The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

As a kid, I was deeply traumatized by the Borg in Star Trek: Next Generation —so it's safe to say that I had some baggage to work through when I first started hearing the term "AI integration." With Zapier, AI integration is about making your workflows work better. Table of contents: What is AI integration?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

.” “ I have always encouraged teams to think about growth as daily blocking-and-tackling rather than a dark art. So rather than hiring a VP Marketing [to establish a strategic marketing plan, build and manage the marketing team, manage outside vendors, etc.] I endorse the growth hacking culture on teams.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Making sure that your internal and external systems are constantly secure (and every team has access to the tools they need to get their jobs done) can't be easy. From CRMs to helpdesks, project management platforms, and beyond, it's down to IT to manage those apps, assign seats, and monitor their infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Raised $8 million from Benchmark and Integral. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Competitors: VivaKi (Publicis Groupe) , FatTail , AdMeld , Rapt (part of Microsoft Publishing). Features original art and design by professional photography and design team. Farb talks about how he did that.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Visual proof of ease: The demo walks viewers through exactly how tap-to-pay works in the app, making the product feel approachable and foolproof. Atlassian This Atlassian ad dramatizes the pain of siloed dev and IT teams with protest-style visuals, then pitches Jira Service Management as the all-in-one solution.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. Zoho has approximately one zillion apps that cover you across your organization, and here, I'll walk you through everything on offer.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

tapped into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps with a turnkey approach, accelerated by the rapid digitization of life during the pandemic. It’s now landed a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, which includes an undisclosed equity investment in the startup. We see Builder.ai We see Builder.ai

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With Zapier's ChatGPT integration , you automate everything from intelligent sales outreach, content marketing generation, or even image creation. Table of contents Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? You can see the full list of models here.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

5 things you should automate today Start automating I've been using and writing about graphic design apps since Photoshop was available on physical disks, and while I enjoy Canva, it isn't my go-to tool in most situations. It's an app that can fit almost any workflow or budget. It's not even the design app I use.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That’s obviously not a huge round, but the investors will likely make you perk up a bit: Madrona Venture Group, Picus Capital, TA Ventures and angels like GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. The team argues that even today, building AI into an application is still far too hard.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Usually, your IT or security team will have an on-call schedule to deal with those requests, so there's always someone available to help. You can trigger events on a schedule or when something happens in another app. Tools: Apps, functions (like web search), and data sources the agent will use to perform tasks. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. Co-founder and CTO Andrea Huey, meanwhile, was a Google senior software engineer, who worked on the Google iOS app and had a prior stint at Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Twine , a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speed matching” platform designed for virtual events. intelligence. intelligence.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

I use some of these apps daily as a prompt to make my writing more concise and, hopefully, more enjoyable. I considered dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top contenders to narrow it down to these six apps. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Popular accounts payable automation software How to integrate invoice automation with your business systems Supercharge your invoice automation with AI What is invoice automation?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

Clouds are picking teams in one of the most important dislocations in software. Cloud LLM Infrastructure Microsoft OpenAI Snowflake Nvidia Databricks Mosaic Google Anthropic Oracle Cohere Amazon HuggingFace Microsoft has invested over $10b, plus significant development efforts to work with OpenAI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, AirTree Ventures and Salesforce Ventures co-led this Series D, with Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft’s M12, SEEK, TEN13 and Tiger Global also participating. (To GO1, an enterprise learning platform, picks up $40M from Microsoft, Salesforce and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Proving that there’s an appetite for bots, Salesforce today announced that it will acquire Troops.ai, a bot-based service that integrates with Slack to make it easier for sales teams to retrieve and update data across Salesforce’s various systems. Troops managed to raise $19.4 and others prior to the Salesforce purchase.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

RevenueCat , a startup offering a series of tools for developers of subscription-based apps, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, valuing its business at $300 million, post-money. Today, RevenueCat has over 6,000 apps live on its platform, with over $1 billion in tracked subscription revenue being managed by its tools.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

The creation of mobile apps has changed the way we live and work. They’ve also made running a business much easier by allowing business owners to undertake tasks on the go and always stay connected with organizational apps. Microsoft To Do. You can access your lists on your phone, laptop, tablet or desktop at any time.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Make your own custom AI chatbot Try Zapier Interfaces I've spent countless hours using both apps in my personal and professional life. There have been major upgrades to both apps since I first started using them, so I dug into each one again to see how their features stack up.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. There are some great native Mac email apps that make the whole experience better and more Mac-like. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Mio , a startup that helps enterprise teams collaborate across messaging services like Zoom Chat, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Cisco’s Webex, today announced that it has raised an $8.7 “When a Teams user wants to send a message to a Slack user, it will go over the Wide Area Network for workplace communications. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. Collectively, it says it now secures apps covering 78 million users and 230 million exposed data records and more than 9 billion monthly events.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform. Drops makes three main apps. A second app, Scripts, is aimed at learning to read, write and sign, and it covers four alphabets and four character-based writing systems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Sidekick’s answer is to let you work from inside apps that live in the browser, rather than scattered across multiple windows and tabs. Apps like Slack and Skype and WhatsApp can be pinned in the sidebar in a vertical stack where you can easily find and switch between them. Browsers are interesting again.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

It’s not just the C-suite that’s being challenged — lower-level employees, too, are having to wrestle with employers’ now-sprawling catalogs of apps. According to Statista, the average enterprise uses 110 software-as-a-service apps today, up from eight in 2015. the most searched keywords).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The company offers keyboard and social app stickers through ad-supported mobile apps on iOS and Android, but it’s recently focused more on providing stickers to developers, creators and other online businesses. Stipop launched a website recently that helps developers integrate its SDK and API through quick installs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The software integrates with over 100 other apps used in business, for example Google Apps, Trello, Zapier, MailChimp, Yesware and PandaDoc. When we entered the market in 2010, people asked us, ‘Why build a product in an area where Salesforce is already strong?’

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

In the workplace, Bears are steady, dependable, and excellent team players. Other times, it's reading a book or playing with dozens of apps to find the best one. Alternatively, you can Zapier to automatically create calendar events from your preferred to-do app. Sometimes, it's just SEO research.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Slack being acquired by Salesforce for $28 billion, the world of collaborative tools for teams is on fire right now. raised $50 million and Microsoft has Fluid. Space combines general collaboration tools: chats, team and project management, meeting scheduling and documents with workflows for specific verticals.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. With the right email marketing automation tools in place, your marketing team won't need to babysit subscriber lists or manually hit send.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Today, a startup called AppOmni — which has built a platform to help monitor SaaS apps and their activity, provide guidance to warn or block when things might go wrong and fix problems when they do occur — is announcing some funding to fuel its growth. Enterprise security attackers are one password away from your worst day.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Autobooks is the first fully integrated payments and accounting platform for business, delivered through online banking. This year, Autobooks raised $25 million in Series B funding and are continuing to grow their team, hiring in Detroit. The team is growing and hiring in Detroit and remotely. Apply now to Autobooks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

He leads the engineering teams responsible for building, scaling and protecting LinkedIn. The best engineering work isn’t done in isolation, but in collaboration, as teams discuss, wrangle and brainstorm through problems. Technology like high-quality video conferencing and the cloud have been integral in making remote work possible.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet have become standard tools for teachers who have had to run lessons remotely since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. But they’re not apps necessarily designed for classrooms, and that fact has opened a gap in the market for those looking to build something more fit to the purpose.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

While Notion operates as a broader productivity tool to manage your projects, knowledge, and files, Obsidian works more as a highly flexible writing app. This process is unlike what you'd come across on any other note-taking app, which can make it confusing if you're not a deep tinkerer.

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