🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 3h agoWhat'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.
Also developing:
- •AWS Middle East datacenter hit by unknown objects, causing outage
- •Infobip unveils AgentOS, an AI‑native platform for autonomous customer journeys
By the numbers: Miso Robotics acquires Zignyl (value undisclosed)
News•Jan 13, 2026
Proton Updates Its Lumo AI Tool with New Projects Feature
Proton has rolled out Lumo 1.3, the latest version of its privacy‑first AI assistant, introducing a new "Projects" feature. Projects provide an encrypted workspace that bundles chats, files and instructions around a specific topic, syncing seamlessly across devices. The feature integrates with Proton Drive and is available to all users, with free accounts limited to one Project and paid tiers offering unlimited Projects and faster AI models. Proton also launched Lumo Professional, a business‑focused tier aimed at streamlining strategy, compliance and decision‑making.
By BetaNews
News•Jan 13, 2026
Tools for Fast Search-Query Analysis
Ann Smarty highlights three Chrome extensions that streamline Google Search Console query analysis. Query Scout overlays page‑level query data and offers a $29 upgrade with pre‑built intent filters. Find Real Prompts extracts longer, AI‑style queries and can feed them to ChatGPT for...
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Jan 13, 2026
Acronis Launches Archival Storage to Give MSPs Long-Term, Compliant Data Retention
Acronis International launched Archival Storage, a compliance‑focused, long‑term data retention service aimed at managed service providers (MSPs) and their SMB customers. The solution uses AWS S3‑compatible object storage, offering millisecond retrieval, 11×9 durability and 99.5% availability, while eliminating egress and...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 13, 2026
Salesforce Rolls Out New Slackbot AI Agent as It Battles Microsoft and Google in Workplace AI
Salesforce launched a rebuilt Slackbot AI agent for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, powered by Anthropic’s Claude large language model and integrated with Salesforce records, Google Drive, calendars, and Slack history. Internally, 80,000 employees adopted it rapidly, achieving 96% satisfaction and...
By VentureBeat
News•Jan 13, 2026
"Slackbot Isn’t Just Another Copilot or AI Assistant - It’s the Front Door to the Agentic Enterprise" - Salesforce's New...
Salesforce has made Slackbot, its AI‑powered conversational assistant, generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, expanding the Dreamforce 2025 preview into a production feature. Slackbot links Slack conversations with Salesforce records and third‑party apps such as Google Drive, enabling it...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 13, 2026
Slackbot Is an AI Agent Now
Salesforce has launched a generative‑AI version of Slackbot, now positioned as an autonomous AI agent for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers. The new Slackbot can retrieve data, draft emails, schedule meetings, and interact with external tools such as Microsoft Teams and...
By TechCrunch Enterprise
Podcast•Jan 13, 2026•19 min
36 | 2026 Software M&A Outlook: Valuations, Buyers, and What’s Changed
In this episode, Vista Point Advisors’ managing directors Mike Lyon and Jeff Koons dissect the 2025 software M&A landscape and project key shifts for 2026, focusing on buyer behavior, deal structures, and valuation trends—especially in vertical SaaS. They highlight that strategic...
By The Path to Exit
News•Jan 13, 2026
Why Sakana AI’s Big Win Is a Big Deal for the Future of Enterprise Agents
Japanese startup Sakana AI’s coding agent ALE‑Agent captured first place in the AtCoder Heuristic Contest, outpacing more than 800 human competitors. The four‑hour run leveraged inference‑time scaling, generating, testing, and iterating hundreds of solutions. By introducing a "Virtual Power" concept,...
By VentureBeat
News•Jan 13, 2026
Show HN: SnackBase – Open-Source, GxP-Compliant Back End for Python Teams
SnackBase is an open‑source Python backend that provides instant CRUD APIs, built‑in GxP compliance, and immutable audit logs. It offers multi‑tenancy, row‑level security, and a comprehensive permissions engine, allowing SaaS developers to isolate data across organizations. The platform includes out‑of‑the‑box...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 13, 2026
How Analytics Capability Has Quietly Reshaped IT Operations
In 2025 IT operations moved beyond monitoring tools to a mature analytics capability that governs insight creation, trust, and decision‑making. Organizations that built governance, decision rights, and analytical skills outperformed those that relied solely on advanced observability platforms. The shift...
By CIO.com
News•Jan 13, 2026
Dataroid Raises $6.6M to Scale Its Analytics Platform Worldwide
Istanbul‑based Dataroid announced a $6.6 million pre‑Series A round led by FinAI Venture Capital, with participation from Tacirler’s Future Impact fund and Endeavor Catalyst. The funding follows a $2 million raise last year and will be used to boost AI‑driven analytics, accelerate...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
Sisense Delivers Faster, Smarter Analytics with AI
Sisense announced a new AI‑powered analytics platform featuring a Managed Large Language Model, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and an Intelligence assistant. The Managed LLM provides a ready‑to‑use foundation for generative analytics, while MCP securely connects external AI tools...
By BetaNews
News•Jan 13, 2026
European Tech in 2025: The Data, the Deals, and What Comes Next
Tech.eu’s 2025 Annual Report shows European tech investment reached €72 billion, the second‑strongest in three years, despite a 3.2 % dip from the 2024 peak. The UK stayed the top‑funded market, while fintech led sector performance with €11.1 billion raised across 397 rounds....
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
From 2025 to 2026: Listen to the Startups and VCs Behind the Year’s Biggest Tech Stories
Tech.eu released a special podcast that flips the usual journalist‑led format by inviting the founders and investors behind 2025’s most‑read stories to discuss the year’s defining moments. Guests included TEKEVER’s CEO, Cherry Ventures’ founding partner, Bolt’s president and other key...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
New Owners Re-Build Purplebricks with AI CRM After £1 Acquisition, Slashing Costs 70%
Purplebricks, the UK’s largest residential estate agency, was acquired for £1 by Strike Estate Agents and swiftly replaced its legacy Salesforce and custom .NET systems with Creatio, a low‑code AI‑enabled CRM. The new platform delivered a 35% rise in lead...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 13, 2026
AI Emerging as Key Safety Driver as Commercial Fleets Cut Crash Rates by 73%
AI‑powered safety tools are reshaping commercial fleet operations, delivering a 73% crash‑rate reduction after 30 months of deployment. Multi‑camera AI systems eliminate blind‑spot risks, while dual‑facing dashcams flag distraction, drowsiness and phone use in real time. The Samsara Fleet Safety...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 13, 2026
Birmingham Pauses Oracle Relaunch to Get Staff on Board
Birmingham City Council has delayed the relaunch of its Oracle Fusion ERP system until at least summer, citing the need for staff to adapt to standard processes. The 2022 go‑live disaster left the council unable to produce auditable accounts and...
By The Register
News•Jan 13, 2026
LIV4 Raises €500k to Modernise Industrial Quality Management
LIV4, an Italian generative‑AI startup, closed a €500,000 pre‑seed round to accelerate its industrial quality‑management platform. The funding, led by seasoned business angels and supported by Intesa Sanpaolo, will expand the team, add product features, and speed validation in the...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
Verna Raises $4M to Turn Nature Programs Into Measurable Action
UK‑based Verna has raised $4 million, led by Berlin’s NAP and Zurich’s Übermorgen, to scale its nature‑recovery software. The platform, already adopted by more than 3,000 users across 100 organisations, aggregates existing biodiversity data and applies AI to translate nature commitments...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
NetBird Announces $10M Series A to Expand Open Source VPN Alternative
NetBird, a Berlin‑based open‑source Zero Trust networking platform, closed a $10 million Series A round led by Pace Capital with participation from Nauta Capital, InReach Ventures, and Antler. The company positions its product as a secure, cost‑effective alternative to traditional VPNs, emphasizing...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
Bricks.sh Secures €1.6M Pre-Seed to Expand AI-Native Internal Tools
Bricks.sh, an AI‑native internal‑tool builder, announced a €1.6 million pre‑seed round led by Primo Capital, joined by Octopus First Cheque Fund, Eden Ventures and others. The company also launched its public beta, offering developers a way to auto‑generate admin panels by...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
Klearly Secures €12M for Restaurant Payments System
Amsterdam‑based Klearly has closed a €12 million Series A round, bringing its total funding to €20 million. The round was led by PayPal Ventures with participation from Italian Founders Fund and existing backers. Klearly offers a hospitality‑focused payments layer that integrates with merchants’...
By Tech.eu
Social•Jan 13, 2026
2026: AI Agents Transform Knowledge Work Through Scaffolding
The capability overhang right now in AI is pretty massive. Most of the world still thinks of AI as chatbots that will answer a question on demand but not yet do real work for them. Beyond coding, almost no knowledge work...
By Aaron Levie
News•Jan 13, 2026
Provenance Is the New Version Control
AI‑driven code synthesis is turning traditional version control on its head. When a component can be regenerated from a formal specification, the program text ceases to be the primary source of truth, and the reasons—requirements, constraints, and design decisions—become the...
By Hacker News
Blog•Jan 13, 2026
The Most In-Demand AI Services Businesses Will Pay For in 2026
In 2026 AI will be treated as core infrastructure rather than a novelty feature, with businesses paying for services that deliver measurable outcomes. The most lucrative services attach to high‑cost pain points such as time waste, revenue generation, risk mitigation,...
By Dan Martell
Social•Jan 13, 2026
Most B2B AI Features Fail; Winners Do Differently
Hot take: 90% of "AI features" shipping in B2B right now are terrible. The companies winning are doing something completely different. Come to SaaStr AI 2026 May 12-14 and learn what actually works from founders with the receipts. https://t.co/Ff7DKVt1H2
By Jason Lemkin
![Eleven Steps to the Epiphany[^1]](/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto,fit=cover/https://res.cloudinary.com/dzawgnnlr/image/upload/w8txbopuyfkpsbw6rwka)
Blog•Jan 13, 2026
Eleven Steps to the Epiphany[^1]
The author describes how Anthropic’s Claude Cowork scanned a personal folder of scripts—email, CRM, research, and drafting tools—and incorporated them into its memory, enabling the same capabilities through a conversational interface. This transformation turns static, terminal‑bound utilities into a portable...
By Tomasz Tunguz
News•Jan 12, 2026
OpenAI Buys Torch to Bring Unified Medical Data Into ChatGPT Health
OpenAI announced the acquisition of Torch Health, a startup that consolidates personal medical data into a unified platform. Reported price ranges from $60 million to $100 million. Torch’s AI‑driven aggregation of labs, prescriptions, and unstructured notes will be integrated into the newly...
By SiliconANGLE
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Six Key Steps to Close an M&A Deal
What are the basic milestones of a process (M&A or capital raise)? 1. Pre-marketing Complete the marketing materials (information packet and buyer list) and get your house in order. 2. Marketing Reach out to buyers, execute NDAs, and share marketing...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Capture Customer Stories Early to Accelerate Deal Closure
I’ve sat in a lot of deal reviews where someone asks, “Do we have a customer story for this?” The answer is usually yes. But the pause that follows tells the real story. Someone remembers a win from months ago....
By devbasu
News•Jan 12, 2026
This Week in SaaS - Jan 6 - 12, 2026
During the week of Jan 6‑12 2026, SaaS investors poured over $1.5 billion into a diverse set of startups, highlighted by Cyera’s $400 M Series F for AI‑driven data security and Rain’s $250 M raise for enterprise stablecoin payments. The period also saw major consolidation, with...
By SaasRise
News•Jan 12, 2026
The Weekend Our Pipeline Processed the Same Data 47 Times
A data pipeline re‑processed Saturday’s transactions 47 times over a weekend after Airflow retries invoked a flawed fallback that loaded the previous successful date instead of the missing data. The bug let each retry succeed while still ingesting stale data,...
By The New Stack
News•Jan 12, 2026
Forks, Clouds and the New Economics of Open Source Licensing
The Business Source License (BSL) has emerged as a hybrid model that lets developers use software freely while restricting commercial re‑hosting, a shift sparked by HashiCorp’s move from MPL 2.0 to BSL for Terraform. High‑profile forks such as OpenTofu illustrate...
By The New Stack
News•Jan 12, 2026
Empowering Teams with AI: Changing Workflows for the Future
Adobe unveiled Acrobat Studio, an AI‑enhanced evolution of its flagship PDF platform, targeting hybrid workforces. The suite introduces PDF Spaces and personalized AI assistants that can summarize, compare, and extract insights from documents in seconds. Integrated Adobe Express Premium lets...
By CIO.com
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Balancing Agency and Control Drives Enterprise AI Success
My biggest takeaways from Aishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam on building successful enterprise AI products: 1. AI products differ from traditional software in two fundamental ways: they’re non-deterministic, and you need to constantly trade off agency vs. control. Traditional...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Jan 12, 2026
Owkin Unveils Biology-Focused AI Agents for Clinical Research and Drug Discovery
Owkin, a decade‑old AI startup, unveiled a suite of biology‑focused autonomous agents for clinical research and drug discovery. The agents, built on a curated multimodal dataset from over 800 hospitals, aim to identify biomarkers, interpret complex medical data, and guide...
By SiliconANGLE
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Board Pressure Fuels Unsustainable Product Overreach
The Second Act Stumble Steve had a way of making growth sound inevitable. He’d done it once already—tripled revenue from $7 million to $21 million in 12 short months—and the board wanted another lap around the track. Another 3×. Another...
By Mark Roberge
News•Jan 12, 2026
AI-Driven Testing: Context, Agents, and the Model Context Protocol
SD Times has launched the 2026 Supercast Series — AI in Test, a year‑long program aimed at guiding software teams through AI‑driven quality assurance. The kickoff session on February 5 explores context‑aware AI, autonomous agents, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as solutions...
By SD Times
News•Jan 12, 2026
Tallinn AI Startup Flashka Raises €1M Pre-Seed and Hits 1M Users in a Year
Tallinn‑based AI startup Flashka, which offers automated flashcards and personalized study tools, closed a €1 million pre‑seed round led by Outlast Fund with participation from UCP and Vento Ventures. The app has amassed 1 million university‑student users in just one year, topping...
By Tech.eu
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Post‑crisis “Diligence” Masks Underlying Process Gaps
I keep seeing the same thing after teams realize something important too late. The impact shows up in how work gets done. Extra checks get added before meetings. People start keeping private notes. Someone is asked to manually watch competitors....
By Hiten Shah
News•Jan 12, 2026
Why We Built Our Own Background Agent
Ramp unveiled its proprietary background coding agent, Inspect, which automates code generation and verification within fully sandboxed VMs. The platform integrates with tools like Sentry, Datadog, LaunchDarkly, GitHub, Slack, and Buildkite, supporting both backend and frontend workflows. Inspect sessions launch...
By Hacker News
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Refresh Your Messaging Annually to Match Rapid Market Shifts
It's natural to stay in the mindset that things are today like they were last year or 2 years ago. But of course, they're not. The world changes very fast. The amount of new well-funded startups entering a space every...
By Peep Laja
News•Jan 12, 2026
Computational Complexity of Schema-Guided Document Extraction
Pulse discovered that while JSON‑schema guided extraction simplifies data pipelines, enforcing complex, nested schemas during LLM generation incurs significant compute overhead. Naïve constrained decoding either explodes in state space or silently degrades extraction quality. Experiments on thousands of varied invoices...
By Hacker News
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Scalability, Not Ambition, Is Marketing’s New Bottleneck
The results are in from the Adapt or Die: 2026 Resilient Marketer Survey that I collaborated on with the team at MoEngage . One pattern is already clear: the challenge for most B2C marketing teams is no longer experimentation or...
By Scott Brinker
News•Jan 12, 2026
Why Ontario Digital Service Couldn't Procure '98% Safe' LLMs (15M Canadians)
Ontario’s Digital Service discovered that high‑stakes institutions cannot adopt AI based solely on probabilistic safety claims such as "98% safe." Decision‑makers need governance mechanisms that can be defended if a failure occurs. The team built an "Authority Boundary Ledger" that...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 12, 2026
Cloudflare Threatens Italy Exit After $16.3M Fine For Refusing Piracy Blocks
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned that the company could withdraw its free cybersecurity services from Italy and possibly exit the market after the Italian regulator imposed a €14 million fine for not complying with the Piracy Shield law. The penalty represents...
By Slashdot
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Turn Testimonials Into a Real‑Time Sales Flywheel
Most SaaS companies waste their best testimonials. - They collect a few quotes - They bury them on a landing page - They forget about them and call it a day And then, as a result: Proof that never gets...
By devbasu
Social•Jan 12, 2026
Great Product Needs Relentless, Years‑long Promotion
Built a great product? Awesome. Now go tell everyone on the internet every day for the next 5 years. You got this.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Jan 12, 2026
No Excitement, Wrong Product—Learned After $1M Loss
If you don’t see the excitement in people’s eyes, you’re building the wrong product… (spent $1M, wasted 1 year, been there, done that (NEVER AGAIN)) https://t.co/aL0rguGFxJ
By Adam Robinson