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VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Tegus, an investment-research platform that investors rely on to inform their decisions, cut its conversation-intelligence spending by 50% compared with its previous vendor after consolidating that work onto ZoomInfo, according to the company. Tegus redirected the savings into sales incentives and went on to exceed its targets for the next 2 quarters. Tegus combines expert insights, comp...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Seismic, the global leader in sales enablement, scaled AI-assisted outbound prospecting across its go-to-market team on ZoomInfo, and in its own user surveys attributed 39% of active pipeline to opportunities identified or influenced by signals from ZoomInfo, according to the company. Seismic runs a well-developed outbound model, where business development representatives and outside sal...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that The Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America built ZoomInfo into its Sales Practicum course, and 72.5% of the prospects its students generated were judged outreach-worthy by corporate partners, up from 58% the previous semester without it, according to the school. Founded in 2013, the Busch School runs a sales program built to prepare students to compete virtuously...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Sago Health, a division of the healthcare research, technology, and consulting company Sago, rebuilt its go-to-market motion around data-led outbound sales and now reports a higher share of outreach converting to opportunities and of opportunities converting to wins, according to the company. For more than 60 years, Sago Health leaned on its reputation to fuel a predominantly inbound sal...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Pratt Industries, the world's largest privately owned manufacturer of 100% recycled paper packaging, has closed deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars over 10 months and several million dollars a year after modernizing how its field sales team prospects, according to the company. Pratt is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise built over some 30 years, with a nationwide network of recyc...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kind Designs set out to raise $5 million. Nearly $20 million in investor interest pushed the company to double the round. Today, the Miami-based climate resilience company announced the close of a $10 million Pre-Series A at a $70 million valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $21.5 million. As coastal communities race to replace aging shoreline infrastructure with more resilient solutions, demand for Kind Designs' 3D-printed Living Seawalls has accel...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has released a new version of the ZoomInfo Chrome Extension, the browser tool that surfaces verified contact and company data on the page a seller is already viewing. The new extension was rebuilt natively from the ground up, and the rebuild is what makes it faster and lets it find more. Pages load 2 to 3 times faster than the previous extension. The slowest moment in browser prospecting is the wait betwe...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intrinsic Power, a developer of AI-enabled electrical infrastructure, today announced the first close of its Seed financing, bringing together a syndicate of strategic investors with deep expertise across industrial technology, energy infrastructure, and digital infrastructure. The financing from Kyocera Ventures, Drive Catalyst, Boost VC, and RPV Global will accelerate commercialization of Intrinsic Power’s AI power orchestration platform while supporting the comp...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arist today announced Arist Diagnostic, a new platform release that lets customers make and execute critical business decisions faster through agents that do the slowest work of management consultants in a fraction of the time. Leaders of large workforces will be able to rapidly determine a company’s strategic readiness and prepare its people for new initiatives by deploying a performance consultant that interviews and up-levels each employee accountable for business-w...

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Latent Labs launches Latent-Y, its lab-validated drug design agent, to researchers worldwide through the Latent Labs Platform. Any approved researcher can now access Latent-Y for free, with a daily design quota included at no cost. For larger campaigns, researchers can purchase additional design credits on demand. Latent-Y is an AI agent for drug design. It takes a therapeutic goal, specified in written language or as a scientific publication, and...