per client, while Rafay delivers a cloud‑native, multi‑tenant...
Introducing Rafays Generative AI Based Copilot | Rafay
Rafay announced the launch of its Generative AI‑based Copilot, embedded directly within the Rafay console. The assistant lets platform teams, SREs, developers and data scientists ask natural‑language questions without leaving the UI, pulling answers from continuously updated product documentation. It...
Crowdsource Hated Apps, Build Better Indie Clones
Idea: Business owners should crowdsource a list of Most Hated Software and then indiehackers should pick thru and make new clones of them are just "simple" - rewind 10 years of enshittification on them. I hate (and use): - dropbox - gusto - zoom -...
SEO Delivered $80K Annual Value for SaaS
10 months of SEO for this SaaS. If you were paying for all this traffic, you'd be paying $6,638 per month. That's about $80,000/year. It'll increase further because the client won't stop doing SEO. What we did in the next tweet....
Adobe Unveils AI‑Powered Productivity Agent to Streamline Creative Workflows
Adobe announced an AI‑driven productivity agent that works across its suite, automating repetitive steps like data extraction, formatting and sharing. The agent is positioned to free users for higher‑order thinking, reshaping daily work habits in the personal growth arena.
AI Won’t Kill Software or SaaS—Demand Is Rising
Remember these predictions? “Software engineering will be dead because of AI” —> we’re seeing more demand for sw engineering (good part thanks to AI) “SaaS will be dead because of AI” —> SaaS businesses growing massively (in part thanks to AI) Be careful...
$96 Billion Giant ServiceNow Doesn’t See a ‘SaaSpocalypse.’ It Sees the ‘Hard Lift, Heavy Lifting’ Phase Just Beginning
ServiceNow’s Knowledge 2026 conference marked a pivot from AI feature battles to a focus on enterprise AI governance. Executives dismissed the feared "SaaSpocalypse," emphasizing that customers still need robust SaaS platforms for reliable outcomes. The company unveiled its AI Control...
Oktopost Deploys Claude AI Plugin to Automate B2B Social Campaigns
Oktopost announced the general availability of its Claude Plugin, the first Claude Code skill built for B2B social media execution. The open‑source tool lets marketing and revenue teams create, approve, and analyze multi‑network campaigns entirely within Claude, tightening the link...
Novaworks Launches AI‑Native HR Platform on ServiceNow to Govern Humans and AI Agents
Novaworks introduced an AI‑native HR platform built on ServiceNow’s enterprise AI stack, designed to manage humans, contractors and autonomous AI agents together. The move reflects a broader shift toward hybrid workforces, with Gartner projecting over 50% of large enterprises will...
OpenHands Unveils Agent Control Plane to Scale AI Coding Agents Enterprise‑Wide
OpenHands announced the launch of its Agent Control Plane, a centralized operational layer that lets enterprises orchestrate, secure and observe fleets of AI coding agents. The platform targets the gap between experimentation and production, offering workflow‑level cost tracking and least‑privilege...
AI Disrupts SaaS Freemium, Demands Resilient Front‑Ends and AI‑Powered Coding
Seroter Daily Reading List – May 7, 2026 (#779): Today’s links look at why SaaS freemium playbooks don’t work in AI, how to design front-end systems for cloud failure, and why coding with AI agents is a baseline expectations for tech...
ScyllaDB Launches Native Vector Search for DynamoDB‑Compatible Alternator API
ScyllaDB announced native vector similarity search in its DynamoDB‑compatible Alternator API, letting developers run semantic queries without a separate OpenSearch cluster. The move promises 50‑90% lower costs and eliminates the operational friction of multi‑system architectures, a shift that could reshape...
FastSpring Lands Strategic Investment From LLR Partners to Fuel Global Commerce Push
FastSpring, the merchant‑of‑record SaaS platform, secured a strategic investment from private‑equity firm LLR Partners, with existing backer Accel‑KKR staying on board. The capital will back product development, go‑to‑market expansion and broader global commerce initiatives, underscoring rising demand for integrated payment...
From the Microsoft Power Platform Blogs: Copilot Cowork; Call an API with Power Automate; Dataverse Plugin; Trigger a Power Automate...
Microsoft’s Power Platform ecosystem received several notable updates in early May 2026. A step‑by‑step guide shows how Power Apps can call external APIs via Power Automate and parse JSON responses, lowering the barrier for low‑code developers. Microsoft also released an...
Introducing The Amplitude Quickstart Series
Amplitude launched a 15‑episode Quickstart Series to help users move from initial sign‑up to building real analyses. Each short video focuses on a specific task, from data collection with Google Tag Manager to leveraging AI Agents for natural‑language queries. The...
Shopify Quietly Rolls Out Native llms.txt Files for Stores, Adding Structured Data Layer for AI Agents
Shopify has begun silently deploying native llms.txt files to merchant stores, providing a machine‑readable metadata file at /llms.txt. The file contains store currency, contact info, direct product and search links, and endpoints for agent instructions, UCP and MCP programmatic commerce....
Inrix Is All About the Timing
Inrix has rolled out major upgrades to its Signal Analytics platform, enabling transportation agencies to monitor and improve signalized intersections without installing new hardware. The enhancements include a before‑and‑after analysis, a green calculator that quantifies fuel savings and emissions reductions,...
10 SaaS Tools To Grow And Expand Your Manufacturing Online Business In 2026
The article outlines the top SaaS solutions manufacturers should adopt in 2026 to accelerate online growth, highlighting the sector’s rapid embrace of IoT, big data and e‑commerce. It notes the IoT market in manufacturing was worth $50 billion in 2021 and...
Dyna Software's AI Assistant Promises to Massage Your Toughest ServiceNow Configs
Dyna Software unveiled Platform Copilot, an agentic AI that lets business users configure ServiceNow applications through natural language or uploaded form images, bypassing the need for developers. The tool reads a customer’s instance schema, generates wireframes, validates changes, and builds...
Docusign Intelligent Agreement Management Brings Clarity to Workflows
DocuSign introduced Intelligent Agreement Management, a SaaS platform that extends its e‑signature core with identity verification, centralized workspaces, multichannel delivery and AI‑driven analytics for healthcare providers. The solution consolidates patient intake forms, consent documents and vendor contracts into a single,...
OpenClaw Isn’t Dead, but Reliability Needs Hermes
Is it over for OpenClaw? Peter Steinberger just issued an apology after a rough week of reliability issues. We’ve been feeling this internally too. OpenClaw is powerful, but when agents stop responding inside Slack or Telegram, the whole workflow breaks. My current take: Hermes...
Users Pay to Keep Files Live, Cite AI Recommendation
nice, ppl keep paying to keep their files live on htmldrops also, a couple of ppl have told me it was recommended by AI, even tho I haven't make any citation or backlinking effort https://t.co/FlLRZ8Y44X
AI Coach Imperfect Personalizes Daily Fitness Using Your Data
Imperfect (@imperfectco_) is an AI fitness coach that's personalized based on your health data. It adapts your training, recovery, and nutrition each day to how your body is actually responding. Congrats on the launch, and welcome back @matin (W11)! https://t.co/5N9sjEQSKG https://t.co/UL5vwXUngk