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The $1 Trillion Procurement Bet: Zycus Wants AI to Finish the Job, Not Just File the Form
Zycus spent more than two decades building the plumbing of corporate purchasing. Now it is betting that procurement's next interface is a sentence in Teams - and its next worker is an AI agent with guardrails.
MoEngage
MoEngage is an insights-led customer engagement platform that helps consumer brands unify customer data, surface AI-driven insights, and orchestrate personalized cross-channel campaigns across push, email, SMS, in-app, web, and WhatsApp. Used by more than 1,350 global brands, it combines analytics, segmentation, and journey automation in a single dashboard powered by its Sherpa and Merlin AI engines.
Raviteja Dodda
Raviteja Dodda is the co-founder and CEO of MoEngage, an insights-led customer engagement platform used by more than 1,200 consumer brands. He started the company in 2014 with his IIT Kharagpur classmate Yashwanth Kumar after a failed local-offers app made it painfully clear that marketers had the data but no way to act on it. A decade later MoEngage runs Merlin AI, a suite of AI agents for marketing teams, and just closed a $280M Series F led by Goldman Sachs and ChrysCapital.