🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: HighRadius launches outcome‑based pricing for CFO platform
HighRadius introduced an Outcome Based Pricing (OBP) model for its Office of the CFO SaaS, removing upfront implementation and subscription fees and instead taking a share of verified financial gains once the solution is live. The approach follows 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 to orchestrate AI‑driven customer journeys
- •SaaS Capital closes $100M fifth fund for B2B SaaS and AI applications
News•Dec 18, 2025
Oracle Has One Last Ampere Hurrah - New Cloud Platforms Offer up to 192 Custom Arm Cores, and Aren't OCI...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched A4 Standard instances powered by Ampere Computing’s AmpereOne M silicon, offering up to 192 custom Arm cores per chip in both virtualized and bare‑metal forms. The configurations deliver up to 48 OCPUs (96 cores) with up to 768 GB DDR5 memory and 100 Gbps networking, promising up to 35 % higher core‑for‑core performance than the prior A2 line. Unlike Amazon’s Graviton or Microsoft’s Cobalt, Oracle will sell these instances outside its own OCI, reflecting a new chip‑neutrality strategy after divesting its stake in Ampere. Pricing is $0.0138 per OCPU‑hour and $0.0027 per GB‑hour.
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 19, 2025
FinnyAI's AI Boosts Advisor Revenue, Drives $7.7M Asset Gains
Congrats to @FINNYAI on their $17M Series A! The $90T+ wealth management industry still prospects with tools built for other industries, with advisors spending ~60 hours on cold outreach to convert one client. Finny's AI matches advisors with high-intent prospects,...
By YCombinator
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
News•Dec 18, 2025
I Tried the Apple Music App for ChatGPT, and It Felt Like Talking to a Music‑obsessed Friend
Apple Music has launched a ChatGPT app that lets users generate playlists, discover songs, and play short music clips via conversational prompts. Subscribers can link their Apple Music accounts to save the AI‑crafted playlists directly to their library. The integration...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 18, 2025
AI-Native B2B Firms Surge, Seat‑based SaaS Lag
The Great B2B Bifurcation of 2025 Palantir +142%. HubSpot -51%. Despite the fact both businesses end the year pretty strong. Some patterns from the top 25 B2B / SaaS public companies: What's working: 🔼AI-native infrastructure (Palantir, Cloudflare, MongoDB) 🔼Mission-critical + high switching costs (CrowdStrike, Palo...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Dec 18, 2025
New InstallAware X18 Launching With Solana Payment System
InstallAware Software has unveiled InstallAware X18, its latest installer platform that embeds a Solana cryptocurrency payment system directly into the setup wizard. The solution converts fiat to SOL in real time, records each transaction on the Solana blockchain, and charges...
By SD Times
News•Dec 18, 2025
Snowflake Update Caused a Blizzard of Failures Worldwide
Snowflake’s latest release introduced a backwards‑incompatible schema change, causing a major outage that affected 10 of its 23 global regions for about 13 hours. The failure prevented users from executing queries and ingesting data across Azure and AWS data centres...
By The Register
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Speed of Insight Delivery Determines Organizational Progress
Progress is constrained by how fast information moves. It has nothing to do with raw intelligence. Ambition does not fix it. Neither do longer hours. Information has to travel. It has to reach the people who can decide, and it...
By Hiten Shah
News•Dec 18, 2025
Microsoft, Google Rule AI Vendor Market for Enterprises
Gartner’s 2025 report crowns Microsoft and Google as the dominant AI vendors for enterprises. Microsoft’s broad partner and platform ecosystem gives it an edge in enterprise‑wide AI, while Google’s integrated agentic AI stack positions it as the company to beat...
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 18, 2025
Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL Acceleration Built on Vortex
Spice.ai announced Spice Cayenne, a next‑generation data accelerator that pairs the Vortex columnar file format with an embedded SQLite‑based metadata layer. The solution targets multi‑terabyte object‑storage workloads, delivering up to 1.4× faster TPC‑H queries and 14% faster ClickBench runs while...
By Hacker News
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Simplify LLM Scaling with OpenRouter, Avoid Model Chaos
I can be slow sometimes I didn't totally get why products like @OpenRouterAI are a big deal but this week I hit API issues with OpenAI and had to manually add a fallback to Anthropic. A real pain. And I also...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Three Key Snapchat Trends Every CDO Must Know
As a Chief Digital Officer, 3 things jumped out to me in Snapchat for Business 's latest report. Let's unpack what you need to know before 2026 - ready? And, get the full Snapchat Generation report: https://lnkd.in/eBs4gESm #snapchatpartner
By Ari Murray
News•Dec 18, 2025
Palona Goes Vertical, Launching Vision, Workflow Features: 4 Key Lessons for AI Builders
Palona AI, founded by former Google and Meta engineers, announced a vertical shift into the restaurant and hospitality sector with two new products—Palona Vision and Palona Workflow. Vision leverages in‑store security cameras to monitor queue lengths, table turnover, and kitchen...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 18, 2025
'A Lot of People Cry Using the App — We’ve Had Users Say It Put Into Words Things They’d Been...
Mark Manson and AI entrepreneur Raj Singh have launched Purpose, an AI‑mentor app that delivers personalized self‑help coaching directly on users' phones. The platform tailors advice to individual values, fears and goals while explicitly refusing therapy‑level issues and directing users...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of December 15-18, 2025
The SaaS CEO Mastermind for Dec 15‑18, 2025 tackled market contraction, product‑market fit ambiguity, AI positioning, and 2026 strategy. Leaders were urged to shift toward enterprise customers, secure multi‑year deals, and treat AI as an optional productivity boost. Recommendations emphasized a unified...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 18, 2025
Beyond Code: How Bitrix24’s AI Powers End-to-End Project Management
Bitrix24 launches a full‑lifecycle AI‑powered project management platform that embeds intelligence directly into planning, execution, and reporting. The solution replaces fragmented AI add‑ons with a unified workspace that combines task management, Gantt/Kanban views, chat, video calls, and CRM. AI CoPilot...
By SD Times
News•Dec 18, 2025
OpenAI Now Accepting ChatGPT App Submissions From Third-Party Devs, Launches App Directory
OpenAI announced that third‑party developers can now submit apps for inclusion in a new ChatGPT App Directory, accessible from the sidebar and chat interface. The submission process went live on December 17, with approved apps slated to roll out to users...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 18, 2025
Worried About Ransomware? IDrive Launches New Salesforce Backup Tool for Greater Data Protection
IDrive has launched a dedicated Salesforce Backup service that provides unlimited storage and granular recovery for both standard and custom Salesforce data. Priced at $20 per user per year, the solution includes daily automated backups, AES‑256 encryption, and ransomware‑ready point‑in‑time...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 18, 2025
AI Startups Bleed Revenue Due to Perfectionist Promises
The AI bubble is cracking. AI startups are losing 50% of their revenue within a year. A new report is circulating in VC circles, and the numbers are brutal. I just read Kyle Poyar ’s latest report, and one chart...
By Amos Joseph
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Scale Faster: Hire Leaders Better Than Yourself
How do founders that have never done it before scale to $10m, $100m, $1B in ARR? They hire people better than them This is the mistake most Stretch VPs make. They don’t hire folks better & later more experienced than...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Dec 18, 2025
5 Things Businesses and Users Should Remember when Using AI Chatbots
The article warns that AI chatbot conversations are often stored long‑term, exposing sensitive personal data. It argues that superficial redaction is insufficient; true privacy requires permanent data removal and explicit retention policies. Transparency about data handling and minimizing collected information...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
From Experiment to Infrastructure: What’s Next for AI?
AI agents dominated 2025 with a record 433 deals, outpacing med‑tech and spreading across cybersecurity, supply‑chain, sales and customer service. Executives at Box and Omnea say firms are shifting from wild experimentation to intentional, outcome‑driven AI strategies, while Bloom & Wild treats...
By Sifted
News•Dec 18, 2025
Endra Closes $20M Seed Round Amid Surging Demand in Construction Supercycle
Endra, a Stockholm‑based AI‑powered platform for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) design, closed a $20 million seed round led by Notion Capital, with participation from Norrsken VC. The funding follows a €3 million pre‑seed and will finance international expansion and product development....
By Tech.eu
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Intercom's AI Pivot Delivers 393% Growth, 30K Customers
The AI growth re-acceleration at Intercom is wild: 1. Fin went $1 to $12 million in a year -- more than a year ago. 2. On track to cross 30k paying customers by end of year. 3. Annualized growth is...
By Kyle Poyar
News•Dec 18, 2025
From A&E to SOC: What Cyber Defenders Can Learn From Emergency Healthcare
Illumio’s Raghu Nandakumara likens SOC triage to emergency‑room care, warning that current alert overload hampers cyber defence. He notes SOC analysts face more than 2,000 alerts per day, often making decisions with fragmented data, leading to burnout and missed threats....
By Silicon Republic
News•Dec 18, 2025
Report: All-Island Coordination Needed to Unlock Tech Scale-Up Opportunities
A joint report by Scale Ireland and QUBIS reveals that Ireland and Northern Ireland’s tech ecosystems operate in isolation, limiting access to finance and creating regulatory friction. Founders cite a €1.1 billion funding gap and complex tax rules as major scaling...
By Silicon Republic
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Start Building Today for a 2026 Exit
2026 might feel far away but exits don’t happen overnight. Most founders who sell in 2026 start preparing now. Not because they’re desperate but because they want options. You don’t need to rush and you don’t need to sell tomorrow. Just build...
By Andrew Gazdecki
News•Dec 18, 2025
NHS Tech Supplier Probes Cyberattack on Internal Systems
DXS International, a supplier of NHS digital tools, disclosed a cyber‑attack that targeted its office servers early Sunday. The breach was quickly contained by the company’s IT team, and frontline clinical services, including the ExpertCare platform used by roughly 2,000...
By The Register
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Measure Time, Not Just MRR, to Buy Back Life
Founder KPIs that don't show in Stripe: - Deep work: 2 hours/day - Workouts: 1 hour/day - Sleep: 7.5 hours/night - Support tickets: <1 hour/week (self‑serve wins) - Time‑to‑value for new users: <7 minutes - Automation coverage: +80% of repetitive ops - Time with family: Whenever I...
By Simon Høiberg
News•Dec 18, 2025
HoneyBook CRM Review 2026
HoneyBook’s 2026 review highlights a user‑friendly CRM tailored for creative professionals and small service‑based businesses. The platform combines contact management, invoicing, contracts, scheduling, and automated workflows into a single, intuitive interface. Pricing is tiered from $16 to $66 per month,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
Swedish Startup TrialMe Is Fixing the Data Gap that Keeps Women Out of Clinical Trials
Swedish startup TrialMe has launched a mobile platform that connects women with clinical trials, aiming to close the long‑standing gender data gap in medical research. The app digitises pre‑screening, sends personalised trial notifications, and offers point‑based rewards, thereby cutting recruitment...
By Tech.eu
News•Dec 18, 2025
CIOs Name AI Adoption as Top Imperative: Survey
A Rimini Street survey of 4,300 C‑suite executives found that 46 % of CIOs rank AI adoption and automation as their top priority for the next five years. Executives also cite cybersecurity, compliance, and cost optimization as near‑term goals. However, ROI...
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 18, 2025
AI-Generated Code Contains More Bugs and Errors than Human Output
A new CodeRabbit study finds AI‑generated pull requests contain 1.7 times more issues than human‑written code, averaging 10.83 problems versus 6.45. The defects span critical and major categories, with security, logic and performance errors notably higher. While AI reduces spelling...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Reputation Beats Onboarding Tweaks for User Activation
I rebuilt my onboarding flows 117 times. It never made any big difference. Reality is, the users who activate most likely already made up their minds way before visiting your website. From recommendations. Word of mouth. Brand awareness, etc. So you can spare all...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Metricable Integration Arriving Soon on Acquired.com
New @metricablecom integration coming to @acquiredotcom soon: https://t.co/Juquyki0zL
By Andrew Gazdecki
News•Dec 18, 2025
Enterprise AI Coding Grows Teeth: GPT‑5.2‑Codex Weaves Security Into Large-Scale Software Refactors
OpenAI released GPT‑5.2‑Codex, an agentic coding model built on GPT‑5.2 with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities. The model achieved top scores on Capture‑the‑Flag, CVE‑Bench (87%) and a 72.7% pass rate on Cyber Range tests, demonstrating improved long‑horizon code understanding. Enterprise users can...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Shopify Subscription App Generates Predictable $30K Monthly Profit
Recurring revenue is king. Live on @acquiredotcom: Shopify subscription app helping merchants turn one-time buyers into predictable monthly revenue. > $29K ARR > $32K TTM revenue > $30K TTM profit > 190 paying merchants Full listing: https://t.co/zCumfIm8mD https://t.co/wYOQ3FwbAz
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 18, 2025
ExtendHQ's /Edit API Automates Complex PDFs for Fortune 500
.@ExtendHQ's new /edit API enables filling out any PDF. It's already being used by F500 companies to automate even the most complex document layouts. https://t.co/BGz6doc7IE https://t.co/EX421nd3YV
By YCombinator
News•Dec 17, 2025
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Dec 17, 2025
The SaasRise mastermind will pause its calls for two weeks, returning on January 7 2026. The session highlighted a shift toward holistic, multi‑channel marketing systems, emphasizing omnipresence across paid ads, outbound email, and content. CEOs received tactical advice on ABM data sourcing...
By SaasRise
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Pulse AI Launches Free Public Document Intelligence Platform
After processing 1B+ pages for global banks, top private equity firms, Fortune 50s, and large insurers, @Pulse__AI is opening its document intelligence platform to everyone. Production-grade parsing is now publicly available via the platform and API. 20K free pages for all. Congrats...
By YCombinator
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Patience Finds Buyer, Speed Closes Deal
He sold SwiftNet in 30 days on @acquiredotcom. After months of calls that went nowhere, Nikita Danilov finally met the right buyer. His secret? > Patience in finding the right buyer > Speed once aligned Don’t rush the process. But when it’s time, move...
By Andrew Gazdecki
News•Dec 17, 2025
Now There's a Robot App Store because We All Want Our Bots to Kick Like Bruce Lee
Unitree has introduced the world’s first Robot App Store, initially offered in beta for its $13,500 G1 humanoid robot. The marketplace hosts a handful of pre‑built routines such as Funny Actions, Twist Dance, and a Bruce Lee martial‑arts sequence, and allows...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
JP Morgan’s AI Adoption Hit 50% of Employees. The Secret? A Connectivity-First Architecture
JPMorgan Chase rolled out an internal LLM‑powered assistant suite two‑and‑a‑half years ago, and adoption surged to over 60% of its 250,000‑plus workforce without mandates. The rapid, organic uptake stemmed from a connectivity‑first architecture that embeds AI into existing data, CRM,...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 17, 2025
PayPal User Beware - Experts Warn Subscriptions Being Abused to Send Fake Purchase Emails
Scammers are abusing PayPal’s Subscriptions feature to inject phishing messages into legitimate PayPal emails. They modify the customer‑service URL and use a Google Workspace mailing list to forward the fake notice to many recipients. The forwarded emails bypass standard SPF...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Dashboards Deliver Data, Not Decisions, Undermining Trust
Dashboards are everywhere now. Nearly every product ships with analytics. What used to signal maturity has become table stakes. From CRMs to design tools to HR software, dashboards show up whether users asked for them or not. And yet, most of them...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 17, 2025
AI Agents Outperform Average SDRs—Deploy Yours Now
20 AI Agents in Production: Inside the AI GTM Revolution with @kylecnorton 5 things every CRO/CMO needs to know: 1⃣AI agents are better than mid-pack SDRs now. Not the best—but better than average. That's enough to change everything. 2⃣Deploying the first agent...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Step-by-Step Guide: Building Our Editions Page
Technical how-to on how the team build the editions page
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Fix Fundamentals Early; Growth Won’t Hide Inefficiencies Later
Growth hides inefficiency the way adrenaline hides pain. It feels good while it lasts. When growth slows, everything surfaces at once. Teams that fix fundamentals early experience fewer emergencies later.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Production‑grade AI Agents Need Robust Infrastructure, Not Just Prototypes
Congrats to @triggerdotdev on their $16M Series A! Prototyping AI is easy, but building production-grade agents is hard. https://t.co/EAT6n7xgeL handles reliability, scaling, orchestration, and observability—already powering hundreds of millions of agent executions per month for 30K+ developers. https://t.co/PgyXjqSzwR
By YCombinator