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        Forma.ai, a no-code platform for sales performance management, raised CAD 57.8 million (USD 45 million) in Series B funding, led by ACME Capital, with participation from Crosslink Capital, Gaingels, Golden Ventures, Uncork Capital, and Xfund. This round brings the company&rsquo;s total funding to USD 58 million.&nbsp;
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 <p>Website and WordPress page builder plugin, Brizy, has release Brizy for Shopify, an easy-to-use, no-code landing page builder specifically designed for Shopify stores. The tool is currently available for free for a brief period, permitting users to build landing pages at zero cost.</p>
 <p>Brizy's platform employs a drag-and-drop interface enabling the creation of customised homepages and product showcases. The tool comes equipped with more than 90 templates, plus a range of pre-built elements including countdowns, pop-ups, and alerts bars.</p>
 <p>Brizy, known for its no-code website builder and WordPress plugin, empowers users to create websites and landing pages by simply dragging and dropping elements. The platform provides a free and a Pro version, the latter delivering enhanced functionality including additional designs, templates, popup builder, dynamic content support, and marketing integrations. Furthermore, Brizy offers a cloud-based platform, Brizy Cloud, for building websites directly in the cloud.&nbsp;</p>

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 <p>Appy Pie, a no-code development platform, has launched "Flawless Text," an innovative AI model intended for its image generation solution. This model is aimed at creating error-free and contextually relevant text within AI-generated images. Most significantly, the generated text can be incorporated into applications using the 'Flawless Text API.'</p>
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 <p>Bubble, a platform that allows you to develop applications without needing to code, has bought Flusk, a security and application monitoring service from the Netherlands. The purchase price has not been disclosed.</p>
 <p>Flusk provides various security capabilities for Bubble apps, such as automated security checks that cover more than 20 checkpoints, error and bug monitoring, visually exploring logs, and services for penetration testing.</p>
 <p>Bubble aims to incorporate the features offered by Flusk into its main platform and bundles, with the goal of enhancing the security solutions it provides to its customers, enabling them to create safer applications.</p>
 
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Bubble acquires Flusk for undisclosed amount to enhance app security and monitoring capabilities

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 <p>Appy Pie, which operates a no-code app development platform, has introduced "Appy Pie Endpoint". This is a platform that provides a variety of GenAI APIs.</p>
 <p>Endpoint acts as a single platform for companies to tap into multiple GenAI APIs. These APIs allow developers to add AI features such as natural language generation, image synthesis and virtual try-on functionalities into their existing products and processes. The platform enables access to a range of different open-source AI models, including but not limited to Stable Diffusion, SDXL, SD3, Metavoice, Llama 2, Llama 3, Music gen, Lyriel V1.6, and wizard-coder-15B V1.6 APIs. The platform also includes security features and can be scaled up as necessary.</p>
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Appy Pie launches ‘Appy Pie Endpoint’ a GenAI API

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<p>Peach Worlds, a UK-based no-code website building platform, has successfully raised USD 1.14 million in a pre-seed funding extension. The funding round saw participation from Reflexive VC, Jenson Funding Partners, Lightning Capital, and other prominent investors including Richard Ma, Gmoney, Blockchain Founders Fund, and Angel Fund ID435.</p>

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Peach Worlds raises USD 1.14 million in pre-seed funding extension

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 <p>Redbird, a platform for no-code data analytics, has introduced a solution for generating conversational AI. This tool simplifies intricate data analytics by allowing natural language chat interactions.</p>
 <p>The system uses AI agents which are trained for specific analytical tasks, including data collection, engineering, SQL analysis, data science, reporting, and domain-specific analytics. These agents are developed to coordinate and conduct multi-step analytical tasks in response to user queries.</p>
 <p>This platform also features an admin panel that allows domain specialists to upload business logic, definitions, data ontologies, and preexisting assets. This aids in supplying context for precise outcomes.</p>
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Redbird launches conversational AI platform for enterprise business intelligence

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 <p>Airtable, a platform that allows users to build applications and workflows without coding, has launched a set of new AI-based enterprise tools. The intention of these tools is to assist businesses in incorporating AI into their workflows and simplify the procedure of constructing custom business applications.</p>
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Airtable launches GenAI-powered enterprise tools

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 <p>Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone have agreed to acquire work management platform, Smartsheet, for USD 8.4 billion in cash. This values the company at a 41% premium over its 90-day average closing share price, resulting in shareholders potentially receiving approximately USD 56.50 per share.</p>
 <p>The acquisition is predicted to speed up Smartsheet's global vision of modernizing work management for enterprises. Additionally, Smartsheet has a 45-day "go-shop" period where they can seek other M&amp;A offers. The board also has the right to terminate the current deal in favor of a superior proposal.</p>
 <p><b>Analyst QuicktTake:</b> This acquisition could potentially facilitate Smartsheet's growth and improve its work management platform. Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners are likely to provide the necessary resources for Smartsheet's innovation and global expansion.</p>
 
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Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone offer to buy Smartsheet for USD 8.4 billion

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 <p>Mobile app development platform, Apptile, has successfully raised an additional USD 1.2 million in seed funding. The round of financing was lead by Singularity Early Opportunities Fund, alongside contributions from Crown Trust and DeVC.</p>
 <p>The funding is set to be utilized for enhancing the ongoing product development, expansion of integrations with various other platforms and services, and overall market expansion.</p>
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Apptile raises USD 1.2 million in seed funding to develop platform

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 <p>Starhive, a no-code apps provider, has garnered USD 3 million in seed funding from a Nordic venture capital firm. The company aims to use these funds to increase global reach, expand business operations, enhance platform services, and target businesses in enterprise service management, asset management, and project management sectors.</p>
 
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All Updates

Forma.ai raises CAD 57.8 million in Series B funding

Brizy launches no-code landing page builder for Shopify

Appy Pie launches AI model 'Flawless Text' for image generation

Bubble acquires Flusk for undisclosed amount to enhance app security and monitoring capabilities

Appy Pie launches ‘Appy Pie Endpoint’ a GenAI API

Peach Worlds raises USD 1.14 million in pre-seed funding extension

Redbird launches conversational AI platform for enterprise business intelligence

Airtable launches GenAI-powered enterprise tools

Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone offer to buy Smartsheet for USD 8.4 billion

Apptile raises USD 1.2 million in seed funding to develop platform

Starhive raises USD 3 million in seed funding for global expansion

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Forma.ai raises CAD 57.8 million in Series B funding

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