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It’s been such a privilege these last few years partnering with leading organizations like Discover Financial, Snowflake, Canva, Sephora, Northwestern Mutual, and so many more to reinvent enterprise procurement. Today, we are thrilled to announce a new suite of enterprise-grade functionality within our core platform. The new capabilities will help enterprises orchestrate the entire procurement lifecycle and fully integrate Zip across any tech stack. Our customers face a multitude of regulatory and policy requirements that all converge on their procurement process. Zip’s new capabilities, including a new edition of our platform, unify disparate systems and governance teams onto a single efficient and user-friendly platform to reimagine what procurement could look like. The new enterprise capabilities we announced today include: → Zip Premier: newest platform edition that streamlines compliance through a robust set of advanced permissions and system management capabilities to unlock more granular control. → Orchestration Library: scale efficiently with a catalog of 100+ pre-designed workflow templates based on the learnings and best practices from our largest customers. No more designing complex, intricate purchasing workflows. → Integration Platform: build custom integrations with pre-built API. No more costly system integrators, dedicated engineering resources, and time-consuming ongoing maintenance. We are able to meet the demands of large enterprises and scale to the complexity of our customers because of the incredibly talented engineering team we have in place. From day 1 we have had a world class technical team that enables Zip to be uniquely positioned to build for large global enterprises in heavily regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and tech. It truly took our entire team and community to get to this milestone, so finally wanted to say: • Thank you to our incredible EPD team, who have partnered closely with our solutions team and our customers directly to build a world class product. • Thank you to Rujul, Gabe, Joyce, Wenchang, Junfeng, Tracy, Aleene, Cathy, and Kendall - this wouldn't be possible without your leadership • And most importantly, thank you to all of our customers. We wouldn't be here without all of the support and valuable feedback you've shared with us along the way. With this launch we are setting a new standard for enterprise procurement platforms and ushering in a new era of procurement. We are only just getting started and I cannot wait to reveal more exciting innovation later this year. Stay tuned! 🚀

We are so excited to announce that our new AI product, GAIL, is the first ever AI to pass an Insurance Licensing Exam: doing so in Florida, California, New York, and Texas! GAIL will be launching in 2024 as a voice powered AI tool that can sell insurance, and service customers. We’ll be showcasing it live at ITC next week in Las Vegas. Swing by and introduce yourself! We’d love to talk to anyone in Insurance thinking about implementing Generative AI https://lnkd.in/eFbr9aid

Dirac: Work Instructions, Automated We’re thrilled to emerge from stealth and announce the Public Beta Release of our first product, BuildOS: the first automated work instruction platform. BuildOS: The Future of Work Instructions Today, assembly work instructions take weeks or months of manual, mind-numbing effort. From figuring out what order to assemble all of the parts in, part by part, to taking hundreds of screenshots of CAD files, to manually typing up each step-by-step direction and producing several hundreds of Powerpoint pages – work instructions are the dread of all mechanical and manufacturing engineers. Some of the most advanced manufacturing companies on the planet suffer from the archaic work instruction process. “We run a tight ship and move quickly at Lumafield. Our team of world class mechanical and manufacturing engineers are able to do more in less time than most organizations because of our use of advanced software tools in every part of our work,” says Eduardo Torrealba, Co-Founder and CEO of Lumafield. “Assembly instructions are one area where we are typically forced to adopt slow, clunky processes from traditional engineering workflows due to the lack of great software. We wish there was a better way to get this work done more efficiently.” We’re bringing work instructions into the 21st century with BuildOS. Engineers build software for other engineers, yet no one builds software for technicians or manufacturing folks. That’s what we’re doing. With BuildOS, drop in a CAD file and let the product do the rest. BuildOS figures out what order to do all of the assembly of a mechanical system, produces 3D renderings and animations of each step, and generates the text for each instruction — all automatically. We’re taking the process of drafting work instructions from weeks to minutes. BuildOS is an 80/20 tool. We automate 80% of the grunt work, and for the remaining 20% that we don’t automate — the tribal knowledge, rules of thumb like “grease this,” “locktite that,” and “torque this bolt to this spec,” — we allow the user to fill in those gaps as well as reorder, annotate, and manipulate the generated content as they see fit. Users can generate and view in several flexible formats, from viewing and crafting on a laptop or iPhone, to generating outputting paper instructions, and everything in between. BuildOS is a power-tool for manufacturing engineers, not a replacement. We’re building something that improves their quality of life, that automates away the grunt work that hundreds of thousands of people dread doing every day at work. We’re automating work instructions so manufacturing teams can get back to doing what they love: building great things. Thank you to all of our friends, supporters, and investors for making this possible. If you’re interested in changing the way your team builds, reach out at contact@diracinc.com or get BuildOS today here: https://lnkd.in/e_gKhYdg

🎉 Big News! 🎉 Thrilled to announce today that we raised $13M in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Peak State Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, ActiveCapital, AirAngels, Shrug Capital and Stipple Ventures. We’re excited to continue building Betterleap, the only candidate sourcing platform with advanced AI integrations and the largest candidate pool in the market. We know that success depends on having the right people in the room, and we’re proud to help recruiters better engage with their data so they can do more with less. Or as Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat put it: “As AI continues to mature and the amount of available data increases, industry observers will be keenly watching Betterleap’s progress. The company’s success could have far-reaching implications for the future of recruitment, potentially setting a new standard for efficiency and precision in the field.”   Thanks for the interview and great write-up, Michael! Read more about our conversation around plans for the funding, DEI in recruiting, and what the future looks like for Betterleap and the recruiting market here: https://lnkd.in/gGtffVEu