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
A Coxswain on Your Shoulder
Tom Tunguz created an AI meeting‑review agent that acts like a coxswain, silently analyzing recordings of pitch meetings, one‑on‑ones and investor calls. The system scores each conversation on a five‑point rubric—active listening, empathy, questioning, clarity and technical depth—providing concrete feedback such as pause recommendations and deeper‑question habits. By turning subjective communication traits into measurable data, the tool offers nightly, actionable insights for personal improvement. Its open‑source nature invites broader adoption across remote‑work environments.
Founders Reveal Real AI Metrics, Pricing, GTM Strategies
At SaaStr AI 2026, no vanity metrics Founders are sharing real numbers: What AI features actually convert. What pricing actually works. What GTM motions actually scale. May 12-14. SF Bay Bring your Granola. Or even a notebook. https://t.co/BCPo2TiqOt
F5 Shares Jump After Revenue and Earnings Beat in Fiscal First Quarter
F5 Inc. posted fiscal Q1 2026 revenue of $822 million, up 7% YoY, and adjusted earnings per share of $4.45, surpassing analyst expectations of $756 million and $3.65 EPS. Systems revenue surged 37% while software revenue fell 8%, and global services grew...
Commvault Shares Hit Two-Year Low After Below-Expectation Revenue Outlook
Commvault Systems saw its shares tumble more than 30% to a two‑year low after the data‑protection firm forecast fiscal 2026 fourth‑quarter revenue of $305‑$308 million, falling short of the $314 million analysts expected. The miss came despite a strong third‑quarter performance, with...
Free AI-Powered Tech News Beta Launches on Pulse
Pulse is being covered on the front page of Pulse right now. How meta. 👀 Our beta launched today. Up to 50 registered users so far. Grab a free beta account and follow some topics, publishers, creators, companies, and investors...
Enterprise SaaS Marketing in 2026: What’s Actually Working for Enterprise Customer Acquisition
Enterprise SaaS founders identified a concise set of channels that actually close high‑value customers in 2026. SEO focused on commercial, high‑intent keywords and LinkedIn retargeting, sponsored messages, and founder‑led ads emerged as the top performers. Invite‑only masterclasses, strategic affiliate and...
Built a Replit App to Classify $10K+ SaaS Raises
Tomorrow, I'll release my latest tech fundraising report in my weekly newsletter. I categorized the software offered from my 4Q25 data points. I'll slowly work through my dataset to categorize the parent category and sub-category of software of 10K+ raises....
LLM-as-a-Courtroom
Falconer introduced an “LLM‑as‑a‑Courtroom” system that automatically updates documentation when code changes, framing the decision process as a legal trial with prosecutor, defense, jury, and judge agents. The architecture extracts exact code and document excerpts, constructs arguments, and lets multiple...
AI-Powered Content Suggestions Keep Docs Fresh Automatically
Support teams have always found it incredibly hard to keep docs/help centres up to date with policy & product changes, but it's more important now than ever before. Docs are load-bearing infrastructure in the AI era. Hence one of my...
The World's First AI-Curated Technology News App
Pulse, the world’s first AI‑curated technology news app, launched its beta today, inviting users to test a personalized feed of articles, videos, podcasts, and social posts across dozens of tech verticals. The platform lets users follow specific topics, publishers, creators,...
SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned
In December 2025 SoundCloud disclosed unauthorized activity that exposed profile data for roughly 30 million users, about 20 % of its base. The breach revealed email addresses, usernames, avatars, follower counts and limited geographic information, which were later mapped to individual accounts. Attackers...
The History of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg | GitHub
Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript, reflects on his four‑decade career in a new GitHub interview. He discusses the 2014 migration of TypeScript to GitHub, the recent decision to rewrite its compiler in Go for...
ACA Group and Anduin Launch Integrated AML/KYC Onboarding
ACA Group and Anduin have formed a strategic partnership to deliver a fully integrated AML/KYC and investor onboarding solution for private‑markets firms. The offering combines Anduin’s fund‑subscription platform with ACA’s ComplianceAlpha® AML/KYC managed services, creating a single‑point workflow that automates...
Would You Trust Amazon with Your QuickBooks?
Amazon has launched an embedded QuickBooks Online app inside Seller Central, fulfilling a promise made last year. The multi‑year partnership with Intuit lets sellers import financial data, view profit‑and‑loss trends, and monitor inventory across channels, with a three‑month free trial...
Price for VAT Upfront or Lose 20% Margins
VAT will kill your international margins if you don't price for it upfront. Here's the mistake I see all the time: Brand launches in the EU. Pricing stays the same as in the US. Orders start coming in, and revenue looks good...
Ai2 Launches Family of Open-Source AI Developer Agents that Adapt to Any Codebase
The Allen Institute for AI unveiled Ai2 Open Coding Agents, a family of open‑source developer agents that can be customized to any codebase. The flagship model, SERA‑32B, solves over 55 % of SWE‑Bench Verified problems, while the smaller SERA‑8B reaches 29.4 %—far...
Experian and Fincentive Join Forces to Launch Pension Data Platform
Experian has partnered with Fincentive to launch a pension data platform that digitises the traditional annual pension payslip into up to twelve monthly digital updates. The solution leverages Experian’s data‑enrichment and PayDashboard infrastructure combined with Fincentive’s pension‑specific intelligence to provide...
Revolut Business Launches Subscriptions to Unify Revenue Operations
Revolut Business has launched Subscriptions in the UK, an in‑app solution that lets merchants create, automate and manage recurring payment plans without additional billing software fees. The feature consolidates billing, payments and customer data, offering instant reconciliation, API access, free‑trial...
Risotto Raises $10M Seed to Use AI to Make Ticketing Systems Easier to Use
Risotto announced a $10 million seed round led by Bonfire Ventures, backed by Y Combinator and other investors. The startup builds an AI‑driven middleware that sits between ticket‑management platforms like Jira and the internal tools used to resolve issues. By leveraging prompt...
Built Multiple Production Sites in 36 Hours with Claude Code
I spent about 36 hours with Claude Code over the weekend (was snowed in here in Dallas). Here are *all* the projects that went to Production: 1) I own the domain https://t.co/wXlXkIrr5p. I've always wanted to do something with it. So...
CFOs and Accountants Are Calling the Shots when It Comes to AI Decision-Making, Says Sage Group CEO Stephen Hare. That...
Sage Group reported a 10% revenue increase to £674 million for the quarter ending 31 December, led by a 15% rise in its Business Cloud segment. CEO Stephen Hare highlighted early AI monetisation through the Sage Co‑Pilot bundle, but stressed that large‑scale...
Please Stop Selling Like It’s 2021
The post argues that B2B sales tactics from 2021 are obsolete in 2026. Buyers now expect AI‑driven solutions that install themselves, cost less, and eliminate migration friction. Demonstrations and lengthy calls no longer persuade when customers can “vibe‑code” their own...
Inbound Leads Double Wins, Cut Costs, Boost Sales
You didn't start a company and become a Founder so you could sit down all day and cold email and cold DM people. What if your ideal customers actually came to you as inbound leads? What if they consumed your content,...
Databricks Reports Finds Surge in AI Agent Adoption Despite Governance Bottlenecks
Databricks’ 2026 State of AI Agents report shows multi‑agent workflow usage exploding 327% over four months, yet only 19% of surveyed enterprises have deployed agents at scale. The study, based on activity from over 20,000 customers—including 60% of the Fortune 500—highlights...
Airtable Gets Into the AI Agent Game with Superagent
Airtable unveiled Superagent, an AI‑driven multi‑agent platform, even as its market cap slumped from $11.7 billion to roughly $4 billion. The new product coordinates specialized AI assistants to produce interactive market analyses, drawing on premium data such as FactSet, Crunchbase, and SEC...
Nerd Apply Raises $3.2M in Seed Funding
NYC‑based Nerd Apply, a privacy‑first college counseling platform, announced a $3.2 million seed round. The round was led by Riverpark Ventures and featured investors such as Alumni Ventures, 1.61 Ventures, Google Ventures CEO David Krane, and others. Nerd Apply currently supports...
The B2B Experience Test: How Many Systems Does It Take to Serve One Customer?
The article highlights that typical B2B enterprises rely on six to ten disparate systems to support a single customer journey, leading to fragmented experiences and slow commercial change. It argues that true unified commerce is not about consolidating all functions...
Leaptree Unveils Next-Generation AI Enhancements for Optimize, Redefining CX Quality Assurance in Salesforce
Leaptree announced a suite of AI‑powered enhancements to its Optimize platform, enabling full‑coverage quality assurance across voice, email and chat within Salesforce. The new features automatically audit every interaction, generate dynamic scorecards, and deliver real‑time trend dashboards. By embedding these...
GRIN Opens Instant, Self-Serve Access to Its Creator Marketing Platform
GRIN, a leading creator management platform, introduced instant, self‑serve access with month‑to‑month pricing, eliminating demos, contracts, and long‑term commitments. The new offering includes a 30‑day free trial and credit‑card billing, allowing brands of any size to launch and scale creator...
Swimlane Unleashes Agentic AI Fleet and Agent Builder for Cybersecurity
Swimlane unveiled its AI Agent workforce, branding the new Hero AI agents as native extensions of the Turbine platform. The agents claim to perform work equivalent to over 60,000 SOC analysts each day and can be dragged into low‑code playbooks via...
Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
A new free scanner called the EU‑Sovereignty Audit lets website owners instantly assess reliance on non‑EU services such as Google Fonts, Analytics, CDNs, video embeds and more. It checks eight categories—hosting, fonts, analytics, CDN, video, chat, social and maps—to reveal...
My Main AI Inc Sets New Standard for Intelligent Automation at $49 a Month
My Main AI Inc. launched a $49‑per‑month subscription that combines text, image, voice, and video generation tools into a single platform. The plan draws on more than 100 large‑scale AI models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and...
Show HN: Build Web Automations via Demonstration
Notte’s Demonstrate Mode, unveiled on Dec 18 2025, lets users create web automations by simply performing a task once in their browser. The tool records each click, keystroke, and navigation, then instantly outputs editable, production‑ready code without requiring prompts or syntax knowledge....
From User Guides to Agentic AI Onboarding
Over 500 registrations so far for tomorrow’s AI Onboarding webinar with Mickey Alon ! Every SaaS company these days is claiming they’re "AI-native," but very few actually are. Most are just taking old SaaS onboarding and bolting on a chatbot....
Customer Success Compensation Lacks True Variable Incentives
How are Customer Success team's incentivized? Despite WHERE we tend to put CS on the P&L, they are NOT paid like sales I surveyed 132 companies on their CS compensation structures. And the VAST majority of CSMs are on plans...
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How Studocu Is Redefining Exam Prep With AI and over 50 Million Documents [Sponsored]
Studocu, founded by four TU Delft students in 2013, has grown into a global EdTech platform serving 60 million monthly users in over 100 countries. Its library now hosts more than 50 million study documents from 120 000 schools, with roughly 50 000 new...
Disconnected Systems Cause Bad CX; AI Agents Can Fix
Behind almost every bad customer experience with a big company or government is tech systems that aren't connected to each other. This is one of the biggest opportunities for AI agents to improve CX.
How Akur8 Boosted Pricing at Idaho Farm Bureau
Idaho Farm Bureau Insurance adopted Akur8’s advanced pricing platform to replace fragmented, manual pricing processes. The insurer moved beyond traditional GLMs, integrating penalisation, credibility techniques and spatial analysis for more stable, long‑term rate predictions. Real‑time dashboards now let actuaries and...
DoControl Launches Adaptive AI Alerts to Continuously Pinpoint SaaS Risk
DoControl unveiled an AI‑powered, agentic alerting system that continuously learns a company’s SaaS usage to spot genuine risk. Unlike static rule‑based alerts, the new solution analyzes patterns, intent, and business context from HRIS and identity sources, dramatically cutting noise. It...
Why Vertical SaaS Needs Purpose-Built Billing and Pricing Systems
Vertical SaaS firms confront unique billing challenges that generic pricing platforms cannot meet. Industry-specific workflows demand pricing logic tied to units such as locations, providers, or transactions. Purpose‑built monetization engines align charges with delivered value, reducing errors and accelerating sales....
Symbiotic Security Raises $10M in Seed Funding
Symbiotic Security, a Paris‑based AI‑first customer research firm, announced a $10 million seed round. The round was led by Alven and Drysdale with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo, Factorial Cap and angels from Hugging Face and Adaptive ML. The capital will fund rapid product...
Archyl – The Modern Platform for C4 Model Documentation
Archyl launches an AI‑powered platform for documenting C4 model architectures, enabling automatic discovery of system structures directly from source code. The tool offers natural‑language conversations to query, visualize, and modify diagrams, create ADRs, and retrieve documentation without leaving the developer...
Product Pass Drop: Canva, ElevenLabs, Manus, Factory, Amp, Railway, Framer—Now Free with Your Paid Subscription
In this episode of Lenny's Reads, the host announces seven new premium partners—Canva, ElevenLabs, Manus, Factory, Amp, Railway, and Framer—added to the Product Pass, boosting the total value of a paid subscription to over $25,000. He walks through each tool’s...
How Applying Cognitive Diversity to LLMs Could Transform the User Experience
Recent research from Carnegie Mellon and Penn State demonstrates that large language models can be trained to reflect human cognitive styles, producing adaptive or innovative responses based on prompt framing. Adaptive prompts steer LLMs toward feasible, structured solutions, while innovative...
Brickanta Closes $8M Round to Expand AI Use in Construction Planning
Brickanta, a Stockholm‑based AI platform for construction, closed an $8 million seed round led by Northzone, with participation from tech‑savvy angels and Y Combinator. The startup’s AI‑native operating system focuses on pre‑construction workflows such as bid analysis, cost estimation, and procurement. It...
Revolut Business Moves Into Revenue Operations with Recurring Billing Tool
Revolut Business has launched a native recurring billing tool that lets merchants automate subscription payments without paying for separate billing software. The feature is built into the existing Revolut Business platform, so users incur no additional subscription fees. It integrates...
AICA Launches New AI-Powered Product Classification Platform for UNSPSC, GS1 GPC, and More
AICA Data International unveiled an AI‑powered Product Classification Platform that automates mapping to UNSPSC and GS1 GPC standards. The solution delivers over 95% accuracy, handling 40,000 to 6 million items per hour, and provides a Reliability Score for each output. It...
Canadian Retailers Urged to Build Trust and Personalization Through Technology: SOTI Study
Canadian retailers are under pressure to rebuild consumer trust and deliver personalized experiences as inflation curtails spending, according to SOTI’s latest global retail tech study. The survey of 1,000 Canadians shows 83% are shopping more carefully, while 53% expect retailers...
Conquer Launches Voice Plus, A Mobile-First Field Sales App That Eliminates Manual Work
Conquer has introduced Voice Plus, a mobile‑first app that lets field sales reps capture calls, meetings and notes in under 30 seconds, removing the need for end‑of‑day CRM admin. The solution is built natively within Salesforce, syncing activity instantly to...
New Relic Data Report Reveals Clear Link Between AIOps Usage and Increased Engineer Productivity
New Relic’s 2026 AI Impact Report, based on 6.6 million users in 2025, shows that engineers leveraging the platform’s generative AI and AIOps features ship code 80% more frequently than peers without AI. AI‑strengthened observability cuts alert noise by 27% and...