Shopping Experiences Friday, August 7, 2026

Salesforce invests in AI platform for real-time personalized storefronts

Salesforce has provided strategic investment to Callimacus to expand its technology that generates highly personalized digital shopping interfaces in real time.

The numbers

$19.5 million Pie's Series A funding amount
$12 Million UNIT AI's funding amount
$75 million Freehand's new funding amount
$15 million telli's seed funding amount
$18.5 million telli's total funding amount

Sources

thefashionlaw.com

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