The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

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. I wanted to see them in action, imagine myself actually using them day-to-day, and pinpoint what really made the AP process smoother.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

These events are organized as a conference format, so the discussions are casual and mixed with networking, planned appointments and good content. The point here is to build a partnership with the companies whose products are also used by your customers. Facebook is a great model to use for learning from the past.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Get started AI buzzwords are everywhere, but knowing what they actually mean can help you use AI better. For a simple example, the idea is that your AI assistant agent would be able to book flights using a travel comparison website's AI agent. You can build your own AI agents using tools like Zapier Agents.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

As the technology advances, new models have come out, and we've naturally been left with an extensive list—including some legacy models. That means you can also use them to develop your own AI-powered tools and connect them to thousands of other apps using Zapier. If you aren't sure which model to use, GPT-4.1

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. Lastly, six of the eight founders that counted as part of the BI study were part of mixed teams--where there were both male and female founders. Why so many mixed teams? Venture Capital & Technology' That, statistically, is true.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

As opposed to Notion's "blocks," Obsidian uses Markdown , a lightweight formatting language, but you don't have to learn it to customize your text. You can just use standard options like bold, italic, and more. I also like that you can precisely customize the text and the fonts. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

They buy technologies that can solve problems they know about today, rather than those they may face a couple bends down the road. Rather than asking large companies about which technologies they were experimenting with, we created four buckets, based on what you might call “commitment level.” (Our Augmented reality/mixed reality.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It certainly worked out pretty well when Stanford licensed the search technology that Larry and Sergei had been working on back to them at Google. More and more startups are getting built without relying on University research--because hard technology is rarely the barrier to innovation these days. Kick the students out.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

After spending time testing it myself, I can say it's a significant leap forward—though it still has plenty of quirks as this technology finds its footing. Google Veo 3 at a glance Veo 3 is really impressive—folks are already using it to overhaul their marketing strategies. I found it was easier to use it with Flow, personally.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

MiTú will use its $10 million to build out new production facilities in LA and Mexico. We’re growing our technology team because as I’ve outlined in the past the best online video companies are a perfect mix of technology and storytelling. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to. Technology companies are fueling much of the growth in key economies, but access to those businesses is limited.

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StartupNation

MARCH 24, 2021

In the process, we discovered that many are already exploring this nascent technology. To take the pulse of technology and business trends, Dell Technologies has been regularly surveying 800 IT decision-makers (ITDMs) across six countries (U.S., Over time, the business use cases will proliferate.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

More recently, Unreal Engine has been used for different use cases beyond video games, such as special effects, 3D explorations of virtual worlds, mixed reality projects and more. On the technology front, Sketchfab lets you view 3D models on any platform. But an engine without assets is pretty useless.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“We will benefit from their unique experience and ability to create amazing experiences that help organizations use virtual spaces to drive impact. Mozilla’s forays into the metaverse have had been met with mixed results. ” Active Replica was founded in 2020 by Jacob Ervin and Valerian Denis.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 2, 2024

Out of 14 applicants, eight finalists were selected to participate in Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s TechCelerator Business Bootcamp , a program designed to help entrepreneurs explore the likelihood of success for a startup business idea.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. To meet these expectations, both technology that is easy to use and accurate as well as high-quality software and content are needed. Image Credits: Varjo.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. Previous companies using the IdeaPAD scaled their product by 10x or became leaders in their space. Example For the entertainment data client that approached PixelEdge, they already had data and technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

CEO Josh Sharkey, a chef himself for most of his career, incorporated the New York-based technology company back in 2015. Colleagues were using everything from the standard Google or Word documents to spreadsheets, but Sharkey wanted a more digital approach. Nommi announces plans for rollout of its food bowl-making kitchen robot.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and even electric vehicles, battery startup EnerVenue says it developed a breakthrough technology to revolutionize stationary energy storage. The technology itself – nickel-hydrogen batteries – isn’t actually new. I had essentially given up.” Those aren’t the only benefits.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The quest to define what exactly a web3 use case looks like hasn’t always been easy but has allowed plenty of founders to get creative in building out products designed to tap the ethos of decentralization and the business opportunities of the creator economy. and web3 music platforms. . and web3 music platforms.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And while most of its growth to date has been organic, it will be using some of the funding potentially to bring some inorganic growth into the mix. But Go1’s ambitions extend beyond that: It also plans to use some of the funding to further explore how it might extend its platform beyond corporate learning as well.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

You can use social media as one tool to make those connections , but it doesn’t stop there. If you’re a professional and you want to make a sustainable living from your art, you need a bank account that’s separate from the one you use in your personal life. Personal connections are what is going to really sell.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The problem is that with the volume of information coming in, taking the time to inspect and understand each piece of suspicious activity can put enormous strain on an organization: It’s time-consuming, and, as it turns out, not the best use of that time because of the signal to noise ratio involved.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Creative is not a word I typically use to describe myself. I started Kono’s Kitchen, named after my rescue dog Kono, so dog parents could give their dogs healthy freeze-dried raw treats that were easy to use in training or on top of their meals. I found Canva , an easy to use graphic design platform. Creative Beginnings.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, a company that believes it can improve how agents work within them using AI is announcing a big round of funding. could bring into that mix a sweetener for would-be customers, in the form of intelligence that can be applied to voice-only interactions and those taking place over chat. Observe.AI

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Breadfast employed a mix of improved customer experience (from what customers expected from traditional players) and a native supply chain process to gain entry into the market, said Amin. In 2017 when Breadfast launched, the more prominent companies either used marketplace or aggregator models: think Instacart and Postmates.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“Our work with these companies will be guided by our role as a leading global innovator of next-generation products, technologies and services as we help them accelerate their growth and deliver positive impact to the world.” – Artificial intelligence-powered remote patient monitoring wearable technology. TRIPP, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Kodland’s latest tranche of funding — which brings its total raised to date to $11 million — will be used for market expansion, with courses in a further eight languages planned over the next two years. Ireland, the U.S.,

education

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Despite ethnicity usually being a self-determined categorisation, we believe this is justified because the data we collect is subsequently anonymised and is being used to improve access to capital,” they note, adding: “Ethnic or gender prejudice is dependent on the perception of the person holding the purse strings to funds.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Warm introductions are not factored in, and anyone can apply to be evaluated, screened and accepted or rejected on equal terms, in part using the data science that Sequoia’s product team (led by Lee) has built internally to evaluate potential investments. “Europe is so fragmented.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms. It is also notable for being Atom’s first outside funding.

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