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Landbase, whose AI tool based on GPT-4O automates awareness marketing, allowed a series of $ 30 million a co-directed by Ashton Kutcher from And Ventures and Picus Capital– When Daniel Saks worked as co-PDG of the previous startup, he co-founded, Appdirect, billionaire Michael Dell sent him a Linkedin message asking for a meeting.
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