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There’s something almost too perfect about this one, via Bloomberg. Lyzr, a three-year-old Jersey City, New Jersey-based startup that helps businesses create AI agents, used its own AI agent to launch its own campaign. The system, SivaClaw, reportedly answered questions from more than 130 investors, wrote investment memos and even tracked slides that backers were dwelling on.
It essentially worked on the startup’s $100 million Series B (at a valuation of around $500 million) while proving that the product actually works. It’s hard to imagine a cleaner sales pitch.
But the most telling detail, according to Bloomberg’s account, is how little work was required. Lyzr told the outlet it attracted $400 million in interest from Silicon Valley, the Middle East and financial sector investors without a founder ever needing to get on a plane and make the traditional rounds of Sand Hill Road for coffee meetings and warm introductions. Perhaps that’s the real story of this launch moment: There’s so much capital chasing AI bets that startup founders with potential barely need to leave their desks to rake in nine figures.
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