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Mega wants your marketing to run without you
A gaming team built AI tools to find its own customers. Now Mega sells the same proposition to small businesses: search, ads, websites and lead follow-up, with fewer jobs left on the owner’s desk.
CarNow and the customer who had to start over
A dealership can buy a shopper’s attention and still lose the sale between two screens. CarNow’s wager is that the missing ingredient is a conversation that remembers what came before.
Jack Markham Wants Real Estate Marketing to Earn the Next Conversation
After two decades in sales, coaching and platform operations, Inside Real Estate's CMO has a practical thesis: leads are plentiful, but consistent engagement is scarce.
Scorpion Wants to Fix the $31 Million Hole Between a Lead and a Sale
Local businesses do not need another dashboard full of clicks. Scorpion is betting they will pay for a system that follows the money from search query to answered phone call to booked job - and adjusts the marketing while the schedule is still moving.
The Chat Company That Was Too Early - Then Found 15 Million Leads Hiding in Plain Sight
Blazeo began with a smartphone idea the market did not want. The useful discovery was hiding inside the failure: advertisers did not need another inbox - they needed somebody to turn expensive clicks into actual conversations.
Apten
Apten is a Y Combinator (S24) startup building omni-channel AI agents that engage and nurture leads across SMS, voice, email, and webchat. Aimed at B2C enterprises in home services, insurance, education, healthcare, and financial services, its agents hold one continuous memory across every channel, follow up at the right moment, transfer live calls to humans, and plug into CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot. The company says its conversational approach converts previously dead leads into sales opportunities at a much higher rate than robocalls or static drip campaigns.
Canibuild
Canibuild is an AI-powered site-planning platform that answers construction's first question - can I build here? Builders, contractors and developers use it to check a site's feasibility, zoning, setbacks and utilities, generate 3D site plans and produce branded quotes in under 60 seconds. Founded in Sydney in 2020, the platform covers Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada and has run more than 4 million site assessments.
Avoca
Avoca is a New York-based AI platform for America's services economy. It builds AI agents that answer calls, texts, chats and emails, book jobs, follow up on estimates and coach human reps for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control and other trades. Founded in 2022 by Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava after a chance encounter with a Dallas HVAC company, Avoca pivoted from restaurants to the trades when it realized a missed call could mean losing a $30,000 install. In April 2026 it raised $125M+ across Seed, Series A and Series B at a $1 billion valuation, and is on track to book $1 billion in jobs in a single year.