AI-based sales email tools are not a new category. Lavender has been selling one for several years and now claims more than 10,000 users and several big companies as clients. They just raised an $11 million Series A, bringing total funding to $13.2 million.
I promise we won’t write about every new AI-based content creation tool, Dear Reader. But, hey, when Microsoft announces it is adding one to its Dynamics 365 application suite, that’s worth noting. The new tool, now in preview within Viva Sales, will use Azure OpenAI Service and GPT to help salespeople write emails.
Does this newsletter shamelessly chase the latest trends in order to boost readership? Not at all: we are very ashamed of ourselves but do it anyway. So here’s yet another Data Clean Room story: Samooha just raised $12.5 million for its data clean product, which is doubly trendy because it runs on Snowflake.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.