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
Forterro Defies European IT Spending Caution with Strong Cloud and AI-Driven Growth in 2025
Forterro posted €375 million in 2025 revenue, delivering double‑digit growth in sales, recurring revenue, and bookings despite a cautious European IT climate. Cloud bookings surged 30% year‑over‑year, pushing recurring revenue to 74% of total. Net revenue retention hit 114% and gross retention 95%, underscoring strong expansion within the existing customer base. The company is gearing up to launch a fully AI‑enabled platform while integrating recent acquisitions that added over €100 million in revenue.
Feature Upgrades Cut User Complaints by 78%
Here's a fun example of building features that have a direct customer impact and then measuring the results. We were getting more complaints of people losing their work in @kit when they used multiple computers, lost internet, or their browser had...
Arcjet Release V1 of Its SDK for Enabling Security Capabilities in JavaScript Apps
Arcjet launched version 1.0 of its JavaScript SDK, delivering a stable, production‑ready API for security functions such as bot mitigation, email verification, rate limiting, and data redaction. The SDK can block malicious bots, enforce custom traffic rules, and protect against...
Pega Targets $2bn Revenue Milestone as It Bets on 'Predictable AI' - CEO Alan Trefler Slams 'Delusional' Multi-Agent Approach
Pegasystems beat its guidance as Pega Cloud annual contract value surged 33% year‑over‑year, positioning the firm to cross the $2 billion revenue mark by 2026. CEO Alan Trefler championed a "predictable AI" Blueprint approach, arguing that design‑time AI‑driven workflows are more...
Valuation Blends SaaS Metrics with Deal Structuring
Valuation is understandably one of the most top-of-mind topics founders want to cover in our conversations. Something we often emphasize is that there are two sides of valuation: the objective side based on core SaaS metrics, and the subjective side...
Press Release: Airlines Take Advantage of Open Access to Routehappy
ATPCO opened Routehappy to all Community Participation airlines on 1 January 2026, pushing the platform’s adoption to 106 carriers – a 152% increase in one year. Since June 2025, more than 60 airlines, including Finnair, China Airlines, SAS and Singapore Airlines, have uploaded...
Navigating the Gray Zone: Pivot, Growth, AI Adaptation
In this episode of Design Review, @aaron_epstein sits down with @jornvandijk, the CEO and Co-founder of @framer. Together they unpack the brutal “gray zone” between early revenue and real product-market fit, the pivot that reignited their growth, and how to adapt...
Start with Familiar Use Case, Not Lofty Vision
Most founders position their products around their ultimate vision rather than what users can immediately understand. This is why so many brilliant products struggle to gain traction early on. Flo Crivello from Lindy shared a perfect case study with me:...
Exclusive: Winn.ai Raises $18M Series A For AI-Powered Real-Time Sales Assistant
Winn.ai, a Tel Aviv‑based AI sales‑assistant startup, closed an $18 million Series A round. The financing was co‑led by Insight Partners, S Capital and Mangusta Capital, raising total capital to $35 million since its 2022 launch. Winn’s real‑time AI co‑pilot guides reps during...
Instant AI-Powered Resume Personalization with Haiku – Free Testers Wanted
My fellow job seekers, listen up! I've been quietly working on a killer app to make resume personalization as easy as possible. It's called Haiku. Upload your resume and search for jobs. The chrome extension follows you around as you...
SaaS Must Evolve Into AI‑Powered Revenue Workflow Platforms
Is the SaaSpocalypse just a market correction or a crisis of defensibility? The pillars and moats we’ve leaned on for a decade are eroding in real-time: Systems of Action are no longer defensible. When anyone can use LLM + AI...
Pigment CEO Eléonore Crespo: 'I'd Rather Learn About AI than Watch a Movie'
Pigment, the Paris‑based business‑planning platform founded in 2019, has become a unicorn valued at over $1 bn after a $145 m Series D round led by ICONIQ Growth and Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners. The company’s AI agents, launched last year, can perform CFO‑level scenario analysis and...
Moderne Introduces Prethink to Give AI Agents the Structured Knowledge They’ve Been Missing
Moderne launched Prethink, a new capability that supplies AI agents with a pre‑computed, structured knowledge layer derived from an organization’s code and architecture. By leveraging a lossless semantic tree, Prethink captures types, dependencies, service boundaries, and other metadata before an...
TeamDynamix Now Available in Microsoft Marketplace
TeamDynamix announced that its suite of IT service management, automation, iPaaS, IT asset management and conversational AI solutions is now listed in the Microsoft Marketplace. The move leverages the fact that 85% of TeamDynamix’s customers already operate on Microsoft Azure,...
Fix Activation, Not Features, to End Plateaus
A plateau is not a failure. It means people are paying. Every month. They find enough value to stay. The problem isn't your product. It's your funnel. We found that only 25% of signups ever made their first post. That was the whole leak. Not...
Vida Expands AI Agent Operating System for Enterprise Scale
Vida unveiled a major expansion of its AI agent operating system, adding omnichannel capabilities and centralized control for enterprise deployments. The platform now supports voice, SMS, email and chat with real‑time observability, usage monitoring, and role‑based access. It offers LLM‑agnostic...
NetBox Labs Announces General Availability of NetBox Copilot, Delivering Enterprise-Ready AI Grounded in Accurate Infrastructure Data
NetBox Labs has launched the general availability of NetBox Copilot, an AI‑driven assistant embedded directly in the NetBox platform. The agent leverages NetBox’s semantic infrastructure map to deliver contextual answers, automate workflow execution, and even perform write operations such as...
Beyond Chatbots: How Cara Becomes Your Best CSR
In this episode, Nikhil Kansal, Co‑Founder & CTO of Cara, explains how AI can move beyond chatbots to act as a reliable Customer Service Representative (CSR) that completes end‑to‑end insurance service tasks. He highlights Cara’s role as a coordinating layer...
The First Signs of Burnout Are Coming From the People Who Embrace AI the Most
Harvard Business Review reports that embracing AI can inadvertently create burnout. UC Berkeley researchers spent eight months embedded in a 200‑person tech firm where workers voluntarily used AI tools. Without explicit pressure, employees expanded their to‑do lists, letting AI‑enabled efficiency...
AI Agents Boost Platform Growth by Simplifying Data and Code
When thinking through the future of software, it’s helpful to think through what will we produce more of vs. less of in the future due to agents. And what systems are tied to that production or consumption. Whether it’s a new...
Atomico and Project A Back Industrial Supply Startup Andercore in $40m Series B
Andercore, an AI‑powered trading platform for industrial supplies, announced a $40 million Series B round. The round was led by venture firms Atomico and Project A. The capital will accelerate product development and expand the platform’s reach across global manufacturers. Andercore aims to...
India’s Startup Wave in Manufacturing Is Reshaping Demand for Digital Design Tools: Dassault
Dassault Systèmes reports a rapid shift in Indian manufacturing toward digital design tools, driven by post‑COVID acceleration and a growing hardware startup ecosystem. Companies are embracing virtual twins to simulate products and factories, slashing prototype costs and waste. The firm’s...
Ship Only What Users Actually Need, Backed by Data
The best teams ship what they can prove users need. User research turns opinions into evidence and protects you from confident guesses. Get the receipts on your users with Seena Labs — seenalabs.io
Self‑Driving Infrastructure Gains New Runtime Log Tools
Full self-driving infrastructure getting closer every day. Today we shipped: 1️⃣ 𝚐𝚎𝚝_𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎_𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚜 in our MCP server¹ 2️⃣ 𝚟𝚌 𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚜 CLI filters² e.g.: --𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚜-𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝟺𝟶𝟺 --𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝 𝟷𝟶 Just ask Claude Code to fix your crashes. Or trigger an agent when an anomaly alert webhook...
ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks
ByteDance’s AI video platform Seedance 2.0 can ingest multiple media types, allowing users to blend up to nine images, three videos and three audio files into short clips. During testing, the tool’s facial‑to‑voice capability generated a voice nearly identical to...
Monaco Launches AI-Powered Startup Sales Automation
We're launching Monaco today. Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups. The platform disrupting sales with AI has finally arrived. https://t.co/mH03HIOdx8
Cisco Looses Splunk to Probe and Tame Its Growing Agentic Menagerie
Cisco announced an AI Agent Monitoring tool for Splunk Observability Cloud, visualising LLM and agent workflows while tracking performance, cost, and behaviour. The tool integrates with Cisco's AI Defense suite, which just became generally available and now includes Model Context...
Former Canva Exec’s Product Mapping Startup, Adora, Designs $9.9 Million Seed Round
Adora, an AI‑powered journey‑mapping platform co‑founded by former Canva product head Omar Salem, closed a $7 million seed round led by Blackbird Ventures. The tool automatically captures screens, interactions and user paths, turning them into live visual maps enriched with analytics...
Egypt’s Tactful AI Raises $1 Million Pre-Series A to Scale Agentic CX
Tactful AI, an Egyptian CX platform specializing in agentic AI, secured $1 million in a pre‑Series A round co‑led by Foras AI and M Empire. The funding will bolster growth in Egypt, validate expansion across EMEA, and accelerate R&D to enhance scalability...
The 2026 B2B SaaS Growth Program
The 2026 B2B SaaS Growth Program launches on March 12, 2026, offering a 16‑week, done‑with‑you experience for SaaS firms with $1M‑$100M ARR. It moves beyond theory, guiding teams week‑by‑week to build a predictable, repeatable revenue engine covering outbound, paid ads,...
Human Conversation Beats AI Emails for Real Resolution
Your AI wrote a perfect email. Their AI wrote a perfect response. Nobody said anything. You know exactly which thread I'm talking about. A customer was crashing out over email. Every message was longer, more detailed, more structured. And more...
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SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Feb 10, 2026
The SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind call highlighted three critical challenges facing SaaS firms: a senior developer juggling two full‑time jobs, a hotel‑software API provider transitioning to a self‑serve model, and a company negotiating earnout terms amid multiple acquisition offers. For the...
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Step by Step: How I’d Build and Sell a $100M SaaS If Starting Again
The author outlines a step‑by‑step playbook for building a SaaS company that can command a $100M‑plus exit. He advises bootstrapping to roughly $500K‑$1M ARR before raising capital, mastering unit economics, and making outbound and paid acquisition core growth engines. Community,...
Show HN: Clawe – Open-Source Trello for Agent Teams
Clawe is an open‑source, multi‑agent coordination platform that mimics Trello for AI squads. Built on the OpenClaw gateway, it lets developers run several agents with unique personalities, each waking on cron schedules to handle tasks. A Kanban‑style web dashboard powered...
PMVG Launches ‘TechBundle’ To Cut Costs, Modernize Public Media Operations
Public Media Venture Group (PMVG) introduced TechBundle, a modular suite that combines master control, transmission monitoring, traffic, and streaming services for local public media stations. By negotiating system‑wide pricing, the bundle offers enterprise‑grade tools at lower costs than separate contracts,...
PE Overvalued Saa
Entrepreneurs: private equity firms OVERVALUED SaaS companies during 2020-21. NOW, those “overvalued” companies are getting marked down 30-60% 🤯 If you’re an investor = BUY distressed assets LOW If you’re a startup founder = CASHFLOW CASHFLOW
Screen‑time App Earns $40K Profit by Stopping Scrolling
$40K profit for helping people stop scrolling. Live on @acquiredotcom: screen time app that automatically boots users out when their timer runs out. > $48K TTM revenue > $40K TTM profit > 500+ paying users Full listing: https://t.co/iTEIt81XrI https://t.co/vb6LdS8811
Kochava Launches Atlas Performance™: The Industry’s First Supply Performance System for Premium Publishers and Platforms
Kochava unveiled Atlas Performance, the first Supply Performance System designed for premium publishers and platforms. The solution integrates with existing ad servers, SSPs, and DSPs, delivering privacy‑safe first‑party data ingestion, AI‑driven optimization, and independent outcomes verification. A leading CTV OEM...
Show HN: Stripe-No-Webhooks – Sync Your Stripe Data to Your Postgres DB
The open‑source "stripe-no-webhooks" library lets developers integrate Stripe payments without writing webhook code. It syncs product plans, subscriptions, credits, wallets and usage data directly into a PostgreSQL schema, handling all webhook processing automatically. The package includes a CLI for initializing...
Show HN: HN Companion – Web App that Enhances the Experience of Reading HN
HN Companion is a free, open‑source web extension that adds AI‑generated summaries directly to Hacker News comment threads. It understands thread hierarchy, highlights key debates, and lets users jump to specific comments via a summary panel. Users can choose from...
Datadog Initiates Feature Flags to Help Engineering Teams Add New Functionality Quickly and Reliably
Datadog has launched a generally‑available Feature Flags service that tightly couples feature management with its observability platform. The new product links each flag to real‑time APM and RUM telemetry, enabling instant visibility into performance and reliability impacts. Automated canary rollouts,...
7 Best No-Code AI App Builders I Tested in 2026
Over 20 no‑code AI app builders were evaluated, with seven emerging as production‑ready. Platforms like Zite, Bubble, FlutterFlow, Figma Make, Base44, ToolJet and Glide each excel in specific use cases, from business workflows to native mobile apps. Zite stands out...
Show HN: Rowboat – AI Coworker that Turns Your Work Into a Knowledge Graph (OSS)
Rowboat is an open‑source, local‑first AI coworker that continuously harvests email, calendar and meeting‑note data to build a persistent knowledge graph stored as plain‑text Markdown. The system uses that graph to generate context‑aware artifacts such as slide decks, meeting briefs,...
Cisco Live Amsterdam - How Real Madrid Soccer Team Shoots for the Goal of the Ultimate Connected Fan Experience
Cisco has deepened its partnership with Real Madrid, turning the Santiago Bernabéu into a fully‑connected venue. The alliance adds an AI‑ready data centre, a 100 Gbps backbone linking the stadium to Real Madrid City, and a campus‑wide Wi‑Fi 7 rollout. Club CIO...
Linkup Raises $10M Seed Round Led by Gradient to Build Web Search for AI
Linkup announced a $10 million seed round headed by Gradient, with participation from Elaia, Seedcamp and several angel investors. The San Francisco‑Paris startup offers an API that feeds AI systems with real‑time, verifiable web information, moving beyond static training datasets. Founded by...
Planview Releases Connected Work Graph to Provide Insights Into Relationships Across Teams and Initiatives
Planview unveiled its Connected Work Graph, an AI‑driven module embedded in the Planview Anvi platform. The solution maps relationships across OKRs, initiatives, teams, and resources, delivering real‑time visualizations of dependencies. By continuously analyzing millions of work connections, it flags bottlenecks...
Pre‑AI SaaS Loses Appeal as Costs Rise
When was the last time you were excited to buy a pre-AI SaaS tool? When was the last time you felt like you were overpaying on a renewal for a pre-AI SaaS tool, and thought about cancelling? Hence, the markets
Permira Acquires A Majority Stake in TeamViewer
Private equity firm Permira has completed a majority acquisition of Germany‑based enterprise software provider TeamViewer through a public tender offer, while the company remains listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The deal, finalized in January 2026, gives Permira control to...
Competition Is Not Market Validation
The article argues that a crowded competitive landscape does not prove a large or attractive market. It explains that excess venture capital, low barriers to entry, and an oversupply of founders can create a swarm of startups even in modest...
Toast Links Dining to Instacart’s Marketplace; Ingenico Launches Its 360 Platform Plus AXIUM Terminals
Toast announced a partnership with Instacart, linking its restaurant platform to the Instacart Marketplace and making Instacart Business available for same‑day grocery procurement. The integration adds SmartScan barcode optimization and catalog attribution tools, enabling restaurants to quickly add items and...