TechCrunch · AI· Sarah Perez·· 3 h ago
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
AI summary
The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter — yes, a real funeral in a church, with speeches and everything. Photon, which helps developers build agents that work over iMessage and WhatsApp, now has $4.5 million in seed funding to develop its products.
Selection record
Threshold 76Media and individualsFirst 42Second 34
Not admittedSum of both 76 < twice the threshold 152
- Source tier
- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
- Pre-filter
- passed：AI初创融资开发Agent替代App
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
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