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
Niobium Brings Fully Encrypted AI Workloads to the Cloud with The Fog
Niobium Microsystems is set to launch The Fog, a cloud platform that runs AI and data‑processing workloads on fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) without ever decrypting the data. The service relies on the company’s new mistic Core processor, an FPGA‑based chip that Niobium claims is twice as fast as conventional GPUs for FHE tasks. It ships with ready‑made applications such as encrypted semantic search, federated learning, and ML classification, all built on a zero‑trust model where decryption keys stay with the data owner. Future plans include a custom ASIC developed with Samsung to further accelerate encrypted computing.
Datadog Debuts Experiments to Unify Product Testing and Observability Data
Datadog announced Datadog Experiments, a unified platform that lets product teams design, launch, and measure A/B tests alongside real‑time observability data. The service combines product analytics, application performance monitoring, and business metrics from data warehouses, eliminating the need for separate...
Creator Platform Beehiiv Launches Podcast Hosting and Distribution
Beehiiv, originally a newsletter platform, has launched a full‑stack podcast hosting and distribution service. The new tool lets creators upload MP3, M4A or WAV files, automatically generate transcripts, and push episodes to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast and Castro. Beehiiv charges...
Webinar Replay: Inside Harvey’s AI Agents & Shared Spaces
Harvey’s AI agents and Shared Spaces were highlighted in a Legal IT Insider webinar, showcasing how the platform’s agentic workflows can automate complex, multi‑step legal processes. Launched a year ago, the agents can plan, adapt, and interact with users, while...
TradingView Introduces AI Chart Copilot
TradingView launched the AI Chart Copilot, an AI‑powered assistant that lives in a browser side panel alongside its charts. The tool instantly delivers technical breakdowns—moving averages, RSI, MACD, support/resistance and a rating—plus news, earnings and fundamental data for any asset....
The Unstructured Data Revolution in CRM – Interview with David Roberts of SugarCRM
SugarCRM CEO David Roberts argues that today’s CRM platforms function more as management dashboards than as tools for sellers, creating friction for sales teams. He predicts AI will overhaul CRM by ingesting unstructured data—emails, calls, texts—and turning it into actionable...
Freshworks Expands Freshservice with Continuous Discovery and Dependency Mapping for IT Asset Management
Freshworks Inc. launched a redefined IT Asset Management (ITAM) module for its Freshservice platform, adding continuous infrastructure discovery and dependency mapping. The AI‑powered service operations layer unifies data from hybrid, cloud, and on‑premises environments, enabling real‑time visibility of hardware, applications,...
Bootstrapped SaaS Growth When AI Took Over the Market
In this episode, host Omer Khan talks with Sylvester Dupont, the bootstrapped founder of Parser, a B2B SaaS that automates data extraction from documents. Sylvester recounts how the company spent a year building the product without customer input, launched to...
URC TV Cuts Streaming Costs with Eluvio Migration
United Rugby Championship migrated its direct‑to‑consumer service, URC TV, to Eluvio’s Content Fabric platform, slashing streaming operating costs by 62%. The move sparked a 64% jump in transaction volume and lifted revenue 35% despite lower pricing. Subscriber numbers more than doubled,...
Busy Professionals Need AI Screen Recorder—Seeking Testers
I could use some help. I'm not the kind of person to raise my hand and ask for help. I was taught that if you want something, you work hard for it. So that's how I live my life. I try to build things...
New Belgian AI Platform Backbone Aims to Cut Costly Quality Failures in Food Production
Belgian startup Backbone launches an AI platform for real-time quality and compliance management in food production, backed by seed funding from 100IN. The system consolidates fragmented supplier, lab, and procedural data to detect risks before they reach production, addressing an...
Salesforce & Shopify Inventory: One System of Truth for Orders, Stock & Fulfillment
Shopify merchants often face inventory mismatches that cause overselling and delayed fulfillment. Axolt replaces fragmented integrations with a native Salesforce ERP that synchronizes orders, stock, and finance in real time. The solution provides instant inventory updates across multiple warehouses, built‑in...
Legora Surpasses $100m Annual Recurring Revenue
Legora has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of its general‑availability launch, serving over 1,000 customers in 50 markets. The legal AI platform has shifted from single‑task tools to multi‑step, agentic workflows, handling large‑scale document reviews and...
Special Series: The Trust Advantage with Brock Robertson, Chief Revenue Officer at Payroc | Episode 480
In this episode of the Trust Advantage series, Payroc CRO Brock Robertson discusses the evolving payment strategies of software platforms, highlighting the shift from full payment ownership (pay‑fac models) back toward trusted referral and partnership models. He explains how the...
Strava Limits Premium Membership to Elite Athletes with New Performance Standards
Strava announced that users must meet specific race‑time standards to keep a premium subscription, costing roughly $11 USD per month. The move aims to preserve the platform’s elite reputation but has ignited controversy among casual athletes.
Salesforce Rolls Out AI‑enhanced Slackbot with 30+ New Enterprise Features
Salesforce unveiled an AI‑powered upgrade to Slackbot, introducing more than 30 new features that blend chat, CRM data, and third‑party apps. The assistant is now available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, with limited access opening to Free and Pro plans...
OpenAI COO Lightcap Bullish on Legacy Software as AI Reshapes Market
OpenAI’s chief operating officer Brad Lightcap told the Uncapped podcast that investors can be bullish on legacy software companies as they accelerate AI integration. At the same time, ExpressVPN rolled out ExpressAI, a privacy‑first chatbot that demonstrates how COOs are...
Asana’s CPO Pushes Multiplayer AI Agents for Enterprise Collaboration
Asana’s chief product officer, David Bose, unveiled a multiplayer‑by‑design approach for the company’s enterprise AI agents, enabling shared workflows, auditable action logs, and bi‑directional sync with key business apps. The strategy aims to give CIOs a transparent, institution‑wide AI assistant...
UK Regulator Opens Strategic Market Status Probe Into Microsoft’s Cloud and Business Software
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced a strategic market status (SMS) investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, including Windows, Office, Teams and Copilot. The probe, set to start in May, aims to assess whether Microsoft’s licensing practices are restricting...
From Chaos to Control: How Verx Is Helping African Businesses Run Smarter, Faster, and More Profitably
Verx, an all‑in‑one SaaS platform built by Omoniyi Owoeye’s team at Worldest Dinero Services, targets African SMEs plagued by fragmented tools and manual processes. It consolidates sales, finance, marketing, compliance and AI‑driven analytics into a single dashboard, offering automated tax,...
How AI Is Impacting SaaS Products
Artificial intelligence is turning traditional SaaS dashboards and step‑by‑step workflows into conversational, outcome‑driven services. Users now issue simple prompts, while the platform interprets intent, gathers data, and executes actions autonomously. This shift forces product teams to move from feature‑by‑feature design...
Omniscient Raises $4.1m to Bring Real-Time Reputation Intelligence to the C-Suite
Omniscient announced a $4.1 million funding round led by Drysdale, Plug and Play and other investors to scale its real‑time reputation intelligence platform for C‑suite executives. The solution ingests data from over 100,000 sources—including press, social, video and audio—and delivers prioritized...
Tapcheck Teams with Paychex to Deliver Seamless Embedded On-Demand Pay Solution Giving Instant Access to Worksite Employees
Tapcheck Inc. has partnered with Paychex to embed its on‑demand pay technology directly into the Paychex HR PEO platform. The integration lets eligible workers instantly move a portion of earned wages to a bank account or a free Tapcheck Mastercard...
How Acclaim Autism Cut Patient Onboarding From Six Months to Four Days with Appian
Acclaim Autism, a Philadelphia‑based autism‑care provider, used Appian’s low‑code automation to shrink patient onboarding from six months to four days. Insurance denial rates fell from 80% to 5%, and monthly intake rose from three to 47 patients, a fifteen‑fold increase....
Denmark’s Financial News Systems Raises €1.5M to Build AI-Only Financial Newsroom for Real-Time Market Intelligence
Denmark‑based Financial News Systems (FNS) closed a €1.5 million (≈$1.6 million) pre‑seed round led by Ugly Duckling Ventures to scale its AI‑only newsroom. The platform uses specialised models to pull market‑moving data from press releases and regulatory filings in as little as...
Your Housing Group Integrates Housing and Asset Management
Your Housing Group (YHG) has awarded Infinity Group a £9.15 million (≈ $11.6 million) contract to replace its legacy housing, asset and repairs management software with a single, fully integrated platform. The new system, Infinity’s BRIKHousing, runs on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and consolidates repairs,...
Synthesis Helps Financial Enterprises Transform with New Gemini Enterprise
Synthesis, a Digicloud Africa partner, became the first African firm to deploy Google Gemini Enterprise for two financial institutions within a month. The platform, upgraded to Gemini 3.1 Pro, delivers enterprise‑grade reasoning across Google Workspace and third‑party systems. Clients such as Lombard...
Corti Launches Symphony for Medical Coding API, Outperforming OpenAI and Anthropic in Clinical Accuracy ‘Claims’
Clinical AI startup Corti has introduced Symphony, an agentic AI model delivered via API to automate medical coding. The company asserts that Symphony exceeds the clinical accuracy of major large language models—including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Oracle, and Google—by...
Google's $20 per Month AI Pro Plan Just Got a Big Storage Boost
Google has upgraded its $20‑per‑month AI Pro subscription, raising cloud storage from 2 TB to 5 TB at no extra charge. The expanded storage can be used across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos in addition to AI workloads. Gemini’s capabilities were...
How to Build Safe and Trustworthy AI Agents with Zapier
Zapier Agents let businesses create autonomous AI teammates that act across more than 8,000 apps without code. The guide stresses that safety hinges on narrowly scoped permissions, layered guardrails, and human oversight at critical junctures. Built‑in AI Guardrails screen for...
QuickBooks Doubles Fees Over Unwanted AI Features
Cannot believe @quickbooks really emailed us this week and more than double their subscription due to integrated AI features we didn’t even opt into lmaooo. MORE THAN DOUBLE IS INSANE.
Novisto Acquires Minimum to Deliver Unified Carbon and ESG Platform Amid Tightening Regulations
Novisto has bought London‑based carbon‑management software provider Minimum, merging carbon accounting into its ESG suite to meet expanding EU, UK and California reporting mandates. The deal, announced today, gives the Montreal‑based firm end‑to‑end data capabilities for large enterprises facing stricter...
Ring Launches AI‑powered App Store for Its 100 Million‑camera Ecosystem
Amazon‑owned Ring introduced an AI‑powered app store that expands the functionality of its more than 100 million smart‑home cameras. The marketplace, unveiled at CES, offers third‑party tools for elder care, workforce analytics and rental management, while barring privacy‑invasive features such as...
Criteo Unveils Self‑Service AI Platform GO and Hires Former Google Shopping Lead Courtney MacConnell
Criteo announced a full self‑service version of its AI‑powered GO platform, letting small and mid‑size advertisers launch cross‑channel campaigns in as few as five clicks. At the same time, the company named former Google Head of Shopping Courtney MacConnell as Vice...
Kestra Secures $25 Million Series A to Accelerate Open‑Source Orchestration Platform
Kestra announced a $25 million Series A round led by RTP Global, bringing total funding to $36 million. The capital will back the launch of Kestra 2.0, a managed cloud offering, and a broader push into North America and Europe, underscoring the growing...
NordLayer Launches Secure Enterprise Browser for SaaS‑Focused SMBs at $8/User
NordLayer introduced a dedicated enterprise browser built for small‑ and medium‑size businesses that run SaaS workloads. Priced from $8 per user per month, the browser adds zero‑trust routing, DLP, Shadow‑IT monitoring and built‑in SSO/MFA, aiming to replace consumer browsers that...
How Hybrid Work Models Are Transforming Recruitment and HR Technology
Hybrid work models have pushed companies to replace fixed seating with hot‑desk booking platforms that can handle real‑time scheduling and fluctuating attendance. Studies show office attendance now sits between 30% and 60%, causing desk utilization to fall below 50% on...
Why Your PLG Motion Is Leaking Revenue — And How to Fix It
Most B2B SaaS firms aren’t failing because their product is weak, but because data orchestration and cross‑team alignment are broken. Misaligned strategies, unmapped handoffs, and unusable event data cause product‑qualified leads to be misidentified, leaking revenue as PLG attempts scale...
NebulaAI Simplifies Multi‑agent AI for Non‑technical Users
I've started playing with @NebulaAI - I see the vision, if you want to get started on multi agent framework without having to install and maintain your own Claw, this is a nice way to go. Lowers barrier for non...
New Sidebar Shows Agent’s Full Access in Real‑Time
Added a context panel alongside the chat. Files, workflows, browser connections, email, skills — all in one collapsible sidebar. You can see everything the agent has access to while the conversation is happening. No more asking 'do you have access to X?' Waitlist...
Interact Adds Agentic AI to Enterprise Platform to Scale Employee Listening
Interact rolled out a suite of agentic AI features in its Autumn 2025 launch, targeting the signal‑to‑noise problem in large enterprises. The update adds a Microsoft Copilot connector, SAP SuccessFactors and ServiceNow integrations, and a new Signal Agent that continuously...
OpenClaw Hype Drives Users Spending Hundreds Daily
One user called OpenClaw “a waste of tokens.” Another spent $200 in a single day. I racked up $600 in a week. The hype is real. So is the bill. https://t.co/MFj5pVF0o6
Higher Retention Beats Bigger Audience Every Time
I would rather have 500 subscribers retaining at 80% than 5,000 retaining at 40%. Here's why. 🧵 https://t.co/sLO1HKWnDi
Salesforce Open CTI Sunsetting: Timeline, Impact, and Your Migration Options
Salesforce announced that its JavaScript‑based Open CTI framework will be deprecated on February 28, 2028, with no new feature investment. The company is steering customers toward Service Cloud Voice, its native telephony solution, as the primary replacement. Organizations using Open...
Cut AI Subscription Costs by up to 70%
HARSH TRUTH: Nobody talks about this but you're overpaying for AI tools every single month. ChatGPT Plus. Genspark. Claude Pro. Perplexity Pro. GamsGo lets you split all of them at up to 70% off the original price. Same features. Same quality. Fraction of...
PostHog Integration Now Lets Agents Fetch Analytics Instantly
PostHog integration is live. Connect your account and the agent can query analytics, check funnel data, manage feature flags, and pull experiment results. Product data in context, without you pulling it manually into a conversation. Next batch of waitlist invite emails going out...
The 8 Best Rilla Alternatives & Competitors in 2026
The guide ranks the top eight Rilla alternatives for 2026, highlighting Revenue.io as the premier choice for Salesforce‑centric sales teams. It compares each platform on AI transcription accuracy, real‑time coaching, and CRM integration, noting that tools like Fireflies.ai and Zoom...
Tips for Managing Multiple Claude Code Subscriptions
is there any good content on how people manage organizing skills and MCP's etc across mutiple claude code subscriptions? thinking about getting a second only for work work stuff
AI Inbox Needs Memory for Personalized Email Prioritization
With personalization and memory this makes sense. Without it’ll yield nonsense for businesses. Lack of context about you, your business, who your customers are, what you produce, etc. We need memory in paid Workspace. Thank you.
Google AI Pro Doubles Storage to 5 TB
So my Google AI Pro $20/plan got a storage upgrade from 2TB to 5TB 😎 https://9to5google.com/2026/04/01/google-ai-pro-5-tb/