Dapta has raised US$6M in seed funding to bring AI sales agents to more small businesses across the U.S. and Latin America, building on strong momentum with over 200K users, US$4M in annual revenue, and more than 4,000 new users joining weekly. Its AI sales agent, Dapti, instantly responds to inbound leads, qualifies prospects, and schedules meetings, helping SMBs convert more customers without adding administrative overhead. According to Dapta's internal data, businesses using Dapti are seeing their contact rates double. We're excited to continue backing Nicolas Rojas and the team as they make enterprise-level AI capabilities more accessible to small businesses. Full story here: globenewswire.com/news-relea… @christine_tsai @khailee @dfect @damarismendozal @rlomeli88 @DidierQuiroz @regina_zuru @porfin_entiendo @atxfrench

As one of the world's oldest and premier AI research conferences, ICML brings together many of the researchers shaping the future of AI. That's why we were proud to co-host AI Super Night: ICML 2026 Edition alongside our portfolio companies @ElorianAI and humans&, bringing together first authors of accepted ICML 2026 papers alongside researchers from @nvidia, @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @Meta, @Apple, @GoogleDeepMind, and leading AI startups. Our lightning panel featured @AndrewDai (Elorian AI), @Niloofar Mireshghallah (humans&, @CarnegieMellon), @DZhang50 (@RicursiveAI), @albe_alfa (@axiommathai), and @meggmcnulty (Cosmic Labs), who shared their perspectives on where frontier AI research is heading. The conversations continued throughout the evening as researchers, founders, and builders connected in a closed-door setting. A big thank you to our collaborators Elorian AI, humans&, Cosmic Labs, @gmi_cloud, AttentionX, and @xiaohongshu for helping bring this community together. @christine_tsai @TonyW @vishalharnal @atxfrench @leoclee