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Swedish startup Strawberry launches AI companions for sales, support and marketing teams, free to try
Strawberry, a Stockholm startup with 6 million dollars from EQT and General Catalyst, has launched version 1.0 of an AI agent platform for non-technical teams in sales, recruiting, customer support and marketing. It is free to try. Users create virtual colleagues called companions that remember how a team works and sit inside a browser where logins and workflows already live. A Series A round is planned.
- If one person on your team has a great prompt or workflow, ask whether it can be shared with the whole team instead of living on one laptop.
- Trial any team agent on a low-risk process first, such as drafting replies to common enquiries, and check what it can access.
Source: Retail Technology Innovation Hub. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Strawberry, from its own announcement. How we source and credit
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