Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies. The firm invests in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY). It was founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Greylock

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

Sequoia Capital

Family Office ~ Venture Investment Division

North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures)

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. Their portfolio includes pinterest, shopify, twilio, yelp, linkedin, pagerduty, docusign, wix, fiverr, and toast, and has $19 billion of assets under management.

Bessemer Venture Partners

GFC is a venture fund that supports entrepreneurs at various stages of business development. It focuses on global markets and seeks individuals with innovative ideas. The fund evaluates opportunities based on potential impact and feasibility.

Global Founders Capital

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.  The firm invests from seed to growth in enterprise software, infrastructure software, and industries being transformed by data.  Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialize 200-plus companies since 2000, including investments in DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, and TellApart. Bain Capital Ventures has more than $5.2 billion of assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

Bain Capital Ventures

KG Investments is a private family office fund focused on investing in technology companies through direct investments and secondary loans. This approach is guided by its extensive background of building and investing in technology-related companies over the last 20 years.KG Investments also invests in uncorrelated professionally managed Hedge & Private Equity funds as a Limited Partner looking for unique differentiated opportunities.  It was founded in 2006 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

KG Investments

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

Goldman Sachs

SAP is a technology company that develops enterprise application software for companies and industries across diverse sectors. The company offers solutions covering various lines of businesses, including asset management, commerce, finance, human resources, manufacturing, marketing, sales, services, sourcing and procurement, supply chain, and sustainability as well as research and development, and engineering.

Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm with more than $11 billion in AUM and team members across Austin, London, Menlo Park and San Francisco. For over a decade, Sapphire has partnered with visionary management teams and venture funds to back companies of consequence. Since its founding, Sapphire has invested in more than 170 companies globally resulting in more than 30 Public Listings and 45 acquisitions. The firm’s investment strategies — Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport — are focused on scaling companies and venture funds, elevating them to become category leaders. Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth team of experienced operators delivers a strategic blend of value-add services, tools and resources designed to support portfolio company leaders as they scale.

Sapphire Ventures

S&P Global offers financial information and data analytics services to provide transparent and independent ratings. The company's information and data analytics services offer market intelligence reviews, ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and data that enable the capital and commodity markets to avail the intelligence necessary to make decisions with conviction.

S&P Global

TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. It also provides management teams with data-driven insights, sector expertise, access to world-class talent, and connections with category leaders.  Founded in 1995, the Silicon Valley-headquartered firm has invested more than $14 billion in over 350 growth-stage technology companies to date. Some of its most prominent portfolio company exits include Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Peloton, and Zillow.

LinkedIn

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Founded in 2014, Confluent, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company specializes in data streaming platforms, primarily based on Apache Kafka, an open-source project created by Confluent's founders while working at LinkedIn. Confluent offers two main products: Confluent Platform, an on-premise solution, and Confluent Cloud, a fully managed SaaS. These products help organizations harness real-time data streams for various applications, including microservices, Internet of Things (IoT), financial services, fraud detection, and customer analytics.Confluent's primary offering in data infrastructure services is its integration solution, which enables organizations to unify data from disparate sources. The Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud act as clients' central nervous systems, allowing them to connect various IT systems and applications to capture and process real-time data streams. This capability enables businesses to make decisions based on continuously flowing data.In September 2024,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33818">Confluent announced upgrades to its Confluent Cloud</a> product, enhancing support for Apache Flink. The updates include support for the Table API, simplifying development for Java and Python users, and private networking support to improve data security. These upgrades aimed to simplify Flink deployments, enhance security, and make it easier for organizations in regulated industries to stream data and integrate it into applications.Key customers and partnershipIn December 2023, Confluent expanded partnerships with MongoDB, Pinecone, Rockset, Weaviate, and Zilliz as part of its "Data Streaming for AI" initiative. These partnerships aimed to provide real-time contextual data from Confluent's platform to partners' vector databases, facilitating the development of AI-powered applications.

Acryl Data operates a data management platform built on the DataHub Project, an open source metadata platform and data catalog. The company's main offering, Acryl Cloud, enables organizations to manage and monitor their data assets through capabilities like data discovery, governance, and observability. The platform uses event-driven metadata and operates as a control plane for data, allowing users to monitor data health and detect incidents in real-time. It helps organizations analyze metadata to optimize data product creation and includes features for data quality monitoring, metadata testing, and cost optimization by identifying expensive or underused data assets. In June 2023, Acryl Data launched Acryl Observe, a data observability module designed to increase trust in data assets and enhance data quality management through continuous monitoring and anomaly detection.
Key customers and partnerships
Acryl Data's enterprise customers include Notion, Zendesk, Robinhood, OVO Energy, BetterUp, and Riskified. The DataHub Project, which forms the foundation of Acryl's platform, is used by companies including Pinterest, Stripe, Optum, Expedia, Saxo Bank, and Peloton. The company maintains a community of over 7,500 data practitioners who collaborate on data management capabilities through the DataHub Project.

Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

Oyster offers a SaaS HR and benefits platform for enterprises. Its services include payroll, benefits, and onboarding. In addition, the company assists organizations in dealing with cross-border regulations and tax laws when hiring remotely.Notable product launches include 1) Oyster Embedded (November 2023), allowing third party organizations to access Oyster’s hiring, payroll and rewards software from within their own applications, 2) Oyster Pearl (September 2023), an AI-driven chatbot offering personalized responses to inquiries related to benefits, taxes, and other aspects of global employment, 3) Oyster for Impact (September 2021), a program that offers certified nonprofits and benefit corporations discounts on Oyster’s distributed HR tools, financially backed by PayPal Ventures and HR Tech Investments.As of April 2024, Oyster was able to run payroll in 120+ countries, and manage employee hires across 180+ countries. The company was also in the process of launching ‘Oyster Shell’, its misclassification insurance for extra protection when hiring global contractors using its platform.The platform generates revenue through monthly subscription per hired individual, with plans including: independent contractors (USD 29), payroll for employees (USD 50) and EoR (USD 499).Key customers and partnershipsAs of November 2023, the company had over 1,100 clients. As of April 2024, the company offered integrations with over 65 companies, ranging from talent acquisition services, workplace tools, compliance services and benefits, among others.Funding and financialsIn its most recent funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9841">April 2022</a>), Oyster raised USD 150 million in Series C funding led by Georgian, valuing the company at over USD 1 billion (up from its previous valuation of USD 475 million valuation in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/1329">June 2021</a>). The fresh funds were earmarked for platform development and to invest in the “People Ops” community.In 2021, Oyster’s revenue grew by over 20x and the number of employees on the platform increased by 17x. Notably, in the first quarter of 2022, Oyster attracted over 20,000 job applications for client vacancies.

Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

Salesloft is an AI-powered revenue orchestration platform designed to improve sales performance and pipeline management. Its technology focuses on guiding go-to-market teams with data-driven insights to optimize customer interactions and engagement. The company offers a suite of products and capabilities, including Cadence for pipeline building, Conversations for insights and coaching, Deals for pipeline management and forecasting, Forecast for predicting sales outcomes, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12862">Rhythm</a> for task prioritization, and Drift for early engagement with in-market buyers.In February 2022, the company announced the launch of its four-tier <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8630">Technology Partner Program </a>to provide growth opportunities for its partner ecosystem. Additionally, Salesloft also announced the launch of its Market Development Fund, which aims to support the funding of partner programs and pipeline development and create awareness among the Salesloft ecosystem.&nbsp;Salesloft claims to help sales teams generate 322% more pipeline, advance and close deals 75% faster, and win 28% more deals using conversation intelligence.Salesloft has been active in the M&amp;A space. In July 2021, the company acquired InStereo, a sales strategy consulting firm. The acquisition of InStereo established Salesloft's focus on buyer engagement in sales and marketing campaigns. InStereo initially partnered with Salesloft in 2018 and had completed more than 150 client engagements for companies such as 3M (American multinational conglomerate), Cargill (global food company), and Pegasystems (American software company). In February 2024, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27169">acquired Drift,</a> a conversational B2B marketing platform, to improve its customer journey orchestration tools for B2B sales teams. Key customers and partnershipsAs of August 2024, the platform served more than 5,000 customers, including Google, 3M, IBM, LinkedIn, Cisco, and Dell.In August 2022, the firm <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12545">partnered with Highspot, </a>a sales coaching platform, to further streamline the client engagement process for sales teams.&nbsp;

Giving creators the power of content monetization and audience engagement.

Creator Economy

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 Hopin is a comprehensive suite of audience engagement tools designed to connect people, build communities, and empower businesses. Within its suite of products are StreamYard (acquired in December 2020), which facilitates the creation of professional live streams and podcasts; Streamable (
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Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

G2 is a leading software review platform that leverages artificial intelligence to transform revenue and customer-facing teams. The company's Reality Platform automatically captures customer interactions and utilizes that data to help teams improve business performance. G2's platform provides insights at scale, empowering companies to determine the best actions for achieving successful outcomes. As of February 2022, G2 earned the #1 spot on both the Best Software Products and Highest Satisfaction Products lists. The platform distinguishes itself through its ability to automatically capture customer interactions, derive valuable data-driven insights, and deliver optimal results for sales, customer service, marketing, and other customer-facing roles across diverse industries.
In March 2024, G2 announced surpassing 2 million authentic user reviews on its platform. This milestone underscores the company's rapid growth and success in establishing itself as the world's largest software marketplace, consistently attracting over 60 million visitors annually. Over the years, G2 has witnessed substantial expansion across various regions, with North America remaining its core market while witnessing explosive review growth in the Asia-Pacific region as well.

Leland is a coaching marketplace for education and career goals. The marketplace provides coaches to assist people in taking standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, GMAT, or GRE, as well as breaking into private equity, product management, investment banking, and other tech fields. It navigates career transitions and receives specialized mentorship to build skills in your chosen field. Leland charges transaction fees depending on how much a client pays a coach.

Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere.  The company's HR platform for globally distributed companies enables growing organizations to give valued international team members the experience they deserve, without the usual headaches or expense.  Oyster empowers hiring anywhere in the world with reliable, compliant payroll and great local benefits and perks.  Founded in January 2020 by Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, Oyster is itself a fully remote company with a diverse, globally distributed team.

Trala is a developer of a music education application used to teach users to play the violin. Its application offers tutorials, daily lessons, and real-time feedback on mistakes, and its advanced signal processing technology recognizes chords in a busy intersection, providing users with a convenient, affordable, and effective way to learn the violin. The app gives instant feedback on mistakes through signal processing and has thousands of video tutorials from famous violinists. It was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.

Acryl Data’s vision is to bring clarity to your data through its next generation multi-cloud metadata management platform. The technology is based on LinkedIn DataHub and Apache Gobblin - two successful open source projects incubated at LinkedIn, and battle-hardened in production at scale at major enterprises.

G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time. It leverages more than 1.3 million user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. G2 is used by business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts to select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data. The company was founded in 2012 and is based out of Chicago, Illinois.

Hopin is a live virtual events platform that enables attendees to connect, learn, and interact with people anywhere. The platform allows users to create live online events that are interactive and personal whether they are hosting a live training workshop, bringing a company’s remote team together, or launching a full-scale digital conference. It hosts virtual events such as large-scale tech events, international conferences, and even weddings that bring users together. Attendees can network one-on-one, break out into group sessions, watch keynote presentations, send chat messages and polls, and explore interactive expo areas. Johnny Boufarhat established the company in London, England in 2019.

Piano’s Digital Experience Platform empowers organizations to understand and influence customer behavior. By unifying customer data, analyzing behavior metrics and creating personalized customer journeys, Piano helps brands launch campaigns and products faster, strengthen customer engagement and drive personalization at scale from a single platform. Headquartered in Amsterdam with offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, Piano serves a global client base, including Air France, the BBC, CBS, IBM, Kirin Holdings, Jaguar Land Rover, Nielsen, The Wall Street Journal and more. Piano has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing, most innovative technology companies in the world by World Economic Forum, Inc., Deloitte, American City Business Journals and more. For more information, visit piano.io.

Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events SaaS platform. It incorporates a variety of tools to plan, promote, and execute virtual conferences and community events. The platform is a flexible software solution that can be used to manage and host thousands of different types of virtual events. Built with enterprise-level analytics, integrations, and data security, the Bevy platform is used by a range of enterprise, consumer and education teams who want to host virtual events and turn them into thriving global communities. Featuring a deep permissions system and webcasting capabilities, community and field marketing teams can empower local brand advocates all over the world to build small local communities that collectively provide reach and scale. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of Apache Pinot™, which currently powers hundreds of user-facing applications at companies across industries, including LinkedIn, Uber, Target, Cisco, DoorDash, 7-Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, and more. StarTree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Dialpad, Sovrn, Razorpay, Rippling, ComboCurve, Moveworks, Zomato, Blinkit, Just Eat Takeaway, and more.

About Salesloft: Salesloft powers durable revenue growth for the world’s most demanding companies. Salesloft’s industry-leading Revenue Orchestration Platform uses purpose-built AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal. More than 5,000 customers including Google, 3M, IBM, Shopify, Square, and Cisco gain a performance force multiplier with Salesloft by shifting to a durable revenue engagement model, helping them solve the complexities of modern B2B sales and unlock revenue efficiency.

Cornerstone OnDemand is a leading global provider of a comprehensive learning and talent management solution delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).  The company enables organizations to meet the challenges they face in empowering their people and maximizing the productivity of their human capital.  Cornerstone currently empowers over 19.1 million users across 191 countries and in 42 languages. Their integrated cloud-based software offering consists of Cornerstone Onboarding, Cornerstone Recruiting, Cornerstone Performance, Cornerstone Learning, Cornerstone Connect, Cornerstone Succession, Cornerstone Compensation and Cornerstone Extended Enterprise. Their clients use their solution to develop employees throughout their careers, engage all employees effectively, improve business execution, cultivate future leaders, and integrate with their external networks of customers, vendors and distributors. The company has more than 2,100 clients, including multi-national corporations, large domestic enterprises, mid-market companies, state and local public sector organizations, higher education institutions and non-profit entities.  Clients include BJC HealthCare, Flextronics, Kelly Services, Pearson, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Teach for America and Virgin Media Limited, among many others.  Cornerstone supports multiple client deployments of more than 150,000 users, including one client with more than 700,000 users.     Cornerstone is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with offices in Auckland, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Munich, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Sydney and Tel Aviv.

STAND is a mobile application where you connect with people who inspire you to put your compassion into action. The company has created a social experience to help people find and connect with other people and causes they care about. STAND received seed funding in 2015.

Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. The company's platform offers an open-source technology that acts as a real-time, fault-tolerant and highly scalable messaging system, enabling companies to move data from isolated systems into a real-time data pipeline where they can act on it immediately.

LinkedIn is a professional network that connects professionals to enhance productivity and success. With a diversified revenue model that includes solutions for talent, marketing, sales, and premium subscriptions, The company supports businesses and individuals in achieving their professional goals.

LinkedIn Learning (Microsoft)

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Modern tools to train and motivate staff, and bridge emerging skill gaps.

EdTech: Corporate Learning

Learning content | Career development includes providers of content libraries and customized courses focusing on learning and developing skills directly related to job roles and careers (including hard skills, soft skills, and skills in demand). Delivery styles are varied and include in-person or virtual classrooms, mobile learning, and micro-learning. A variety of technologies may be employed such as video-based learning, artificial intelligence-based (AI-based) and adaptive learning, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR).

Massive open online course (MOOC) platforms allow large numbers of users to sign up for various courses from multiple sources, offering a flexible and affordable means of upskilling and reskilling.

Coaching, tutoring, and mentoring platforms connect employees with experts and specialists who provide personalized training and development support.

Technology platforms such as learning management systems (LMS), learning experience platforms (LXP), and learning content management systems (LCMS) host in-house or third-party content, track progress, and generate analytics. Content development tools comprise authoring and course-building tools for instructional designers, corporate trainers, and educators. Content development tools comprise authoring and course-building tools for instructional designers, corporate trainers, and educators.

Learning and engagement tools include platforms that offer adaptive learning, gamification, immersive learning, and microlearning solutions that can be used by enterprises for the delivery of learning content.

Service providers include those offering digital credentialing and identity authentication solutions, among others.

Learning content | Supplementary skills includes providers of content libraries and customized courses focusing on learning and developing supplementary skills. Delivery styles are varied and include in-person or virtual classrooms, mobile learning, and micro-learning. A variety of technologies may be employed such as video-based learning, artificial intelligence-based (AI-based) and adaptive learning, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR).

Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

LegalTech

Platforms that connect lawyers to clients (includes online listing, reputation, comparison, and booking systems) and those that support networking among lawyers.

Includes tools for intelligently extracting information from documents and flagging anomalies, the automated creation and simplification of legal documents, filing and serving documents online, and exchanging documents for discovery. Also includes providers of white-labeled digital legal documents and notarization tools that allow the notarization of documents online, assuring their security, authenticity, and integrity.

Tools to manage and digitize the legal practice of individual lawyers and law firms. Features include intake management, legal case/project management, team and client management, team collaboration, client communication and engagement, document storage systems, time and expense tracking, and billing and invoicing.

Includes platforms that provide legal content from various publishers; tools that support legal teams with conventional and contextual search of relevant case law and authoritative sources; and tools that search, analyze, and organize copious numbers of documents and large datasets. AI-based legal research systems replicate the work of a human legal research assistant and are referred to as AI lawyers/attorneys, digital lawyers/attorneys, or virtual lawyers/attorneys. Analytics tools include those that support lawyers with tracking trial cases, receiving email alerts for cases, and predicting trial timelines, along with those that mine big data to determine lawyers' success rates, when to settle, and when to press the advantage. It also includes tools for corporations that predict the outcomes of litigation.

Includes tools to manage large volumes of data; identify key issues for litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects; and select relevant web content for use as evidence.

Software solutions that support regulatory compliance. Includes platforms that promote compliance among employees by providing simplified summaries of applicable legislation on-demand, and those that support compliance teams with tracking changes in legislation, sharing and tracking documents within the organization, and collecting evidence. IP/trademark management platforms include those that protect brands from online counterfeiting, digital piracy, and distribution fraud by scouring online marketplaces and social networks, along with those that offer simplified licensing solutions using digital rights technology.

Includes platforms that offer contract lifecycle management from their creation, negotiation, compliance, review, and approval, to execution, tracking, and monitoring. They can automate the processing of routine contracts with a high degree of accuracy and may include technology to organize, understand, and extract data from contracts. Also comprises tools for identity verification, electronic signatures, electronic registered delivery, and electronic time stamp.

Includes commoditized law solutions and do-it-yourself legal services for consumers (individuals, families, and business owners), as alternatives to engaging a lawyer or law firm. Examples include platforms that aid with immigration and asylum applications, consumer claims, class actions, closing funding rounds, and drafting simple contracts, wills, and divorce documents. Litigation finance platforms facilitate third-party funding for litigation. Such pre-settlement funding allows victims to pay their legal fees while awaiting a resolution.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for legal tech

Educational technology plays a pivotal role in driving and enabling the revolution in post-secondary learning

Higher EdTech

Designers of learning programs and creators of learning content, aggregators and libraries of learning content and program, massive open online course (MOOC) platform operators, and providers of content development tools for authoring and course-building.

Providers of tools and features to improve learner engagement and learning effectiveness such as AR/VR platforms, interactive software, memory aids, and personalized student support platforms.

Technology platforms such as learning management systems (LMS), learning experience platforms (LXP), and learning content management systems (LCMS) that host in-house or third-party content, track progress, and generate analytics.

Providers of testing and assessment, identity authentication, proctoring, plagiarism-checking, digital credentialing, and feedback-gathering solutions.

Platforms that connect students with experts, specialists, and near-peers who provide academic coaching, development support, college admissions and career guidance, and career readiness support.

Platforms that facilitate communication and networking among students/faculty/alumni/institutions and those providing search, reference, and marketplace solutions.

Providers of campus operating infrastructure including enterprise resource planning (ERP), student information system (SIS), and data analytics solutions and those that support enrollment and marketing processes. Also includes technology solution providers offering security, communication, cloud, and managed services.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their higher EdTech product offering

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 <li>LinkedIn, the professional networking platform owned by Microsoft, has introduced an AI-driven chatbot named job seeker coach, built on OpenAI's GPT-4 engine.</li>
 <li>Aimed at premium users, this chatbot assesses job opportunities according to users' profiles considering strengths, gaps, and potential job fits and provides suggestions accordingly, including generating responses to questions.</li>
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