Today's SaaS Pulse
Salesforce Launches AgentExchange, a Unified AI Marketplace with $50M Builder Fund
Salesforce has merged its three app and AI stores into a single AgentExchange marketplace, offering over 13,000 ready‑made apps, AI agents, and automation components. The platform features intent‑aware search, one‑click buying, and instant activation within Salesforce or Slack, and includes a $50 million builder fund to encourage partner development.
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By the numbers: Loop raises $95M to scale its supply‑chain AI platform
Naboo
Naboo.ai announced a Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with partner Antoine Moyroud joining the deal. The AI‑driven platform automates corporate event planning across the UK and Europe, handling venues, catering, activities, and transport in a single invoice. It offers transparent pricing, instant AI‑generated pre‑quotes, and a dedicated events expert for each project. The funding will accelerate product development and geographic expansion.
Vercel Fuels Notion’s Rise in the Agent Era
Vercel now powers the Notion agent platform. Not only are they a great company and product I use daily, I think they're going to be one of the big winners of the agent era. The main 'runtime' of an agent is English...
AI Coding Bootcamp Starts April 15
SaasRise is launching an eight‑week online AI Coding Bootcamp on April 15, 2026, aimed at engineers, product managers, and tech leaders. The program teaches an AI‑first, agentic engineering workflow using Claude Code and other leading tools. Participants will build, refactor,...
Selling Fake Automation: When Hype Masks No Product
100 customers paid for a product that didn't exist. This founder hadn't written a single line of code. Customers loved it. @zhxu had already built and exited one company. An iPad point-of-sale system he coded over 9 months with every feature...
AI Will Replicate SaaS Overnight, Margins Will Suffer
I don’t want to do this anymore. Last week Patrick Spychalski told me that he watched his buddy give Claude Code the domain for TypeForm(.)com and 4 hours later Claude Code had built Typeform. Like... exactly TypeForm. I can visualize...
The $1.6 Million Weekend: Why Simple API Gateways Fail in the Agentic Era
An enterprise AI contract‑review API that costs $1.58 per document exploded to a $1.6 million bill when exposed as an agentic API. An autonomous agent retried a single request thousands of times, and the pattern repeated across thousands of contracts, revealing...
Copy These Tactics, New Customers Will Flood to Your SaaS
B2B SaaS firms are urged to abandon single‑channel acquisition and adopt a layered, multi‑channel portfolio. The article outlines ten tactics—including retargeting, matched‑audience ads, LinkedIn Thought Leader ads, lookalikes, paid search, high‑volume cold email, LinkedIn outreach, weekly newsletters, and content‑first warming—that...
I Cancelled Every App Subscription Under $10, and I Barely Miss Most of Them
Tech writer Nolen Jonker cancelled every app subscription under $10, saving roughly $780 over the past year. He discovered that dozens of low‑cost SaaS fees quickly added up to over $100 per month, mainly for design, AI, and productivity tools....
Debating Zoom Phone versus a Traditional Business Handset?
Does anyone use Zoom Phone as their business phone? I don't know if I want to continue with a physical work phone.
How KiloClaw Is Built to Be Secure
KiloClaw is a managed compute platform for OpenClaw AI agents that places security at its core. Each customer runs on a dedicated Firecracker microVM, providing hardware‑level isolation, while five independent layers—identity routing, dedicated app environments, network isolation, VM boundaries, and...
Willmott Dixon Continues with Sypro Contract Management
Willmott Dixon has renewed its contract with Sypro for another five years, extending a 14‑year relationship. The Sypro platform, used on 244 projects, digitises risk management, communication and governance across NEC, JCT and bespoke contracts. The renewal underscores the contractor’s...
Levi Strauss Picks SCAYLE as Global Ecommerce Platform Provider
Levi Strauss & Co. announced it will adopt SCAYLE as the core technology for its global ecommerce operations. The migration of Levi’s online storefronts to the SCAYLE platform will begin in 2026 and continue through 2027, covering multiple international markets....
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SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of Mar 9 - 12, 2026
SaasRise’s CEO outlines a roadmap for scaling a €2M+ ARR SaaS from a test market into the broader EU, emphasizing a UK‑first entry, strong case studies, and local presence. He stresses an account‑based, multi‑channel approach that educates prospects for months...
Gumloop Lands $50M From Benchmark to Turn Every Employee Into an AI Agent Builder
Gumloop announced a $50 million Series B round led by Benchmark to scale its no‑code AI agent builder for enterprises. The platform enables non‑technical employees at firms such as Shopify, Ramp and Instacart to create autonomous agents that automate multistep workflows without...
Keep Your Business Moving with Delegated Signing in Zoho Sign
Zoho Sign now offers delegated signing, letting users assign a colleague to sign documents on their behalf while preserving traceability. Delegates use their own credentials, and assignments can span up to 30 days within a six‑month window, with only one...
Build Free Net Retention Cohort Model with Claude & Excel
How to Build a Net Retention Cohort Model Using Claude + Excel 👀 I took a messy revenue export - 80 customers, three years of data, segment labels that look like five different people entered them - and built a...
I Evaluated 7 Best Endpoint Management Software for 2026
Darshayita Thakur evaluated over 20 tools and identified the seven best endpoint management platforms for 2026—NinjaOne, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Datto RMM, Iru, Action 1, Atera and ThreatDown—plus three bonus options. The review highlights each solution’s pricing, core strengths such as automation,...
Users Protest as Google Antigravity Price Floats Upward
Google announced a new credit‑based pricing model for its Antigravity agentic AI coding tool, charging $25 for 2,500 credits without clarifying their worth. The change coincides with a slowdown in AI Pro quota refreshes, now updating weekly instead of every five...
Sherweb Expands Into UK MSP Market
Sherweb announced a strategic expansion into the United Kingdom, aiming to serve more than 11,000 local managed service providers (MSPs). The move builds on its 2025 acquisition of Ireland‑based MicroWarehouse, giving the Canadian cloud marketplace a foothold in the region....
PagerDuty Unveils Next Generation of the Operations Cloud Platform with the Spring 2026 Release
PagerDuty announced its Spring 2026 release of the next‑generation Operations Cloud, centering on an autonomous SRE Agent that acts as a virtual responder. The platform now embeds full‑lifecycle incident management directly into Slack and other developer environments via the Model...
7 Best Invoice Management Software for 2026: My Picks
Finance teams are increasingly burdened by manual invoice approvals, prompting a surge in specialized invoice management platforms. Darshayita Thakur evaluated over 20 solutions and identified seven top performers for 2026: Xero, Paylocity, SAP Concur, BILL AP/AR, Stampli, Payhawk, and SAP Cloud ERP. Each...
SaaS Distribution Channel: Partner Deals to $100M ARR
In this episode, host Omar Khan talks with Zong Xu, co‑founder of Deliverect, about how the company built a centralized platform that connects restaurants to dozens of digital ordering channels and now serves over 80,000 locations, approaching $100 M ARR. Zong...
New Flexible $50/Mo Prompt Tracking Pricing, Free Trial
We just launched what I believe is the best pricing structure for custom prompt tracking (in @Ahrefs Brand Radar). Here's why: → Starts at just $50/mo → Pricing is based on "checks," not prompts → Pick the cadence that fits your needs: daily, weekly,...
The Sequence Opinion #823: SaaSmagedon, Is SaaS Dead?: Vibe Coding, Agentic Engineering, and the Collapse of the Code Moat
The software sector experienced a dramatic correction in early 2026, wiping out over $1 trillion in market value in a single week. Analysts label this upheaval “SaaSmagedon,” citing the erosion of traditional SaaS fundamentals—per‑seat pricing, human‑centric interfaces, and the protective “code...
From Call Trees to Agentic AI - How Kingfisher Is Winning Back Employee Time for Customers
Kingfisher has upgraded its ServiceNow virtual agent, Vita, from a structured call‑tree to a generative‑AI powered assistant (Now Assist) called Vita version two. Within 18 months, the original bot logged 200,000 interactions, and the new AI interface now offers natural‑language ticketing,...
Mambu Powers Nyla’s Islamic Neobank Launch in Ghana
Mambu has partnered with Nyla, Africa’s first Islamic neobank, to supply an API‑first, AWS‑hosted core banking platform for its Ghana launch slated for June 2026. The collaboration enables Nyla to roll out digital wallets, peer‑to‑peer transfers and bill payments without...
TD Bank Expands Embedded Banking with Workday Integration for U.S. Business Clients
TD Bank announced a new embedded banking solution that integrates directly with Workday’s cloud‑based ERP for U.S. business clients. The service lets companies access credit, payments and cash‑management tools within Workday’s workflow, reducing manual hand‑offs. Early adopters will receive a...
Working with the Salesforce Mobile App
Salesforce’s mobile app lets users stay connected on the go, but it requires careful configuration to deliver a usable experience. Page layouts collapse to a single column, so field order matters. Separate Lightning pages, branding, and navigation settings should be...
One‑Time Pricing Opens Affiliate Management for Startups
We just changed Refindie’s pricing (affiliate management system) to support early stage businesses. I know how heavy monthly costs feel when you’re just starting. So we removed the barrier and introduced a one-time payment. Small businesses deserve to get affiliates too 🙏
Exclusive: Panzura Updates Global File System to Cut Storage Costs and Prepare for Agentic AI
Panzura released CloudFS version 8.7, a hybrid‑cloud file platform designed to lower storage infrastructure costs and ready enterprise data for emerging agentic AI workloads. The update introduces adaptive snapshot retention, a unified namespace for AI pipelines, and self‑service admin tools that...
Comviva Unveils NGAGE to Power AI-Driven Customer Engagement for Enterprise
Comviva has launched NGAGE for Enterprises, a next‑generation CPaaS platform that delivers AI‑driven, omnichannel customer engagement with built‑in identity verification and fraud protection. The SaaS solution features a low‑code workflow builder, supporting SMS, Email, RCS and WhatsApp, while integrating network‑based...
Exclusive: Oro Labs, Which Uses AI to Streamline Corporate Procurement, Raises $100 Million
Oro Labs announced a $100 million Series C round, led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital, bringing its total funding to $160 million. The Silicon Valley AI startup, which overlays existing ERP and procurement systems with an orchestration platform, reported...
Emergent's CEO Told Us These Are the 2 Biggest Threats to Vibe Coding
Emergent’s CEO Mukund Jha warned that vibe coding faces two major threats: sub‑par software quality and the possibility that autonomous AI agents could render traditional apps obsolete. He highlighted that many AI‑generated apps remain buggy and hard to scale, and...
Winter Event Highlight - How Tech Electronics Turned Cloud ERP Into a Force for Organizational Change (and AI Readiness). An...
Tech Electronics’ CEO Manish Chandak led a bold, company‑wide ERP overhaul, replacing legacy systems with Acumatica’s cloud platform through a one‑year, big‑bang rollout called Project Twister. The initiative aimed to break a $100 million revenue ceiling, improve operational efficiency, and lay a...
Bitly's New Interstitial Page Ruins QR Code Experience
I'm bummed that I can no longer use @Bitly for my QR codes because they put a "in between page" that confuses all my speaking attendees to click the spam/ad and/or think my legit link is spam. I don't...
New Relic to Launch Japanese Data Center to Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation and Operational Excellence
New Relic announced it will open its first Japanese data center in Tokyo, slated for July 2026. The facility will host data collection, storage and processing domestically, addressing strict data‑residency and latency requirements of Japanese enterprises. By localizing its observability platform,...
GitHub Appears to Be Struggling with Measly Three Nines Availability
GitHub suffered a series of outages on February 9‑10, affecting Actions, pull requests, notifications and the Copilot AI assistant. The incident caused notification delays of up to 50 minutes and a prolonged Copilot policy propagation problem that lasted until the following...
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SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Mar 10, 2026
The SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind call highlighted four strategic challenges: centralizing internal meeting knowledge using vector‑database RAG, optimizing Facebook lookalike audience spend, selecting initial European markets for a B2B ad platform, and evaluating overseas acquisition targets. Participants recommended tools such as...
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Mar 11, 2026
The SaasRise Mastermind on March 11, 2026 delivered a deep‑dive into practical growth levers for early‑stage SaaS firms. It emphasized installing Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and Bing pixels to retarget visitors, while pairing paid ads with cold‑email outreach to secure the...
Founders Prioritize SEO, LinkedIn Automation, AI Video Tools
I just pulled our AppSumo internal search data from March. 63,410 searches. Here's what founders are actually looking for right now: 1- SEO tools 2- LinkedIn automation 3- AI video 4- CRM 5- Email marketing 6- WordPress plugins If you're building an...
Sell the Buyer’s Personal ROI, Not Just Business Metrics
One of the biggest things B2B startups miss is underselling the "personal ROI" to the buyer or user of your technology. I spent time with a leadership team of a B2B startup yesterday and the topic of demonstrating ROI came up. We...
One Billion Lost Packages
In September 2024 Hurricane Helene flooded Baxter International’s Marion, NC plant, halting 60% of U.S. IV‑fluid output and triggering nationwide shortages. The same month, 85 million U.S. packages arrived damaged—a 30% jump that cost roughly $4 billion. To address the chronic fragmentation...
Only Paying Users' Churn Signals a SaaS Platform's Death
When people say that a certain SaaS platform is dead, I wouldn’t trust them unless they are a frequent user of it (or at least someone who pays for it). When paid users leave the platform and stay off for...
Choosing the Right Med Spa Platform Boosts Bookings and Growth
The right med spa platform can improve bookings, streamline ops, and support growth across multiple locations. Here’s how today’s top platforms stack up: https://t.co/KqeNCzTGNM #Meevo @AestheticsPro2 @mangomint @Vagaro #medspa #HITSM
PagerDuty Inc (PD) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
PagerDuty reported Q3 revenue of $125 million, a 5% year‑over‑year increase, and ARR of $497 million, up 3%. Non‑GAAP operating margin surged to 29% from 21% a year earlier, while GAAP net income reached $160 million aided by a one‑time tax benefit. The...
Rule of 40 Shifts to Rule of 60: Adapt Now
Why The Rule of 40 is Becoming the Rule of 60 -- and What You Can Do About It. https://t.co/PN2EcIhJ8S
Cloud Subscriptions Often Outcost On‑premise over Time
Off-the-shelf cloud solutions can be a costly trap. Perpetual licenses and subscriptions often exceed the long-term expenses of on-premise systems, leading to significant year-over-year price hikes. Be wary of these escalating costs. #CloudCost #ITStrategy https://t.co/lzVmPmg6Hy
Governance Stops Shadow AI From Overrunning SaaS
If you think managing SaaS sprawl was hard, wait until you try managing "Shadow AI" apps built on a whim. 📉 Governance is the wall that keeps the "AI replaces SaaS" myth from becoming reality. Deep dive here: https://t.co/Se537FlJwE #CIO #Cloud #AI...
AI Search Tools Multiply Subscriptions, Need Consolidation Solution
Getting into AI for search has me with *so many* new monthly subscriptions, and I don't love that It reminds me of ecom where you have all these best-in-class integrations, and those add up quickly Who's solving for this?
Undocumented Platform Data Leads to Product Collapse
Why products built on undocumented platform data eventually collapse when the platform evolves. https://t.co/UFXgHtQMBn via @DuaneForrester, @sejournal