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Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.

TechCrunchPublished 1 day ago

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Photon, an AI startup, raised $4.5M in seed funding to develop agents that replace mobile apps by operating within messaging platforms like iMessage and WhatsApp. The company held a symbolic 'funeral' for mobile apps to highlight this shift and has attracted over 40,000 developers with rapid revenue growth.

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