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Congratulations to Manish Agarwal, Ishank Gupta, and the KGeN team for this incredible milestone! Here’s to shaping the future of gaming. Pratik Poddar | Jishnu B.

Our CEO, Tim Zheng, took the stage at SaaStr Annual in September and shared some key lessons we learned while scaling to $100M ARR. ‼️ Spoiler alert: one of our favorites is that small teams CAN move mountains. He also covers: ↳ Transitioning from a sales-led growth model to a product-led growth (PLG) business ↳ How to build a PLG business ↳ Pivoting + reinventing the business to reaccelerate growth ↳ Building a strong business in a highly competitive industry with much larger incumbent players Check out the whole talk here and let us know your favorite learning in the comments: https://lnkd.in/g8VgwfKq #SaaStrAISummit #SaaStr #SaaStrAnnual Jason M. Lemkin

Kintan Brahmbhatt, Co-Founder & CEO of Olto dives into how AI is helping maximize revenue growth by empowering GTM teams to effectively leverage their own product across the entire customer journey - from initial sales and adoption to expansion and renewal. Discover how AI-powered tools are: - personalizing the sales experience - optimizing sales workflows - accelerating deal cycles Learn how Olto’s AI-powered demo automation platform is shaping the future of sales! Abhishek Sharma #AI #SalesTech #SalesEnablement #PreSales #DemoAutomation #FutureOfSales #Olto

We're excited to announce our Series A investment in ZITADEL along with our friends at Floodgate ! Zitadel is on the path to becoming the de facto standard for identity and authentication management. Zitadel offers enterprises a robust multi-tenancy identity infrastructure across public and private cloud, flexible deployments, and data security. Congrats to Florian Forster, Fabienne Bühler and the ZITADEL team! Abhishek Sharma Aniket Kamthe #opensource #identity

Incredible work by Eric Simons and the amazing StackBlitz team! Exceptionally creative product thinking meets distribution. 0 to $4m ARR in 4 weeks since the launch of Bolt (https://bolt.new)! 🤯📈 We’re proud to have been partners since the very beginning. Nexus Venture Partners #AI #Codegen

Hot take but AI Assistants aren’t living up to the hype Despite the buzz, closed-domain AI assistants are falling short. Without reliable, context-aware responses, they’re not ready for serious business use. Where AI Assistants Fail Here’s a scenario from a well known sales assistant that’s out there today: 📊 User Query: “What’s the length of my average sales cycle?” ➡️ Assistant Response: “I calculated the average sales cycle length for your opportunities, but there are no results to show.” The assistant can’t perform a computation. Why? Let’s break it down. 🛑 The Issue: Closed-domain AI assistants rely heavily on search-first algorithms, making them unsuitable for high-trust applications. Consider a task like “Find all emails from last week that need follow-ups.” A search-based AI might skip important messages if they lack specific keywords, leaving critical follow-ups unnoticed. When this incomplete data is passed to the language model, the result is unreliable, making these assistants ill-suited for nuanced business queries. ✅ The Solution: Agentic query planning. Instead of rigid keyword search, assistants should gather all relevant emails and then use an LLM to classify follow-ups—just as a person would—ensuring accuracy. That’s why our AI lab built PromptQL - An agentic, data access API for your AI! PromptQL is available now in Alpha ➡️ https://bit.ly/4f1z25j We’re also releasing the Agentic Data Access Benchmark. We built a dataset across 5️⃣ closed domains and put popular assistants to the test: 💡They could only handle the simplest questions.  ⚠️ ~ 80% of real-world, medium-to-high complexity questions performed poorly. Here's the full Agentic Data Access Benchmark ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gr_4iKr2

Today I am beyond excited to announce not one, but two new features in Apollo.io that will change the way you sell. First, we’ve incorporated the power of AI into Apollo with AI Power-ups. AI Power-ups can do anything you dream up – like review and summarize your prospects’ social posts, scan their website, or read their press releases. This lets you create better, more effective and personalized messaging, in less time. The possibilities here are limited only by your creativity. Second, we’ve built a powerful new automation engine into Apollo called Workflows. Workflows let you use conditional logic in your sales process, so you can automate the tedious manual tasks that slow you down, and deliver truly unique outreach to each individual lead. While each of these tools is powerful individually, combining them is where the real magic is. You can use AI Power-ups to do quality research on every lead, and Workflows to automatically deliver the right message to the right person, every time. To help you get started, we’ve launched a library of templates, so you can start using AI Powerups and Workflows in Apollo with just one click: https://lnkd.in/g2b9hAXY And here's where you can learn more about AI Power-ups, Workflows, and what’s coming soon from Apollo! https://bit.ly/AIpowerups Happy selling 🙂

We are delighted to partner with Zinc in their vision to support parents and students in realising their global education goals in a planned and transparent manner with a best-in-class combination of education advisory and financial services platform. Congratulations, Prashanth Ranganathan and Team Zinc! Know more here: https://www.zinc.money/ Anup Gupta I Anand Datta https://lnkd.in/gjM6B5xc

We are thrilled to double down on our partnership with Sharad Sanghi, and Anindya Das, in their journey of building one of the most advanced AI clouds out of India for the world. Neysa’s mission centres on putting the power of AI within reach for businesses, eliminating complexity, and unlocking innovation and growth. By building out AI-native compute infrastructure and making that easily and securely accessible, Neysa is accelerating the adoption of Generative AI by the enterprises. Congratulations to team Neysa on the Series A! Sharad Sanghi I @Anindya Das I Jishnu B. I Utkarsh M. #AI #GenerativeAI #EnterpriseTech #NexusVP #Innovation https://lnkd.in/d_sCQEZi