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1. 📚🤖 Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
2. 📺🤖 Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer
3. 💰🤖 Kaltura acquires eSelf, founded by creator of Snap's AI, in $27M deal
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5. 💰🔄 The circular money problem at the heart of AI's biggest deals
6. ⚡🌍 AI power use forecast finds the industry far off track to net zero

6sense founder secures funding for AI sales agent startup

6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind

Amanda Kahlow, the founder of marketing technology company 6sense, has secured $30 million in Series A funding for her new venture, 1mind, which develops AI sales agents designed to replace human sales professionals. Battery Ventures led the round, bringing the startup's total funding to $40 million.

Kahlow, who launched 6sense in 2013 as a lead-generation platform before departing in 2020, is taking a different approach with 1mind than most competitors in the crowded AI sales agent market. Instead of focusing on outbound activities like cold calling and email campaigns, 1mind's AI agent "Mindy" specializes in inbound sales processes.

"I'm not playing in outbound," Kahlow explains. Mindy handles inbound sales interactions from initial contact through deal closure, serving as a sophisticated replacement for sales engineers on enterprise calls and managing customer onboarding. The AI can participate in Zoom meetings, understand complex product specifications, and navigate competitive positioning discussions.

What sets 1mind apart is its use of deterministic AI technology, which provides guardrails to prevent the hallucinations common in other AI systems. The agent is trained on comprehensive company knowledge bases encompassing products, technical details, and market positioning. When uncertain, Mindy simply states it doesn't know rather than fabricating information.

The startup has gained impressive traction in its first year, securing contracts with over 30 companies including major names like HubSpot, LinkedIn, and New Relic. Notably, all customers have committed to annual contracts rather than experimental budgets, with average contract values reaching six figures.

Kahlow has pushed the boundaries further by creating an AI avatar of herself, which she used during fundraising pitches. Battery Ventures' Neeraj Agrawal utilized this avatar during due diligence, noting how customers engage in extended conversations, often forgetting they're interacting with AI.

The Amanda avatar remains accessible through Kahlow's LinkedIn profile, capable of discussing both 1mind's products and broader topics like women in technology, though it consistently steers conversations toward business opportunities.

Looking ahead, Kahlow envisions AI agents eventually replacing higher-level account executive roles, though she acknowledges current limitations. "We're not there yet where we're fully replacing the AE," she admits. "We're replacing the website, sales engineer, and customer success functions, but that AE-customer relationship still exists."

The primary barrier remains trust, particularly for large enterprise deals where buyers aren't yet comfortable completing transactions without human involvement. However, Kahlow anticipates a future where agent-to-agent transactions eliminate human avatars entirely, operating through direct information and requirement transfers.

Despite building technology to replace human workers, 1mind currently employs 44 people and has 71 open positions, including account executive roles. This apparent contradiction reflects the current transitional phase where human oversight remains necessary for complex sales processes.

The funding round attracted participation from Primary Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Operator Collective, Harmonic Growth Partners, and Success Venture Partners, along with angel investors from prominent companies including Monday.com, ZoomInfo, Databricks, Box, Gong, Braze, and Verkada.

As AI sales agents proliferate across the market, 1mind's focus on inbound processes and deterministic technology positions it uniquely in a space where trust and accuracy are paramount for enterprise customers making significant purchasing decisions.

AI coding platform Lovable approaches 8 million users milestone

Lovable says it's nearing 8 million users as the year-old AI coding startup eyes more corporate employees

Stockholm-based AI coding platform Lovable is approaching 8 million users, up from 2.3 million in July. The year-old startup, valued at $1.8 billion after raising $228 million, sees 100,000 new products built daily on its platform.

CEO Anton Osika targets the 99% who can't code, attracting over half of Fortune 500 companies. Despite traffic concerns raised by analysts, the company maintains strong retention rates and recently surpassed 100 employees while expanding leadership from San Francisco.

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