Today's SaaS Pulse
Fresho snaps up Nation Wilcox to dominate UK food‑wholesale software
Fresho, the Australian‑origin order‑management platform, has acquired UK ERP specialist Nation Wilcox, creating the largest software suite for British food wholesalers. The combined offering now supports more than 400 wholesalers and caterers and processes over £2 billion (≈ $2.5 billion) in annual GMV.
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By the numbers: NinjaOne raises $400M Series C extension
Atlassian to Train AI on Data From All but Its Top-Paying Users
Atlassian announced a new data‑collection policy that will automatically feed customer data into its AI training pipelines, except for its highest‑paying enterprise customers who can opt out. The change, effective August 17, 2026, applies to its flagship products such as Jira and Confluence. Atlassian says the broader data pool will improve app functionality and AI‑driven experiences for all users. The move reflects the software maker’s push to embed generative AI across its collaboration suite.
What AI Model Should You Use for Revenue Intelligence? Von Says All the Big Ones, and It Will Automate Mixing...
Von, a new AI platform from Rattle, creates a company‑wide context graph that unifies CRM, call transcripts, emails, and internal docs to serve as an intelligence layer for Go‑to‑Market teams. It employs a mixture of Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and...
Why Restaurants Are Anxious About OpenTable’s New Terms
OpenTable has revised its client agreements, mandating that partner restaurants designate its platform as the primary table‑management system and shift from month‑to‑month to annual contracts. The company says the changes protect guest data and prevent unauthorized third‑party scraping, positioning OpenTable...
UI‑less Backend Systems Arriving Within Months
Imho we are within months of the first completely UI-less (backend) CMS/CRM/ERP... MCP/API/skills only. Fully operated via claude code or similar.
Zoho Analytics Now Connects to Tally Prime
Zoho Analytics has introduced a native connector for Tally Prime, allowing finance teams to automatically sync ledgers, vouchers, inventory and other accounting modules directly into the analytics platform. The integration eliminates the repetitive export‑to‑Excel workflow, delivering real‑time dashboards that update...
Synthesia Announces Major Hiring Push, Opens Three New Offices
Synthesia, the London‑based AI video platform, announced a 70% headcount increase, adding over 400 employees. It will invest more than $25 million to open new offices in Austin, Paris and Berlin while expanding its Zurich presence. The move follows a $200 million...
AI Can Code, but Not Choose the Right Product
AI can help you write code, draft cold emails, and generate blog posts. But there's one of the core four SaaS skills where AI falls flat: Product. Knowing what to build, what not to build, and how to listen to...
Introduction to ProSeries® Tax
Intuit’s ProSeries tax platform, used by more than 65,000 tax professionals, offers a comprehensive training course that highlights its time‑saving and accuracy‑boosting features. The curriculum covers 27 automated tools, including auto‑entry of 1099s, W‑2s, and stock sales, as well as...
iust.ai Launches AI Platform to Digitize Legal Advice Across Europe
iust.ai, built by Swiss firm Federli Informatik, rolled out its AI‑powered legal‑information platform in April 2026 across the DACH region, Italy and Benelux. The service lets consumers ask questions in everyday language, upload documents for instant analysis and pay as...
EClinicalWorks CEO Charts AI‑Driven Overhaul of EHR Workflows
eClinicalWorks CEO Dr. Rahul Patel announced a comprehensive AI strategy that will embed real‑time intelligence into its electronic health record platform, promising faster decision‑making while safeguarding reliability and patient safety. The plan targets ambulatory practices nationwide and positions the company...
Canva Launches AI‑Driven Enterprise Suite to Challenge Adobe and Microsoft
Canva announced a new AI‑powered update that lets users request presentations, documents and other design assets directly from Slack or email, delivering editable Canva files. Founder‑CEO Melanie Perkins says the move shifts Canva from a design platform with AI add‑ons...
LinkedIn Launches Crosscheck, Free AI Model Comparison for Premium Users
LinkedIn has rolled out Crosscheck, a feature for U.S. Premium subscribers that lets them run blind side‑by‑side tests of leading generative‑AI models at no cost. The tool, built by LinkedIn Labs, aims to help professionals evaluate model performance across industries...
Ecominsights Unveils SaaS Platform to Streamline Amazon Market Research
Ecominsights announced the general availability of its Amazon product research SaaS platform, delivering structured data on millions of listings to brands, distributors, agencies and investors. The tool promises to replace fragmented, manual research with a unified intelligence suite for product...
Seapoint Finance Secures €7.5M Seed Round to Roll Out AI‑Powered Financial Platform Across Europe
Seapoint Finance announced a €7.5 million ($8.2 million) seed round led by London fintech VC 13books. The Dublin‑based startup will use the capital to expand its AI‑powered “financial home” platform for early‑stage companies across Europe, promising to automate bookkeeping, payroll and treasury...
Particular Audience Launches PA DiscoveryOS App on Shopify – Signalling a New Era of Accessible Enterprise AI for Merchants
Particular Audience has launched the PA DiscoveryOS app on the Shopify App Store, delivering enterprise‑grade AI search, personalization, and retail‑media tools through a zero‑code, app‑based integration. The solution lets Shopify Plus merchants activate sophisticated AI infrastructure overnight, eliminating the need...
Tech Disruptors: Serval CEO on Replacing Legacy ITSM
Serval CEO Jake Stauch told Bloomberg Intelligence that AI‑native automation, not incremental ticketing upgrades, is poised to upend legacy IT service‑management (ITSM) platforms like ServiceNow. The startup translates natural‑language employee requests into deterministic, end‑to‑end workflows, promising faster resolution and lower...
Booth Unveils BoothOS: The First Platform to Source, Hire, Pay, and Manage Global Teams in 120+ Countries
Booth, a certified B‑Corporation, launched BoothOS, a unified platform that lets companies source, hire, onboard, pay and manage employees in more than 120 countries. The service combines Booth’s global recruiting expertise with Deel’s payroll and compliance infrastructure, delivering a single...
OpenAI Is Working With Consultants to Sell Codex
OpenAI has launched a Codex consulting program with Accenture, Capgemini and PwC to accelerate enterprise sales of its AI‑coding tool. Weekly active users hit four million, up from three million just two weeks earlier, while the firm appointed Colleen Kapase...
Digital Signatures with Nafath: Secure and Compliant for Saudi Arabian Businesses
Zoho Sign has partnered with Saudi Arabia’s trusted service provider emdha to integrate the national digital‑identity platform Nafath into its e‑signature workflow. The integration lets signers authenticate via the Nafath app and a personal PIN, delivering legally binding contracts under...
GitHub Pauses Copilot Sign Ups, Tightens Limits as Agents Stretch Capacity
GitHub announced it is pausing new Copilot Pro subscriptions and imposing session and weekly token limits on existing accounts. The change follows a surge in usage driven by AI agents and sub‑agents that strain the service's compute capacity. GitHub is...
AltaClaro Launches DepoSim, AI‑Driven Deposition Simulator for Lawyers
AltaClaro introduced DepoSim, an AI‑driven deposition simulator built with Verbit, allowing lawyers to practice live oral depositions on demand. The platform promises repeatable, scalable training and instant rubric‑based feedback, addressing long‑standing cost and consistency issues in litigation preparation.
GitLab 18.11 Launches AI‑Driven SAST Agent and Automated Merge‑Request Generation
GitLab released version 18.11, adding a platform‑native AI SAST remediation agent that auto‑generates merge requests and two new AI assistants for CI pipeline design and real‑time data analysis. The features aim to close the “AI paradox” by extending AI beyond...
ServiceNow and Tesla Set to Report Earnings Amid AI Growth and Inventory Concerns
ServiceNow and Tesla are slated to release their first‑quarter earnings after the market closes on Wednesday, April 22. ServiceNow will showcase AI‑driven subscription growth, while Tesla faces a 12% inventory buildup and seeks to highlight its expanding energy business.
OpenGov Names Thiago Sá Freire CEO to Accelerate AI‑Native Growth
OpenGov announced that its president and COO, Thiago Sá Freire, will assume the chief executive role on April 1, 2026. The move follows Cox Enterprises' 2024 majority‑ownership acquisition and signals a push to deepen AI‑driven services for more than 2,000 U.S. government...
GitLab Co‑Founder Sytse Sijbrandij Sells $2.4 M of Shares, Cutting Direct Class A Stake to Zero
GitLab executive chair Sytse Sijbrandij sold 116,200 Class A shares for about $2.41 million on April 15, 2026, eliminating his direct Class A ownership. The transaction, executed via a conversion of Class B stock, leaves him with a 15.1 million‑share Class B position, preserving voting power while...
Workday Preps AI Tool Aimed at Fraud, Error Detection in Finance
Workday is set to roll out its Financial Test Suite, an agentic AI tool that continuously scans financial transactions for fraud, duplicate invoices, and other anomalies. Currently in a limited pilot, the solution is slated for general availability in the...
Why Vertical SaaS Is Outperforming Horizontal Platforms in 2026
Vertical SaaS is outpacing horizontal platforms as embedded finance, hybrid pricing, and AI agents become core product features. Toast alone processed $4.1 billion in payments in 2024, dwarfing its traditional SaaS revenue. The median SaaS firm now spends $2 to acquire...
Zoom Rolls Out “Proof of Humanity” To Combat Deepfake Impersonation
Zoom has launched a "Proof of Humanity" feature that verifies participants’ identities in real time using World ID Deep Face technology. The tool, built with Tools for Humanity, displays a "Verified Human" badge during calls to deter AI‑generated deepfake impersonations....
Designing for "Noisy Neighbors" — Multi-Tenant Resource Limits and Quotas
The blog outlines the noisy‑neighbor problem where a single tenant’s burst traffic can cripple latency and cause silent SLA breaches in multi‑tenant SaaS platforms. It explains that logical isolation requires enforceable, tier‑aware resource quotas across request rate, concurrency, compute, bandwidth,...
Choosing an Email Marketing Platform to Consolidate Tech Stacks
Marketing teams are consolidating fragmented tech stacks by using email marketing platforms as a central hub. Emma, a leading email solution, offers drag‑and‑drop design, AI‑driven optimization, and deep integrations with CRM and e‑commerce systems. The article highlights that email delivers...
Early AI Adopters Stumble Across the Horror of Vendor Lock-In. Here We Go Again?
A Zapier‑commissioned survey of 542 U.S. C‑level executives reveals that AI vendor lock‑in is a rising concern as generative‑AI models become entrenched in core processes. While 81% of respondents admit some level of worry, many remain overly optimistic, with 90%...
AI-Powered Dashboard Transforms Community Management without Code
Today's adventures with Claude Code: Built a full member engagement dashboard. I can log in and immediately see where everyone in my community is at: - Log check-ins - Manage onboarding pipeline - See anyone who is at risk (hasn't logged in to Circle...
Only 11% Expect AI to Replace SaaS Subscriptions
From Carlyle on AI displacing SaaS: The market may have already overshot. Our proprietary survey of AI integration efforts finds that only 11% of management teams expect AI to replace existing software subscriptions. https://t.co/IUX7R1oxmB https://t.co/xYWyL3OIwk
Google Brings Pomelli in English to Small Businesses in Europe.
Google has launched Pomelli, its AI‑powered marketing tool, in English across the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Developed by Google Labs in partnership with DeepMind, Pomelli scans a small business’s website, proposes campaign ideas and...
Per‑Seat Pricing Dies as AI Budgets Burn Fast
Great edition of What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC from @edsim this week. Per-seat pricing is dead. What happens with the annual AI (dev tools) budget is blown in months? OpenClaw trend is over already? https://t.co/HhIvqKG86l
Grafana Assistant Everywhere: Customize and Connect to the AI Agent to Fit Your Specific Needs
Grafana announced that its AI‑driven Grafana Assistant is no longer limited to Grafana Cloud; it can now be deployed in self‑managed Grafana Enterprise and OSS environments. Users can connect a Grafana instance to a free Grafana Cloud account with a...
An Early Look at the Grafana Marketplace: Expanding the Big Tent
Grafana Labs announced the pilot launch of the Grafana Marketplace at GrafanaCON 2026, creating a new platform for selling and distributing both paid and free plugins. The marketplace builds on an existing catalog of more than 300 plugins and introduces...
Fujitsu GLOVIA One Targets AI Era of Japanese ERP
Fujitsu has relaunched its GLOVIA ERP line as GLOVIA One, a cloud‑based suite tailored for mid‑size Japanese firms. The platform embeds AI agents that provide decision‑support insights while staying aligned with Japan’s complex legal and tax environment. Built on the...
Zapier MCP Vs. Zapier SDK: What's the Difference?
Zapier introduced two distinct products for AI‑driven automation: Zapier MCP, a no‑code connector that lets chat and coding agents invoke pre‑built actions, and Zapier SDK, a TypeScript library that gives developers programmatic, type‑safe access to the same ecosystem. MCP works...
Zapier SDK: Run App Actions Directly From Your Code
Zapier has launched an open‑beta SDK that lets AI coding agents invoke over 9,000 pre‑built app integrations and an additional 3,000 via Relay. The toolkit bundles authentication, token refresh, retries and TypeScript‑generated types, removing the need for developers to hand‑code...
Salesforce CEO Benioff Touts Agentforce AI After 40% Efficiency Gains at Pearson and PenFed
Salesforce chief Marc Benioff highlighted that Agentforce AI boosted customer‑query resolution by 40% at Pearson and cut IT tickets by the same margin at PenFed. The CEO framed the results as proof that AI‑driven “Agenticware” can deliver real ROI, challenging...
Salesforce to Debut ‘Agent Albert’ AI, an Autonomous CRM Assistant, by Year‑end
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff confirmed on X that the company will unveil ‘Agent Albert,’ an autonomous AI platform that watches users and takes actions for them, by the end of 2026. The move signals a major shift toward self‑servicing CRM...
BlackLine Launches AI-Driven Financial Ops Model for CFOs
BlackLine announced the Agentic Financial Operations model, an AI‑powered suite for finance and accounting teams that adds a governance layer to validate outputs. The launch includes a New York AI Innovation Hub and claims up to 90% reduction in reconciliation...
Choice Hotels Deploys AWS‑Powered AI Across Enterprise, Scaling Guest‑Experience Automation
Choice Hotels International announced today that it is deploying Amazon Web Services' AgentCore AI platform across its entire enterprise, moving from isolated pilots to production‑grade automation. The rollout will touch guest booking, on‑property services and franchisee operations, positioning the chain...
Digital Logistics Unveils SaaS‑Enabled Supply Chain Suite 2512
Siemens' Digital Logistics division rolled out Supply Chain Suite 2512, a SaaS‑focused upgrade that adds integrated tour and load optimization, AI/ML forecasting, PostgreSQL support and a modernized subscription licensing model, signaling a push toward more flexible, cloud‑native logistics software.
Pricer and JRTech Land $51M Digital Shelf Deal with Sobeys
Pricer AB and its Canadian partner JRTech Solutions have signed a $51 million hardware contract with Sobeys to roll out multicolor electronic shelf labels and the Pricer Plaza cloud platform across 300‑350 stores. The 18‑month deployment, beginning in May 2026, underscores...
GitHub Halts Copilot Pro Sign‑ups, Tightens Limits Amid AI Agent Surge
GitHub announced on April 20 that it is pausing new sign‑ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+ and Student plans, tightening usage limits and removing Opus models from lower tiers. The move responds to soaring compute demand from autonomous coding agents that...
20 New Security Enhancements Boost Internet Protection
I’m so encouraged by the way our team and industry peers have shown up to protect the internet. We’ve now shipped over 20 product improvements across Dashboard and CLI to help your security posture. Easier to set up MFA, audit your Environment...
Fime Launches Agentic Commerce Trust Layer Service
Fime has launched FACT (Framework for Agentic Commerce Trust), a "trust‑as‑a‑service" platform that secures AI‑driven financial transactions. The service adds intent validation, real‑time policy monitoring, transaction‑level attestation and independent auditor agents, enabling merchants to accept AI‑initiated payments while giving banks...
Treasure AI Launches Agentic Marketing Platform to Cut Costs up to 50% for E‑Commerce Brands
Treasure AI announced an agentic experience platform that automates customer engagement for digital commerce brands. The solution claims to lower marketing costs by as much as 50% and deliver ten‑fold ROI in ten minutes, positioning AI as the primary interface...