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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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. and others prior to the Salesforce purchase.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

From CRMs to helpdesks, project management platforms, and beyond, it's down to IT to manage those apps, assign seats, and monitor their infrastructure. But when those apps don't work well together or connect through an integration, IT teams end up with fragmented systems and siloed apps.

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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. Thoma Bravo is leading this round, with previous backers such as Scale Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, ClearSky, and Costanoa Ventures also investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

Despite the criticisms they’ve received, Twitter’s desire to maintain the quality and integrity of the Twitter stream is worthy and will benefit both the platform and all of us as individuals who have poured our time and energy into communication through Twitter. For any platform to succeed it needs to achieve revenue momentum.

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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. By connecting your whole tech stack, you can go further by tailoring content to specific interests, products, or actions that happen in other apps.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

After extensive research, we centralized on HubSpot and deprecated Salesforce, Hootsuite, Calendly, Mailchimp, Contacts+, and Zapier. We were only paying for Zapier in order to pull business cards into Salesforce. Like Salesforce, HubSpot also has a significant (albeit smaller) network of integration partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Paragon , a startup building a platform that integrates and aggregates various software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps for enterprise clients, has raised $13 million in a series A round led by Inspired Capital, alongside previous investors FundersClub and Garuda Ventures. It felt like we were reinventing the wheel every time.

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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. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft.

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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. The funding is coming on the back of a huge year for AppOmni.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Class, an edtech startup that integrates exclusively with Zoom to make remote teaching more elegant, has raised $12.25 The round brings Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures and Super Bowl champion Tom Brady onto its capital table. Will Zoom Apps be the next hot startup platform? million in new financing.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 8, 2025

Zoom has cemented its status as the default video conferencing app, no matter if you're working remotely full time or just hop on an occasional video call. Zapier is a no-code automation tool that lets you connect your apps into automated workflows, so that every person and every business can move forward at growth speed.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Learn how These database tools store data: both associated app data (e.g., It offers transparent PostgreSQL databases, predictable pricing, and native integrations with popular vibe coding platforms. Firebase is best for vibe coders building flexible, real-time apps who want to work within Google's ecosystem.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“Right now we’re focused on making Workato the company you think of when you think of Integration and Automation. We believe customers can benefit so much from wall-to-wall integration, and for that reason our goal is for our customer usage to continue to grow over time and to stay on the revenue path we are already on.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

The idea behind the new architecture is split a SaaS app into code and the data. The very biggest create APIs for pushing and pulling data into other systems (eg, Salesforce App Exchange). That provides a huge amount of leverage to Salesforce, because they control the data. Technology integration will be harder.

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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

JULY 7, 2025

Table of contents How to set up an on-call agent Set up your agent's instructions Configure your action apps Test and turn on your agent Before you begin Make sure your team's on-call rotation schedule is clearly set up in your Google Calendar. You can trigger events on a schedule or when something happens in another app.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

To that end it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools , the Zoom Apps marketplace and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on top of their platform. Zoom launches $100M Zoom Apps investment fund. The trick is getting there.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a bid to remain competitive among the growing number of workplace chat apps out there, Slack today announced the launch of new automation features designed to make workflows more shareable and discoverable. More will be revealed at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in late September, Wood said.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

inspired him to co-found Namecoach, which develops name pronunciation tools that can be embedded in existing platforms like Salesforce, Canvas and Gmail. He decided to code an app that would collect recordings of students saying their names and deliver them to name readers for graduation, which became Namecoach.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech employees build amazing consumer-facing apps for the world. To use Salesforce, as an example, you are using it for two things: you’re writing data into Salesforce and you’re taking data out of it,” he explained. Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B Image Credits: Rattle. Rattle’s use case extends to even more services.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

integrates with different apps, surfaces key data and delivers it to the most convenient collaboration tool for a team, like Slack. launched a web console for managers, a Chrome extension and integrations with Salesforce, Google Workspace and Slack. Vijayvergiya told TechCrunch that over the last six months, Nektar.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

But while SaaS apps have become the lifeblood of organizations, they can often be unwieldy. Rather than build a new project management or collaboration platform, the two co-founders created two-way integrations with automatic syncing between existing SaaS tools.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

I considered and researched dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top 20 contenders to narrow it down to these eight form plugins for WordPress. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

The two previously launched AppVirality , a referral marketing tool for app developers. It integrates the channels into one interface, so salespeople don’t have to switch between apps. Sequoia Capital India’s Surge invests $2M in sales engagement platform Outplay.

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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. It includes chats, meetings, calendars, issues, mobile apps, launched documents, issue boards, automation CI/CD, personal to-do lists and added turn-based code reviews. Notion is super hot and last year Frame.io

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

CEO Mona Akmal says that the new money — which brings the company’s total raised to $20 million — will be used to build integrations with workflow partners, support product research and expand the size of Falkon’s team from 20 to 30 employees by the end of the year. ”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Those apps can include Salesforce, NetSuite, Sage, SAP, QuickBooks, Zuora, Xero, ADP and more. But on the other hand, those in the business who manage finances and financial reporting are lacking the tools to look at the data from these different apps in a holistic way. “So we enabled that to beat the market.”

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went. Though both can do many similar things, Airtable is a database app and Google Sheets is a spreadsheet app. But not a lot else. Unless you're really , really , really into it.)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Identifies opportunities: When you integrate AI tools into your existing workflows, it can use your data to flag blind spots and possibilities for your business. It can crunch vast datasets for that aha insight, prototype a web app for a partner, or rapidly test new product features while your team dreams up the next big thing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Before launching Outplay, the Papineni brothers built AppVirality , a referral marketing tool for app developers. It integrates with customer relationship management platforms like Salesforce and Pipedrive, giving sales people a new interface that includes productivity and automation tools to cut the time they spend on administrative tasks.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

AutoRabit , which provides CI/CD tools for Salesforce customer dev teams, today announced that it raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by Full In Partners, bringing the startup’s total raised to $52.5 ” There’s certainly an appetite for tools and services built on top of the Salesforce ecosystem.

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