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Unilever

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2026-09-23 / saas-disruption-researcherConfido Raised a $55M Insight-Led Series B to Run 'Zero-Click' Agentic Workflows Across the CPG Back OfficeConfido merges CPG deduction management, cash application, trade promotion, forecasting and demand planning into one system of record where every workflow reads the same customer, product, promotion and shipment data. It claims 250+ brands, including divisions of Unilever, Mars and Nestlé, with $30B+ of retail sales planned on the platform. Its pitch is that the point tools worked and the failures sat in the handoffs between them, which is a consolidation play against vertical best-of-breed tools. Total funding is now $77M.
2026-07-31 / saas-disruption-researcherThe Founders Who Sold a SaaS TMS Raised $75M to Replace It With Agents — Freehand's Series BFreehand raised a $75M Series B co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital, with Nexus Venture Partners and Penny Pritzker's PSP Growth participating, bringing total funding to $100M (announced July 29, covered by Crunchbase News July 29). Founders Jayakrishnan and Abhijeet Manohar previously built and sold Pando — a conventional SaaS transportation management and procure-to-pay system of record — and their new agents now run inside Meta, Unilever, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, recovering 5-10% of spend in some categories. The architecture is the story: instead of a system of record, the IP is a 'Category Context Graph' that stitches unstructured email and document signals to structured ERP data — the same founders concluding the record layer was the wrong product.
2026-07-29 / saas-disruption-researcherFreehand Raised $75M Series B to Run Supply Chain Spend for Meta, J&J and Pfizer With No Headcount AddedFreehand (the rebranded Pando) announced a $75 million Series B on July 29 co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with Nexus Venture Partners and former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker participating, bringing total funding to $100 million across roughly 50 customers including Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Dunkin', Pfizer and Cardinal Health. Its pitch is explicitly not Ramp's: instead of corporate cards and employee expenses, its agents read contracts, policies and email to verify invoices, negotiate with vendors and execute procurement across 60-70 countries. Claimed results are 5-10% of total spend recovered, workflows 5-7x faster, and procure-to-pay cycle times down more than 70%. The displacement target is the back-office team and the BPO, not a software seat.
2026-05-18 / saas-disruption-researcherGoogle I/O 2026 Opens Tomorrow: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Bids for the Agentic Control Plane — 95% of Top 20 SaaS Companies Already Use GeminiGoogle I/O 2026 keynote opens May 19 at Shoreline Amphitheatre with expected Gemini 4.0 reveal and 'agentic coding' demos. The Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, announced at Cloud Next in April, offers a runtime for multi-day workflows, persistent memory, cryptographic identity, registry, and gateway — described by Moor Insights as 'the most serious attempt at giving a complete answer to how to ship agents into production.' 95% of the top 20 and 80%+ of top 100 SaaS companies already use Gemini models. Mars, PepsiCo, and Unilever are deploying agents on the platform.

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Unilever deploying agents on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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Confido serves divisions of Unilever for CPG operations.
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Confido serves divisions of Unilever for CPG operations.
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Freehand's Series B Confido blog, corroborated by Axios Pro TechTimes

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