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
Tess AI Raises $5M to Expand Enterprise Agent Orchestration Platform
Tess AI announced a $5 million seed round to scale its enterprise agent orchestration platform, which replaces traditional seat‑based software with autonomous AI agents that execute operational tasks. The platform integrates over 200 AI models and can handle up to 40 simultaneous operations per agent call, monetizing completed work rather than user licenses. Funding was led by Hi Ventures and DYDX Capital, with participation from Honeystone Ventures. Tess AI aims to shift AI adoption from isolated chat interfaces to integrated, employee‑driven workflow automation.
Databricks RTM Beats Flink, No Batching Needed
#1 thing people don't know about Databricks and Apache Spark: the performance of Real-Time Mode (RTM), it's faster than Apache Flink and more robust. No more batching.
Claude’s Free Plan Can Now Remember You
Anthropic has extended Claude's memory feature to its free tier, allowing users to import conversation histories from other AI services. The memory tool automatically captures context, can be edited manually, and can be disabled for privacy. Free‑plan adoption has surged...
Early Bets Pay Off: Intercom Hits $400M ARR
Intercom was in a bad spot a few years ago. We invested well before that and didn't think we'd see a meaningful return. Now they're doing $400M ARR. @eoghan's message to SaaS incumbents: "I know how scary this time is. I want you...
Build Target Lists in 5 Minutes with Claude & ZoomInfo
Most “AI for sales” demos stop at generic copy. This one doesn’t. You can use Claude inside Slack + ZoomInfo data to build a target list and prep an account in under 5 minutes. EVERY @ZoomInfo customer already has access. I’ll show the exact...
Understanding Your Microsoft 365 Education Ecosystem for Smarter Campus IT Decisions
Higher education institutions are grappling with complex Microsoft 365 Education license environments, often mixing A1, A5, trial, and legacy tiers. Without clear visibility, schools incur overlapping costs and under‑utilize existing entitlements. CDW’s product manager Leticia Juarez emphasizes that rigorous assessments can reveal hidden...
Sandvik Introduces My Sandvik Geo for Real-Time Geological Insight
Sandvik Mining unveiled My Sandvik Geo at CONEXPO‑CON/AGG 2026, a cloud‑based service that converts raw drilling measurements into near‑real‑time geological and geotechnical insights. The platform processes Measure‑While‑Drilling data, delivering rock‑strength, fracture, and overburden information that feeds into geological models and...
No Records in Salesforce Match Your Delete Criteria
Salesforce Flow’s delete element throws a fault when the target collection is empty or a single record doesn’t exist, displaying the message “No records in Salesforce match your delete criteria”. This forces admins to add pre‑validation checks, such as confirming...
Ultrasound Reporting Platform Gets FDA Approval
AS Software announced that its next‑generation ultrasound reporting platform, Asera, received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The cloud‑based solution retains core reporting functions while delivering a redesigned user interface, streamlined workflows, and scalable architecture. Asera includes...
GTM Engineers: The $500K Solution Replacing SDR Teams
Patrick Spychalski has generated over $100m in pipeline using Clay . Then he sold his Clay agency for a life-changing amount. Tomorrow he's giving away the exact GTM systems being used by the hottest names in tech: Most B2B sales...
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Top 10 DealRoom Platform Tips to Elevate Your Dealmaking
DealRoom released a practical guide outlining ten actionable tips to streamline M&A deal management. The advice ranges from creating reusable template rooms and assigning stakeholder followers to leveraging dynamic work‑lists, audit logs, and automated dashboard reports. By optimizing document handling,...
Consark Unveils Its Noa Suite of Autonomous AI Agents for Finance Operations
Consark.ai announced the Noa suite, a collection of autonomous AI agents that continuously prepare and execute financial close, reconciliation, and variance analysis tasks. The agents ingest structured data, apply accounting routines, draft journal entries and explanations, and present outcomes for...
Hidden GTM Gaps Sabotage Growth Despite Busy Teams
Why your GTM team is busy, but not effective: 5 hidden system gaps. Most AI and SaaS Founders I’ve worked with are running at breakneck speed, but they keep telling me their growth feels stalled and their teams are burning...
This Week in SaaS - Feb 24 - March 2, 2026
SaasRise CEO Ryan Allis announced a Thursday webinar on a 7‑step B2B SaaS growth system and opened applications for a 16‑week, $5k‑per‑month growth program. The week also featured a surge of AI‑focused SaaS funding, highlighted by $75 M for UpGuard and...
Embrace AEO Now for Upstream Growth Advantage
Twenty years ago, I chose the channel I could measure over the one that could compound. Paid search felt clean. SEO felt messy. Looking back, avoiding SEO early was one of my biggest growth regrets. Today feels similar. AEO is...
Webinar Invitation: The B2B SaaS Growth Program
The webinar introduces a B2B SaaS Growth Program that replaces fragmented marketing tactics with a coordinated, account‑based system. It outlines seven core techniques—including ABM list building, AI‑personalized outbound, matched‑audience ads, and integrated sales teams—to create omnipresence across a target market....
The B2B SaaS Growth System: A 7-Step Engine for Predictable Customer Acquisition
SaaSrise launched its Done‑With‑You B2B SaaS Growth Program, a seven‑step system that synchronizes account‑based marketing, AI‑personalized outbound, omnichannel content, and sales execution. The framework begins with building a comprehensive ABM list, then creates brand omnipresence, layers AI‑driven email and LinkedIn...
From $600K to $1.29B: A Decade of Growth
Exactly 10 years ago (Jan 2016), I stepped in as CEO. We had just closed out Q4 with a total of $600k in revenue (screenshot from board deck). Fast forward a decade. Q4 audited GAAP Revenue: $1,290M and over $5.4B...
Replace SaaS with Claude, Save Thousands in One Day
As a brand owner you should be using claude to save $1000s on costs by building AI tools to replace all the different SaaS products you’re using. Here's 6 tools that you can easily build in one day. 1. Organic...
The Admin’s Playbook for Web-to-Lead in Salesforce: Security, Routing, and Data Quality
The article presents a practical playbook for Salesforce admins to build a secure, scalable Web‑to‑Lead pipeline. It urges teams to define end‑state outcomes—such as routing, response times, and success metrics—before designing the form. By adopting a minimum viable form, picklist‑driven...
Compress Sales Leadership Phases to Accelerate Scaleup Growth
I see 3 phases of sales leadership hires in scaleups: 1st - Get first customers and get first sales reps. 2nd - Figure out the process to get customers and sales reps. 3rd - Scale the process to get customers and sales reps. You...
AI Uncovers True Reasons for Lost Deals, Bypassing Bias
Every quarter, management teams walk into the board meeting with a “Closed Lost Analysis” slide. It typically shows the top 5 reasons deals didn’t close. Pricing. Missing feature. No budget. Chose competitor. The problem? Much of that data is incomplete,...
Your Engineering Intelligence Tool Told You What’s Broken. Now What?
Companies invest heavily in engineering intelligence dashboards that surface bottlenecks such as slow code reviews, flaky tests, and long CI pipelines. However, most tools only measure problems and leave remediation to manual ticket processes, turning insights into costly wallpaper. Port’s...
Getting Paid Faster in Construction
Payra, a Nashville‑based fintech startup, announced a $15 million growth investment from Edison Partners to accelerate its accounts‑receivable automation platform for construction and building‑materials suppliers. The solution plugs into virtually any legacy ERP, even systems up to 30 years old, allowing contractors...
Only 26% of Maintenance Is Preventive: UpKeep Survey
UpKeep’s State of Maintenance 2026 survey of 214 managers reveals that only 26 % of maintenance activities are preventive, despite 90 % of facilities leaders endorsing the approach. The primary obstacles are insufficient staffing and scheduling conflicts, which UpKeep describes as structural...
Inside the DM Economy: Cam McMaster on Providing AI Infrastructure for Creator Inboxes
Australian entrepreneurs Cam McMaster and Chris McLoghlin launched InboxAgents.ai and Guardii.ai in 2025 to give creators a unified AI‑powered inbox and abuse‑filtering layer. The tools aggregate direct messages and emails, surface high‑value brand inquiries, and quarantine harassment, helping creators recover...
Latin America ERP Software Market Poised for Heavy Growth, Competition
Latin America’s ERP market is set for rapid expansion through 2033, driven primarily by cloud‑first and hybrid deployments across manufacturing, retail, and BFSI. Regional tax, payroll and reporting requirements force vendors to embed deep localization, creating a fragmented competitive landscape....
First-Year SaaS Success: 5 Essential Lessons Learned
I created a 6-figure SaaS in my first year hitting $200K ARR. And I've learned more about myself in 12 months than I have ever in my career. 5 lessons I wish someone told me before I started.
What Salesforce’s Consumption-Based Pricing Means for Martech
Salesforce’s Data 360 is moving to a consumption‑based pricing model, replacing the traditional seat‑and‑channel fees that have dominated Martech. The new approach charges customers only for actual data ingestion, profile unification, segmentation and activation events, making costs directly tied to...
Vibe Coding Service Lovable Accused of Hosting Malware-Ridden Apps Exposing Thousands of Users — It Says They Should Take More...
Vibe coding platform Lovable is under fire after security researcher Taimur Khan uncovered severe vulnerabilities in apps built with its AI‑generated code. A showcased EdTech app contained 16 flaws, including six critical issues that exposed over 18,000 user records. A...
Founders Should Trust Their Gut Over Data
“Trust your gut.” That was Jason Fried answer when I asked him what advice he’d give every B2B SaaS founder. And it hit because it’s uncomfortable. We’ve built a whole business culture around justification: – data-supported decisions – evidence-based roadmaps...
Ease Health Raises $41M in Series A Funding
Ease Health, a New York‑based AI‑native CRM, EHR, and RCM platform, secured $41 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz. The capital will fund expansion of its product and engineering teams and accelerate AI‑driven automation across the suite. The raise...
Agentic E-Commerce Startup ZyG Gets $58M to Help Solo Inventors Compete with the Biggest Global Brands
ZyG Edge Inc., an Israeli AI startup, secured $58 million in seed funding to empower solo inventors in the direct‑to‑consumer market. The company’s autonomous agents automate marketing, logistics, and data‑driven growth tasks, allowing creators to focus on product innovation. ZyG validates...
Corvic Labs Launched to Standardize Testing and Governance for AI Agents
Corvic Inc. announced Corvic Labs, an open‑source initiative to standardize testing and governance of agentic AI systems. The first offering, the Agentic MCP Evaluator, connects to AI agents via Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol and provides deterministic, repeatable evaluations with structured...
Kinstak Launches Canva Integration, Bringing AI-Powered Asset Organization Directly Into the Creative Workflow
Kinstak announced a native integration with Canva that embeds its AI‑powered asset organization directly into the design canvas. The platform automatically tags, categorizes and surfaces relevant files, allowing creators to locate and reuse assets without leaving Canva. By eliminating manual...
Zilliz Cloud Brings BYOC to Azure
Zilliz announced the general availability of its Zilliz Cloud BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) on Microsoft Azure, completing support across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. The BYOC offering lets enterprises run a fully managed Milvus‑based vector database inside their own...
Upwind Doubles Down on India and Expands Footprint Across Asia-Pacific and Japan to Meet Growing Demand for Real-Time Cloud and...
Upwind announced a major expansion across Asia‑Pacific and Japan, adding local SaaS instances in India, Australia, Singapore and Japan while tripling its regional workforce in just three months. The cloud‑security vendor says its global customer base has grown 200% year‑over‑year,...
Stop Quick Wins: Educate and Segment Leads for Pipeline Growth
Pipeline not growing? You might be making these 3 classic mistakes.. It’s painfully common: B2B Marketers and Founders get stuck on the sales treadmill, chasing only those who seem ready to buy now, ignoring the bigger picture. 1. Chasing Quick...
AI App Companies Still Have Bright Future, Says Alex Imm
My friend @aleximm makes a compelling bull case that AI apps companies still have a bright future.
Product Update: AI-Driven Onboarding and Workflow Automation in Semaphore
In this episode, Pete outlines Semaphore's new AI-driven assistant that streamlines CI/CD onboarding by converting natural language descriptions into fully configured pipelines. The assistant also offers ongoing workflow insights, error explanations, reruns, and configuration suggestions while preserving full developer control...
Zoho Poised to Survive the Upcoming SaaSpocalypse
Is Zoho best positioned to weather the coming “SaaSpocalypse”? After #ZohoDay2026, it’s clear the company has quietly prepared for disruption across geographic reach, economic efficiency, and technical unification. Get the scoop from @CR_MSchneider https://t.co/ZWmmEiPRON https://t.co/Fcbqu9yXjC
AI Agents Auto-Procure Vercel Marketplace Integrations
So exciting. Agents today write code and deploy it to Vercel, but now can also “do procurement” of third party services. Autonomous infrastructure means giving a path for the agents to *not* re-invent every wheel. You can just 𝚟𝚌 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚍𝚍 things.
Stack Overflow Adds New Features (Including AI Assist), Rethinks 'Look and Feel'
Stack Overflow announced a beta redesign that introduces AI Assist, open‑ended questions, coding challenges, and an updated UI component library. The changes come as the platform’s monthly question volume has fallen 78% from its 2014 peak of 200,000 questions. The...
AI Must Safeguard Today’s Clients and Build Tomorrow’s Loyalty
When using AI to improve revenue performance, you need to measure two things simultaneously: 1) whether AI is protecting the relationships that fund the business today, and 2) whether it’s earning the loyalty of the customers who will fund it...
Every SaaS Business Has a Viable Path Forward.
Big @intercom & @Fin_ai update with numbers from @eoghan There is a way forward for every SaaS business...you just might not like it. Read on...👇
10 Best Email List Management Tools for 2026 (Expert Comparison)
Neal Schaffer’s guide ranks the top ten email list management platforms for 2026, highlighting free‑plan generosity, automation depth, and integration capabilities. The analysis shows Sender and MailerLite provide the most generous free tiers, while tools like Klaviyo and ActiveCampaign excel for...
Snowflake's Q4 Surge Fueled by Data, AI Demand
.@Snowflake delivers strong Q4 amid data, AI demand https://t.co/65KzFIJHZ8 Snowflake reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter and said it added 740 net new customers, up 40% from a year ago. @ldignan https://t.co/bQQMWkJHHe
Self‑service Skyrockets when Customers Can Edit Orders
Installed @cleverific Friday, 100 customers self-served by Monday. If you let customers edit their own orders, they will. https://t.co/5r6uqAgzQ2
Ahrefs Report Builder Gains Higher Limits and New Features
We heard your feedback. @ahrefs Report Builder is now more accessible, with higher limits to make reporting easier for everyone. 📈 -More reports & widgets for Lite+ -Scheduling now on Standard+ https://t.co/bLKyBCrL3w
Focus on Churn Retention, Not Just Cost Cuts
the only analysis on this, imo, outside of "efficiency savings" through mass layoffs (🤮🤮🤮🤮) and tech stack consolidation is what percentage of "churn and return" customers from these two cohorts would extend their subscription lifetime with very little CAC increases.