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🚨 BREAKING: Fireflies.ai just launched AI Voice Agents. This is the iPhone moment for Voice AI. Fireflies went from an AI note-taker in your meetings to AI that TAKES your meetings for you. Screening interviews. Discovery calls. Progress check-ins. All automated. All conversational. All scalable. Here's what this actually means for your business: You can now clone yourself for the repetitive conversations. →The first-round screening interviews that follow the same script. →The discovery calls asking the same qualifying questions. →The weekly check-ins with the same status updates. →The customer support calls answering the same FAQs. This isn't about replacing Zoom calls. It's about freeing your team from the 80% of calls that don't need a human. So I set up a Fireflies Interview Voice Agent this morning in under 5 minutes. Want the whole guide? 1️⃣ Connect with me 2️⃣ Comment "Fireflies" And I will send it over. Repost for priority.

If you build it, they will come. Originally from Field of Dreams (or perhaps Noah's Ark), the same can be said for high quality women's healthcare. Today Midi Health is announcing a $100M round of funding, led by Goodwater Capital including new investors Serena Ventures and Foresite Capital and earlier investors AVP | Advance Venture Partners , GV (Google Ventures), Emerson Collective, SemperVirens VC, McKesson Ventures, and Felicis. This funding represents a milestone in women's health - in addition to Midi Health becoming the first "menopausal unicorn", we are showing that when women get access to funding, they create great things that add value to the world. Midi Health is taking care of more than 25K women per week - offering high quality expert healthcare covered by insurance - and women are coming to access this care. While we started in peri/menopause, our care concerns have expanded alongside the ages of women we treat. We are no longer proving a concept, we are scaling a healthcare organization that women rely on every day. I am insanely proud of the Midi Health team and grateful to our investors, new and old, who are helping us achieve this mission. And thank you to the women who trust us to provide this care -we will continue to work to earn this trust ever dav. We really are just getting started. Special thanks to Midi Health co-founders who have been at this from the beginning when taking care of millions of women really was just a dream - we are making it come to life. Sharon Meers, Jill Herzig, Kathleen Jordan, MD, Mindy Goldman.

Super proud to finally unveil our AI marketing platform: Checkmate Performance Network (https://lnkd.in/gDjVfnvd) 🛍 🚀 We’ve always focused on delivering the best savings experience for consumers. Now, we’re supercharging that experience with AI across more channels 📲 💻 📩 📞, including third-party publishers 🤝, to drive even more performance for our brand partners. The biggest unlock over the past year has been building Haptics, our AI engine: https://lnkd.in/gzySUvJk. Haptics processes millions of data points to massively expand reach and performance for brands by understanding exactly who each shopper is. From there, our AI automatically determines how to reach them, when to reach them, on which channel, and with the right offer to drive conversion. We’re already working with 250+ incredible partners, including Everlane, L’Agence, Dockers, Laura Geller, and more 🛍️ How do we know it’s working? When a brand signs up, we drive 2–10% of their total annual sales. That momentum helped Checkmate cross a $10M+ run rate in <1 year, grow 900%+ in <12 months, and reach profitability. Quick snapshot of Checkmate: - 4.9 million monthly active users - 2.4 million monthly savings events - Hundreds of millions driven in sales -100 million+ US shoppers in our network. I’m incredibly proud of the Checkmate team and the platform we’ve built. We're on a mission to build the AI marketing platform of the future. If you are a marketer and want to run a campaign, please drop me a DM

Today we're proud to announce our $5M Seed round, led by Reach Capital. We're on a mission to bring the world's most important knowledge into the AI age, with tools that allow publishers, authors, and thought leaders to monitor and monetize their content in AI systems at scale. Alongside partners like Perplexity, Wiley, Harvard Business Publishing, and others, Cashmere is building the world's first premium data search index and management portal specifically designed to meet the needs of publishers of premium data sets like academic books, journals, private research, and other exclusive content. A huge thank you to Kelly Graziadei, Joanna Lee Shevelenko, Francisca Gilmore-Yulee at Perplexity Fund & f7 Ventures who believed in us early on. 🙏🏼 And we're so excited to be working closely with James Kim and Shauntel Garvey, and to welcome in our other investors from Fortitude Ventures, LightShed Ventures, Founders Future, NAVER Corp, Ingram Content Group, Pearson, and others to help us build this future. 🚀 🚀 🚀 Jonathan Woahn, Wyatt Grantham, Jonathan Munk,Michael Moulton YJ(Yong-Jung) Park, Marc Menasé, Sungjoon Cho, John Ingram, Shawn Morin, Dongki Lee, Xavier Parkmond, Rich Greenfield, Paawan Patel, Vicky Guo, Otis Chandler, we could not have gotten this far without you. https://lnkd.in/gMK_sr9Q Let's go!!

In 2022 I interviewed Krish Ramineni and immediately after, I signed up for Fireflies.ai. It's become a critical tool for how we operate, for meetings and in our workflows. 3 years later, Krish joined me again on Unicorn Builders, shortly after Fireflies became a unicorn. We talked about their unconventional approach to building, winning with PLG, founder-led marketing, why B2B companies should hire consumer marketers, and what's next for Fireflies. Full ep in the comments

Most startup advice is directionally correct... and operationally useless. In this episode of Fund/Build/Scale, Lanai CEO/co-founder Lexi Reese breaks down what actually worked as she helped build the AI interaction observability platform from day zero — including why she ran 200 customer interviews, how she defined real product-market fit, and what seed investors actually want to see. 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts 📺 👇🏾 Links in the comments 👇🏾 Thanks, Lexi!

Alinea Invest is #6 on the finance charts 🚀 Ranking ahead of Robinhood, Fidelity Investments, Venmo, SoFi, Bank of America and so many others! So proud of our dream team!! We've been working hard and climbing the ranks 🔥 Amazing start to the year!!!

Fireflies was named the fastest-growing AI notetaker of 2025. We also raised some of the least funding among the companies on Brex’s list of top 50 companies. That matters. We don’t try to be loud in VC/tech circles. We let the product and customers do the talking... and we do it efficiently. Silicon Valley and Twitter can be an echo chamber. Hype is easy. Craft is not. Competition is inevitable, but we’re obsessed with building the best product for our customers. Every release, every workflow, every small improvement compounds over time. Brex ranked these companies using real spend data, weighting recent months more than early spikes. Momentum over noise. That tells us one thing. Customers are voting with usage and spend. Press and marketing can never overshadow that. To every team using Fireflies today, thank you. You’re the reason we exist. We’re still early. Still hungry. Still improving. To teams evaluating tools for 2026... if you want maximum value for what you invest, give us a shot. Join millions of people using Fireflies today.