Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | June 18, 2026
Yesterday’s announcements tell a story that vendor headlines obscure: the martech stack is being restructured from the data layer up, and the window for Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) to make deliberate architectural decisions is narrowing fast.
Crunchbase Sector Snapshot: Sales, Marketing, and CX Funding Shifts Heavily Toward Agentic AI
We are not back to boom times. Venture funding for sales, marketing, and CRM categories hit a cyclical peak in 2021 and 2022, but investment has slowed considerably since. Annual funding has hovered around the $8 billion mark over the past three years, according to a recent report from…
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