40,000 developers showed up to watch an app die and got a new app to find out when it's happening
AI startup Photon held a funeral for mobile apps, then raised $4.5M to finish them off
Photon, a San Francisco AI startup that builds agents running over iMessage and WhatsApp, raised $4.5 million in seed funding, saying it signed up over 40,000 developers and grew revenue 10x in four months. On September 17 the company staged an "app funeral" in a San Francisco church, complete with a coffin for app icons and panels from Vercel, Stripe and OpenAI. Co-founder and CEO Daniel Tian calls the shift from apps to agents slow but directionally inevitable.
Source: AI startup Photon held a funeral for mobile apps, then raised $4.5M to finish them off — TechCrunch
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