Melius, an AI platform for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25 million after pivoting from its first marketing-tool product. The funding includes a $20 million Series A led by CRV. Following the failed initial product, the team scrapped its codebase and refocused on generating creative assets and campaigns instead of optimizing ad spend.
Strawberry launched its 3rd release of an AI browser that lets teams run AI agents inside a web browser interface. The update is positioned as a “3rd launch” and is offered alongside “Free Options.” The company says agents can be built and shared across teams to handle tasks like research, drafting outreach, and updating CRMs or sheets within logged-in apps.
Gamma Tech Inc. released Gamma 5, rebuilding its AI presentation platform to reduce repetitive layouts and more generically designed visuals by adding a redesigned editor, a more capable AI agent, and a larger visual-style library connected to company information. The import visual-accuracy benchmark improved from roughly 30% early in development to over 97%. The update lets users create and revise slide elements more freely with agentic tools in a sandbox, adds thousands of templates and connectors to internal data, and is reported to cut presentation creation time from 8–10 hours to about 30 minutes.
Init, a German public-transport technology company, acquired a majority stake in Norwegian start-up Applied Autonomy to run driverless bus operations using Applied Autonomy’s xFlow software. It bought 67.74 percent of the Kongsberg-based company, and the purchase price was not disclosed. Init plans to combine xFlow with its MOBILE-ITCS system to operate autonomous and conventional bus fleets in a single environment, with a focus on expanding in Germany.
calliora raised $6 million in a pre-seed round to build an AI platform that checks hospital invoices before they are sent to insurers. The funding was led by Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments and redalpine. Its software rollout is expanding and the 2027 changes to German audit caps increase the urgency to reduce billing errors before invoices go out.
Featherweight Dictation launched as a lightweight AI dictation app for Mac and Windows that lets users hold a key to speak and insert cleaned text into other apps. It is 4.6 MB on Mac and 2.3 MB on Windows, and it costs $5/month after a free trial. As a result, the app offers filler removal, spoken corrections, and formatting for emails, messages, lists, and prompts.
HeyPi launched today as an AI meeting tool that tracks conversations in real time and uses past meeting context to surface key information and start follow-up work during the meeting. It follows what was said and can generate outputs like landing pages, apps, social media content, and ad campaigns live within the meeting. The result is less AI meeting notes and more automated execution after ideas are discussed.
Manus launched a Video Editor in Manus 2.0 that combines its AI video features with editing workflows. It’s launching today, after a month of daily use. This adds a free video-editing option so users can turn raw footage and ideas into polished videos.
Serval founder Jake Stauch pivoted from failed neuroscience work into an AI-driven automated service management platform aimed at changing IT from ticket-handling to building tools and protecting data. He received $5,000 to pursue his first startup concept using brain scans to measure advertising efficacy. The story reframes Stauch’s career path as one that leads to applying AI capabilities to fix long-running IT workflow bottlenecks and perceptions.
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