Fireflies.ai is a San Francisco-based AI meeting assistant that joins video and phone calls across Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to record, transcribe, summarize and analyze conversations. Its bot captures speaker-labeled notes and action items, its AskFred assistant answers questions about past meetings, and its Perplexity-powered Live Assist offers real-time web answers during calls. Founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong, the company reached a $1 billion valuation in 2025 while staying profitable and is used by teams across more than a million organizations.
Bluefish is a New York-based agentic marketing platform (AMP) that helps Fortune 500 brands monitor, influence, and measure how they appear inside AI systems like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Amazon Rufus. Founded in 2024 by repeat ad-tech founders, it pioneered the category often called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and reached roughly 10% of the Fortune 500 within two years, raising $43M in Series B in April 2026 to bring total funding to $68M.
Edward Tian is the co-founder and CEO of GPTZero, the AI-detection tool he wrote in three days at a cafe over the 2023 New Year holiday while a senior at Princeton. Within days, tens of thousands of teachers swarmed the app and crashed its server. Two years on, GPTZero has raised $13.5 million, reached millions of users, turned profitable, and become a default check for educators, recruiters, and grant agencies trying to tell human writing from machine writing.
A data-driven editorial report mapping how the AI-native internet will reshape search, content, attention and brand visibility between 2026 and 2029. The piece argues the web is shifting from 'search and click' to 'ask and act' — answer engines synthesize replies, agents transact on users' behalf, and the open link economy is being renegotiated in real time. Drawing on 30+ primary sources including Pew Research, McKinsey, Cloudflare, Stanford HAI, and Similarweb, it covers the adoption explosion (900M weekly ChatGPT users), the great decoupling of searches from clicks (69% zero-click), the stumbling first steps of agentic commerce, the rise of synthetic content (52% of new articles AI-generated), and a practical playbook for publishers, brands, and e-commerce operators navigating the shift.
Catherine 'Cack' Wilhelm is a General Partner at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), where she focuses on cloud infrastructure, data infrastructure, and information security investments. A former Nike-sponsored professional runner and seven-time All-American at Princeton, she was the first American finisher at the 2007 World Cross Country Championship in Kenya. Wilhelm is the first woman promoted to general partner at IVP since 1983, having led major investments in companies like Perplexity, Cribl, CircleCI, and Monte Carlo Data. Her unconventional path from elite athletics to enterprise sales at Oracle and Cloudera to venture capital has shaped her approach to partnering with technical founders building transformative infrastructure companies.