StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Investors saw Evaheld as a category creator—not just a product, but a movement. Royal Rovshan , CTO & Product Manager, Vitanur Showcase Direct Customer Value Initially, we highlighted our AI platform’s processing speed and accuracy rates, which impressed technical audiences but failed to resonate with investors. The outcome?

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2025

In a bold move to transform the energy sector with cutting-edge AI, Collide, the category-defining GenAI platform for oil and gas professionals, has secured $5 million in seed funding. A high-precision, AI-native tool that delivers cited, contextual, and energy-specific insights to users in real time. The result?

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2025

Combining DNA, biomarkers, wearables, and conversational AI to deliver precision health and fitness coaching to athletes and everyday achievers. MAXIOM) has officially launched a groundbreaking AI platform poised to redefine the future of health, fitness, and human performance. What Makes MAXIOMs AI Coach Unique?

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

With cutting-edge analytics, AI-driven monitoring, and proactive maintenance capabilities, the company is carving out a new standard for post-installation clean energy asset management. Longtime backers Activate Capital, Liberty Mutual Investments, National Grid Partners, and WIND Ventures reaffirmed their support with follow-on investments.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Switching from the norm in your category introduces friction. Modern behavioral economics points toward three-part tariffs as potentially the optimal structure, especially when the number of vendors in a category is small. It commodifies the category by reinforcing a single dominant purchasing parameter: performance.

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StartupNation

JULY 26, 2025

The good news is that with more companies now using AI to automate parts of their day-to-day tasks, a huge portion of time-bound work can be offloaded to allow them to focus on income strategies that don’t demand constant effort. You can, but you don’t need to with today’s tech and the evolution of AI. The good news?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents So, which ones are worth your time, money, and vibes? Before this category came into shape, we had a loosely formed category named AI app builders. What about autonomous AI engineers, IDE add-ons, and agentic coding tools? If it works, who cares how it's written?

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Jason Malki

JULY 21, 2025

After a decade immersed in digital strategy, fintech, and responsible AI, Rocio returned to Spain to co-found WAYS  — a tech-for-impact startup revitalizing cultural routes like the Camino de Santiago. As a social enterprise using advanced tech for cultural and economic regeneration, we fall between categories.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2025

In 2025, the event included two core award categories: The Pioneer Award Celebrating trailblazers who have created disruptive innovations with global potential. Dmytro Balan was recognized for developing a revolutionary AI-powered PPC automation platform thats transforming how businesses run digital campaigns.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

I've grouped them into categories to make things easier to scan, but keep in mind: the best ads don't always fit neatly into a box. Zapier This Zapier ad promotes a free online quiz targeting tech leads and decision-makers to understand their AI readiness. No vague promises—only a specific benefit for the user.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 11, 2025

Empowering Every Employee Through Contextual AI Glean’s meteoric rise in the enterprise AI space reached a new milestone this week as the company announced a $150 million Series F funding round, led by global asset management firm Wellington Management , pushing its valuation to an impressive $7.2

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

One is the wide-eyed optimist who wants to try every tool and click every AI button. There's no doubt AI is exciting. According to one survey , 97% of execs say AI is helping their teams but 42% admit the adoption process is leading to a good amount of chaos. AI is both helpful and hard, useful and overwhelming.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. While most whiteboard apps are starting to implement AI-powered features, they aren't yet a major factor for inclusion.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And while AI has since come on the scene, it hasn't replaced automation—it's made it better. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Table of contents: What is AI automation? Automation used to be the best way to do that.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (200+ reviews) AWeber Small businesses AI-powered content creation $15/month 4.2/5 5 (5000+ reviews) Mailchimp has evolved from a simple email service provider to a comprehensive marketing platform with AI-powered features that rival Klaviyo’s capabilities while maintaining better usability for non-technical users.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

These apps offer the AI, automation, documentation, and reporting features that you need to keep the lead pipes (the ones pronounced leed , not led ) flowing smoothly. The best pipeline management software at a glance Best for Standout feature Pricing Zapier AI orchestration Integrates thousands of apps with built-in AI From $29.99/month;

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Whether its our SaaS platform, Hero, new enterprise solutions, or emerging AI capabilities, theres always a next frontier. Beyond that, were deepening our enterprise partnerships, expanding globally, and pushing into new categories where high-quality video is a necessity but remains inefficient.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Deliverability Tools Inbox previews, spam testing, and deliverability experts AI-powered spam detection for content Key features Drag-and-Drop Email Builder : Create visually stunning emails in minutes with an intuitive interface that requires zero coding knowledge.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 8, 2025

This is a category-defining shift that changes everything for working families.” Bumo directly addresses these challenges through its AI-powered child care marketplace, which helps providers fill unused capacity and gives parents the flexibility to find trusted care when and where they need it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

" This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration. ." " This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration. Table of contents: What is AI orchestration? How AI orchestration works AI orchestration vs. related concepts What are the benefits of AI orchestration?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The intelligently arranged call inbox shows categories across the top for missed calls, voicemails, recordings, and other types of calls, making it easy to see what may be on your plate. With the addition of generative AI, GoTo Connect has further improved performance and quality assurance.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

AI and machine learning Sophisticated CRM platforms incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning to help predict customer behavior, recommend next best actions, and automate routine decisions. This saves time and reduces the risk of human error, which, as humans, we are particularly prone to making. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

Supercharge Canva with automation Get started Over the past few years, Canva has also started implementing a wide range of AI-powered features. Express also integrates with other Adobe products, like the generative AI Firefly , Adobe Fonts, Adobe Stock, and, of course, the big apps like Photoshop. The paid plans start at $9.99/month

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

With an ITSM template, you can do things like create change plans, assess risks using AI, track deployment, and view everything in the queue clearly. user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month* user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month* user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month* user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

The best WordPress SEO plugins Yoast SEO for content analysis and guidance Rank Math for a free plan and affordable scalability Squirrly SEO for AI-powered suggestions SmartCrawl for balancing features with simplicity The SEO Framework for speed and automation Slim SEO for beginners What makes the best WordPress SEO plugin?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Category Description CRM Sales Manage your sales process and client communications, including leads, contacts, accounts, and deals. Desk Service Empower your agents to deliver delightful customer experiences, stay organized, and become productive with advanced tools and AI assistance. Solo Service All-in-one platform for solopreneurs.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp All-in-one marketing Comprehensive marketing stack with strong AI features Free (paid from $13/month) 4.4/5 5 (5000+ reviews) ActiveCampaign Advanced automation Deep customizable automation with AI enhancement $15/month 4.5/5 5 100+ reviews) What’s “wrong” with GetResponse? (TL;DR)

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Every year, Zapier users automate billions of tasks, including more than 250 million AI tasks. Submit an application and tell us how you’re leveraging Zapier and AI to transform the work you do for your team, customers, or industry. What’s new for 2025 Sharper categories. Community recognition. Submit by August 6, 11:59 p.m.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Over the past several years of updating this list, I've tested close to 50 different mind map tools, many multiple times as they've been updated and added new features—AI included. Ayoa has some of the more mature AI features, though in my testing, I didn't find them to be particularly useful for filling in a mind map.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. It's a truly modern finance platform that uses AI not just to manage spend, but to intelligently understand and control it.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

That means automation tools need to meet enterprise-grade security standards and offer transparency into how AI is being used. Instead of dividing enterprise automation into those categories, I'll stick to a people-first framing here—because automation is only valuable if it actually helps teams work better.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

No one wants to be in the latter two categories! HW: Youve seen several waves of technology over the last few decades – Internet, Cloud, Mobile, etc – how have these experiences shaped your opinion on the AI boom? In the 2021 boom, there were 215 tech and media IPOs.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. The plugin now comes with a generative AI tool to help you create and customize forms. Alternatively, you could try an AI-generated form.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Last weekend, I spent 60 seconds watching an AI tool create a website for me. While pre-designed templates have long existed as a way to make the web design process less painful, the real paradigm shifts have come from recent advances in AI. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An impressive AI site-building solution that takes the headache out of getting started.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

I've been writing about AI since before most people knew what it stood for, and still, barely a week goes by where I don't have to look up some new term or technical topic. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Use Zapier's AI orchestration platform to help you stay on top of industry news, curate content for your audience, or just keep up with what matters most to you. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Whether it's the names of individuals, categories of products, or song titles, as long as the information is organized within a framework, it's structured data. AI and machine learning also get on well with structured data. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works.

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