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MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kind Designs set out to raise $5 million. Nearly $20 million in investor interest pushed the company to double the round. Today, the Miami-based climate resilience company announced the close of a $10 million Pre-Series A at a $70 million valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $21.5 million. As coastal communities race to replace aging shoreline infrastructure with more resilient solutions, demand for Kind Designs' 3D-printed Living Seawalls has accel...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has released a new version of the ZoomInfo Chrome Extension, the browser tool that surfaces verified contact and company data on the page a seller is already viewing. The new extension was rebuilt natively from the ground up, and the rebuild is what makes it faster and lets it find more. Pages load 2 to 3 times faster than the previous extension. The slowest moment in browser prospecting is the wait betwe...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intrinsic Power, a developer of AI-enabled electrical infrastructure, today announced the first close of its Seed financing, bringing together a syndicate of strategic investors with deep expertise across industrial technology, energy infrastructure, and digital infrastructure. The financing from Kyocera Ventures, Drive Catalyst, Boost VC, and RPV Global will accelerate commercialization of Intrinsic Power’s AI power orchestration platform while supporting the comp...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arist today announced Arist Diagnostic, a new platform release that lets customers make and execute critical business decisions faster through agents that do the slowest work of management consultants in a fraction of the time. Leaders of large workforces will be able to rapidly determine a company’s strategic readiness and prepare its people for new initiatives by deploying a performance consultant that interviews and up-levels each employee accountable for business-w...

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Latent Labs launches Latent-Y, its lab-validated drug design agent, to researchers worldwide through the Latent Labs Platform. Any approved researcher can now access Latent-Y for free, with a daily design quota included at no cost. For larger campaigns, researchers can purchase additional design credits on demand. Latent-Y is an AI agent for drug design. It takes a therapeutic goal, specified in written language or as a scientific publication, and...

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On July 13, AnySearch ranked No. 1 on Product Hunt's Weekly Leaderboard, becoming the first search-focused product in the past year to break the platform's dominance by AI agent and foundation model launches. As AI competition shifts beyond models toward infrastructure, search is emerging as a core capability for AI agents. Rather than building another search engine for humans, AnySearch positions itself as "The Search Infrastructure Your AI Can Trust." Launched on M...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Sharp Business Systems, the B2B technology services arm of the iconic electronics brand, has expanded thousands of existing accounts into new services using ZoomInfo, according to the company. Give a salesperson the choice, and most will pick expanding a current account over chasing a cold one. Sharp wanted to do both. But for decades its sales model leaned on face-to-face relationships....

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Redwood Logistics, a leader in modern supply chain solutions, has cut its cost per click by nearly 99%, to as low as $1.20, using ZoomInfo, according to the company. Redwood knows optimization. It moves freight at scale, and it realized its own go-to-market operations needed the same treatment. When a new senior director of digital strategy took over Redwood's go-to-market technology, th...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that BDO Canada, a leading advisory firm serving clients from startups to enterprises, has cut the time to update its market intelligence dashboards from eight hours to one, an 87% reduction, according to the company. For an advisory firm, market intelligence is the edge. The difference between winning and losing a high-value relationship often comes down to knowing what a client needs before...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wagmo and Curql Announce Strategic Investment, Bringing Modern Pet Healthcare to the Credit Union Movement...