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Instreamatic, which inserts interactive voice ads into audio streams, raises $6.1M Series A round Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic, which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 million in a Series A funding led by Progress Ventures led the round, joined by Accomplice, and Google Assistant Investments. SF-HQ’d Instreamatic lets brands that advertise through streaming music apps and podcasts (for instance) have interactive voice-based dialogues with consumers. So instead of an audio ad playing in a one-way experience (as all adverts currently ...

The round was led by Progress Ventures, joined by Accomplice and Google Assistant Investments. The company intends to use the funds to: scale its technical and business staff; expand the capabilities of its voice AI conversational-dialogue infrastructure; and pursue more global partnerships with brands, audio and video content publishers, advertising platforms, and application developers. Led by Stas Tushinskiy, CEO, Instreamatic provides a voice AI infrastructure for media, enabling real-time voice conversations between brands and consumers across multiple media verticals. The company...

CMO's top 8 martech stories for the week - 8 April 2021 All the latest martech, customer and adtech news from Qualtrics, Impact, Demand Science, DeepIntent, SWAN, Denodo, ID5 and Pipeliner CRM Qualtrics announces new customer experience solutions Experience Management (XM) platform, Qualtrics, has introduced new solutions designed for companies to acquire new customers and build loyalty with existing customers. The new solutions include Relationship Health, a continuously updated view of the health of customer relationships to improve customer loyalty and reduce attrition. This is based o...

Disruptel raises $1.1M to make smart TVs smarter St. Louis-based voice assistant startup Disruptel is announcing that it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The money comes from an impressive group of investors who seem well-aligned with what the startup is aiming to do — namely, build a voice assistant that can provide detailed information about what’s happening on your TV screen. Those investors include PJC and Progress Ventures (which led the round), along with DataXu co-founder and former CEO Mike Baker, Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer, Sky executive Andrew Olson and DataXu co-founde...