Today's SaaS Pulse
OpenAI acquires Ona to embed secure workspaces for autonomous AI agents
OpenAI announced the acquisition of Ona, a 79‑person cloud development environment provider, to embed secure, persistent workspaces for autonomous AI agents. Ona’s platform has seen a 13‑fold rise in weekly agent sessions across banks, pharma firms, and sovereign wealth funds. Analysts estimate the deal value between $450 million and $500 million.
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By the numbers: NinjaOne raises $400M Series C extension
IBM Q1 Revenue Grows 9% to $15.9B as Software Growth Slows, Shares Drop 6.5%
IBM posted first‑quarter revenue of $15.92 billion, a 9% rise that lagged the 12.2% growth of the prior period, prompting a 6.5% after‑hours slide in its stock. The slowdown, driven by softer software sales, has heightened investor worries about AI‑driven competition.
Shell Security Plugin
The new Shell Security plugin links OpenClaw’s built‑in security audit with KiloCode’s Security Advisor API, turning raw JSON findings into a prioritized, plain‑language remediation report delivered inside chat platforms like Slack or Telegram. It runs the audit locally, sends only...
What Google’s “Unified Stack” Pitch at Cloud Next ‘26 Really Means for CIOs
At Cloud Next ’26 Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveiled a “unified stack” that stitches together custom TPUs, Gemini Enterprise, the Agentic Data Cloud and security services into a single AI operating fabric. The pitch positions the stack as a turnkey...
Ep. 196 - The SaaS Opportunity Hidden Inside Services
In this episode, Dylan Ochner, founding partner of The Oak Group and creator of the SaaS platform SiteRise, explains how his professional services firm in retail construction birthed a software solution to streamline document management, data synchronization, and project reporting....
Intercom’s Customer Service Agent Takes on New Sales Role
Intercom has extended its Fin AI customer agent from support to a full‑funnel sales assistant, branding the new capability as “Fin for Sales.” The AI now engages prospects, qualifies leads, answers product questions, handles objections, and books meetings, while syncing...
Tech News: Diligent Touts AI Board Member and Agentic GRC Workforce
Diligent announced its AI Board Member assistant and a suite of agentic GRC tools embedded in the Diligent One Platform. The AI Board Member can retrieve board materials, industry news, and provide tailored guidance on AI, cyber risk, and audit,...
ChatGPT for Clinicians: The Trap Sprung
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free GPT‑5.4‑powered assistant for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists. The tool offers peer‑reviewed literature search, reusable workflow templates such as referral letters and prior authorizations, deep journal research, and built‑in...
100+ Real-World AI Use Cases for HR, Finance, IT
100+ real-world examples of ways HR, finance, IT, and other execs can use rippling AI in their job — and each one comes with a real-world customer example & testimonial.
Folks Launches Canada-Focused HR and Payroll Platform to Simplify Multi-Provincial Compliance
Canadian HR software firm Folks rolled out a unified HR and payroll platform designed specifically for the country’s multi‑provincial regulatory environment. The solution embeds compliance into payroll calculations and merges core HR functions, aiming to reduce manual data transfers for...
GRC News Roundup: Aravo, RAMPxchange, BYU Law & More
The GRC sector saw a wave of AI‑driven product launches, with Aravo unveiling Aravo AI for third‑party risk, Diligent adding an AI Board Member assistant for directors, Serrala deploying AI agents for finance automation, and Thrive introducing managed Abacode Compliance...
Taboola Unveils Realize+, Agentic AI Platform to Automate Campaign Management
Taboola announced the launch of Realize+, an agentic AI system that automates key performance‑marketing tasks such as budget allocation and ad generation. The platform aims to lift conversion rates beyond search and social while cutting manual workload, a move that...
Salesforce's Agentforce AI Agent Hits $800M ARR, 169% YoY Growth
Salesforce reported that its AI‑driven Agentforce product generated $800 million in annual recurring revenue, a 169% year‑over‑year increase. The surge, driven by 29,000 transactions in 15 months, is reshaping investor confidence in AI‑enabled SaaS solutions.
ServiceNow and Google Cloud Unite AI Agents for Autonomous Enterprise Operations
ServiceNow and Google Cloud announced an expanded partnership at Google Cloud Next, introducing a suite of AI agents that can autonomously detect, diagnose and resolve enterprise issues across 5G networks, retail operations and IT systems. The solutions leverage Google’s Gemini...
AI Text Editor that Purposely Messes up Your Emails Goes Viral
Sinceerly, a new Chrome extension marketed as an “anti‑Grammarly,” deliberately degrades text by inserting typos, simplifying phrasing, and loosening grammar rules. The tool offers three modes—Subtle, Human, and CEO—that progressively strip away polish to make emails feel more conversational. Its...
M-Files Launches Three Industry-Specific Document Solutions
M-Files announced three new industry‑specific applications—Tax Advisory, Quality, and Contracts—built on its AI‑native, context‑first platform. The solutions connect documents to people, projects and compliance rules, turning static files into actionable knowledge. M-Files says the apps deliver faster time‑to‑value, higher productivity...
This Kenyan Startup Wants to Rebuild Enterprise Software Around AI Agents
Kenyan AI startup Lua secured $5.8 million (≈ KES 748 million) seed funding to launch a platform that lets enterprises build autonomous AI agents capable of executing entire business processes. The agents operate through familiar channels such as Slack, WhatsApp and email, handling multi‑step...
Anthropic Adds Memory to Claude Managed Agents
Anthropic has launched a public‑beta memory layer for its Claude Managed Agents, enabling agents to retain information across sessions. The memory is mounted on a file system, leveraging the same bash and code‑execution tools agents already use. Files are stored...
Dynasty Teams with Ester for AI‑Powered Estate Tax Insights
Dynasty Embeds https://t.co/33aR1yzWFH's Ester to Deliver AI Estate and Tax Intelligence to Advisors First external partner contributing dedicated agent to Dynasty's AI suite. Ester analyzes estate plans, accounts, documents, notes, emails, CRM data → generates tax + trust insights for advisors....
Global Payroll Platform Borderless AI Now Lets Employees Get Paid in Crypto
Borderless AI, a Toronto‑based global payroll platform, launched Crypto‑Native Payroll, allowing employers to allocate part of an employee’s salary into cryptocurrencies before payroll finalization. The feature aims to eliminate post‑payroll transfers, reduce transaction and exchange‑rate costs, and give workers flexible...
Post‑AI Firms Win by Openness, Habit, and Scale
Observation: post-AI companies at the app layer have very different strategies around defensibility vs. pre-AI companies. Pre-AI companies focused on user network effects, keeping data and content locked down and proprietary, and doing whatever it took to keep users inside their...
AI Creator Platform Markable Launches Free Tier, Opening Commerce Tools to All Creators
Markable, an AI‑powered creator platform that has processed over $1 billion in social commerce sales across more than 1,000 creators, announced a free tier that unlocks its core commerce tools. The free plan includes smart deep links, AutoDM automated replies, an...
Merging Sales Capacity & Marketing Attribution Solves RevOps Divide
Lative acquiring Mperativ is one of the more interesting RevOps moves I've seen this yearbecause it's making a structural argument most of the industry has quietly accepted as unfixable. Your CMO and CRO have spent years arguing over numbers that were...
GeeLark Launches Android 16 Cloud Phones for Scalable Social Media Operations
GeeLark unveiled Android 16 cloud phones, bringing the newest Android OS to its cloud‑native platform for social media and e‑commerce teams. The offering pairs the updated mobile environment with built‑in RPA automation, a Synchronizer console, and open API hooks, enabling...
The AI Coding Shakeout Is Here
SpaceX announced a deal with Cursor that includes a $60 billion option to acquire the startup by year‑end, or a $10 billion partnership for shared work. The same day, Roo Code said it will sunset its VS Code extension, cloud service and router...
Own the Mistake, Ask, and Land $70K Expansion
Noticed a customer was using 7 more seats than they paid. Two weeks later - we turned it into a $70,000 expansion. Normally, our platform prevents overrages. This was actually a mistake on our end. 𝙷̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚎̲'̲𝚜̲ ̲𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚠̲ ̲𝚒̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚞̲𝚗̲𝚏̲𝚘̲𝚕̲𝚍̲𝚎̲𝚍̲:̲ 𝗠𝗲: I sent my main customer...
Gemini Models Handle 6+ Trillion Tokens Monthly via ADK
"More than six trillion tokens are processed monthly on Gemini models through ADK." https://t.co/OcL9RxiiKq < quite the little nugget snuck into this broader post about the new @googlecloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. ADK 2.0 looks pretty great.
SAP Q1 2026 Earnings Beat EPS but Miss Revenue, Shares Slide 6.2%
SAP SE posted a modest earnings per share beat of $1.92 versus $1.91 forecast, yet revenue fell short at $11.04 billion versus $11.17 billion expected. The mixed results sparked a 6.19% drop in the ADR to $166.22, highlighting investor concern over a...
Cisive Delivers Fast, Compliant Screenings—At High Cost
Cisive offers fast, compliant background screenings with strong tech integration and ongoing monitoring, but can be costly and face occasional delays. https://t.co/6HDEG5uBbJ
Simplify Hiring with Comprehensive Background and Compliance Checks
Hiring reliable employees is tough, and that’s where this company helps. It offers detailed checks, identity verification, compliance tools, and more. https://t.co/M1Nq234Du7
Noscroll Launches $9.99 AI Bot to Automate Doomscrolling for Users
Noscroll, founded by former OpenSea CTO Nadav Hollander, rolled out an AI-powered bot that reads users' X feeds and other web sources, delivering personalized news digests via text for $9.99 a month. The service promises to replace endless scrolling with...
Automated Online Background Checks Speed Up Hiring
Certn is a technology-driven platform that offers fully online, automated background checks designed to streamline and speed up the hiring process. https://t.co/Y58Ym1HRua
Instant Transcripts, Summaries, and Action Items via Hypescribe
I stopped scrubbing 2-hour podcasts for quotes. Now I just paste a link into @Hypescribe. In seconds, you get: → Full transcripts → Bulleted summaries → Action items Works with video/audio files, YouTube, IG, Zoom, live mic across 100+ languages 💥 3 great use cases 🧵↓ https://t.co/zVEY30WL7w
Palantir Shares Jump 3.6% on $300 Million USDA Deal
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) climbed 3.58% to $151.20 on the Nasdaq after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $300 million blanket purchase agreement to modernize its farm‑security programs. The deal underscores the firm’s expanding role as a SaaS provider for federal...
Find Verified Experts in Under 3 Minutes—Free
Journalists: how long does it take you to find a verified expert source? SourceVault™ finds one in under 3 minutes. → Verified quotes, ready to use → AI visibility score for each source → Interview questions pre-written → Outreach draft included Free. Built for deadline pressure. https://t.co/XySPnqbt2Q
Only 1.5% of VC Startups Hit $100M Milestone
If you forget about the Harveys and Lovables and Anthropics for a second … getting to $100M in revenue is very rare. According to this dataset ca. 1.5% of VC funded startups. If you’ve achieved that as a founder, you...
Singlepane Launches Conversational AI Assistant ScoutAI
Singlepane has introduced ScoutAI, a conversational AI assistant that lets hotel ownership executives ask natural‑language questions about their portfolio data. The tool taps directly into the platform’s financial, operational and competitive sources, delivering instant, data‑driven answers without navigating dashboards. ScoutAI...
One Query, Instant Answers: End Tab Overload
This is the exact pain every product builder lives with daily 😂 Scattered notes everywhere + constant research doomscrolling = death by 1000 tabs. Hermes × ByteRover just turned that into “ask once → answer before you finish typing” This stack is...
GBrain to Release Over 100 New Skill Packs
GBrain has dozens of skill packs that make functionality out of box and I’m going to add more than 100 in the next few weeks
VMFS USA Unveils Real-Time Vending Machine Configurator, Completing Full-Spectrum B2B Ecosystem
VMFS USA launched a live, instant vending‑machine configurator that lets operators build, price, and schedule equipment in minutes. The tool caps an eight‑year rollout of complementary platforms—VAdviced, VPlaced, VMarketed and VFound—creating a full‑stack B2B solution for the vending industry.
Cleverific Order Editor Cuts Support Time on Order Changes
App reco: Cleverific Order Editor. We use it on Glamaholic Lifestyle and other high-volume stores. When customers need order changes after checkout, it saves their support team a ton of time. Grateful to have @cleverific sponsor The Unofficial Shopify Podcast.
Switch Buyer, Triple Revenue with Same Product
Ev Kontsevoy grew Teleport to real revenue selling to engineers. Then he switched the target buyer to VPs of platform engineering. Average contract value nearly tripled in a year. Same product. Different buyer. Different business. https://t.co/qE9U5HuKwg
Free Vs. Paid CRM: Which Is Right for Your Business?
Businesses often start with free CRM tools to keep costs low, but as they scale, limitations hinder productivity. Salesforce research shows 76% of SMBs that adopt smart technology experience faster growth compared to manual processes. Paid CRM platforms deliver real-time...
VC Funding Accelerates Global Competition Over Control
Bootstrapping = control. VC = speed. But if a VC-backed competitor enters your space… what happens next? In Ep. 247, George Nichkov shares why they chose VC to compete globally & build a category leader. Watch 👇 https://t.co/rBv5AOvECt #SaaS #Startups #VentureCapital https://t.co/eE0qu9LVh4
From $36K to $1.63M: 7 SaaS Sales Secrets
My first SaaS job, I made $36k a year as an SDR. 10 years and six promotions later, I pulled in $1.63M. 7 things I learned to grow your SaaS sales career to $1M:
Maple’s Voice-Ordering Comes to Quantic and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/24/26
Maple Inc. is integrating its AI‑driven voice‑ordering platform with Quantic POS, extending the technology to cloud‑based merchants. The rollout joins a wave of fintech updates, including Coastal Pay’s gateway upgrade for surcharging, Sunbit’s availability on Stripe, and ACI Worldwide’s fraud...
Switch to Kimi K2.6 Slashes API Costs Sixfold
I was running Sonnet on my OpenClaw Helix bot. Then Anthropic banned Max plan usage with third-party tools. API costs were brutal. Kimi K2.6 dropped. I swapped it in for Sonnet. Tool calling works reliably. My bill dropped 6x. https://t.co/ofNmXOBdiy
A Letter Your Future Self Needs You to Write Today
Mo Seetubtim announced the launch of Letters to Yourself, a digital platform that prompts users daily to write letters to their future selves, friends, or past versions. The service offers free gratitude letters, weekly themed series, and a vision board,...
BandPitch Launches to Help Artists Get in Front of More Managers and Bookers
BandPitch, a Denmark‑based platform launched by the team behind VIP‑Booking.com, connects independent artists with a network of over 22,000 agents, managers and festival bookers in more than 50 countries. The service lets musicians create free profiles and, for a fee,...
OpenAI Built Its Own Claude Cowork, and It's Always Online
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Workspace Agents, a cloud‑based, always‑online version of its Codex coding model that lives in the background of a company’s digital workspace. Unlike Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, which only runs when the desktop app is active, these agents...
GrafanaCON 2026: Grafana Labs Targets the “AI Blind Spot” With New Observability Tools Announced
Grafana Labs unveiled a suite of AI‑focused observability tools at GrafanaCON 2026, including AI Observability in Grafana Cloud, an expanded Grafana Assistant, the Grafana Cloud CLI (GCX), and the open‑source o11y‑bench benchmark. AI Observability entered public preview, letting teams monitor...