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1.5 Million No-Code Apps Flood Market as Three-Person Support Squad Slashes Help Tickets 22%

1.5 Million No-Code Apps Flood Market as Three-Person Support Squad Slashes Help Tickets 22%

TL;DR * OpenBuilder Raises $2.2M Seed Funding to Empower Non-Technical Founders with AI-Powered App Building * Manycore Tech Launches HK$1.02B IPO in Hong Kong, Focusing on Spatial Intelligence Expansion * Injewelme Secures $1.2M Funding for AI-Powered Health Monitoring Tech via Temasek Trust and Richardson Family 🚀 1.5 M

$860M Lost: Singapore Construction Bleeds $2.3M Daily to WhatsApp Mayhem

TL;DR * Sidewinder Therapeutics Raises $137M Series D for Cancer Immunotherapy Platform * GitButler Raises $17M Series A Led by a16z to Streamline Developer Collaboration * OnSite Raises $1.3M Seed Round to Digitize Construction Communication in Singapore 🚀 $137M Series D Propels Sidewinder’s Phase-3 Cancer Rocket Toward 2027 FDA Filing $137M

$43 B Lost Calls Bleed Sydney Tradies: AI Rescue in $900k Seed

$43 B Lost Calls Bleed Sydney Tradies: AI Rescue in $900k Seed

TL;DR * Jeito Capital closes $1.2B Jeito II fund to back 15–20 clinical-stage biopharma companies * Natter Secures $23M Series A to Triple Headcount by 2026 with AI-Driven Workplace Insights Platform * Chime Labs Raises $900K AUD to Automate Trade Workflows with AI Receptionist and Quoting Tools 💊 $1.2 B

88% Buy Five9 AI, Only 25% Use It: US Call-Centers Face Bot-or-Human Cliff

88% Buy Five9 AI, Only 25% Use It: US Call-Centers Face Bot-or-Human Cliff

TL;DR * Five9 Appoints Jay Lee as Chief Marketing and Growth Officer to Accelerate AI-Driven Enterprise CX Innovation * Circulate Capital Raises $220M for Asia II Fund to Scale Circular Supply Chains in Southeast Asia, Targeting 50M Tons of CO2 Avoidance * Rocket Lab Acquires Mynaric for $1.3B to Integrate Satellite

🤯 $500 to $14 M: Parody Queen’s B2B Agency Flips Influencer Math in SF

🤯 $500 to $14 M: Parody Queen’s B2B Agency Flips Influencer Math in SF

TL;DR * Natalie Marshall Launches Corporate Natalie, a Creator-Led Influencer Marketing Agency with $500 Initial Deal and 1.4M Instagram Followers * Converge ICT spins off $1 billion fiber business in Philippines, targeting 900,000 new ports in Visayas and Mindanao * Apollo Global Management Acquires Gatehouse Living Group for $2.8B,

$15 M AI SEO Land Grab: Bots Buy Google Page 1 Like NYC Condos

$15 M AI SEO Land Grab: Bots Buy Google Page 1 Like NYC Condos

TL;DR * Daydream Raises $15M Series A to Lead AI-Native SEO Tools, Serving 20–1,000 Employee Clients Like Replit and OpenArt * Covalo Secures €3.5M Funding Extension to Scale Global Ingredient Discovery Platform 🤖 $15 M Daydream Round: AI SEO Bots Grab NYC-Style Cash to Rewrite Google $15 M in

$1.75B Robo-Shipyard Cuts $400M Per Hull: Navy Buys First $392M Ghost Fleet

$1.75B Robo-Shipyard Cuts $400M Per Hull: Navy Buys First $392M Ghost Fleet

TL;DR * Georgia Cleantech Innovation Hub receives $600K grant to accelerate hardware startups * Intel repurchases 49% stake in Irish Fab 34 for $14.2B, signaling strategic confidence in chip manufacturing * Saronic Technologies raises $1.75B to build autonomous naval vessels, secures $392M U.S. Navy contract 🚀 JPMorgan Drops $600K to