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Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams


The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to deepen its enterprise push. Apollo.io has acquired Pocus, a revenue intelligence startup that helps sales teams identify and prioritise the accounts most likely to buy based on behavioural and CRM […]



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Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health


The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the year’s fastest-moving product category, and on Thursday Perplexity entered the race properly. The company launched Perplexity […]



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Why the checkout is the most strategic product in your 2026 stack


Every product team has a roadmap. Every marketing team has a funnel. But ask most SaaS and ecommerce leaders which single component has the greatest direct impact on their revenue, and you will hear a surprising amount of hesitation. The answer, increasingly, is the one piece of infrastructure that still gets treated as an afterthought: […]



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VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups


The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. The team behind Warsaw-based Montis Capital has raised €50 million at first close for a new fund, Montis VC, targeting European startups at the intersection […]



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Bluesky raises $100M Series B as new CEO takes charge


Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There is a quiet irony in the fact that the person who built […]



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