🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 2h 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•Dec 20, 2025
From Shadow IT to Data Sprawl: Managing the Explosion of Ungoverned Information
Organizations are grappling with a surge of shadow IT and data sprawl as employees increasingly adopt unsanctioned SaaS and AI tools. Gartner predicts 75% of workers will use technology outside IT visibility by 2027, creating fragmented, unstructured data across cloud, personal devices, and on‑premises systems. This uncontrolled growth hampers storage efficiency, raises compliance risk, and outpaces traditional FinOps controls. Vendors offering vendor‑agnostic visibility platforms are positioned to restore governance while preserving innovation.
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Competitor's Domain Grab Reveals Fear and Amateurism
A startup told me a highly-funded competitor bought the .com of their name. I told them this is good news in a way. It means the competitor is (a) amateurish and (b) afraid of them, both of which suggest the...
By Paul Graham
News•Dec 20, 2025
I Tried the New Claude in Chrome Extension, and It Delivered Convenience with a Side of Digital Paranoia
Anthropic has launched the Claude AI Chrome extension for Pro, Team and Enterprise subscribers, extending the assistant’s reach beyond static text to live web pages. The extension can read browsing history, interact with tabs, schedule meetings, organize Drive files, and...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
How Google Cloud Is Shaping the Enterprise AI Inference Moment
Google Cloud is positioning its container‑first platforms to solve the enterprise AI inference bottleneck, moving focus from model training to reliable, low‑latency serving. GKE now treats accelerators as first‑class resources and introduces the Inference Gateway, which routes requests by model...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
Palo Alto Networks Inks Multibillion-Dollar AI Deal with Google Cloud
Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks announced a multibillion‑dollar partnership with Google Cloud, valued at nearly $10 billion through 2025. The agreement moves key internal workloads to Google’s platform and embeds the Gemini family of large language models via Vertex AI into...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
Watch Out - Hackers Are Coming After Your Christmas Bonus, as Paychecks Come Under Threat
Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting corporate help desks to hijack payroll systems, especially during bonus season. By posing as employees, attackers obtain password resets and then modify banking details on platforms like Workday, ADP, and Dayforce to divert individual paychecks. This...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 19, 2025
AI B2B Takes Off in 2026 After 2025 Foundations
We are literally >just< getting going in AI B2B. Really, most stuff didn’t even work before Claude 4 and the beginning of 2025. That’s why Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Gamma, etc. exploded. The models alone weren’t good enough — until early...
By Jason Lemkin
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Scale B2B Digital Ad Spend to $100K+ Monthly Profitably
Scaling B2B digital ad spend to $100K+ monthly requires a systematic, data‑driven approach rather than isolated hacks. Companies must first lock in unit economics, defining target CAC and LTV, before allocating additional budget. Selective scaling of only the campaigns, audiences,...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
B2B Digital Ads Strategy: Meta, Bing, Google, and LinkedIn
B2B digital advertising must be treated as a systematic awareness engine rather than a single‑channel conversion tool. Google captures intent‑driven demand, Bing adds low‑cost incremental reach, LinkedIn delivers precise ABM targeting, and Meta provides scalable awareness and retargeting. Success hinges...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up First Touch, Last Touch, and U-Shaped Ad Attribution on Cometly
Cometly now supports first‑touch, last‑touch, and U‑shaped attribution models, letting B2B marketers view the full customer journey from discovery to conversion. The platform uses a persistent identifier to stitch together email clicks, ad views, site visits, and conversions, avoiding cookie‑based...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up Third Party Ad Tracking with Cometly
Cometly tackles the chronic problem of duplicate and fragmented conversion data in B2B advertising by providing a server‑side, cross‑channel attribution layer. The platform replaces native pixels with a single identity that tracks visits, clicks, and revenue events across Meta, Google,...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up Ad Conversion Tracking on Meta, Bing, Google, and LinkedIn
Accurate conversion tracking is now essential for B2B marketers as privacy changes and multi‑device journeys complicate attribution. The article explains how to install Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft pixels and then choose among three tracking methods: native pixel‑based, server‑side APIs,...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 19, 2025
Google Releases FunctionGemma: A Tiny Edge Model that Can Control Mobile Devices with Natural Language
Google AI unveiled FunctionGemma, a 270‑million‑parameter model that converts natural‑language commands into executable code on edge devices. Trained on a dedicated Mobile Actions dataset, its function‑calling accuracy climbs to 85%, far surpassing generic small models. The model runs locally on...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Organize Diligence and Keep Competition to Prevent Retrades
One of the most frustrating things for a founder selling their business: A retrade. Retrading is when a buyer tries to renegotiate the terms of a transaction late in a process due to "new" information that arose during final diligence....
By Michael Lyon
News•Dec 19, 2025
Cloudflare's Impact Report for 2025 Reveals How Elections, Journalism, and Nonprofits Faced Rising Online Threats
Cloudflare’s 2025 Impact Report highlights how its security suite shielded more than 3,000 public‑interest sites, including journalists, NGOs, and election infrastructure, from a staggering 9.9 billion cyber‑attacks each month. The Athenian Project protected 441 election‑related properties, blocking 200 million DDoS attacks across...
By BetaNews
Social•Dec 19, 2025
AI‑first, Word‑of‑Mouth, Personal Brand: SaaS Survival 2026
It's almost 2026. If you're a SaaS founder, you're probably screwed. Anything you do that works gets copied, CAC is up, LTV is down. Here are the 7 things I see that ARE working - in a world where most...
By Adam Robinson
News•Dec 19, 2025
No Storefront Needed — Get Paid via DMs and QR Codes with Squarespace’s New Tool
Squarespace unveiled Pay Links, a free tool that lets freelancers, solopreneurs, and small businesses collect payments without a traditional storefront. Users generate branded URLs, QR codes or direct‑message links that can be shared on any channel. The feature integrates with...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Hyperscaler Marketplaces Set to Capture $42B by 2029
Hyperscaler Marketplaces are becoming a mainstream enterprise procurement channel. By the end of 2025, over $21B in third-party software purchases will flow through hyperscaler-operated marketplaces, rising toward $42B by 2029. These marketplaces now represent roughly 5% of global enterprise software...
By Tiffani Bova
News•Dec 19, 2025
New Research Reveals AI Is Fueling an 'Unprecedented Surge in Cloud Security Risks'
Palo Alto Networks’ State of Cloud Security Report warns that rapid AI adoption is inflating cloud attack surfaces, creating an unprecedented surge in risk. More than 70% of enterprises now run AI‑powered cloud services, often granting overly permissive access. Identity‑related...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
New Managed Web Hosting Service Brings Flat-Rate node.js Pricing
Hostinger has introduced managed Node.js support on its shared‑hosting plans, offering flat‑rate pricing that covers up to ten web apps on the Cloud Startup tier and five on the Business tier. The service includes one‑click GitHub deployment and eliminates the...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Beyond Big Data: Human Insight Drives Marketing Differentiation
my husband challenged me yesterday: if you say "go to market using research, not assumptions" companies are gonna think you mean Big Data 👀 my husband is an engineer, so I get where he's coming from... data means big complicated...
By Anna Furmanov
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Master Full-Stack PLG with Proven $1B System
In the last 9 years, I've helped companies like GrooveHQ, Boomi, Microsoft, Keap and 400+ others generate over $1B in self-serve revenue. Through that work, I noticed something interesting: Most PLG operators (myself included early on) only knew pieces of...
By Wes Bush
News•Dec 19, 2025
Investors Can’t Get Enough of OpenAI and Databricks — Oracle, Not so Much
Investors are flooding AI leaders OpenAI and Databricks with massive capital, as OpenAI eyes a $10 billion infusion from Amazon that could push its valuation toward $750 billion, while Databricks secured a $4 billion Series L round at a $134 billion valuation. In contrast, Oracle...
By SiliconANGLE
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Qualify for Success, Not Just a Signature
A common gap in the founder selling playbook: the Customer Success Qualifying Matrix. Most people know the Sales Qualifying Matrix—the framework that helps predict whether a prospect will buy. Common examples are BANT, MEDDIC, and SPICED. This Sales Qualifying Matrix...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Bootstrapped Profits Beat VC Promises Every Time
50+ VC and private equity firms. A full year of pitches, term sheets, and big promises. I walked away from every single one. And I’d do it again because: 1. Dividends Beat Lottery Tickets VC money is a lottery ticket that might pay...
By Adam Robinson
News•Dec 19, 2025
Master PDFs Like a Pro with 30% Off LightPDF
LightPDF, an AI‑powered all‑in‑one PDF editor, is offering a 30% discount on both its Annual and Perpetual licenses via the promo code techradar30. The Annual plan drops from $89.99 to $34.99, granting 12,000 AI credits per year, while the Perpetual...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Pay More for Quality Leads, Not Cheap Ones
Cheaper and more leads don’t mean growth. Here's a common mistake in B2B SaaS: Teams celebrate a $50 cost per lead (because it's cheap), but ignore what happens next. Low-cost leads look great on a dashboard until you realize only...
By devbasu
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Demand Generation Should Be Year‑Round, Not Seasonal
Sometimes we have to push our customers out of their comfort zone. What's in their best interest is not always the easiest path. We had a customer at @ListKitio that wanted to only run outbound cold email campaigns a couple of...
By Lincoln Murphy
News•Dec 19, 2025
1Password Integrates with Cursor to Secure AI-Driven Development Workflows
1Password announced a partnership with AI‑code editor Cursor to embed just‑in‑time secret management into the development workflow. A new Hooks Script delivers credentials from 1Password Environments only when the Cursor AI agent requests them, eliminating hard‑coded tokens and plaintext keys....
By SiliconANGLE
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Never Make Lead Generation Seasonal—Build Demand Year‑Round
Sometimes we have to push our customers out of their comfort zone. What's in their best interest is not always the easiest path. We had a customer at ListKit that wanted to only run outbound cold email campaigns a couple...
By Lincoln Murphy
News•Dec 19, 2025
Cyata Flags Agentic AI Supply-Chain Risk in Cursor Remote Code Execution Bug
Cyata Security disclosed a critical remote code execution flaw in Cursor’s integrated development environment, catalogued as CVE‑2025‑64106 with an 8.8 severity rating. The bug stemmed from the Model Context Protocol’s installation workflow, where a malicious deep‑link could masquerade as the...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
How Do You Make Joint CEO Leadership Models Work in Practice? Here's How
Joint‑CEO structures are gaining traction as companies seek diverse leadership perspectives, but they often stumble without clear governance. The article outlines practical steps to avoid common pitfalls, such as ambiguous authority and cultural clashes, by establishing defined roles, shared metrics,...
By Diginomica
News•Dec 19, 2025
Building Systems of Trust in the Age of AI While Staying Human at Heart
HubSpot overhauled its customer reference program, collapsing an 18‑step manual process into a five‑phase workflow powered by HubSpot automation, Slack, and AI copilots. The rebuild introduced a Trust Readiness Model that scores relationship maturity, product adoption, and growth signals, turning...
By HubSpot Marketing Blog
News•Dec 19, 2025
Two Heads Better than One? Will the Co-CEO Leadership Model Become a Permanent Fixture or a Fleeting Trend?
The co‑CEO leadership model is re‑emerging, especially among technology firms, after a mixed track record in the past. Companies like Netflix and Oracle have leveraged dual CEOs to balance content, technology, and operational expertise, while others such as SAP and...
By Diginomica
News•Dec 19, 2025
NIST Adds to AI Security Guidance with Cybersecurity Framework Profile
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a draft Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Profile for Artificial Intelligence, linking AI‑specific risks to the widely adopted CSF. The profile organizes guidance into three focus areas—secure, defend and thwart—to help firms protect...
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 19, 2025
Pinned Chats in ChatGPT Are Here – and so Is a Mildly Annoying Restriction
OpenAI has added a pinned‑chats feature to ChatGPT, allowing users to keep up to three conversation threads at the top of the sidebar on both web and mobile apps. The option is accessible across Free, Plus, and Pro tiers, making...
By TechRadar
Blog•Dec 19, 2025
Is Zendesk Building a Glean Competitor with Its Unleash Acquisition? Not Exactly, But Here’s What’s Really Happening
Zendesk announced the acquisition of Unleash, an Israeli AI‑powered enterprise search startup with more than 70 connectors, to embed permission‑based retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) and AI agents directly into Slack and Microsoft Teams. The move targets internal employee‑service workflows—IT, HR, and...
By SaaStr
News•Dec 19, 2025
You’re Doing Agents All Wrong – Why You Should Focus on Human Attention
Duncan Anderson of Barnacle Labs argues that enterprises are misapplying AI agents by treating them as mere automation tools. He suggests agents should be deployed to capture scarce human attention and address organizational whitespace where judgment‑heavy work is currently uneconomical....
By Diginomica
News•Dec 19, 2025
SharpSpring CRM Review
SharpSpring delivers an all‑in‑one marketing automation platform with a built‑in CRM aimed at solopreneurs, agencies and SMBs. It offers a visual campaign builder, lead scoring, email and social tools, and unlimited users under a flat‑rate pricing model tied to contact...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
Reinventing the Dial-Up Modem (2019)
Simple, a healthcare app, replaced paper registers and landline calls with an offline‑first solution that uses DTMF tones to transmit patient numbers through a toll‑free line. Nurses initiate a call, the app plays the patient’s number as DTMF, and Twilio...
By Hacker News
News•Dec 19, 2025
Microsoft AI CEO Admits Gemini 'Can Do Things that Copilot Can’t Do'
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly acknowledged that Google’s Gemini 3 can perform tasks that Microsoft’s Copilot cannot, a rare admission in the AI arms race. He highlighted Gemini’s multimodal strengths while emphasizing Copilot’s real‑time visual assistance and integration across Windows,...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Founders Need Q&A Practice—Try This Free Tool
🎙️ After years around startups, one thing stood out: founders spend weeks preparing pitch decks but rarely practice how they answer questions from investor or media. I built a small tool to help founders rehearse answers out loud and get...
By Benjamin Joffe
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Shape Up: Different Approaches for New Vs. Existing Products
We apply Shape Up slightly differently when building a new product vs. maintaining an existing one. Here's a look.
By Jason Fried
Blog•Dec 19, 2025
Wolfram Automattica
Stephen Wolfram has joined Automattic as a special advisor, bringing his computational expertise to the WordPress ecosystem. Wolfram, known for the Wolfram Language and the knowledge engine behind Wolfram|Alpha, has been engaging with Automattic teams since early 2024. The partnership...
By Matt Mullenweg
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Comment Counts Added to Cards for Conversation Insight
Fizzy refinement continues. Now we show the number of comments on a card. Helps you spot ones with conversation vs. ones with crickets. https://t.co/KSonHBvAqX
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Recordables Pattern Keeps Basecamp and HEY Code Joyful
The recordables pattern has been the single-most important architectural pattern we've used on both Basecamp and HEY. It's a key reason both code bases are still a joy to work on. Jeff breaks down the magic in this new podcast....
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Salient Scales to $25M ARR, Zero Churn,
In just two years, Salient has hit $25M ARR—with zero customer churn and 100% of pilots converting to paid deals. They're automating loan servicing for auto lenders (including 5 of the top 10), cutting costs by 50% and delivering 30x better...
By YCombinator
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Optimize the Offer First, Ads Will Follow
I don't "optimize" ads first. I optimize the offer. If the landing page can explain the value in 8 seconds and the pricing has a clear next step, even mediocre ads work. Fix the offer → ads get cheaper, CAC drops, ROAS...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Dec 19, 2025
Founderpath to Deploy $5‑10M Before Christmas, Leading Startup Investor
everyone wants to close before Christmas. busy day at Founderpath today. we'll fund ~$5-10m more before holiday Founderpath is, by far, the most active investor in Software startups by deal count https://t.co/sU5DGqneOU
By Nathan Latka