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IBM launches AI platform Bob to regulate SDLC costs

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To regulate software delivery costs and SDLC governance, IBM is launching Bob, an AI platform built to anchor enterprise engineering. Accumulated technical debt, hybrid cloud structures, and rigid compliance requirements clash with the raw speed of coding assistants. Without boundaries, they generate unmanaged liabilities rather than functional progress. Dinesh Nirmal, SVP at IBM Software, explained: […]

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AI UI Design for SaaS: What VCs Actually Want to See in Your Product Demo

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Introduction Most SaaS demos fail in the first five minutes not because the product is weak, but because the value isn’t obvious. VCs aren’t evaluating your feature list. They’re looking for signals: clarity, differentiation, scalability, and whether your product can win in a crowded market. UI design plays a bigger role here than most founders

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The IPO Pipeline Finally Gets Interesting

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Any startup CEO can talk about future plans for going public. But until a company actually files for an IPO, it’s all just speculation. We’re not talking about confidential filings either. Sure, they signal serious intent and contain valuable information for regulators. But for the rest of us, it’s the public S-1 filing that signifies

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What The Record Venture Funding Quarter Actually Means For Your Startup’s Fundraise

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Crunchbase just reported that $300 billion flowed into startups in Q1 2026, the biggest quarter in venture history. The eye-popping subtext? Four companies absorbed $188 billion of that, or 65%. If you’re a seed-stage founder reading those numbers, it’s easy to feel like the market is passing you by. Look closer, and the story changes

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Exclusive: Schematic Raises $6.5M To Help Companies Update Their Pricing Faster And Easier In The AI Era

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Schematic, a startup that aims to simplify pricing and packaging for software and AI companies, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. S3 Ventures led the financing, which included participation from MHS, Active Capital, NextView Ventures and Ritual. It brings Boulder, Colorado-based Schematic’s total funding since its 2023 inception to

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No-Code to Custom AI Apps: What US Startups Are Actually Building in 2026

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Introduction You’ve probably already built something with tools like v0 by Vercel or Bolt.new—a landing page, a dashboard, maybe even a working prototype. It looked real. It worked. For a moment, it felt like you cracked how to build app with AI without hiring a dev team. Then things slowed down. Login flows broke. APIs

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Most Companies Got Breached Through SaaS And AI Last Year

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Ninety-nine percent is not a statistic you expect to see in a security report. But that’s the finding from a new survey of 500 U.S. CISOs: 99.4% of organizations experienced at least one security incident tied to their SaaS or […] The post Most Companies Got Breached Through SaaS And AI Last Year appeared first

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Exclusive: Juno, CPA-Founded Startup That Aims To Make Tax Returns Less Painful With AI, Raises $12M

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In 2023, Dave Haase was a CPA who had been running his own firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years when he saw a live demo of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Upon seeing the AI agent successfully file a tax return on the screen, the accountant realized: “My business is either dead in 18

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Exclusive: Juno, CPA-Founded Startup That Aims To Make Tax Returns Less Painful With AI, Raises $12M

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In 2023, Dave Haase was a CPA who had been running his own firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years when he saw a live demo of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Upon seeing the AI agent successfully file a tax return on the screen, the accountant realized: “My business is either dead in 18

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The Most Active Startup Acquirers Of The Past 3 Years Aren’t Always Who You’d Expect

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Companies that buy a lot of startups don’t always have a lot in common. Some are longstanding blue chip tech and pharmaceutical companies. Others are fast-growing venture-backed unicorns. And still others are more recent public market entrants looking to stay competitive in the age of AI. To get a sense of who’s buying in bulk,

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