Canva Adds Video to Its Pro Design Toolset and Steps up Its Enterprise Play
Canva closed 2025 with a $4 billion revenue run rate and a user base exceeding 265 million monthly active users. The company announced two strategic acquisitions—MangoAI, which automates video‑ad optimization, and Cavalry, a 2D animation platform—to broaden its pro‑design toolkit. Enterprise revenue now tops $500 million, roughly one‑eighth of total sales, as Canva rolls out a dedicated enterprise offering and free Affinity tools. New compliance features such as SSO, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and EU data residency reinforce its push into large‑scale corporate customers.
Quadient Powers MedExpress Digital Transformation with Automation of Prescription Workflows
Quadient announced that UK online pharmacy MedExpress has deployed its cloud‑based Quadient Impress platform to automate prescription correspondence. The solution now generates and dispatches up to one million letters each month, digitising manual tasks and ensuring regulatory compliance. By moving...
How to Integrate Google Forms with Slack
Integrating Google Forms with Slack via Zapier lets teams receive form submissions directly in Slack, eliminating manual data transfer. Users can configure notifications as channel posts, direct messages, or AI‑generated summaries, tailoring alerts to workflow needs. The step‑by‑step guide walks...
Building Europe’s Native Code Infrastructure: Tangled Closes $4.5M Round
Tangled, a European‑focused GitHub alternative, closed a $4.5 million round led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Antler. The platform introduces a decentralized “Knot” architecture that lets developers host code on their own infrastructure while maintaining a familiar...
Fibr.ai Wants to Re-Invent CRO with an Agentic Web Experience Layer. Here’s Why It Matters
Fibr.ai is launching an AI‑driven conversion rate optimization platform that automates hypothesis generation, variant creation, testing, and winner selection. The system scans URLs, builds personalized page variations, and monitors performance, while marketers retain a human‑in‑the‑loop for review. It extends personalization...
6 Ways to Automate Fathom with Zapier
Fathom’s AI‑driven notetaker automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings, but sharing those insights still requires manual effort. Zapier enables six ready‑made automations that route transcripts, recordings, and action items to Google Drive, CRM systems, email, chat, and task‑management tools. By...
How to Create and Extract Data From PDFs with Zapier
Zapier now lets businesses automate every stage of PDF handling, from batch‑converting incoming files to PDFs through PDF.co to generating custom PDFs from form submissions or spreadsheet rows. The platform also supports auto‑filling PDF forms, extracting text with tools like...
AI Upskilling Platform Ivee Raises $1m Seed Round Backed by Steven Bartlett
Ivee, an AI‑focused upskilling platform, announced a $1 million seed round. The round was led by entrepreneur and podcaster Steven Bartlett, with participation from Social Impact Enterprises. Ivee plans to use the capital to broaden its curriculum and help jobseekers master...
AI Sales Startup Firmable Bags $14 Million to Expand to the US
AI‑powered B2B sales startup Firmable announced a $14 million Series A round led by existing backer Airtree, earmarked for a U.S. market rollout and further development of its proprietary data engine and AI agents. The company, founded by former Aconex executives in...
Tuya Inc (TUYA) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Tuya Inc. reported fourth‑quarter 2021 revenue of $75 million, bringing full‑year revenue to $302.1 million, a 67.9% year‑over‑year increase. IoT PaaS revenue grew 13.9% quarter‑over‑quarter to $62.1 million and 72.3% YoY, while premium PaaS customers rose 65.4% to 311 accounts. Gross margin improved...
Asana Inc (ASAN) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Asana reported Q4 FY2026 revenue of $205.6 million, up 9% year‑over‑year, and improved its non‑GAAP operating margin to 9%—a 10‑point jump. The company highlighted strong AI momentum, with AI Studio ARR surpassing $6 million and growing over 50% sequentially, while AI teammates...
AWS Middle East Disrupted After ‘Objects Struck Datacenter’ Amid Iran War
Amazon Web Services reported a power outage in its UAE ME‑CENTRAL‑1 availability zone after unknown objects struck the datacenter, sparking a fire that temporarily halted EC2 APIs. Meanwhile, Australian software firm WiseTech Global announced up to 2,000 job cuts as...
Switch to Claude Without Starting Over
Anthropic has added a memory‑import tool to Claude, letting users migrate their personalized prompts and context from competing AI platforms with a simple copy‑paste. The feature updates Claude’s memory on all paid plans, so the first interaction feels like a...
Connect Salesforce Across Your Business with MuleSoft
Salesforce announced deeper integration with MuleSoft, allowing any‑to‑any connectivity and real‑time activation across enterprise systems. The partnership lets customers link the Agentforce 360 platform to any backend, streamlining workflows and data exchange. MuleSoft’s API‑led approach is positioned as the foundation for...
Unlock the Full Power of AWS, Faster
MuleSoft announced that its Anypoint Platform is now the leading integration and API solution for Amazon Web Services. The platform lets enterprises connect any application, data source, or device to AWS with a secure, scalable architecture. By leveraging Anypoint, customers...
Duolingo Grows, But Users Disliked Increased Ads and Subscription Pushes. Stock Plummets Again
Duolingo reported a strong fourth‑quarter performance, with daily active users climbing to 52.7 million, paid subscribers up 28% to 12.2 million, and revenue reaching $282.9 million, marking a 35% year‑over‑year increase. The company also celebrated crossing the $1 billion annual revenue threshold for the...
Obsidian Sync Now Has a Headless Client
Obsidian has released a headless client for its Sync service, allowing vaults to be synchronized via a command‑line interface instead of the desktop app. The tool supports one‑time and continuous sync, can be driven by an authentication token for non‑interactive...
How Do I Cancel My ChatGPT Subscription?
The guide details step‑by‑step procedures for canceling ChatGPT personal, mobile, and Business subscriptions, highlighting where to locate the cancellation controls in the web app, iOS App Store, and Google Play. It explains that cancellations take effect the day after the...
India Disrupts Access to Popular Developer Platform Supabase with Blocking Order
Supabase, an open‑source Firebase alternative, has been blocked in India after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology invoked Section 69A of the IT Act. The order, issued on Feb 24, has resulted in intermittent access across major ISPs, leaving developers unable...
New Databricks Offering Targets Next-Generation Data Streaming
Databricks launched Zerobus Ingest, a fully managed serverless streaming service that moves data directly into Delta Lake tables. The platform streams data from sources such as manufacturing systems, financial trading apps, IoT devices, and cybersecurity tools. It promises sub‑five‑second latency,...
Speechify Can Now Transcribe and Summarize Your Meetings
Speechify has introduced AI Note Taker, a web‑based tool that transcribes and summarizes Zoom meetings, lectures, and other discussions. The feature adds to Speechify’s growing voice‑first suite, which already includes Voice Typing Dictation and a Voice Assistant, all unified under...
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SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of Feb 23 - 26, 2026
SaastRise’s weekly mastermind distilled actionable tactics across customer success, go‑to‑market, product leadership, compliance, engineering, and channel experimentation for SaaS firms. It emphasizes onboarding‑driven churn prevention, tiered health playbooks, and split CSM compensation to keep churn near 2 %. The advice also...
How to Get Millions in Founder Liquidity Without Giving Up Control of Your SaaS Business
Founders of high‑growth SaaS firms can unlock millions of dollars without surrendering control by first proving durable metrics such as predictable revenue growth, low churn, and strong LTV‑to‑CAC. Once the business runs like a machine, three non‑dilutive or minority‑equity structures—secondary...
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SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Feb 25, 2026
The SaasRise Mastermind highlighted a multi‑pronged growth playbook for a mid‑stage SaaS firm. It emphasized building a tiered customer‑success framework, centralizing data in HubSpot, and deploying health‑index playbooks to keep churn near 2%. The discussion also covered repositioning a legacy...
FinOps for Agents: Loop Limits, Tool-Call Caps and the New Unit Economics of Agentic SaaS
The article introduces FinOps for agents, a discipline that treats AI cognition costs as a reliability metric in agentic SaaS. It outlines how loops, tool‑calls, and token usage can explode variable spend and erode gross margin. By defining guardrails such...
Sleep Tech Demand Fuels ResMed
ResMed has evolved from a cyclical device maker into a digital‑health platform anchored by sleep‑apnea therapy, cloud‑connected monitoring and recurring software services. The company posted Q2 FY2026 revenue of $1.4 billion, up 11% YoY, while gross margin climbed to 61.8% and...
What Secure Digital Work Looks Like Next: Omnissa CEO Takes the Stage at IGEL Now & Next Miami 2026
Omnissa CEO Shankar Iyer will headline IGEL Now & Next Miami 2026, showcasing the company’s AI‑driven digital work platform that merges endpoint management, virtual desktops and security into a single control plane. The platform is positioned as a frictionless, adaptive...
AWU by Salesforce: A Shiny New Metric that Tells CIOs Little of Value
Salesforce introduced the Agentic Work Unit (AWU) metric on its earnings call, positioning it as a way for CIOs to quantify the output of AI‑driven agents. The metric pairs the number of discrete actions performed with token consumption to suggest...
FDB Vela Integrates With Photon Health Digital Prescription Marketplace
First Databank’s cloud‑native ePrescribing network, FDB Vela, has integrated with Photon Health’s digital prescription marketplace. The partnership combines FDB Vela’s HITRUST‑certified, redundant cloud infrastructure with Photon’s consumer‑focused platform that lets patients compare pharmacy options by price, location and availability before...
Gatefolded Wants to Solve Fragmented Music-Sharing for Artists
Gatefolded launches as a dedicated platform that lets musicians share music both publicly with fans and privately with labels, media and collaborators. Founder Jasen Samford, a former DistroKid executive, built the service after hearing workflow frustrations from thousands of artists....
For-Sight Strengthens Guest Engagement with Launch of New Loyalty Module
For‑Sight has launched a new Loyalty Module in partnership with Inspire Loyalty, embedding loyalty program management directly into its hotel CRM platform. The module automates points accrual, supports tiered and paid memberships, and feeds loyalty activity into guest profiles for...
Dash0 Targets $1bn Valuation with Balderton-Led Funding Round, Reports Say
Dash0, an AI‑native cloud‑monitoring platform founded in 2023, is in talks with Balderton Capital to lead a new funding round that would value the company at $1 billion, elevating it to unicorn status. The New‑York‑based startup, which retains a strong operational...
No, AI Is Not About to Kill the Software Industry
The article argues that fears of an AI‑driven "SaaSpocalypse" are overstated. While large‑language models can generate code, software companies still rely on sales, contracts, and support that AI alone can’t replace. Recent stock declines at firms like Workday and Adobe...
Munro Footwear Group Goes Live with Fluent Order Management, Supported by Amblique
Munro Footwear Group (MFG) has launched Fluent Order Management, backed by Amblique, to unify inventory and fulfillment across its 240+ stores, digital channels and distribution centres. The Distributed Order Management system provides a universal inventory view, ship‑from‑store capability and configurable...
Momentum Delivers Industry-First Botless Google Meet Recording, Redefining Conversation Intelligence
Momentum announced a beta launch of its native Google Meet recording, the first conversation‑intelligence solution that captures meetings without a recording bot or third‑party sub‑processor. The same rollout introduces Autopilot for Contacts, an AI feature that extracts relationship details from...
Emerald Intel Launches Embedded Analytics, Delivering a Real-Time Macro View of the Cannabis Industry
Emerald Intelligence has introduced Embedded Analytics, a new SaaS feature that provides real‑time, macro‑level dashboards for the licensed cannabis and hemp market. The initial release includes four interactive dashboards covering state sales, company leaderboards, product sales, and store status, all...
New AI Media Manager Modio Aims to Consolidate Fragmented Content Creation
Klono Inc. launched Modio.ai, an AI media manager that unifies content creation, organization, and distribution. The platform offers 32 creation types spanning images, video, audio, avatars, and documents, automatically selecting the optimal AI model for each task. Modio also chains...
Subify Wins Proof Lab Challenge After Tech Revolution Africa 2.0 Pitch, Secures $2,000 Angel Backing
Subify, a Lagos‑based subscription‑sharing platform, was named winner of the 2026 Proof Lab experiment at Tech Revolution Africa 2.0 after a one‑week product sprint. The startup, which began as a WhatsApp group in 2021 and officially launched in October 2025, secured a...
Voice AI Startup Origa Raises $450K Led by Antler Singapore
Origa, a voice‑AI startup focused on consultative pre‑sales conversations, closed a $450,000 funding round led by Antler Singapore, bringing its total capital to $1 million. The company will use the capital to grow its engineering team, enhance product capabilities, and scale...
CMMS Deployed to Drive Downtime Reduction, Boost Productivity
DLG Group, a leading Northern European feed manufacturer, has deployed the Fiix cloud‑based CMMS to modernize maintenance across its plants. Within the first month the rollout delivered measurable improvements in mean time between failures and set a target of cutting...
Wildix Looks to Bring Conversations Under Enterprise Control with eSIM
Wildix has introduced Wildix eSIM, an AI‑powered extension of its Mobility Cloud that routes business mobile calls through the enterprise system of record. The solution embeds a single business identity into the SIM, allowing native dialer use while preserving routing,...
Autodesk Tops Earnings Estimates as Billings Surge 33%
Autodesk reported fiscal 2026 Q4 earnings that topped estimates, posting adjusted earnings per share of $2.85 and revenue of $1.957 billion, both above analyst forecasts. Billings surged 33% year‑over‑year to $2.804 billion, driven by strong performance across its Design, Make and other...
Zscaler Stock Drops After Solid Quarter Fails to Excite Investors
Zscaler reported a solid fiscal 2026 Q2, beating earnings and revenue estimates with $1.01 adjusted EPS and $815.8 million revenue, a 26% year‑over‑year increase. Annual recurring revenue climbed 25% to $3.359 billion, adding $155.5 million of new ARR. The company unveiled its AI...
FedRamp 20x Opens the Door to Fast Access to Secure Services
FedRAMP 20x redesigns the federal cloud‑security authorization process by eliminating the agency sponsor requirement and introducing a cloud‑native path that can deliver approvals in weeks instead of years. Automation replaces narrative controls with machine‑readable evidence, targeting over 80% validation through continuous‑monitoring...
Mews Named Official PMS of AAHOA
AAHOA has appointed Mews as its official property management system, granting members exclusive pricing, rapid onboarding, and access to Mews’ revenue‑management tools. The partnership aims to help economy and mid‑scale hotel owners cut costs and boost profitability amid rising expenses....
Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic Video Editor
Cardboard, a Y Combinator W26 startup, offers an AI‑powered video editor that transforms raw footage into polished, publish‑ready content in minutes. The platform automates framing, captioning, montage creation, podcast clipping, and more, while allowing users to issue natural‑language edit commands....
Digital Transformation at Santander: How Platform Engineering Is Revolutionizing Cloud Infrastructure
Santander launched Catalyst, a platform‑engineering solution built with AWS, to overhaul its cloud infrastructure. The initiative replaces a 90‑day manual provisioning process with an automated, Kubernetes‑based control plane that leverages Crossplane, ArgoCD, and OPA. By consolidating over 100 pipelines, Catalyst...
Claude Opus 3 Is Being “Retired” — Here’s What That Actually Means
Anthropic announced the retirement of Claude Opus 3 as its default, generally available model while keeping limited access for paid subscribers and API requests. The company introduced its first formal model‑retirement process, citing the linear cost and operational complexity of supporting...
Google's Nano Banana 2 Takes Aim at the Production Cost Problem That's Kept AI Image Gen Out of Enterprise Workflows
Google DeepMind unveiled Nano Banana 2, a Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model that delivers Pro‑level text rendering, subject consistency, and image search at roughly half the cost of the Nano Banana Pro tier. The new offering reduces per‑image pricing to...
Shopify Dominant Software in New Stores
ShopRank research shows Shopify powered 54% of new online stores in the Netherlands, 49% in France and 41% in Spain last year. Across seven major European markets, Shopify launched 148,044 new stores, outpacing WooCommerce’s 99,140 and PrestaShop’s 9,747. WooCommerce saw...
