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We can’t wait for these exciting companies to take the stage at #INBOUND24 next week!

Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the world’s fastest Conversational Video Interface for developers. Build rich, real-time video experiences with digital twins that can speak, see, and hear. ⏱️ Less than one second of latency 🤖 Realistic, intelligent digital twins  🔌 Plug and play end-to-end building blocks 🏷️ Fully white-labeled tech 🧩 Modular, customizable components like LLM and TTS See the magic for yourself! Try talking to Carter on our live demo: www.tavus.io And if you like what you see, support us on Product Hunt https://lnkd.in/gieE-kww We’re excited to see the amazing products y’all build with our APIs. 

Thanks Mike Butcher ✍️ for sharing how we at Bardeen are pushing the boundaries of automation with AI. And thank you HubSpot and Dropbox for partnering to help bring this technology in the hands of millions! This is just the beginning and we’re super excited to help businesses around the world automate their repetitive tasks with this new launch! 📈🚀🚀🚀 https://lnkd.in/dW_zqKii

Meet the finalists of the HubSpot For Startups Million Dollar Pitch Competition! These innovators are set to take the INBOUND Originals Stage on Wednesday, September 18th, where they’ll present their game-changing ideas to a panel of execs and VC’s for a chance to secure an investment of up to 🤑 ONE MILLION DOLLARS 🤑 from HubSpot Ventures. Who are you rooting for? Let us know in the comments! Emily Steele, Hummingbirds 🎺 Rory Sadler, trumpet 🎺 Alyona Mysko, Fuelfinance Ka Ling Wu, Upsolve AI (YC W24) Marissa Huggins, Spontivly Pranav Piyush, Paramark.com

At HubSpot, we know that short-form video is now the # 1 content format, delivering the highest ROI and helping businesses build stronger connections with their customers. Which is why we’re excited to announce HubSpot Ventures’ investment in Captions. Captions allows marketers and creators to easily tell their stories with video and reach customers faster with the help of AI. Congratulations to the awesome Captions team led by Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill! Learn more about how Captions helps equip the next generation of marketers to simplify and enhance the content creation process.

We've had an incredible year at Captions so far — and today I'm thrilled to share we've raised a $60M Series C. This milestone was made possible by some truly incredible work and momentum by our New York City team including: 🌎 Reaching 10M+ global creators on Captions 🎥 Launching a collection of world-first generative features, including AI Creator and AI Edit 📈 Seeing 3M+ videos generated by our customer each month Going forward, we plan to invest $100M into advancing generative video research here in New York. We believe that New York is emerging as the epicenter for AI research and look forward to building our world-class team here. (Give a 👹 if you're interested in joining us on this ride!) This round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from our existing investors Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. New investors include Adobe Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and Jared Leto. We're grateful to each of our partners for their support in this journey, and to our global community of creators for giving us the opportunity to help amplify your ideas. Cheers to the next chapter. Check out our coverage in Bloomberg News by Rachel Metz: https://lnkd.in/eJ2rAhCZ

Clay is an incredible company that has been customer-first from day one. We’re proud to be investors in such a special company with an equally as passionate community of users! Congratulations to the awesome Clay team led by Kareem Amin and Varun Anand – and if you’re looking to join this crew you are in luck - they are hiring!

It's hard to argue with the idea of happy customers; who doesn’t want their customers to be happy?! The bigger question is, what makes customers happy? We should all be obsessed with that question. What delights your customers and how will you turn yourself into a pretzel to serve them? So I was thrilled with the concept of Arrows “Happy Customer Festival.” Several HubSpotters joined to discuss the customer lifecycle across marketing, sales and support. When HubSpot originally started as a marketing automation company, we saw customers were generating significantly more leads. But there was a leaky bucket when moving leads from marketing to sales. Marketing claimed that sales work rates were not high enough and sales teams claimed that lead quality was not high enough. Sounds familiar? A few insights on how we thought about delighting customers: Connect the dots across teams and provide full visibility on the customer journey. This is what we have attempted to do with our engagement hubs like Marketing, Sales and Service. Create a platform - one that unifies all of the customer data and unifies the team that uses that data. Enroll your partners in the journey and create a thriving ecosystem. Our average customer has at least 9 integrations with other apps in our ecosystem. There is something magical that happens when customers begin to integrate with other key systems in their stack. The more integrated we are as an ecosystem, the more value our customers get, and the more value they get, the happier they are. In any industry and in any economy, you win when you have happy customers. Good luck and much happiness for everybody. And thanks for the conversation Daniel Zarick!

I love startups. Have loved them for 30+ years. Want to pitch yours on stage at INBOUND 2024? It's our biggest event of the year. Founders: Check out the second annual HubSpot for Startups x HubSpot Ventures Million Dollar Pitch Competition! Last chance: get more info (deadline is June 1st) at https://lnkd.in/ecePpMvY #startups #founders

Are you a startup founder with unicorn🦄 potential? Let's see what you got! Applications are officially open. Check out HubSpot for Startups & HubSpot Ventures #MillionDollarPitch competition! Apply to be one of a few lucky startups selected to win a conference ticket to HubSpot's INBOUND24 and pitch to a panel of VCs & execs in Boston, MA. This a rare opportunity to be considered for a million-dollar investment! Submissions are open until 23:59 EDT, May 17, 2024. APPLY NOW: https://lnkd.in/g8pjbH87