Vercel, the creators of v0, Next.js, and the AI Cloud, announced a $300M Series F funding round at a post-money valuation of $9.3 billion. The round was co-led by Accel and GIC, with participation from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, StepStone, Khosla Ventures, Schroders, Adams Street Partners, and General Catalyst. Existing investors GV, Notable Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and Tiger Global also participated in the round.

“For a decade, Vercel has been the go-to platform for web development, and as AI transforms applications, we've evolved our infrastructure to match,” said Guillermo Rauch, CEO and founder of Vercel. “The AI Cloud enables organizations to build at the speed of ideas, and this investment accelerates our ability to provide the secure, scalable foundation enterprises need as AI agents become integral to their workflows.”

Elsewhere, the MACH Alliance announced its new leadership group, commercetools partners with Stripe and OpenAI, and Bloomreach was named a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Marketing Hubs. 

Featured Stories

• MACH Alliance Advances New Leadership for the AI Era, Announces 2025 Executive Board Election Results: “This election underscores our strength as a global community of innovators and brand leaders, co-creating the next horizon of composability.”

• commercetools Partners with Stripe in its Launch of the Agentic Commerce Protocol: “Partnering with Stripe on ACP extends that advantage, giving enterprises the composable foundation to move at the speed of their business, not the speed of their vendor.”

• Bloomreach Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs: “At Bloomreach, we feel that this recognition validates our vision for AI-powered marketing orchestration that drives real business outcomes.”

• Shopify and OpenAI Bring Commerce to ChatGPT: “We're making sure our merchants thrive in the era of agentic commerce.”

Stories that caught our eye

1. Optimizely Marks Two Years of Opal: Becoming the fastest growing product in the company’s history. 

2. Escaping the Frankenstack Trap in Marketing Technology: Marketers are ditching bloated “Frankenstacks” for composable, AI-powered systems.

3. The Future Of Owned Digital Shopping Experiences: Agentic commerce and conversational commerce are part of the discussion. 

4. Zero-Click Search Comes For Checkout: Agentic commerce is the next frontier for retail.

The word on the street…

1. [Reddit]: CMS for Next.js website: This Redditor needs some suggestions. 

2. [Reddit]: When to choose Nuxt over plain Vue on a new project: This Redditor doesn’t think there’s a use case.