StackOne – the next-gen, AI-powered platform fuelling the future of enterprise AI agents and SaaS integrations – has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by GV (Google Ventures). StackOne is the AI-powered platform supercharging SaaS and AI developers to build real-time enterprise integrations with unrivalled speed, scale and 5x better accuracy. Its AI integrations agent connects complex enterprise APIs in days instead of weeks; freeing product teams to focus on roadmaps and scale without sacrificing security. It automatically builds use-cases on top of even the most complex APIs, connecting AI and SaaS tools to their customers’ entire tech stack in a fraction of the time, and with higher accuracy than even the most precise, leading LLMs. Through the platform, product teams get access to 3,000+ actions on 200+ connectors instantly, from HR to CRM, ticketing, messaging, and IAM. StackOne’s proprietary AI-first, enterprise-ready approach means integrations are secure and up-to-date by default, and all of this frees developers up to focus on core roadmap features and scale without sacrifice. In this way, StackOne represents an entirely new generation of integration platforms. The funding will be used to continue building StackOne’s state-of-the-art tool-calling LLM, invest in R&D, and further expand the number of integrations and depth of actions available in the StackOne platform.
MuleSoft now has features to help organizations control which APIs are made available to agents in the Salesforce ecosystem
MuleSoft is an enterprise integration platform company known for its API-centric connectivity capabilities and its low-code/no-code API lifecycle management services. The company is now extending its core platform and tools to offer an increasing number of agentic AI-facing technologies. Shari Lava, senior director for AI and automation at analyst house IDC said, “MuleSoft now has features to help organizations control which APIs are made available to agents in the Salesforce ecosystem, although that capability is of course narrowed to Salesforce-specific software implementations. In addition, MuleSoft like many integration vendors has been quick to add MCP support and works with Google’s A2A protocol (an agent-to-agent communications layer), demonstrating a responsive focus on solving barriers to AI adoption in the hopes of getting more customers agent-ready.” MuleSoft has now provided support for Model Context Protocol in Beta. A new but already widely lauded technology standard, MCP is an open protocol that enables integration between large language model applications and external data, services and tools. It enables language model and agent-based applications to communicate with each other in a consistent form. With all the focus on agentic connections, MCP provides ways for LLMs to get access to the live data flowing through external systems and their executing actions via a standardized protocol layer. MuleSoft says that because LLMs need access to the API specifications, they must be annotated with metadata that the LLMs can reason with. In other words, the freedom to build custom-aligned API technologies can actually cause incongruent complexity, so MuleSoft MCP Support (Beta) addresses these challenges.
Embedded payroll startup Salsa to launch integrated offerings and tools that streamline worker onboarding, tax filings and tracking commissions, tips and overtime
Embedded payroll startup Salsa continues to gain momentum. With a newly secured $20 million in Series A funding, its total capital is $30 million since its founding in 2021. The round was led by Altos Ventures, with additional participation from Greycroft, SemperVirens, Definition and Better Tomorrow Ventures. Altos Ventures Partner Tae Yoon said, “Payroll is one of the clear next frontiers in embedded FinTech. … We are thrilled to partner with Salsa as it becomes the foundational layer for payroll across entire industries.” The new funding will support Salsa’s efforts to help software platform developers in all 50 U.S. states and Canada embed payroll features in their products that they didn’t previously have. This includes launching integrated payroll offerings and tools that streamline tasks like worker onboarding, tax filings and tracking commissions, tips, overtime and employees who work in multiple locations — all without the need to have in-house payroll expertise.
FDX standard APIs adoption hits 114m customer connections , a 50% increase from the comparable figure of 76 million a year ago helping companies to “improve interoperability when they integrate”
FDX has reported that approximately 114 million customer connections are now happening through APIs aligned to the FDX standard, as the use of standardized APIs to enable consumer-permission data sharing continues to grow. The growth in FDX API adoption to 114 million customer connections represents a 50% increase from the comparable figure of 76 million a year ago, while FDX called it “a sizable jump” from the 96 million reported six months ago. “Hitting 114 million customers connections reflects both the scale of FDX’s impact and the power of industry-led collaboration to drive interoperability,” said Kevin Feltes, chief executive officer of FDX. The organization stated that the FDX API standard “is solidly rooted as the leading method in North America for building APIs to enable safe, user-permissioned connections” and said that “industry-led standard-setting and collaboration” is helping companies to “improve interoperability when they integrate”. FDX noted that API adoption continued to grow “amid a shifting regulatory environment”, but pointed to the “work ahead”. According to FDX, “tens of millions of consumers and small businesses in North America are still sharing financial data through methods that require sharing login credentials with third parties and may offer less customer control”.