Today's SaaS Pulse
Shutterstock launches a human‑led, AI‑powered creative platform
Shutterstock unveiled a new platform that blends its extensive contributor‑generated asset library with generative image and video tools, AI‑driven editing, conversational search, and prompt‑enhancement features. The service is positioned as a single‑application workflow for creators, emphasizing a human‑led approach while leveraging AI capabilities.
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By the numbers: GIA acquires 30% stake in De Beers' Tracr blockchain platform
How to Use LinkedIn for Outbound Prospecting: Building Relationships at Scale
The post explains how to integrate LinkedIn into a B2B outbound prospecting and ABM strategy, emphasizing that LinkedIn’s high‑intent audience and accurate data make it a crucial human touchpoint alongside email and ads. It outlines a step‑by‑step system—from syncing ABM lists, using automation tools with AI‑personalized messages, to sequencing outreach, measuring acceptance and reply rates, and amplifying reach with thought‑leader ads and intent data. The author stresses treating these tactics as a repeatable, human‑focused system rather than one‑off hacks, arguing that consistent, value‑driven engagement builds trust and drives revenue.
AI Empowers B2B Buyers, Redefining Marketing's Funnel Role
AI is changing the balance of power in B2B. “Get on the phone with us and we’ll tell you pricing.” No more. “Get on the phone and we’ll show you our product.” No more. Today’s buyers now self-educate, run deep...
AI Productivity Gains Require Upfront Workflow Redesign
There is a wide gulf between those getting major productivity gains from AI agents and those that don’t. The difference comes down to being willing to do the work up front to make the agent effective by giving them the...
How to Write AI-Personalized Outbound Email Sequences That Actually Get Replies
The post explains how AI-driven personalization can transform cold outbound email sequences into high‑response conversations, outlining a five‑email, fifteen‑day framework that balances value offers and reply‑focused messages. It emphasizes building a clean ABM list, warming domains, and using AI tools...
How to Use AI-Powered Outbound Email to Scale B2B Growth
The post explains how to build a scalable, AI‑powered outbound email system for B2B SaaS growth, emphasizing the need for a well‑defined ABM list, AI‑driven personalization, and a thoughtful cadence. It outlines the prerequisites (high enough ACV), the four outbound...
AI‑Powered Agentforce Transforms IT Support via Slack
Today, with the launch of Agentforce IT Service, Salesforce is helping customers transform IT support with an agent-first, conversational IT suite that delivers instant, AI-powered resolutions directly in Slack. For decades, IT teams and employees have faced frustrating productivity drains...
Software Valuation Multiples Skyrocket with Growth Rate
This week on Clouded Judgement: Long Live Benchmarks! - Median software multiple: 5.2x - High Growth software median: 26.8x - Mid Growth software median: 7.7x - Low Growth software median: 4.0x - 10Y: 4.0% https://lnkd.in/gmxVt3u6
Microsoft Outlook Is Getting an AI Overhaul Under New Leaders
Microsoft has reorganized its Outlook team under Gaurav Sareen to rebuild the email client as an AI‑native assistant integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, shifting from incremental add‑ons to ground‑up redesign. Sareen is pushing faster development cycles—weekly experiments and days‑scale prototyping—and...
ClickHouse Powers Netflix's 5PB Daily, Scaling for AI Era
ClickHouse is handling 5PB PER DAY, 10M+ events per second for Netflix ...Having a database that can scale like this while staying performant will become more important than ever as data explodes in the age of AI
Exercise.com Joins Daxko in Strategic Acquisition
Congrats to Joel Ohman , Alicia Howson , John Gadbois , Joel VanderPol , and the team at Exercise.com for their recent acquisition by Daxko . Best of luck as you kick off the next stage in your journey. Glad...
Building Your ABM Lead List: How to Target the Right People and Scale Faster
The post explains how Account‑Based Marketing (ABM) hinges on building a precise, verified lead list that targets the ideal customer profile (ICP) and keeps your brand omnipresent across channels. It walks readers through essential steps—defining CAC, CPL, and LTV; crafting...
Get Real-Time Site Mockups Instantly with Alloy
Tired of waiting days (or longer) to get mocks and changes back to your website? That are never really what you want? Just use @alloy_app and tell it whatever changes you want to your site "Change to: SaaStr + Salesforce Agentic...
Why Every Company Needs a Head of Customer
Head of Customer. who has that title? I don't see it and we should have it. who buys our stuff? Customers. who are we building our company for? Customers. instead, we have: Head of Marketing Head of Product Head of...
Hybrid Work Is Here - but Is the Infrastructure?
Hybrid work is now the default, but productivity hinges on resilient, secure and proactive digital infrastructure rather than office presence. Small, recurring IT frictions—failed logins, slow onboarding and reactive help‑desk models—cost large firms hundreds of millions and can be mitigated...
Build Elite Teams That Generate $1M+ Per Employee
Hiring should be your last resort as a product-led company. But when you do hire, you need to build an elite team. Elite teams hit $1M+ revenue per employee, improve every month, and execute without constant oversight. Building that kind...
Scaling to $3B: How Clio Built a Vertical SaaS Powerhouse with AI and Innovation with CEO Jack Newton
Clio has grown over 17 years from the first cloud practice‑management tool for lawyers into a $3 billion vertical‑SaaS platform with about $300 million in ARR, 1,500 employees and a $900 million Series F. The company built a multi‑product stack...
Automate AI News Posts with Brand‑Aligned Voice
AgentKit + FeedHive MCP 🤯 Being first to the conversation after the breaking news hit gives you a HUGE advantage on social media. - It creates authority - It creates trust in your brand - It drives business But keeping up with the constant stream...
Remote Growth Marketer Wanted: Autonomy, Profit, Beach Meetups
I'm hiring a growth marketer for Wynter . This is a cool opp for marketers because you get 1) a differentiated product to promote, 2) a founder who gets marketing, 3) all the autonomy you can handle. The job: find...
Google Meet Is Finally Adding Waiting Rooms to Give You Something to Do Before Your Meeting Starts
Google Meet is adding waiting rooms for Workspace business and education customers, allowing hosts and co‑hosts to admit or deny participants, send one‑way announcements, and move attendees between waiting and main rooms. The feature will be available to Business Standard/Plus,...
AI Democratizes Skills, Sparking a Specialization Showdown
One big effect of AI agents is that they take previously scarce resources and skills and make them abundant and available to everyone. As a consequence, you can “self-serve” many more of the hard problems that you used to have to...
Results, Not Connections, Secure VC Funding Instantly
You don't have to know the 'right people' anymore to get funded If you've got the results -- we'll tell you And introduce you to top VCs. In minutes. SaaStr AI VC. Sign up here -> https://t.co/Eg5TFmnXmm https://t.co/4KllqrnwZp
AWS Reveals New Cloud Incident Reporting Tool, with Almost Zero Sense of Irony
AWS has added an interactive incident‑report generation feature to CloudWatch that automatically aggregates telemetry, user inputs, timelines, impact assessments and remediation recommendations to produce post‑incident reports in minutes. The capability, rolling out across major US, Europe and Asia Pacific regions,...
Velvet Offers Adobe‑Premiere‑Level AI Video Creation in Seconds
Velvet (@Velvet_Videos) is building the Adobe Premiere of AI video, allowing creative teams to generate and edit dozens of cinematic AI videos in seconds. https://t.co/lYvqpwSEXb Congrats on the launch, @lrmantovani_ & @luke_tux! (They made this launch video using Velvet by spending ~$50 in...
Guest Speakers Aren’t Growth Hacks—Build a Demand Strategy
If you’re relying on your guest speaker to drive signups, it’s because you don’t have a demand strategy. Guest speakers aren’t your growth hack. They’re your marketing partners.
Palantir Enters $200M Partnership with Telco Lumen to Offer Enterprise AI Services
Palantir has struck a multi‑year strategic partnership with Lumen Technologies to embed its Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform into Lumen’s edge computing, broadband and digital services, a deal Bloomberg says will top $200 million over several years. Lumen says the...
Stay Close to Customers: Let Market Feedback Guide
Always be close to your customers. Don't build a product nobody wants. Too many startups fail from this. The market has the feedback you need to hear.
Fully Automated Platform Scales ROI-Optimized Influencer Campaigns
.@1stcollab is a fully-automated, ROI-optimized influencer marketing platform that helps brands test, optimize, and scale influencer campaigns with just a few minutes of setup. It already powers some of the largest influencer marketing campaigns on social media. https://t.co/STbw7FTvGm
How to Pick a Website Builder for Your Agency: I Asked 6 Experts
Six industry experts advise agencies to pick website builders that mirror agency workflows and scale with clients, highlighting features like multi‑site management, team collaboration, AI‑assisted design, performance optimization, multilingual support and exportable content. Vendors cited include Duda (hosting over 1...
AI Becomes Standard, Not Competitive Edge, in SaaS
AI won’t be a differentiator soon — it’ll just be expected. Loved this conversation with Ali Hussain from Tabs on the next era of revenue automation. Episode 215 is live! 👇 ▶️ https://t.co/DnEm2UuQMc #SaaS #AI https://t.co/GZ7BSG8hiS
Software's Siren Song Masks Its Hard Reality
the siren song of software is real "it'll be so much easier than services!" "it's way more scalable!" "we can finally grow without adding headcount!" then they try it and realize: software is one of the hardest businesses to build the grass isn't always...
Founders Must Master Sales to Scale Successfully
Every founder is in sales. If you can’t sell it, you can’t scale it. Learn sales if you want to win.
Product‑Market Fit Is Ongoing, Not a One‑Time Milestone
There’s this notion that product market fit is this binary condition that once you pass the gate, you’re done. And that’s no longer the case. Product market fit is like United Miles. You continue to fly to maintain 1K. And...
AI-Powered Python App Builder Used by 30% Fortune 500
Reflex (@getreflex) is an AI app builder for creating production-grade web apps entirely in Python, powered by its own open-source framework. Just connect your data and enter a prompt. It generates production-ready apps that integrate any data source, API, or Python...
Crustdata Secures $6M Seed to Power Real-Time AI Data
Congrats to @chrispisarski, @thechowdhary, @manmohitg, and @crustdata on their $6M seed! Crustdata is building real-time B2B data APIs to power AI sales, recruiting, and investment agents. While traditional databases provide outdated data and aren’t built for signal-driven workflows, Crustdata’s real-time enrichment...
E‑commerce Leads Accessibility Lawsuits; Fixing Boosts Conversions
Ecom is the top target for accessibility lawsuits. And it's not even close. 77% of web accessibility lawsuits last year were against ecom sites. Because most of the internet’s accessibility issues happen right when someone wants to buy. But the...
Follow Up Leads in 5 Minutes, Convert 21×
Fun fact for my fellow marketers: Inbound leads followed up in under 5 minutes are 21x more likely to convert. Twenty-one times! 🤯 But here’s the real question — how many of us are actually following up that fast? Not...
AI Team Boosts E‑commerce Conversions Beyond 1% Baseline
Boom is the AI growth team for e-commerce brands. Most online stores convert less than one percent of their visitors. Boom helps brands recover those lost sales by giving them an AI team that works 24/7. It answers product and order questions,...
Visible, Honest Leadership Accelerates Startup Growth
What I see CEOs at struggling start-ups do: - Go dark - Hide - Lash out - Tweet about lots of things non-work - Invest time on tiny expenses - Argue internally What should do: - Be Present - Be Honest - Be the Rock - Be Realistic/Optimistic You just plain grow...
Zero‑Friction Product Experience Doubles ARR in One Year
Tally just doubled their ARR from $2M to $4M in less than a year. I interviewed their founder Marie Martens back in February when they were at ~$2M ARR. Their new article breaks down the entire journey, but one section...
Self‑Improving Support System Boosts CSAT and Revenue
Redapto (https://t.co/oB9ElDblBa) builds self-improving systems for Customer Support teams. It audits 100% of customer conversations, identifies quality gaps, and auto-updates knowledge bases, boosting CSAT and unlocking millions in retained revenue. Congrats on the launch, @CherilShah2 & @AnirudhPupneja!
AI Agents Revolutionize Corporate Knowledge with Multi‑Source Reasoning
AI Agents will completely transform how we interact with corporate knowledge by applying reasoning across multiple data sources. Here's an example of ChatGPT's new knowledge feature to pull information from Box and Gmail to combine it an answer a question....
AI-Powered Pitch Analysis Reveals Funding Odds and VC Connections
Don't go into that next VC pitch blind SaaStr AI VC will tell you -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OYvZ 1⃣ How strong your pitch is 2⃣ Odds you get funded 3⃣ Exactly where to improve And ... introduce you to up to 800 VCs! https://t.co/O5f4MNuPgB
Newton's $3.8M Seed Fuels 10x ROI for Dentists
Congrats to Newton on their $3.8M seed! Newton is a digital front-desk assistant for dental practices—handling calls, texts, insurance verification, and filling cancellations. Dental groups using Newton are already seeing a 7% lift in collections and 10x ROI from higher utilization and...
Stop the Leaky Bucket: Retain Customers, Not Just Acquire
SaaS businesses are incredible. Except when you’ve got a leaky bucket. When do you have a leaky bucket? It’s when you put in all your effort to acquire new users and customers. But they leave you months later.
AI Clones Your Voice to Drive Multimillion B2B Deals
Imagine AI (@imagineagi) builds your B2B content pipeline. They clone you → your expertise, your voice, your insights → into high-fidelity personas. 10M driven across clients. $5M deal landed from a single optimized post. Congrats on the launch, @skygodkingdom & @neo_lky! https://t.co/f0bGPPd9SC
Open‑source Turn‑Detection Model Boosts Human‑like Voice AI
.@vogentai just released Vogent-Turn-80M: an open-source, state-of-the-art turn-detection model for voice AI. It improves any voice AI stack by detecting when to wait and when to speak, reducing interruptions and making conversations more humanlike. https://t.co/4jmYvazctk https://t.co/NDadilx3Z6
TypeOS Turns Google Docs Into AI‑Powered Workspace
⌨️@TypeOS is Cursor for Google Docs. Students and professionals use it to learn and work faster. From editing and grading research papers, to creating invoices, contracts, or synthesizing articles, videos, and PDFs into a doc.
AI Generates Patent Infringement Claim Charts in Minutes
Patent Watch (@PatentWatchai) is building AI for patent infringements. Upload your patents and find infringing products so you can sell licenses or litigate. It generates detailed claim charts in 20 minutes instead of months, showing exactly which products infringe and how. https://t.co/Q1UX9iCwLR Congrats...
Smart Money Doubles Down on Winners, Not New Startups
We're back! @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll + me: 🧵 1⃣The Great VC Shuffle: Benchmark's big hire 2⃣Why billion-dollar ARR companies that are "still early" 3⃣Why the smartest money might be doubling down on winners instead of hunting for the next big...
Visibility Beats Secrecy: Fill Your Room to Sell
Being the best-kept secret is not a winning strategy for your business. You can’t sell to an empty room.