The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. While most whiteboard apps are starting to implement AI-powered features, they aren't yet a major factor for inclusion. Stormboard also has a couple of handy AI features.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Most organizations use a patchwork of tools to manage processes. From CRMs to helpdesks, project management platforms, and beyond, it's down to IT to manage those apps, assign seats, and monitor their infrastructure. Look for automation opportunities Identify the low-hanging fruit. Where are the handoffs?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

If you use an AI transcription tool like Grain , you know it can transcribe, summarize, and pull insights from recordings automatically in the background of every meeting. When you connect Grain with Zapier, you can orchestrate entire systems with AI and automation to streamline the way you hold meetings (and everything that comes after).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Read more on how to effectively add AI to your Zapier workflows. Build—and interact with—AI assistants in other apps Ever wanted to have your own AI assistant that can chat with team members or customers and solve issues in other apps, like Slack or Gmail? You can use AI and automation to bridge that gap.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

As anyone who's ever seen a cartoon plumber knows, the best pipeline management tool is a monkey wrench. But if you want to know the best sales pipeline management tool, unfortunately, you should probably read the next several thousand words of in-depth software analysis.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

One example: backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platforms like Supabase and Firebase let me focus on solving problems instead of getting lost in server configurations and database management. But which platform should you use for your vibe coding projects? Do more with your data. Automate your database. inventory) and user data (e.g.,

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Zendesk for Service and Jira Service Management are two of the most popular help desk solutions on the market. Integrating Zendesk and Jira Zendesk vs. Jira Service Management FAQ Zendesk vs. Jira at a glance Both Zendesk and Jira offer ticket management solutions, but it's not really fair to compare the two platforms apples to apples.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2024

Managing stress is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle and strong leadership. Even if all I get is a 15-minute investment in planning part of the perfect trip (or identifying projects to offload before then), I experience the joy of anticipation. and more articles from the EO blog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now , with $4.5 Narrato , a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. The Narrato team decided to embed generative AI into different stages of the content process.

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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. Category Description CRM Sales Manage your sales process and client communications, including leads, contacts, accounts, and deals.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Plus, the Add Video to Playlist action makes content management easier than ever. Now, you can effortlessly search for all tasks within a project with the new Find All Tasks from Project action, making it easier to manage and process tasks individually. Perfect for speeding up dev workflows. 'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Google Sheets is simple, quick to onboard, and comparatively limited in its use cases, making it a good choice for teams that just want basic data management. While it can function in similar ways to a spreadsheet, in that it can manage various cells of data, that's just one element of what it's for.

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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. Here are a few of the most common approaches to enterprise automation (each of which might use a mix of BPA, RPA, integrations, rule-based automation, and AI). Access and permissions.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI’s capacity for content creation has drawn most of the noisiest headlines: how AI models can instantaneously create Pixar-like shorts starring your pet chihuahua, or drum up the Drake-Kendrick Lamar diss track you never knew you wanted. Concurrently, the way companies view marketing is changing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2019

Written for EO by Chris Bray, founder and CEO of BiG Media , an innovation firm that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and unlock new revenue streams for content creation and distribution companies. You need to weigh your duties to manage your time appropriately.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I've been covering AI developments for almost a decade now, and the idea of AI tools that can be trusted to operate independently has always been exciting—and just out of reach. Agentic AI is the latest attempt to create a framework for what these tools would look like and how they could safely operate.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

Uizard is an AI-powered design assistant for non-designers. The tool enables decision-makers, managers, engineering teams, and business analysts to quickly and effortlessly create interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without all the noise and complexity of traditional design software. Welcome, Uizard. The best part?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

The ability to create custom AI-powered chatbots using Zapier Interfaces. In this blog post, I'll walk you through exactly how to create your own chatbot using Interfaces—and offer a few ideas on specific use cases. You can also restrict access to anyone with the link or a password, or to managed users only.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Google's Gemini era has been in full swing over the past year, integrating its Gemini family of AI models into nearly every corner of its product suite—from Google search to Google Workspace and beyond. Of course, the most obvious place Google deploys AI is its chatbot (formerly called Bard). Instead, use Zapier.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

One company working to serve that need, Socure — which uses AI and machine learning to verify identities — announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round at a $1.3 digital identity market is projected to increase to over $30 billion by 2023 from just under $15 billion in 2019, according to One World Identity.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Despite the initial confusion, building a CRM in Google Sheets can be a surprisingly effective way to manage customer relationships (and slightly less terrifying than whatever Skibidi Toilet is). Create a customer relationship management database The core worksheet in your Google Sheets CRM will be the one housing your customer/lead data.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Until I can clone my brain and upload it to a computer (or to an agent ), I still need to attend meetings to move the needle forward on big projects. They take up a lot of bandwidth, and that bandwidth is better spent on more strategic projects and approval processes that require actual human thought. That's not really a problem.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Make your Google Sheets work for you Automate Google Sheets Here, I'll dive deep into Google Sheets' capabilities and limitations, exploring whether this kind of space is actually useful for your data projects or if it's a sign you might need to look beyond spreadsheets altogether. How many rows can Google Sheets handle?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Copy.ai , a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers, announced a $2.9 The startup is also worth watching because it is part of a growing cohort of companies building atop GPT-3, what its progenitor the OpenAI project describes as an “autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2023

Just four years later, Vital is a leading artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital healthcare company serving over 100 hospitals and 31 health systems nationwide. Todd Cozzens, Managing Partner at Transformation Capital that led the $24.7 million Series B round, expresses that view.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Black Swan’s other co-founder, Hugo Amos, was a digital marketing strategy manager at PepsiCo. To conduct market research, the platform looks at billions of tweets, posts, discussion forum threads, reviews and blog posts over a two-year period and then filters for roughly 400,000 distinct concepts (e.g. to start Black Swan. .”

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 20, 2021

FDA clears DreaMed’s AI decision platform for type 2 diabetes. Enterprise networks are now migrating from in-office systems to cloud-based networks-as-a-service, becoming too complex and dynamic for humans to manage alone. AI chip maker Hailo is the latest OurCrowd portfolio company to reach unicorn status. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Locusview: Digital construction management platform raises $64M. By financing small agroforestry projects, Treedom provides income opportunities for local farming communities in 17 countries. The OurCrowd portfolio company develops high-performance AI compute platforms for cloud data centers. BrainQ wins XTC regional final.

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OurCrowd

JULY 25, 2021

Their platform truly helps entrepreneurs start their business quickly and easily with AI-powered logo design and branding services.” The world’s first AI-powered logo design and branding platform, Tailor Brands makes it simple to create a unique online brand identity with no design experience and get up and running in minutes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

At that point, I had an asymmetric opportunity on my hands that had a manageable downside and a potentially unlimited upside. Compete where there is low competition In every company, there are usually a few projects that everyone wants to do and projects that everybody tries to stay away from. It may advance your career a lot.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

They offer powerful workplaces to manage your knowledge, no matter where it comes from. While Notion operates as a broader productivity tool to manage your projects, knowledge, and files, Obsidian works more as a highly flexible writing app. Modern note-taking platforms go beyond documenting your thoughts.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Startup of the Week: AutoBrains, new AI for automotive. Bizzabo launches ground-breaking event management platform. Startup of the Week: AutoBrains: A new kind of AI for automotive. CytoReason uses AI to build digital models of the human immune system and diseases to speed up drug development. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dataloop raises $16M for AI data management platform. Dataloop’s customizable SaaS platform for AI data annotation and data management weaves together human and machine intelligence to accelerate vision AI. Webinar Oct. 20: How AgTech protects our food supply in a pandemic. Top Tech News.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

. “After five years of hard work and dedication, XPRIZE is thrilled to announce Zzapp Malaria as the grand prize winner of IBM Watson AI XPRIZE,” says Anousheh Ansari , CEO of XPRIZE. Ripple projects 40% YoY revenue growth in 2021 and its gross margins are improving. Senior Finance Manager for Influitive (Canada).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company has an API that can calculate a company’s emissions footprint based on an integration with their ERP system, and then invests money into offset projects that are designed to remove an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. billion in assets under management may approach the renewables industry.

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