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
Is Perplexity's New Computer a Safer Version of OpenClaw? How It Works
Perplexity unveiled Computer, a multi‑agent orchestration platform that combines more than a dozen cutting‑edge AI models into a single digital worker. The system, currently limited to Perplexity Max users, uses Claude Opus 4.6 for core reasoning and delegates specialized tasks to models like Google’s Nano Banana, Veo, Grok and GPT‑5.2. Positioned as a safer alternative to OpenClaw, Computer runs inside a secure sandbox and offers users granular control over model selection. Perplexity claims thousands of internal tasks have validated its quality and reliability.
Domo's 0.8x ARR Price Masks Zero Growth, Broken Economics
Domo trades at 0.8x ARR and just announced they are formally looking to sell. While they have a "cheap" multiple, revenue growth is 0% and they are barely FCF breakeven. I.e. the unit economics are broken. But might make sense to the...
BCNEXXT Adds HLG-Based HDR To Vipe Platform
BCNEXXT has integrated live HLG‑based HDR playout into its cloud‑native Vipe platform, supporting UHD 2160p BT.2100 HLG ingest and output. The solution lets broadcasters run HDR and SDR streams side‑by‑side, especially for live sports, while minimizing cross‑conversion steps. Vipe’s architecture...
Founders Beware: ROFR Clauses Can Block Future Exits
For minority investors to include protective provisions within their purchase agreements is common practice, but one provision that founders should be particularly aware of is the right of first refusal (ROFR). A ROFR clause places an obligation on the company...
Patientdesk AI Raises $1M Pre-Seed Backed by Y Combinator to Modernize Dental Front Desks
Patientdesk AI, a Y Combinator W26 startup, secured a $1 million pre‑seed round led by Y Combinator and E2VC to build an AI‑powered front‑desk system for dental practices. The platform automates the entire patient intake flow—answering calls, qualifying prospects, scheduling appointments,...
How to Evaluate a Salesforce-Connected Partner Portal Before It Breaks Your CRM
Partner portals marketed as "seamlessly integrated" with Salesforce often rely on shallow field‑mapping, leading to data drift, sync failures, and constant admin overhead. A mirroring integration replicates the Salesforce schema and IDs, keeping Salesforce as the single source of truth...
BREAKING: Inside Nooks’ Launch: Why AI-Native Sales Tools Are Challenging Legacy Platforms, with Co-Founder & CEO Dan Lee
In this episode, Dan Lee, co‑founder and CEO of Nooks, unveils the new Agent Workspace and AI Sequences, explaining how AI‑native tools are reshaping the top‑of‑funnel sales process. He contrasts Nooks with legacy sequencing platforms, highlighting its ability to automate...
April Launches New Platform for Wealth Management
April has introduced an AI‑driven tax platform aimed at wealth managers and financial advisors, usable as a standalone solution or embedded within existing systems. The platform delivers a real‑time dashboard that surfaces client tax workflows, documents, and financial insights, while...
DUPAY: The Income Protection Platform Turning Unpaid Creator Invoices Into Recoverable Revenue
DUPAY, launched in May 2023, offers a subscription‑based income‑protection platform for creators, agencies, and small businesses. Leveraging AI‑generated demand letters and a three‑letter escalation protocol, the service reports an 81% success rate in recovering unpaid invoices across 16 countries. Beyond...
Guidde Raises $50M in Series B Funding
Guidde, an Israeli AI‑driven digital adoption platform, announced a $50 million Series B round. The financing was led by PSG Equity and included strategic investors monday.com, Norwest, Entrée Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Inkberry Ventures. The capital will accelerate the company’s global rollout...
XAML.io Adds Support for Sharing Code via a Link
Userware released XAML.io 0.6, a browser‑based IDE for .NET built on OpenSilver. The update introduces URL‑based code sharing, allowing anyone to view, run, or fork a project without affecting the original. It also adds native NuGet package support for .NET Standard...
Cloud Challengers
Cloud Challengers, hosted by Notion Capital and Google Cloud, convenes Europe’s top 100 B2B software founders after analysing 200,000 companies. The fifth‑annual report identifies firms with outsized growth potential, and inclusion historically triples the likelihood of securing the next funding...
Pivot to AI Secures Enterprise Deals, Fuels Growth
In this episode of Founder Firesides, @sdianahu talks with Ali Akhtar and Armen Forget of @LetterAICo, who just announced their $40M Series B. After pivoting during YC, they landed enterprise customers like Lenovo in the batch and expanded rapidly. They discuss...
Elly Debuts AI-Native Hiring Platform and Raises $8M
Elly launched an AI-native hiring platform and closed an $8 million funding round led by Sorenson Capital, with Atomic and Next Wave Capital participating. The platform consolidates sourcing, interviewing, and applicant tracking into a single AI-driven system, automatically capturing interview insights...
CloudCasa Expands Red Hat OpenShift Data Protection Across Edge and Hybrid Cloud
CloudCasa has upgraded its backup and recovery platform to better serve Red Hat OpenShift deployments across core, edge, and hybrid cloud environments. The update adds native SMB protocol support as a backup target, letting customers use existing SMB storage or operator‑deployed...
Jira’s Latest Update Allows AI Agents and Humans to Work Side by Side
Atlassian introduced “Agents in Jira,” allowing AI agents to be assigned, tracked, and managed alongside human users within the Jira dashboard. The feature, now in open beta, lets teams assign tickets to AI, set deadlines, and monitor progress with the...
EP 721: 3 New NotebookLM Updates You Can’t Miss: Editable Slides, Mobile Updates and More
In this episode Jordan dives into three major NotebookLM updates: enhanced mobile capabilities that let users edit infographics, slide decks, and generate full‑screen video overviews on their phones; a new conversational studio generation workflow that lets users iteratively chat with...
BRYTER Offers Vibe Coding, Returns to Its Roots
Bryter, originally a no‑code workflow platform for lawyers, has launched a general‑release of “vibe coding,” a conversational AI‑driven approach that lets users build applications by describing logic in natural language. The feature blends Bryter’s no‑code roots with generative AI, enabling...
Turn Agency Data Into AI Powerhouse: $1M to $18M
I interviewed a founder who turned his agency into an AI SaaS. $1M to $18M ARR in 9 months. The secret? 6 years of agency data trained the AI. @rich_fyxer_ai (Fyxer AI) told me how he pulled this off. Here...
Lightrun Debuts Real-Time AI Site Reliability Engineer for Autonomous Software Remediation
Lightrun Inc. unveiled an AI‑powered Site Reliability Engineer that can generate missing runtime evidence on‑the‑fly, eliminating the need for redeployments. The tool leverages the company’s patented Sandbox and Runtime Context engine to capture live, line‑level execution data, prove root causes,...
When Innovation Gets Stuck: Humanity at the Core
A Parallels survey of 600+ global IT leaders found 94% fear vendor lock‑in, especially in health systems where platforms now underpin clinical, security and data functions. The study shows a shift from cost‑avoidance to protecting organisational freedom, prompting hybrid and...
TCN Secures Arum Approved Status for Operator Platform
TCN’s cloud‑based contact‑center solution Operator has earned Arum Approved System status after an independent assessment, confirming it meets rigorous operational, compliance and scalability standards for regulated credit and collections environments. The certification highlights Operator’s omnichannel capabilities, rules‑based automation and configurable...
Kinfolk Closes $7M Seed Round for AI-Driven HR Platform
London‑based Kinfolk announced a $7.2 million seed round led by AlbionVC, bringing its total capital to $8.5 million. The startup offers an AI‑native HR workforce‑operations platform that combines agentic AI, Slack/Teams integration, request management, lifecycle automation, and analytics. Kinfolk positions the solution...
SolveAI Raises $50M to Help Employees Build Their Own Enterprise Software
London‑based SolveAI announced a $50 million funding round – $45 million Series A led by GV and a $5 million pre‑seed from Accel – to scale its AI‑driven no‑code platform. The solution lets employees across functions generate fully compliant enterprise applications using natural‑language prompts,...
Data Moats Drive Billion-Dollar Valuations Over Commodities
So Profound was valued at $1B… while Similarweb is valued at just ~$158M ($229.58M market cap minus $72M in cash). Make it make sense. One is essentially a commodity product, competing with a horde of startups offering very similar tools: AirOps, Peec...
Sauce Labs Launches Industry’s First Programmable Mobile Device Cloud for the AI Era
Sauce Labs announced the Real Device Access API, the first programmable mobile device cloud designed for the AI era. The API lets developers control real Android and iOS devices through HTTP, issuing ADB or xcrun commands, streaming video, and accessing...
Agentive Appoints Former Google Cloud Leader David Keene as Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer
Agentive announced that former Google Cloud executive David Keene will serve as co‑founder and chief revenue officer. Keene brings more than three decades of leadership at Google Cloud, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP and recent CMO roles at Wipro Europe and Speechmatics....
Born in Ukraine, Ready for the World, 7 Ukrainian-Founded Startups You Should Know About
Ukraine’s startup ecosystem is punching above its weight, producing seven diverse companies that span AI‑driven compliance, plant‑based nutrition, eco‑housing, grant consulting, industrial monitoring, metal‑free batteries, and wireless power transfer. These founders leverage local talent and diaspora networks to address global...
My SaaS Was Born Solving My Own Problems
People often ask me where my business ideas come from. From problems. Mostly my own 😅 Here's the genesis of my main SaaS:
What AX Can Do to Deliver Cohesion and Uniformity to AI Agents
The article introduces the concept of Agent Experience (AX), a discipline for preparing enterprise systems so AI agents can discover, invoke, and manage tools reliably. It stresses that agents require precise, structured documentation, robust API specifications, and context‑engineering such as...
Small Teams Can Automate Growth at Scale
I think a lot of people are still underestimating how much leverage a small team can have right now. We have been running on organic inbound growth for +1 year. Getting new customers 100% from SEO/AIO/referrals. I'm one engineer focusing...
Vercel Doubles Python Bundle Size in Major Upgrade
Python on Vercel is getting major upgrades, starting with 2x larger max bundle size. More to come.
CEO Sets Out the Case for Beehiiv versus Substack
Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk argues the platform diverges from Substack by giving publishers full ownership of their audience and charging flat monthly fees instead of a revenue share. Beehiiv bundles newsletters, website hosting, ad networks, growth tools and soon podcasts...
Beyond Launch: Platform Compliance Drives $100M Advantage
Most founders optimize for the first milestone: launch fast, check the box, move on. @DrataHQ optimized for what comes after. “When you need more than SOC 2 - which happens when you’re successful - we’re right there with you.” Feature vs. platform thinking....
FinTech-as-a-Service to Hit $1.82 Trillion by 2035
Fintech as a Service Market Forecasted to Reach USD 1.82 Trillion by 2035 Driven by Rising Demand for Embedded Finance, Digital Banking, and Scalable Cloud-Based Solutions https://t.co/i6QoyzAi7r https://t.co/HwNAWxpkN8
SDK.finance Announces Top Transactional Ledger Software Solutions for 2026
SDK.finance released its 2026 list of top transactional ledger software, underscoring the shift from batch‑based bookkeeping to real‑time financial truth engines. The article defines transactional ledger software as the central double‑entry system that powers banks, digital wallets, marketplaces and cross‑border...
Prioritize P95/P99 Metrics to Empower Power Users
If only more products would measure p95 / p99 metrics and act on them, instead of looking at medians (p50) or averages (that mask outliers) p99 is almost always your power users. Fixing stuff for them has outsized impact Great example on...
Stop Automating Tasks that No Longer Matter
A big failure pattern in the Web 2.0 era was making it extremely easy to do things that sadly no one wanted to do. A big failure pattern in the AI era is automating entire processes+workflows that actually no longer...
Penny Software Expands Global Footprint with New UK Office to Drive AI Procurement
Penny Software, the Saudi‑based AI procurement platform, has opened a new office in Derby, UK, to serve as a regional hub for its growing European client base. The move follows rapid adoption of its cloud‑native solution across more than 75...
Enterprise Software Often Steals Your Data Control
Enterprise tech is flawed: customers often unknowingly surrender control of their business operations to software vendors. Is your data truly yours? #Tech #SaaS #DataControl https://t.co/LvK7OVKrUa
Paper Now Lets AI Agents Edit HTML Directly
The evolution of @paper is incredible to watch. The team has a very grounded perspective of how software actually gets built these days, and are shipping all the important pieces of glue that most AI design tools miss.
AI in Churn Reduction: What G2’s 2026 Expert Survey Found
Reducing churn remains a top priority for SaaS firms, and AI is moving from experimental dashboards to operational tools. G2’s 2026 expert survey of Custify, ChurnZero, Chargebee and Velaris shows AI platforms now blend usage, sentiment, billing and relationship data...
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🚨 If Vercel and Railway are for full-on apps, https://t.co/v46R668Id4 is for everything else. My friend @adamludwin just dropped web hosting for AI agents. Just tell your agent: "publish to https://t.co/v46R668Id4", get a URL back in seconds 🤯 Free. No sign-up required. https://t.co/BJm3jOTehK
SaaStr 843: Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
In this episode, SaaStr host Jason Lemkin discusses the recent crash in software stock valuations and what it means for SaaS founders, emphasizing that true AI companies must show accelerating growth. He critiques public SaaS companies for superficial AI hype...
Cezanne HR Launches Cezanne Expenses, Giving Businesses Up to Three Hours Back Per Claim
Cezanne HR has introduced Cezanne Expenses, an integrated expense‑management module that promises up to three hours saved per claim. The solution combines mobile OCR receipt capture, mileage calculation and real‑time dashboards within the existing HR platform. Powered by Webexpenses, it...
Walk Through: Ayora – AI-Driven Matter Pricing
Ayora launched an AI‑driven matter pricing and tracking platform for law firms. Its proprietary data enrichment engine cleans historic matter and time records, addressing the “garbage in/garbage out” challenge. The solution offers agentic pricing, allowing lawyers to set rates and...
Secfix Raises $12M Series A to Build End-to-End Security Compliance Platform
Munich‑based Secfix closed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A round led by Alstin Capital, with Bayern Kapital and existing backer neosfer participating. The funding will accelerate Secfix’s European expansion and the development of its AI‑native automation and CISO‑as‑a‑Service capabilities. Secfix’s platform automates...
China Airlines, Agoda Launch StayMiles Hotel Platform
Agoda’s Rocket Travel division has partnered with China Airlines to launch StayMiles, a white‑label hotel booking platform for the carrier’s loyalty members. The service gives members access to over 600,000 properties worldwide and lets them earn up to 10,000 miles...
RWS Global Deploys Box’s AI Tools to Streamline Contract Workflow
RWS Global partnered with Box to embed AI‑driven tools into its contract lifecycle, leveraging Box Enterprise Advanced, Box Doc Gen, and Box Sign. The new no‑code workflow automates document generation, legal approval, and e‑signature, cutting processing time from roughly 20 minutes to...
Keep Options Open: Don’t Lock All Into SAP RISE
Prioritizing future optionality means avoiding bundling everything into one SAP RISE contract. Consider Azure or AWS for hyperscaler infrastructure. #SAP #CloudStrategy https://t.co/1mg1hFtbDb