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Alta closed a $25 million Series A round led by IN Venture less than a year after launch. The funding supports expansion of the company's coordinated AI agent platform for revenue teams.
Alta reached a $15 million annual run rate with clients including Snowflake, Deel and Atlassian. The company hit its first million in revenue within months of commercializing and is on track for 800% revenue growth this year.
Smartly has partnered with Roku to connect directly to Roku Ads Manager through the Roku Ads API. The integration allows performance marketers to apply the same social advertising workflows to connected TV inventory on the top streaming platform in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/news-brief/smartly-brings-social-advertising-speed-with-new-roku-partnership/53587/).
The partnership removes the separate build process previously required for CTV campaigns.
Open Semantic Interchange standardizes metadata schemas across disconnected martech platforms according to [MarTech](https://martech.org/is-open-semantic-interchange-your-data-silo-cure/). The framework seeks to ensure that terms such as account, lead, or campaign metric carry identical meanings across every connected system.
Enterprise platforms currently spend millions of dollars on custom middleware to translate data definitions between systems.
MarTech reports that AI vendors have increased alongside marketing use cases for the technology. The publication recommends five questions to determine whether tools merit deployment.
According to MarTech, the first question focuses on the specific problem a tool solves and whether it maps to business outcomes. Vendors unable to identify team challenges or explain feature benefits should be viewed cautiously.
Wistia data shows videos 30 to 60 minutes long achieve click-through rates near 23%, compared with roughly 1% for videos under one minute, according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/feature/wistias-chris-savage-on-why-long-form-b2b-video-is-winning-the-demandgenreport-com-qa/53634/). The company's 2026 State of Video Report documents this gap for business buyers. On-demand webinar channels on the Wistia platform nearly tripled over the past year.
Seventy-five percent of companies now host webinars.
SaaStr published takeaways from a recent 20VC x SaaStr podcast episode with Harry Stebbings and Rory O’Driscoll. The discussion covered Washington lifting the Fable 5 ban, Sam Altman floating a 5% government stake, and China owning top open models, according to [SaaStr](https://www.saastr.com/my-takes-on-this-weeks-20vc-why-openai-giving-the-govt-5-might-make-sense-the-death-of-block-risk-and-why-frontier-models-are-the-cheapest/).
A 5% stake can buy alignment with the number one partner in a space.
Willingness to Pay completed 200+ pricing redesigns with an average of 125 days from signed contract to new pricing live in market. Clients include Microsoft, SAP, Samsung, Intel, and Bosch, plus PE and VC-backed B2B companies. The firm recorded zero pricing blow-ups across its portfolio.
Per-seat pricing worked for about 15 years in B2B with three tiers and land-and-expand motions. AI changed two conditions at once. Cost to serve became variable because every AI action incurs token and inference expenses.
ServiceTitan crossed a $1B revenue run rate in fiscal Q1 2027 by delivering $268.8M in quarterly revenue, up 25% year over year, according to [SaaStr](https://www.saastr.com/5-interesting-learnings-from-servicetitan-at-1b-in-arr/). The company sells an end-to-end operating system to HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and garage door contractors.
Revenue reached $268.8M, up 25% from the prior year, placing the company on a roughly $1.08B annualized run rate. The company provided FY27 revenue guidance of $1.13B to $1.14B.
Omnichannel sales unifies customer data and coordinates outreach across all channels to create a continuous buyer experience. Most sales teams still operate in silos where email, phone, chat, and in-person conversations produce fragmented data and inconsistent follow-up. Recent data from Capital One Shopping shows the share of omnichannel shoppers has climbed to 91%.
A CMO confronted her martech stack after 18 months of spend produced flat campaign velocity and conflicting numbers from two reporting tools.
The stack stated that the customer data platform and marketing automation platform both built audiences from the same data yet defined segments differently.
Buyers expect increasingly personalized experiences, yet many marketing teams continue to rely on static segmentation models built around company size, industry, or job title, according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/demanding-views/personalization-still-isnt-personal-enough-in-b2b-marketing/53529/). These attributes define target audiences but reveal little about what a buyer cares about at any given moment.
B2B purchases now involve multiple stakeholders across departments.
Brian Le, Global Sales Compensation Partner at Notion, scaled the company's sales compensation processes from 80 to over 400 employees. He previously worked at Salesforce and Carta. According to [Sales Hacker](https://gtmnow.com/gtm-198-sales-compensation-plan-blueprint-brian-le-notion/), Le identifies sales compensation as the operating system for go-to-market strategy.
Le's first priority at Notion was earning organizational trust by replacing manual spreadsheet-based commission processes.
Washington lifted the 19-day ban on Fable 5. The resolution sets a precedent for a structured pre-approval process before shipping models. Fable is moving to variable per-token pricing in the coming weeks. Most builders are expected to avoid the model at the initial price point.
OpenAI floated the idea that every frontier lab hand the U.S. government a 5% stake. The proposal covers companies including Anthropic. At Anthropic’s valuation that stake equals roughly $50B. Microsoft owns roughly 30% of OpenAI.
The CMO Council in partnership with MartechTribe introduced the Apex Martech Matrix Innovation Insights Brief on July 1. The framework predicts business value of martech investments based on company size, industry, maturity and strategic priorities. Global martech spend is moving toward $215 billion according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/news-brief/cmo-council-martechtribe-launch-apex-matrix-to-turn-martech-spend-into-measurable-value/53658/).
MartechTribe conducted hundreds of benchmarking probes over...
Gamma reached $100M ARR with 50 million users and 600,000 paying subscribers five years after founding, operating profitably with a team of 50. The company achieved the bulk of this growth with zero sales and zero marketing spend, relying instead on word of mouth, according to SaaStr.
Grant Lee and two former Optimizely colleagues founded Gamma to address the blank page problem in presentation tools. Lee built an early prototype after spending excessive time on formatting in Google Slides.
Yes& has acquired Modo Modo, a B2B-focused agency. The transaction expands Yes& capabilities in branding, omnichannel media, sales enablement and strategic growth for enterprise clients according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/news-brief/yes-acquires-modo-modo-expanding-b2b-marketing-presence/53539/).
Modo Modo serves clients in healthcare, fintech, manufacturing, energy and technology sectors. Its portfolio includes Equifax, Northside Hospital, Fiserv, Cox Enterprises and Georgia Tech.
In Salesforce’s 2026 State of Sales report, 87% of sales organizations said they now use some form of AI for prospecting, forecasting, lead scoring, or drafting emails, with more than half using it specifically to prospect. Fifty-five percent of sales pros already use AI to prospect, and another 38% plan to. The average seller spends only about 40% of the week actually selling.
6sense’s 2025 Buyer Experience Report found that buyers initiate roughly 80% of first conversations themselves after doing their own homework.
Patriot Auto Group added AI-generated connected TV ads from Adwave and recorded a 34% increase in showroom visits across four months according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/case-studies/how-adwave-enabled-patriot-auto-group-to-expand-its-reach-grow-sales-with-ctv-demand-gen-report-case-study/53534/).
The dealership operated two Tampa locations selling new and pre-owned vehicles. Its marketing mix consisted of Google Ads, third-party platforms including AutoTrader and Cars.com, and occasional radio.
Customer acquisition cost is rising across virtually every B2B category while deal volume, deal velocity and deal size show no corresponding improvement, according to MarTech. The source material states that spending more to acquire customers without gains in those outcomes points to a proof problem rather than market conditions.
The B2B go-to-market profession operates from the thesis that awareness plus information equals purchase intent.
Gong recently released Mission Big Dipper, a new agentic execution layer and expanded capabilities across the Gong Revenue AI Operating System. The release introduces the Gong Revenue Harness to govern, orchestrate, and connect AI agents across the full revenue cycle. It also adds Custom Agents that let any RevOps leader or sales manager build and deploy governed AI agents without engineering support.
Mission Big Dipper expands on prior investments in Agent Studio and Model Context Protocol support.
Vanessa Larco left a nearly decade-long Partner role at NEA to co-found Premise, a new venture fund that backs technical founding teams building category-defining companies.
At NEA she backed Robinhood through its 2021 IPO and led the firm's investment in Greenlight. She held board seats at Mejuri, Assembled and Cleo. Earlier she worked as a product leader at Box, Microsoft and Twilio and founded and sold her own startup.
Premise uses an "OpenAI won't kill it" framework.
A founder departure shortly after a startup closes venture capital funding occurs more commonly than expected. The recommended first step is to notify investors immediately and state that a solution is being developed.
According to [SaaStr](https://www.saastr.com/dear-saastr-what-happens-if-one-founder-wants-to-quit-when-the-startup/), founders must inform investors without delay. The publication notes that investors have encountered this situation before.
The source lists two primary paths plus one partial option.
Anteriad released its fifth annual B2B marketing report titled The 2026 B2B Marketing Edge: Control Is the Competitive Advantage, conducted in partnership with Ascend2. The survey reached 631 marketing decision-makers across the United States, United Kingdom, and APAC. High-performing B2B marketers separate themselves through stronger data foundations, buying group implementation, and more sophisticated measurement practices according to [Demand Gen...
A customer who had used Adobe Marketo for nearly two decades and served as a reference account decided to churn after the vendor raised pricing at renewal with no new features and a more limited API.
The customer cited broken unsubscribe handling, daily API rate limits, a six-month history cap, and general hostility to agents as reasons for leaving. Three foundation models all indicated they would not send email through Marketo because they could write a better one themselves.
AI assistants answer questions, compare products, and recommend brands without sending users to websites. Success depends on whether AI systems can find, trust, and surface brands across the broader information ecosystem. Google has advanced Search to make experiences more conversational, multimodal, and persistent through AI Overviews.
The search ecosystem has moved away from reliance on traditional blue links. Intelligent agents continuously monitor topics, brands, products, and people on users behalf.
AI is changing what the CMS is expected to do. The CMS is becoming the control layer for how brands are discovered, understood, personalized, and transacted across human and machine experiences according to [MarTech](https://martech.org/the-cms-is-becoming-the-ai-operating-system-for-brands/).
For years the CMS was a publishing platform where marketers created content, editors approved it, and customers consumed it on websites. That model is evolving.
Convertr’s Jason Gladu will host a B2BMX Summer Camp 2026 webinar on July 29 at 2:00 PM ET titled “The Data Integrity Playbook for the AI Era.” The session details how AI scales data problems by baking bad records into downstream decisions unless integrity measures are applied first.
The webinar examines why AI-ready requires data-ready conditions. It covers hidden costs of a launch-now clean-later approach, including lost productivity from manual cleanup, compliance exposure, and database bloat from duplicates and incomplete records.
G2 announced new product capabilities that bring buyer behavior data directly into AI agents, CRMs, and enterprise analytics environments used by go-to-market teams. The updates include MCP integrations with six platforms, expanded Buyer Intent signals from Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp, a new Intent Studio, and AI Blueprints.
According to Demand Gen Report, these tools give teams faster paths to turn buyer signals into action.
G2 now offers MCP integrations for ChatGPT, Claude, HubSpot, Gong, Profound, and AirOps.
HubSpot announced new terms of service on July 1 that permitted the company to add business contact, company, email engagement, and tracking data from participating customers to a shared enrichment dataset. The change automatically opted in all customers and supported the upcoming Contact Discovery product scheduled for August 4 launch.
Users responded within days. Gabe Larsen, CRO at Atonom, wrote on LinkedIn that the policy amounted to using years of customer-built CRM data to improve the product for others.
Aurasell has released Agent Builder, a platform capability that lets GTM operators design, orchestrate and run agentic workflows in natural language without writing code. The tool unifies structured and unstructured customer data from across the GTM stack and continuously captures cross-channel conversations.
Most GTM teams advancing AI initiatives operate on incomplete data spread across 15 or more disconnected tools.
SaaStr AI operates a portion of its go-to-market motion through custom agents rather than replacing its CRM. The company maintains Salesforce as the system of record for deals, contacts, sponsorships, registrations, and support tickets while agents handle most interactions.
SaaStr AI runs an AI SDR, a custom AI VP of Marketing named 10K, and QBee, an AI VP of Customer Success. The 10K agent consists of more than 14,000 lines of code across 74 files.
A buyer types “Best solutions for…” into a browser and an AI panel summarizes the market and lists a handful of vendors before traditional search results appear. Evaluation in 2025 moves faster and through algorithmic mediation. According to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/demanding-views/the-demand-gen-engine-why-evaluation-is-being-curated-by-ai/53531/), AI Overviews appeared in 13.14% of U.S.
DemandView has launched EngageSMS, described as the industry’s first automated text message nurture engine built for B2B buyers. The platform is included at no additional charge with every content syndication program according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/news-brief/demandview-launches-first-text-message-lead-nurture-engine-engagesms/53572/).
Over the past 12 months, B2B email open rates, click-through rates, and lead-scoring signals have declined sharply.
Anthropic exited 2025 at roughly $9 billion in run-rate revenue. By February 2026 the figure reached $14 billion, then $19 billion in March, $30 billion in April, $44 billion in early May, and $47 billion by mid-May, according to [SaaStr](https://www.saastr.com/by-year-end-anthropic-will-out-earn-every-public-software-company-except-microsoft/).
Salesforce runs about $41 billion in revenue. Anthropic's run-rate passed Salesforce in April.
A Harris Poll survey of more than 300 U.S. marketing, advertising, communications, and social media decision-makers found that 48% admit they often feel they are guessing which marketing activities drive consumer purchasing decisions, according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/news-brief/madison-logic-harris-poll-half-of-marketers-are-guessing-on-what-drives-purchasing-decisions-today/53624/).
The poll shows proving ROI as the top concern for marketers.
Forrester projects worldwide martech spending to surpass $215 billion by 2027. Martech utilization sits around 49% industrywide according to Gartner. These figures appear in coverage at MarTech on turning marketing complexity into competitive advantage.
Customer data platforms must connect with analytics tools and commerce systems. McKinsey survey findings identify stack complexity and data integration as the most common barriers to full martech value.
MarTech reports that as martech, adtech, and salestech blur into unified ecosystem platforms, enterprise architecture leaders must evaluate the trade-off between specialized features of best-of-breed point solutions and the reduced friction of a single consolidated suite.
Enterprise procurement teams often compare individual software subscription lines. A point solution carries additional internal developer hours for custom API connectors and ongoing engineering maintenance when endpoints change.
SaaStr discussed outbound sales on an episode of The Agents with Sam Blond, founder and CEO of Monaco. According to [SaaStr](https://www.saastr.com/outbound-isnt-dead-ai-just-radically-changed-how-it-works/), the conversation concluded that outbound remains effective but has shifted from 2021 practices.
The source states that “Outbound is dead” claims are inaccurate. Spray-and-pray cadences no longer succeed. AI-enabled targeted outreach at high quality and precise timing produces results at SaaStr and elsewhere.
Toast reported a ~$6.5 billion revenue run rate, reflecting 22% year-over-year growth. Software revenue reached $2.2 billion and grew 26%. The company added roughly 7,000 net new locations in the quarter, bringing the total to approximately 171,000 live locations.
Toast crossed into durable GAAP profitability. Net income more than doubled to $126 million. Free cash flow reached $115 million. Software gross margins hit 81% for the first time.
Vercel launched a lead qualification agent in August 2025 that reduced a 10-person SDR function to one full-time employee in the US plus 20 percent of one person covering Europe and APAC. The agent costs $5,000 per year in infrastructure and tokens and requires 20 percent of one engineer to maintain. According to SaaStr, the change delivered a reported 32x ROI by replacing 10 salaries with compute while running 24/7.
The lead agent began as 20 percent of a single engineer’s time.
HubSpot Sales Blog published a primer on the sales prospecting funnel, a structured set of stages that convert leads into qualified opportunities.
Many sales teams invest heavily in pipeline management while leaving prospecting inconsistent or overly dependent on rep intuition. As a result, the flow of qualified opportunities becomes unpredictable, and teams struggle to explain conversion performance, according to [HubSpot Sales Blog](https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/sales-prospecting-funnel).
The sales prospecting funnel provides structure...
Outbound sales tools execute prospecting and outreach across email, phone and social channels, yet remain useful only to the extent that data returns to the CRM, according to [HubSpot Sales Blog](https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/outbound-sales-tools). Salesforce State of Sales report data shows reps spend 60% of time on non-selling tasks.
On April 1, 2026, a new line item labeled inride – Trade Agent AI appeared in the Tier III co-op claim dropdown inside the Ford dealer portal. The entry treats an autonomous AI agent as a reimbursable marketing expense alongside billboard and radio placements.
Ford’s co-op program, older than the interstate highway system, had previously approved newspaper, television, internet, and digital retail expenses. The April 1 change marks the first time one of the Big Three has assigned a SKU and invoice requirement to an agent rather than a tool.
Circana LLC released The Value of Influence report that benchmarks influencer return on investment directly against other media channels. The analysis uses sales impact and incrementality rather than engagement metrics alone.
Circana applied advanced marketing mix modeling and proprietary retail data to quantify short-term sales impact and long-term brand contribution of influencer campaigns.
Companies quintupled their token spend in the first half of the year according to [SaaStr](https://www.saastr.com/20vc-x-saastr-the-token-roi-crisis-comes-for-everyone-anthropic-wants-chinese-open-source-banned-and-microsoft-has-its-worst-month-since-2000/).
Almost nobody can point to the revenue lift that justified the increase. The discussion was recorded on the last day of June.
A client reported that after Google’s May 2026 core update a flagship product page fell from position two to eight in traditional search results. The page retained sufficient ranking to appear in organic results, yet the brand was absent from answers generated by ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and other AI search engines.
BrightEdge data show that only 16.5% of sources cited in AI Overviews also rank in Google’s organic top 10 for the same query.
Sales reps spend an average of only 30% of their time actually selling according to [HubSpot Sales Blog](https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/sales-operations-platform). The remainder goes to administrative tasks and chasing information. Fragmented systems undermine pipeline velocity and forecast accuracy.
A sales operations platform centralizes workflows for revenue teams. It unifies tasks under one interface for automation, process consistency, and analytics.
The 2026 B2BMX Summer Camp begins July 15 and runs through July 29 with a new multi-week webinar format focused on practical B2B marketing execution. Sessions occur every Wednesday, and attendees can join live or watch on demand. The program carries the message Build Once, Multiply Impact.
According to Demand Gen Report, the series brings together B2B marketing practitioners and technology leaders for sessions on pipeline strategy, AI, account-based marketing and buyer engagement.
On July 15 at 12 PM ET, Demandbase presents “AI in ABM: What...
Seismic expanded its Aura Agents portfolio to support more revenue-team workflows across enablement, customer conversations and connected execution. The release includes nine new and enhanced agents that embed AI into daily work to address disconnected systems, manual reporting and inconsistent execution.
According to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/news-brief/seismic-extends-aura-agents-across-gtm-workflows/53482/), Seismic has released the agents after a year of AI innovation across the revenue...
A vendor pitch centered on a migration roadmap that replaces an existing marketing automation platform with a new one and projects an 18-month timeline remains the dominant sales motion in martech. The 2025 MarTech Replacement Survey shows this approach diverging from buyer behavior.
Marketing automation held the most-replaced category for five straight years before falling from 31.1% to 19.4%. CRM replacements dropped to 9.7% from 22.1%, the lowest level recorded in the survey.