More than 1,000 companies already use Clueso to create videos for marketing, customer success, training, sales enablement, operations, change management and more.

Clueso, the agentic video platform for business, today announced a $10 million Series A led by Dharana Capital, with Founders Future and Neotribe Ventures joining as new investors and continued participation from Y Combinator and f7 Ventures. The round brings total funding to $12 million, with more than 80% of the new capital coming from existing investors doubling down.

More than 1,000 companies already use Clueso to create videos for marketing, customer success and education, onboarding and training, and more. Customers include Atlassian, Zendesk, Gainsight, GlobalPartners, Seismic, and Ironclad among others. Teams have reported over 5x productivity gains and an 80% reduction in video production costs.

“Clueso has fundamentally simplified how we produce learning videos at scale,” said Garrett Marttinen, Head of Customer Learning at Atlassian. “They help us turn rough, scrappy input into polished, on-brand output, streamlining our workflows and dramatically reducing the burden of creation and maintenance for my team. Clueso has also been a genuine partner, pushing the boundaries of video creation and quickly turning our feedback into shipped product”

The Clueso platform.

An agentic approach to business video
While much of the recent innovation in AI video has focused on consumers and creators, business video has a different set of requirements, and hence a very different kind of platform. Clueso is building AI agents that understand a company’s products, processes, brand and context, then use that knowledge to create and maintain video across the organization.

The company was founded by Akash Anand, Prajwal Prakash and Neel Balar, who faced this problem first-hand at their previous company.

“We originally started by helping customer-facing teams create product tutorials faster,” said Akash Anand, Co-Founder and CEO of Clueso. “We quickly saw the same problem across marketing, sales, training and internal documentation. That made us realize the opportunity was much bigger. Today, Clueso acts as an AI video production team that anyone or any team in the organization can rely on, handling the work of creating, editing and maintaining videos as the business moves.”

“Video is one of the most effective formats enterprises use to train teams, educate customers, and sell products. However, traditional video production was never designed for enterprise volume and velocity,” said Vamsi Duvvuri, Founder and Managing Partner at Dharana Capital. “With AI, video is evolving from static media files into living, context-aware assets that continuously adapt as business processes and products change. Clueso is building the infrastructure powering this shift. We are impressed by their customer obsession and speed of execution, and are excited to partner with them in their next phase of growth.”

Companies typically start with Clueso in one team, then quickly expand as more teams adopt it for their own video needs. Over time, Clueso becomes the centralized video creation platform across the organization.

At Zendesk, Clueso is used for both internal and customer-facing content. “Clueso’s agent makes it easy to automatically transform product knowledge into polished, engaging learning experiences with far less manual effort,” said Kevin Gross, Senior Manager of Instructional Design at Zendesk. “It has helped us reduce production time and expand our video output.”

How Clueso Works
Clueso’s agents cover the full video workflow, from capturing footage and production to brand consistency and keeping content current. The platform can:

• Capture products & workflows itself: Clueso’s computer agents navigate real software, perform workflows and automatically capture the footage required for a video.
• Handle production & editing end-to-end: Clueso creates scripts, voiceovers, motion graphics, captions and edits automatically, with a browser-based editor for finer control.
• Keep content current. When a product or process changes, Clueso can rerun the workflow and refresh the video automatically.
• Follow each company’s brand. Teams can define reusable standards for voice, visual style, localization, motion graphics, music, and more, so both agents and humans create consistently on-brand content.
• Connect video to the rest of the business. Integrations with other tools bring in context from other company systems, while the  Clueso MCP allows AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT to create, edit and manage videos directly through Clueso.

Looking ahead
Clueso will use the funding to scale its enterprise go-to-market, deepen the agentic layer behind its platform, expand editing capabilities, and connect video creation more tightly to the systems where product and company knowledge already lives.

The long-term vision is to allow agents to handle more of the production mechanics, while people stay focused on the creative decisions. As companies move faster, the content explaining them should be able to keep up.

New EVP of Marketing to accelerate growth and bring Rep Data’s expanded capabilities and ongoing innovation to more customers

Rep Data, the data quality leader for the market research industry, has appointed Melissa Dunn as Executive Vice President of Marketing. Dunn will lead the company’s global marketing strategy, helping Rep Data strengthen its market position, reach more enterprise clients and accelerate growth worldwide. Following the company’s recent expansion of its technology and services portfolio, Dunn will focus on developing a cohesive market story that brings together Rep Data’s integrated research capabilities, ongoing product innovation and the value these investments deliver to customers.

“We’ve built a company with enormous potential, and we’re ready to take Rep Data to the next level,” said Patrick Stokes, CEO and founder of Rep Data. “Melissa knows how to build brands that stand out, connect with enterprise buyers and turn marketing into a powerful driver of growth. She brings the experience, energy and ambition to help us reach new markets and win new customers. I’m excited to have her on our leadership team as we continue to scale the business and introduce more organizations to what we can deliver.”

Dunn brings more than 20 years of marketing leadership experience across the insights industry, high-growth B2B technology and global advertising agencies. Most recently, she served as EVP, Marketing & Communications at Suzy, where she built the marketing organization and helped the company double its revenue during her tenure. Previously, she led customer engagement and marketing at industrial AI company Plutoshift, helping expand its enterprise client relationships. Earlier in her career, Dunn held senior leadership roles at leading agencies including iCrossing (Hearst), MRY (Publicis Groupe), McCann and BBDO, where she worked on brand and marketing initiatives for major clients including Visa, Verizon, AT&T and Procter & Gamble.

“What drew me to Rep Data is the opportunity to help shape where the company goes next,” said Dunn. “Organizations are under pressure to make better decisions, faster, and research has an important role to play across the business. Rep Data has an incredible foundation and a much bigger opportunity to help companies put trustworthy insights to work. I’m excited to work with Patrick and the team to bring that story to market, build stronger relationships with the brands we serve and introduce Rep Data to new audiences well beyond traditional research and insights teams.”

Dunn’s appointment comes as Rep Data continues to scale its global operations and advance its mission to end the friction between question and answer, helping organizations conduct high-quality research more efficiently.

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impossible Question announced the launch of iQ Brief, a brief writing and scoring platform for in-house marketing teams.

Briefs start the work, and most go out weak – objectives are soft, context is missing, and teams rarely catch the flaws until budget is committed. iQ fixes this at the point of writing.

Teams draft their briefs inside iQ against a structured model. The platform scores the brief in real time, flags weak objectives or missing context, and shows the author how to lift quality before work moves forward.

“Most organisations don’t have a delivery problem. They have a definition problem,” said Matt Kennell, Founder and CEO of impossible Question. “The most expensive mistake a company can make is executing perfectly on a bad brief. iQ helps teams write a better brief and scores it as they go. The thinking stays with them. It’s the quiet discipline that makes sure what we said becomes what we did.”

Key features:

• Pillar-Based Frameworks: Seventeen question models covering strategy, creative and production, to enforce consistent standards across every brief.
• Live Scoring: Real-time feedback on clarity and completeness as the brief is written.
• Campaign Inheritance: The anchor brief sets a campaign’s overview and audience once. Every supporting brief inherits that context automatically, so teams never start from scratch.
• Organisational Memory: Captures patterns across historical briefs so quality compounds over time.
• Risk and Timeline Intelligence: Early flags on delivery dependencies to test feasibility before work starts.

For a demo or more information, visit www.impossible-question.com

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Authentic Brands Group (Authentic), a global brand and entertainment platform, today announced the appointment of Lark-Marie Antón as Chief Communications Officer. Antón will lead the company’s global communications and corporate brand strategy, bringing greater visibility to Authentic’s platform, its expanding entertainment business and the cultural influence of its portfolio. She will report to Matt Maddox, President and Chief Executive Officer, and serve as a member of Authentic’s Executive Committee.

“Lark has spent her career shaping the narratives and reputations of high-profile companies and individuals, with deep expertise in media and marketing,” said Maddox. “Her leadership and creativity will be important as we continue to grow and bring the full Authentic story to the world.”

Antón brings more than 20 years of experience across communications, corporate brand strategy, integrated marketing and reputation management. She joins Authentic from USA TODAY Co., formerly Gannett, where she served as Chief Communications and Brand Officer for one of the country’s largest media organizations. At USA TODAY Co., Antón led enterprise communications and corporate brand strategy across a portfolio of national and more than 200 local media properties across the USA TODAY Network and implemented the company’s rebrand from Gannett to USA TODAY Co. Earlier in her career, Antón held senior communications and marketing roles at Hertz, Verizon, Aura, Loews Hotels and served as a Deputy Press Secretary in the Bloomberg Administration.

“Authentic is an extraordinary global platform of the world’s most iconic brands and cultural assets,” said Antón. “I’m excited to join a company with an incredible portfolio spanning more than 16 years of innovation and a willingness to keep evolving. I look forward to partnering with Matt, Jamie and the entire leadership team to help shape Authentic’s next chapter of growth.”

Lark earned a Master of Arts in communication studies from West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Marist University. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Marist University, her alma mater, and the Board of Green-Wood, a national historic landmark.

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