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Ex-Google DeepMind and Databricks Engineers Launch Pomo to Apply AI Agent Principles to Decision-Dense Marketing Functions

Insider Brief PRESS REELASE — Pomo, an agentic marketing intelligence platform built for mid-market, announced $4.5 million in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Databricks Ventures, Seven Stars, SV Angel, Timeless Partners, and 645 Ventures. The round also includes backing from prominent angel investors including Scott Belsky, Mehdi Ghissassi, and Massimo Mascaro, all of whom have led AI and product organizations at Adobe, […]

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Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia Wins ACM Prize as AI and Data Systems Converge

Matei Zaharia, co-founder and CTO of Databricks, has been awarded the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his contributions to large-scale data processing and systems that underpin modern AI. Zaharia originally developed Apache Spark during his PhD at UC Berkeley under Ion Stoica, introducing a breakthrough approach that accelerated big data processing and later became […]

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