Jean-Denis Greze
Co-Founder and CEO @TownAI
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Town: Jean-Denis Greze on Proactive AI Assistants & $55M Raise
Jean-Denis Greze ("JDG"), CEO of Town, announces a $55 million raise led by Andreessen Horowitz with Forerunner, alongside Town's move from beta to general availability. Town is a personalized AI assistant that learns from your Slack, email, and calendar to proactively suggest tasks — meeting prep, drafted emails, client recaps — rather than waiting for prompts. He discusses serving the 90% of users who aren't "tinkerers," letting users name and customize their AI, and pushing back on tech's extractive reputation with an optimistic, human-serving vision.
Perplexity: Hybrid Inference, ARR Surge & the SMB Play (Dmitry Shevelenko)
Dmitry Shevelenko, CBO of Perplexity, breaks down the newly announced hybrid agentic inference orchestrator with Intel, which load-balances compute between local devices and the cloud for cost, security, and performance. He attributes Perplexity's jump from ~$450M to $500M+ ARR to usage-based billing on its agentic product — including one user now paying $100K a year — plus an upcoming SBA small-business partnership. He also covers Perplexity Finance's credibility with finance professionals, why the C-suite is the most engaged user cohort, and why small businesses reached through the consumer funnel will drive the future of business.