Artificial Intelligence

WRITER Names Mina Alaghband As First Chief Customer Officer To Scale Enterprise Agentic AI Adoption

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2026

WRITER has appointed Mina Alaghband as its first Chief Customer Officer, bringing on a veteran of large-scale digital and AI transformation programs to lead global customer operations as enterprise demand grows for agentic platforms that can deliver measurable ROI at scale.

Duck Creek Technologies Names Jose Lazares Chief Product Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2026

Duck Creek Technologies has appointed enterprise software and AI product executive Jose Lazares as chief product officer, tasking him with leading the company’s global product organization and advancing its AI-driven product strategy across Duck Creek’s cloud platform.

TJC Deepens Investment In GrowthLoop To Back Agentic AI Marketing Platform Built On The Data Cloud

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2026

TJC announced it has made a follow-on investment in GrowthLoop, extending a financial partnership that began with TJC’s initial investment in 2022 as enterprises look to modernize marketing with agentic AI and composable customer data infrastructure.

WithCoverage: $42 Million Series B Closed To Build AI-Powered Risk Management Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2026

WithCoverage, an insurtech startup positioning itself as an alternative to traditional insurance brokers, said it has raised a $42 million Series B round led by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures as it looks to scale an “AI-enabled Risk Management Team” for fast-growing businesses.

AstraZeneca Acquires Modella AI To Scale Multimodal AI And Agents Across Oncology R&D

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2026

Modella AI announced it has been acquired by AstraZeneca, deepening an existing partnership aimed at applying multi-modal AI foundation models and AI agents across AstraZeneca’s global oncology research and development efforts.

Docusign Unveils AI eSignature Tools That Summarize Contracts and Automate Agreement Setup

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2026

Docusign announced it is rolling out new AI-powered eSignature capabilities designed to help people understand what they are signing and to reduce the manual work businesses do to prepare agreements, as the company pushes further into its Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform.

VoiceRun: $5.5 Million Seed Funding Raised And Full-Stack Enterprise Voice AI Platform Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2026

VoiceRun, an enterprise platform for building and deploying Voice AI, has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Flybridge Capital Partners, with participation from RRE Ventures and Link Ventures. The company said it will use the funding to expand its product and go-to-market efforts as more enterprises push voice agents from pilots into production deployments.

Functionize: Interview With Founder & CEO Tamas Cser About The Test Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2026

Functionize is an AI-native, cloud-based test automation platform that uses autonomous, self-healing agents (digital workers) to create, run, and maintain end-to-end software QA workflows across applications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Functionize founder and CEO Tamas Cser to gain a deeper understanding of the company.