Figma Goes Public and So Does Design
Design is everyone’s business.
Retail
How retailers and consumer brands run AI in production.
Research: AIM Research reports on Retail AI →Page 26
Fireflies Built a $1B AI Business Without Burning VC Cash
Inside the lean, product-led rise of a voice AI company that wants to replace your meetings
Streamline AI Raises $8.6M Series A to Move Legal Teams Off Spreadsheets
Streamline AI wants to become a “mission control” for legal teams
Now Walmart Has Its Own AI Agent System and a Smaller Workforce
Walmart’s goal is to standardize experiences across functions and reduce redundancy, particularly as adoption scales internally.
$10M for Julius AI’s Push to Make Data Analysis Conversational
“We asked: Why should only data analysts analyze data?”
Memories.ai Closes $8M Seed to Power Persistent Video Memory for AI
The team is building what it calls a "Large Visual Memory Model"
Figma Launches Figma Make Ahead of IPO, But Faces Rising Challengers
Figma’s task is not just matching AI functionality, but making AI features work within its existing ecosystem
Vaudit Targets Ad Budget Waste with $7.3M for AI Audit Platform
“The online advertising industry has normalized waste and fraud for far too long"
Volca Raises $5.5M to Modernize Home Services Marketing with AI
They now face the challenge of slow AI adoption in the trades
Scrunch AI Says AI Agents, Not Humans, Will Be Your Next Website Visitor
They just raised $15M to optimize brand visibility in AI Search
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Top U.S. Recruitment Firms Powered by AI
Across the U.S., a new generation of recruitment firms is not just adopting AI, they’re architecting their entire platforms around it.
Decagon Became a Unicorn by Simply Listening to Customers
The AI agents are automating a lot of the more mundane things that honestly shouldn't require humans.
AI Is Changing How Software Gets Paid For, Says Metronome CEO
“[AI] doesn’t monetize in the ‘scaling with users’ way.”
Substack Gets $100 Million to Turn Writers Into Networks
We’ve gone from a rinky-dink email newsletter company to a real network that’s taken on the world.
Lovable Becomes Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Unicorn
Lovable was founded to bring software creation to the rest of the world for the 99% who don’t know how to code but have ideas.
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New AI Browsers Want to Replace Chrome. It Won’t Be Easy
Rivals like Purplexity's Comet, OpenAI's upcoming browser and Dia face an uphill battle
Unify Closes $40 Million Just Nine Months After Its Series A
Our whole product philosophy is about the right person, right timing, right message.
Callidus Wins $10M for Litigation Co-Pilot with Custom AI Models
“We're building the most advanced and interactive AI platform for litigators.”
AI Is Useful Only When It Pays Off Says Coca-Cola
We don’t run hobby projects.
Eudia Makes First Acquisition With Johnson Hana Deal
Eudia has hinted that more acquisitions may follow.