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
Accenture Down to Buy Downdetector as Part of $1.2 Billion Deal
Accenture announced a $1.2 billion acquisition of Ookla, the parent of Downdetector, from Ziff Davis, bringing Speedtest, Ekahau and RootMetrics into its portfolio. The deal expands Accenture’s intelligence and analytics capabilities for telecom operators, hyperscalers and enterprise networks. Ziff Davis will apply the proceeds to retire $872 million of debt after its Connectivity division generated $231 million in revenue, about 16% of total sales. The transaction is expected to close in the coming months pending regulatory approval.
KeyCare Raises $27.4M to Scale Epic-Integrated Virtual Care Platform
KeyCare announced a $27.4 million financing round led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its cumulative capital to over $55 million. The Epic‑integrated virtual‑care platform connects health systems with independent providers across primary, behavioral, and urgent care. Funds will be used to scale operations,...
Revenium Launches Tool Registry to Give Developers Full Cost Visibility Into AI Agent Deployments
Revenium announced the general availability of its Tool Registry, a platform that gives enterprises end‑to‑end visibility into the true cost of AI agent deployments. The solution goes beyond token‑level tracking by capturing fees from external APIs, SaaS services, and human‑in‑the‑loop...
TMTB: Gitlab (GTLB) Buyside Bogeys
GitLab (GTLB) heads into its quarterly earnings call at 4:05 pm, with an implied 15% price move priced in by the market. The stock has tumbled 50% since the end of October and now trades at roughly three times forward revenue,...
Stop Agency Overhead: Demand Revenue‑Focused, Actionable Marketing
You hired an agency to make your job lighter... But instead, you’re in more meetings. Weekly status calls. Slide decks full of impressions. Endless “next steps.” The reporting looks polished. But pipeline doesn’t feel any stronger. You’re not looking for...
Pick the Right Sale Type for Your Exit Goals
How much of your business do you want to sell? Should you pursue a minority, majority, or full sale transaction? Founders looking to exit or raise capital have to decide which is the best path to achieve your goals, both...
Wix Launches Website Creation App in ChatGPT Through OpenAI Collaboration to Simplify Design
Wix announced a partnership with OpenAI to embed its website‑building application inside ChatGPT. The new app lets users generate production‑ready sites using plain‑language text or voice commands, leveraging Wix’s proprietary protocols. The feature is being rolled out globally, aiming to...
Apple, Google Wallets Get Personal
Digital‑wallet platforms from Apple and Google are evolving beyond simple payments, with startups like Badge turning them into interactive commerce channels. Badge’s infrastructure lets brands push real‑time, location‑aware offers and loyalty updates directly to a consumer’s wallet. The San‑Francisco‑based company...
Olo Chooses Linked Eats as 3PD Profitability Partner
Restaurant technology platform Olo has selected Linked Eats as its preferred partner to boost profitability in third‑party delivery (3PD). Linked Eats, which powers over 40,000 storefronts, will provide Olo’s restaurant clients with real‑time data, AI‑driven pricing, revenue recapture and unified...
Enrico Palmerino Explains Botkeeper's Fall
Botkeeper, a venture‑backed accounting automation platform, shut down in February after a rapid loss of its core client base. CEO Enrico Palmerino explained that 30‑40% of revenue came from just ten large accounting firms, and a wave of mergers among...
Brownsville’s Edge AI Experiment Reimagines the Economics of the Connected City
Brownsville, Texas has launched an in‑city edge AI platform that runs on private 5G and fiber, turning low‑cost IoT sensor data into real‑time public‑safety insights. NTT Data’s Shahid Ahmed highlighted that traditional GPU‑heavy AI would break IoT economics, prompting a...
Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and Monitoring for Voice and Chat AI Agents
Cekura, a YC F24 startup, launches a simulation platform that lets developers test voice and chat AI agents at scale. The service creates synthetic user conversations, imports real production dialogs, and uses a mock‑tool environment to evaluate agent behavior without hitting...
Executive Intelligence Podcast - Certinia Founder Deb Ashton on the Changing Services Business, Learning From Customers, and Seizing Opportunities as...
Deb Ashton, founder of Certinia (formerly FinancialForce), explains how services firms are shifting from traditional time‑and‑materials and fixed‑price contracts to recurring revenue models driven by customer success metrics. She highlights AI’s role in automating routine work, forcing new pricing and...
Value Decline, Not Churn Rate, Drives Revenue Loss
Your customers are churning. But not for the reason you think. Most founders look at monthly churn, see 3-4%, and think "we're fine." But then they pull up their net revenue retention at 12 months and it's sitting at 70%....
Sign Customiser Tops $75M as Sign Shops Ditch Spreadsheet Quotes for Online Ordering with AI Quote Automation
Sign Customiser, an Adelaide‑based quoting platform, has processed more than $75 million in merchant sales across 100 countries over the past four years. The solution replaces spreadsheet‑based pricing with an embeddable AI‑driven customiser widget that lets customers design, price, and pay...
DeepKeep Launches AI Agent Attack Surface Scanner to Map Enterprise Risk
DeepKeep Ltd. unveiled its AI Agent Scanner, a tool that maps the attack surface of generative AI agents within enterprise workflows. The solution provides instant visibility into agents' tool and data access, visual risk maps, and identifies potential vulnerabilities. It...
Alkira Launches Partner Program to Boost Services Revenue and AI Infrastructure Wins
Alkira announced its Connect Partner Program, a partner‑first platform designed to help global systems integrators, managed service providers, cloud service providers and AI‑focused firms deliver complex networking and AI infrastructure solutions faster and more profitably. The program introduces Connect Services...
Krisp Launches Listener-Side, Real-Time Accent Conversion
Krisp Technologies introduced a listener‑side, real‑time accent conversion feature that adapts incoming speech for individual listeners without changing the speaker’s voice. The system runs locally on the user’s device, delivering sub‑200 ms latency and preserving privacy by storing no raw audio....
AI Is the Fourth Interface, Morgan Browne Founder and CEO Enterpryze
Enterpryze, founded by Morgan Browne, offers a mobile‑first, cloud ERP built on SAP Business One, positioning AI as the fourth interface for SMEs. Browne, a former SAP Global Partner Council member and EY Entrepreneur finalist, transformed Milner Browne into a...
Harvey Does 2nd Acquihire, This Time With Lume
Harvey announced its second acquihire, bringing Lume co‑founders Robert Ross and Nebyou Zewde into its product and engineering teams. Lume, a Y Combinator‑backed AI integration startup founded in 2023, will cease operations as only the two founders transition to Harvey. The...
Coforge Advances Data Cosmos, a Next-Gen AI-Enabled, Cloud-Native Data and Analytics Platform Designed to Accelerate Enterprise Transformation
Coforge has launched Data Cosmos, an AI‑enabled, cloud‑native data engineering and analytics platform designed to unify fragmented enterprise data. The solution is organized into five portfolios—Supernova, Nebula, Hypernova, Pulsar, and Quasar—that address modernization, governance, DataOps, and GenAI adoption across the...
X Turns Dormant Usernames Into Digital Real Estate
X has launched a Handles Marketplace that lets Premium+ and Premium Business subscribers claim dormant @handles. Handles are split into free Priority names and paid Rare names, the latter fetching $2,500 to over $1 million. Paid Rare handles remain with the...
ZohoDay 2026 - How Newcross Healthcare Builds AI Apps on a Governed Platform - While Keeping AI Hype at Bay
At ZohoDay 2026, Newcross Healthcare showcased how it built a mission‑critical care‑management application on Zoho’s governed platform, unifying CRM, finance, workforce and analytics. By leveraging Zoho Creator, the team delivered a fully integrated solution in six months, cutting licensing costs...
Automation Anywhere and EvolutIA Deliver Next-Generation AI Agents that Reason and Decide for Enterprises
Automation Anywhere announced a strategic partnership with AI‑automation consultancy EvolutIA, leveraging its Agentic Process Automation (APA) platform and Process Reasoning Engine to create autonomous agents that can understand context, make decisions, and act without continuous human input. EvolutIA will use...
Cato Networks Unveils Dynamic Prevention to Stop Stealthy, Long-Running Cyberattacks
Cato Networks has introduced Dynamic Prevention, an auto‑adaptive threat prevention engine built into its SASE platform. The service continuously correlates months of networking and security sensor data to spot low‑signal malicious behavior that blends with legitimate activity. When a threat...
Dstillery Has A New Agentic AI Interface For Refining Audiences Faster
Dstillery unveiled DS-1, an agentic AI interface that lets advertisers create and refine custom audience segments in minutes instead of days. Built on the Model Context Protocol, DS-1 integrates with Slack, Microsoft Teams, browsers and pushes audiences directly to The...
AI Is Now Executing Work, Reshaping SaaS and Ops
🚨 In the last ~10 days, the AI future of work essentially arrived. We just got a new class of products: AI that directly carries out work for us, instead of just chatting. It’ll rewrite SaaS, ops, governance faster than most orgs...
Searchable Review 2026: The AI Search Visibility Platform Built for Shopify and DTC Brands
Searchable is an AI‑search visibility platform that consolidates GA4, Google Search Console, and AI assistant data into a single growth command center for Shopify and DTC brands. The tool surfaces insights via an interactive AI agent and links them to...
Interview: Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham on Getting ‘Hands-On’ with AI
Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham is getting hands‑on with artificial intelligence, co‑creating internal AI agents and overseeing AI‑driven discovery and personalization projects. The London‑based marketplace reported $500 m cumulative sales, $100 m annual revenue in 2024, and £3.2 m of incremental sales...
The Trade Desk Welcomes OpenTTD, The Partner Integration Portal To Rule Them All
The Trade Desk unveiled OpenTTD, a unified partner integration portal, at LiveRamp’s RampUp conference. The platform consolidates logins and analytics for partners who act as advertisers, data sellers, and developers, eliminating the need for separate accounts. OpenTTD ties into the...
Intuitive Signals Next Phase of Platform Capabilities
Intuitive celebrates one year under Banyan Software, highlighting major upgrades to its iVector reservation platform. The system now features an open, extensible architecture that supports AI‑driven integrations and faster supplier onboarding. A new cruise‑booking module adds pricing and group allocation...
Open Cyber Standards Key to Cross-Platform Integration
Enterprises are turning to open cyber standards to break the cycle of vendor lock‑in that has plagued multi‑year managed service contracts and early hyperscale cloud deployments. By adopting protocols such as OAuth, OpenID and RESTful APIs, organizations can achieve true...
Making a Reservation for an Agent-First Business Model - Wyndham Hotels CEO Explains Why He's Checking-In on an AI Future
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has deployed Salesforce’s Agentforce in over 5,000 instances across its 8,300 properties, creating a unified Guest 360 platform that merges reservation, loyalty, and CRM data. The AI‑driven Agent Foundry gives human agents real‑time guest insights, slashing front‑office labor...
Open Source Isn’t Altruism. It’s How You Avoid Getting Surprised
The author reframes open source from an altruistic movement to a strategic risk‑management tool. The Terraform license change at HashiCorp sparked a swift community fork, OpenTofu, exposing how vendor‑controlled projects can surprise users. This episode highlighted the importance of transparent...
YAROOMS Introduces Yarvis: Not an App. A Colleague.
YAROOMS has launched Yarvis, an AI‑powered workplace assistant that lives inside Microsoft Teams and email, turning natural‑language requests into coordinated actions such as desk and room booking, visitor management, and facility tickets. The tool aims to cut through the average...
Never Too Late: Success Can Start at 40
Shipped my first SaaS at 36. Sold it at 38. Failed 3 projects at 39. Found product-market fit at 40. At 40 - I'm finally building something I love. You are NEVER too late to start.
MaxClaw: Free Credits, No API Fees, Flexible AI Tasks
This seems like one the most cost-effective way to deploy @OpenClaw rn. MaxClaw removes all API fees and tech hurdles so you can focus on building 💥 Their workflow is uber flexible: → start a task on Telegram → review results on their web...
Stran & Company Launches STRAN Digital Solutions to Strengthen Client Retention and Support Scalable Growth
Stran & Company unveiled STRAN Digital Solutions, a proprietary SaaS platform that consolidates digital asset management, CRM‑connected workflows, web‑to‑print, logistics, and direct‑mail capabilities. The integrated solution aims to simplify program execution, give clients self‑service ordering portals, and allow Stran’s national...
Claude Code Adds Free Voice Mode for Faster Prompts
🚨 Voice Mode is officially coming to Claude Code. Currently rolling out to ~5% of users (Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise). It's super simple to use. Here's how: 1️⃣ Use `/voice` to enable 2️⃣ Hold Space to talk, then release 3️⃣ Mix typing and voicing...
Low‑cost Sales Hubs Fuel Egnyte’s $300M Success
Egnyte's first marketing spend: $6,000 on SEM. "I was like, holy s***, that's a lot of money." Now they spend millions per quarter. Same playbook. But the real edge? Inside sales offices in Spokane, Raleigh, Salt Lake City. Not SF. $300M+ revenue. $137.5M raised....
Third-Party AI Agents Can Now Plug Into LiveRamp’s Platform
LiveRamp announced that third‑party AI agents can now plug directly into its data collaboration platform, removing the need for custom API calls. The integration enables agents to automate audience planning, segmentation, measurement and to interact with partner and proprietary agents....
Why Software‑Enabled Agencies Are the Future of E‑commerce
Despite a small pocket of futile, violent resistance (looking at you @jacob_posel, @ChereneAubert and @Chillestdotcom) SEAN's (Software Enabled AgeNcies) are all the rage. In this week's ecommerce playbook podcast episode I break down why we are committed to building a SEAN and...
Support Contracts Evolve Into Three‑tier Success Plans
And support contracts become success contracts - and there are again three: - Foundational - included in every @SAP cloud solution - Advanced - more features on top of foundational - Max - more on top of both plans https://t.co/54SQy5gsMN
Track3D and Fieldwire Form Integration
Track3D and Fieldwire announced a native integration that embeds Track3D’s visual documentation and progress‑tracking tools directly within Fieldwire’s field‑management platform. The link lets construction teams import floor plans, sync punch lists, and attach issues to reality captures without switching applications....
Simple Shopify Gift App Reveals Complex Cart Management Challenges
We spent a year building a 'simple' @Shopify app: add free gift to cart, discount to zero. Then cart state management, discount conflicts, and popup cooldown debates happened. New pod with @karlmeisterheim and @PaulReda on what it actually takes. https://t.co/i2VKEDRfPy
Secure Agility Sets Sights on AI, Security, IoT and Telco-Led Growth in 2026
Secure Agility, a Sydney‑based tech services firm with roughly 100 staff and $70 million in annual revenue, is shifting from a low‑profile engineering focus to aggressive customer acquisition and national expansion. The company now offers production‑ready AI, IoT and cybersecurity platforms,...
Business Exchange
Copenhagen Optimization has installed two Better Airport modules at Brisbane Airport, delivering data‑driven forecasting and resource planning for security operations. The airport is simultaneously upgrading to CT Standard 3 screening, allowing passengers to leave laptops and aerosols in bags. Indonesia’s immigration...
OpenClaw Sparks 80+ Global Meetups in Months
I don’t think enough people are appreciating the how insane this is. Over 80 @openclaw meetups scheduled around the world, and more popping up every day. For a product less than a few months old. I’ve never seen anything like this. Something very special...
Latest TechBio News
Proscia has been crowned the top‑performing digital pathology software vendor in the United States, receiving a 95.2 overall score in KLAS Research’s 2026 report and earning A+ or A grades across all six customer‑experience pillars. The company is also the...
Spacera Launches Free Dashboard to End Meeting Room “Visibility Tax”
Sydney‑based Spacera has introduced Photon, a free cloud‑to‑cloud dashboard that gives IT and AV teams real‑time visibility into meeting rooms across Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Cisco Webex. The platform eliminates the so‑called “visibility tax” by offering unlimited rooms and users...