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ZoomInfo drops $575M on Chorus.ai as AI shakes up the sales market

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Shares of ZoomInfo are unchanged in pre-market trading following the news, per Yahoo Finance data. Sales intelligence, Chorus’s market, is a hot space that uses AI to “listen” to sales conversations to help improve interactions between salespeople and customers. for $575 million.

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Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

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Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. Then as part of its community, companies share knowledge of marketing buys and data insights typically reserved for larger advertisers. Trust dashboard. E-commerce sales in the U.S.

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Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?

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Mind the gap: E-commerce marketers should revise their TAM and SAM estimates. The closest match to the growing e-commerce stack is the marketing automation stack. The closest match to the growing e-commerce stack is the marketing automation stack. More posts by this contributor. How to successfully dance the creator-brand tango.

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. billion fish deficit.

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Zola Electric closes $90M funding round to scale technology and enter new markets

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Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa and emerging markets continue to live without access to electricity. Zola Electric , one such provider, is announcing today that it has closed $90 million in new funding to enter new markets and drive distributed renewable energy. The company has evolved since then. “More than 2.2

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How today’s startup market isn’t like 1999, and what you need to raise a hot Series A

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Murphy started his career at Sun Microsystems back in the mid-90s, joining venture shop Kleiner Perkins in 1999, where he stayed until 2015. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. From there, the investor changed teams to Menlo Ventures , where he’s worked since.

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Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

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Market trends are the best indicators we have to judge the maturity of the quantum industry. The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Take IonQ, a U.S.-based based manufacturer of ion-trapped quantum computers, for instance. billion valuation.

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