StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Investors saw Evaheld as a category creator—not just a product, but a movement. This real-world example serves as a powerful benchmark for investors, demonstrating how our platform directly leads to SME growth and market success. That process is what made the metric powerful. 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. Over time, this digital community of engineers and operators evolved into a full-fledged AI-powered platform.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Powering Clean Energy Confidence “Omnidian was built with the goal of protecting and accelerating clean energy investments by transforming the customer experience and delivering breakthrough technology,” said Mark Liffmann, CEO of Omnidian. The firms value proposition is resonating globally.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2025

The platform is also partnered with leading genetics firm DNAthlete, positioning MAXIOM as a category creator in healthtech. We built Max to cut through the chaosto deliver truth, precision, and simplicity in one powerful platform. What Makes MAXIOMs AI Coach Unique? People are drowning in noise and misinformation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Deliberate Underselling Strategy One powerful strategy for usage-based pricing is deliberate underselling. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Before this category came into shape, we had a loosely formed category named AI app builders. They fall into a set of categories that make them too developer-grade, focusing on tasks they have to perform every day for work. Originally designed for developers, it's an AI-powered IDE (code-writing app).

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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. That kind of third-party validation builds instant trust, especially in a category where trust is everything. " That's a subtle but powerful credibility boost. Learn more.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 11, 2025

But behind the numbers lies an even more powerful narrative—Glean was founded on a bold and deeply transformative vision: to empower every employee with AI solutions that are grounded in the full context of the enterprise. With over 100 SaaS connectors and native APIs, Glean brings all this context into one AI-powered platform.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Helps identify and patch security vulnerabilities: When allocated enough processing power, AI automation is a speedy process. Drives innovation: AI automation is a powerful R&D assistant. Here's a rundown of some of the essential tools and technologies that power AI automation. A dream come true.

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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

JUNE 9, 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. All backed by the power of automation. Is this a shameless plug? Needlessly complex question, but yes.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

AT&T). Benefits of a VoIP phone service With VoIP virtual phones, you still have to rely on power to access the internet to make and receive calls, but with a charged mobile phone, you have options. If you want to use an existing business number(s), you'll need to transfer those numbers away from your current service (e.g.,

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Better insights, data analysis , and sales forecasting: Modern CRMs include powerful analytics tools that turn your customer data into actionable insights, allowing you to identify trends, spot opportunities, and predict future behavior. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

Canva is a powerful template-based design tool. Supercharge Canva with automation Get started Over the past few years, Canva has also started implementing a wide range of AI-powered features. There are plenty of other more powerful design apps, but to be a true alternative to Canva, an app also needs to be a good value.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

But with Zendesk's Advanced add-on, you get access to a much more powerful dialogue builder. And for when a human touch is needed, Zendesk’s powerful omnichannel routing directs tickets to the right agent, regardless of their source. user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month* user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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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. Webinar Marketing Powerful webinar software for hosting interactive, large-scale conferences, with tools for analytics and lead generation. Learn more about how to automate different Zoho apps. Learn more.

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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

JULY 1, 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 app is just as easy to use (and as powerful) whether you prefer to tap the plus icon to add a new node on your iPhone or click it on your Mac.

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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. After all, a powerful AP tool shouldn't be an island. It almost feels like a consumer app, which is a rare compliment for finance software.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Contact Sales I work at Zapier, an enterprise that not only helps other businesses automate their workflows, but relies on automation to power our own internal operations. But in practice, it's become a powerful layer for business process automation—especially at the enterprise level.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

No one wants to be in the latter two categories! Im confident that the future of AI will revolve around a few powerful LLMs and a massive number of application builders. While every CEO and founder wants to create the next impactful IPO oriented company, IPOs are rare, even in the best of times.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

As you type, Wix distills your answers into a site profile, including essential details like your business's category, location, and goals. If you're technically inclined, both Wix and Squarespace also allow you to dig directly into the code that powers your website.) You can test either app for free. Learn more.

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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. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. for the first year).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where In certain product categories that means building in features & functionality that isn’t a commodity.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Every other term on this list falls under the umbrella of AI, so it's a pretty fuzzy category to define. Tools like Zapier make it possible to add AI to almost any service or workflow, so you can, for example, pull the power of ChatGPT into any of the other apps you use at work. GPT models power ChatGPT and many other AI tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. Categorize articles into relevant groups (default categories: U.S., Compile summaries and categories into a final Google Doc report. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Here, I'll walk you through key differences and use cases and share some examples so you can understand how to use both to power your business. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

He couldn’t have imagined power users would be global political figures, dictatorships, small factions of people standing up to the Iranian army or every sports figure & celebrity in the world. If we’re doing too many deals in eCommerce or healthcare IT we might ask whether we’re seeing enough deals in other categories.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 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. 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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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Whether the power is out or you're in a remote place, the more users it has, the better it keeps you connected. They got more data about what customers liked and didn't like very quickly, enabling them to change recipes and offerings, and expand to categories like breakfast, snacks, and sweets.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 19, 2025

NEW YORK, June 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Clinch, the AI-powered technology company that brings efficiency, productivity, and intelligence to omnichannel advertising, has been named a winner in the 2025 Newsweek AI Impact Awards.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2021

While nearly all categories of advertising have automated media buying, only 2 percent of OOH spend is currently programmatic. Place Exchange is reinventing the category with powerful, engaging consumer experiences. Despite the category overall taking a hit, Place Exchange saw its monthly revenue grow over 12X in 2020.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

When businesses want to reach an online customer most effectively, they basically have Facebook and Google to choose from to spend money on, creating a scenario where these platform companies have all the data necessary to pick and choose category winners. Amazon can use purchase data to create new Whole Foods brands and Amazon labels.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

Now, with the advent of large language models, such previously shackled information might soon be easily and widely available to everyone, ushering in a new LLM-powered era that could shift the financial services landscape. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Millennials and younger generations are acutely aware of the consequences of global warming (and how cattle contribute to methane emissions) and they are using their purchasing power to support sustainable-first brands. While it’s still early days for alternative sources of proteins, the category holds tremendous promise.

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