The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

How to kickstart your AI automation strategy Automate intelligently with Zapier What is AI automation? AI automation (sometimes referred to as intelligent automation) combines automation technologies with artificial intelligence (AI) to create systems that tackle complex work by learning, adapting, and making smart decisions.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Higher sales were attributed to automotive (both OEM and components), metals, semiconductor & electronics/photonics, plastics & rubbers, metals, and the All Other Industries category. Burnstein attributes the non-automotive orders increasing in 2024 to the growing number of industries becoming more comfortable with automation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. But as last year’s crypto experts quickly work to rebrand as AI experts, they’ll have to compete with the VCs who have been investing in the category all along. Seattle-based Ascend is one of them.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not surprisingly, a survey done by Statista found that content marketing was believed to be the most effective digital marketing technique according to marketers — followed by marketing automation, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI). What is artificial intelligence? Faster keyword research and SEO analysis.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

Artificial Intelligence - yes, it’s a buzzword but it’s more than that. Blockchain is clearly the category with the steepest slope. Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category. Analytics - surprisingly, this category has seen its zenith. Others have grown by more than 3x. Hot Spaces.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Carmack said Friday his new artificial general intelligence startup, called Keen Technologies, has raised $20 million in a financing round from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Cue founder Daniel Gross. I had talked about that as a possibility for a while, and I am glad Nat pushed me on it,” he said in a tweet.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 9, 2023

Profet AI provides auto machine learning solutions for semiconductor, electronics, chemicals and textile manufacturers to boost their operational efficiencies with the power of artificial intelligence (AI). The company has doubled its revenue in 2022, a demonstration of strong growth with a capital efficiency ratio of over 1:1.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Shelf Engine’s grocery order automation technology applies advanced statistical models and artificial intelligence to deliver accurate food order volume so that customers can reduce their food waste by as much as 32% while increasing gross margins and sales of more than 50%. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Last week, she announced that she raised $101 million for her new fund to back companies that are building artificial intelligence and what she describes as software 3.0. But what happens when you want to disrupt a category that has been around the block a few times?

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We have partnered with 8 marvelous founding teams, all using data to power the next wave of innovation across the Modern Data Stack, Artificial Intelligence, & Web3. I’m grateful to our team, our founders, & our limited partners for the continued support, & to Allie Garfinkle for sharing more about Theory.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

We are witnessing a once-in-a-generation industrial transformation driven by advancements in artificial intelligence and the increasing need for sustainable products. About Greycroft Greycroft is a seed-to-growth venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs of all backgrounds to build category-defining companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Part of that vision includes building a tech stack that leans on artificial intelligence and API to provide better manufacturing, supply chain, design and customer acquisition capabilities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

Haje is one of the reporters I quote most in this newsletter because all of his work fits the “startup must read” category — and his witty headlines don’t hurt, either. Big shout out to Kyle Wiggers, as well, who is fearlessly, and thoughtfully, covering artificial intelligence alongside Devin Coldewey.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

As artificial intelligence continues to weave its way into more enterprise applications, a startup that has built a platform to help businesses, especially non-tech organizations, build more customized AI decision-making tools for themselves has picked up some significant growth funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The funding is coming at a high-watermark moment for edtech — with the shift to remote learning in the last year of pandemic living highlighting the opportunity to build better tools to serve that market, and a number of startups in the category subsequently raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tackle the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“We believe small firms deserve to succeed online,” the executive told TechCrunch. “It’s a trend I’ve seen more broadly and we think professional services is the next category that needs an SMB enabler, and that’s really what we’re trying to do.” ” Image Credits: B12.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In the background, machine learning models and artificial intelligence-powered humans in the loop do the structuring for our customers, which include food delivery, e-commerce and point-of-sale,” Nemrow added. Nemrow and Will Bewley founded the San Francisco-based company in 2017. “In

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lumachain was founded in 2018 to use computer vision-based artificial intelligence to transform meat plant operations. It has five products in the categories of safety, yield, quality, efficiency and traceability. That’s why she believes AI should be helping employees be the best they can be. She even did a TED Talk about it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Others in the same category include Standard Cognition (last year valued at over $1 billion), Shopic , Caper , Zippin , and Grabango , to name a few. Their solutions will complement SAP’s cloud solutions for retail, integrating seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA and pave the way towards building an intelligent store.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. “Underwriting cyber insurance for SMEs is a more dire prospect than for large enterprises,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Aiming to give merchants more control over this, Seel , which focuses on underwriting e-commerce returns, is leveraging artificial intelligence to build proprietary underwriting software that uses hundreds of signals to predict the probability of return as soon as an order is placed, co-founder Zack Peng told TechCrunch via email.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

To be a startup aiming to disrupt a category that still has a tone of gray in it comes with its own challenges. When an investor backs a startup, they ideally think that the company will be the winner in said category, whether it’s CBD gummies, financial plumbing or peer-to-peer car-sharing. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

AI Stage: Covers the latest artificial intelligence tech related to NLG, speech recognition, virtual agents, biometrics, RPA, deep learning platforms, reactive machines, and P2P networks. For founders and investors curious about an emerging category, these sessions are a chance to cross-pollinate.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Clockwise uses artificial intelligence to help teams free up their workdays and avoid the challenges associated with remote and hybrid workplaces, such as burnout. This latest round brings the company’s total amount of funding raised to $76 million. The company was founded in 2016 by Gary Lerhaupt, Matt Martin and Mike Grinolds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

That’s the category we want to create and we want to be the largest in that space.”. It also — unlike some diversity hiring platforms — does not rely on artificial intelligence, a fact that Herman is actually proud of. “We You know how everyone has a CRM? On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Signal AI , an artificial intelligence startup that trawls the vast sea of internet and other publicly available data to provide organizations with sentiment insights and other information to make better business decisions, has raised $50 million. We are excited to be involved with the next chapter of the company’s innovative growth.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This led Drift to expand its focus to build a platform that includes conversational sales, which integrates chat, email, video and artificial intelligence to power conversations, not just on a customer’s website, but for the sales team too. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Palo Alto-based startup launched its car insurance comparison service using artificial intelligence and machine learning in January 2019. As we enter more car expense categories, our total addressable market continues to grow.” “The U.S. auto insurance industry is an at least $250 billion market,” he added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Xfund’s vice president, Jadyn Bryden, and Lightship Capital’s principal, Alexis Alston, told TechCrunch that they are focused on generative artificial intelligence. For 2023 then, it appears investors are focusing on trends that are relatively safer and likelier to bear fruit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

As such, it’s no surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic of conversation in the space, as companies work to incorporate it into their offerings — some more meaningfully than others — in an attempt to stand out. Aditi Maliwal, partner, Upfront Ventures Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Prior to starting the company, the co-founders were already working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and e-commerce at companies like Flipkart and Truefit. The company will also invest in product development, expanding into other categories and creating a self-service tool. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Python is one of the top programming languages used among artificial intelligence and machine learning developers and data scientists, but as Behzad Nasre, co-founder and CEO of Bodo.ai, points out, it is challenging to use when handling large-scale data. Docter puts Totoni and Nasre in that category.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Zhou noted that Yami provides more than 260,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs) across food, beauty, health, and home categories with over 4,000 brands. . On top of that, it plans to invest in technology like artificial intelligence and big data, which will strengthen its supply chain and improve customer experience, Zhou told TechCrunch.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Access Alto identified four broad categories of CTO: Infrastructure leader: The CTO is responsible for the data, maintenance, security and network of a business. The CTO is responsible for the optimisation of the internal business operation processes using technology. Types of CTO. CTO vs. CIO.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

With other ITSM features like asset management , change management, and problem management—all increasingly enhanced by Atlassian Intelligence—Jira is a better fit for IT support teams. Zendesk excels at CX analytics, while Jira offers deep operational intelligence Zendesk's reporting is more robust than Jira's.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In a nutshell, the company uses artificial intelligence to help businesses determine what is specifically impacting product quality at any given time, notes unitQ co-founder and CEO Christian Wiklund.

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