San Francisco, CA

Sekai, the consumer platform where anyone can build software by describing what they want, today announced $26 million in Seed and Series A funding. The Series A of $20 million was co-led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures and Nicole Quinn at Connect Ventures, with participation from new investors 359 Capital, Parable VC, and 645 Ventures.The seed round was led by Navin Chaddha at Mayfield, with existing investors a16z speedrun, A*, and MVP Ventures all returning for the Series A. The funding comes as users have built more than 15 million mini-apps on the platform, with 200,000 new apps created every day.

Sekai is founder Lucky Zhang’s fourth company. His first was acquired by Apple. His second, the largest short-video platform in Latin America, was acquired by TikTok. His third, Vietnam’s largest music streaming platform, is still running.

The platform turns a prompt into a playable, shareable app in seconds. Today, users on Sekai are building interactive experiences across games, memes, art, fan tools, niche utilities, and quizzes at a rate of one new app every half-second. For example – when Coachella dropped its 2026 lineup, a 20-year-old in Los Angeles spent an afternoon building a personality quiz on Sekai. By the end of the weekend, 50,000 people had played it. Five years ago, the same project would have taken a team of developers weeks.

“Every great consumer platform starts with a new format,” said Zhang. “Twitter had microblogging. Instagram had mobile photography. AI-generated software is the next one, and Sekai is where anyone can create, play, and remix software as real, working mini-apps.”

“The most ambitious consumer companies of the next decade will be built around new formats that AI makes possible. Most attempts have been incremental,” said Keith Rabois, Managing Director at Khosla Ventures. “Sekai has what most consumer startups lack: a distinct format, exceptional product velocity, and a founder who has already shipped at scale.”

“The most valuable companies of the next decade will sit at the intersection of AI and culture, products that feel like entertainment, not software,” said Nicole Quinn, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Connect Ventures. “Fifteen million user-created apps, with users spending over an hour a day on the platform, is the kind of early signal we look for. Pairing Lucky’s team with the relationships we have through CAA, Sekai has a real chance to define a new category of consumer experience.”

Sekai’s remote-first team is hiring across engineering and product. Open roles can be found at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sekai.

About Sekai

Sekai is the consumer creation platform for AI-generated software, where anyone can build and share interactive mini-apps just by describing what they want. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company is backed by Khosla Ventures, Connect Ventures, a16z speedrun, Mayfield, A*, MVP Ventures, 359 Capital, Cherubic Ventures, Parable VC, and 645 Ventures. Learn more at sekaiapp.com or download on iOS at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sekai-create-remix-play/id6504506653.

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IZMIR, TURKEY

In today’s supply chain environment, operational visibility is the foundation of competitive advantage. Ilgazi Technology delivers end-to-end RFID and IoT solutions that help businesses achieve inventory accuracy, process traceability, and asset control across multiple sectors. Headquartered in Izmir, Turkey, the company combines hardware development, software engineering, and system integration under one roof, serving retail, logistics, warehouse management, production, and asset tracking industries.

Below is an overview of the solutions we provide for each sector, powered by our proprietary family of RFID readers.

Solutions by Industry

Retail

Shelf errors and out-of-stock items are major causes of revenue loss. Our retail solutions deliver:

• In-store inventory accuracy: Achieve up to 99% counting precision with I-Hand mobile readers.
• Automated receiving and shipping: Process incoming goods instantly with the I-Gate series.
• Loss prevention and EAS integration: The I-EAS family provides protection at store exits.
• Fitting room analytics and self-checkout: I-Checkout accelerates the payment experience, while I-Count analyzes store traffic patterns.

Logistics and Warehouse Management

Manual scanning and barcode reading create bottlenecks in logistics. Our logistics solutions include:

• Loading dock portal reading: The I-Portal system enables bulk RFID reading at pallet level.
• Carton and package tracking: The I-Con tunnel reader is designed for high-speed carton and parcel processing.
• Dock management and shipment verification: Products are automatically reported to WMS/ERP systems as they leave the warehouse

Production (Manufacturing)

Work-in-progress tracking and raw material traceability are essential for quality control. Our production solutions provide:

• WIP tracking: Component-level monitoring at each station using I-Gate readers.
• Component serialization and process step verification: Every RFID tagged part is logged through each operation.
• Full visibility from raw material to shipment: Automatic synchronization of work orders and inventory movements.

Asset Tracking

Returnable transport items (pallets, totes, containers) and critical equipment must be located in real time. Our asset tracking solutions offer:

• Field counting with I-Hand mobile readers
• Entry/exit tracking at building gates using I-Gate systems
• Automatic updates of maintenance compliance records

RFID Readers Engineered for Real-World Conditions

Our hardware portfolio is developed and manufactured to meet the specific physical and RF requirements of different operational environments. Each product family is designed for seamless integration with the company’s middleware, which normalizes raw tag reads into structured events and pushes them to ERP, WMS, or POS systems via REST API or MQTT.

Integration and Support

All Ilgazi Technology solutions connect directly to your existing business systems. The company provides pre-built connectors for major ERP and WMS platforms, along with on-site RF site surveys, tag selection testing, and pilot deployment support. Deployment timelines typically range from four to eight weeks for a pilot site, with scale-up based on measurable KPIs such as inventory accuracy, shipment verification speed, and out-of-stock reduction.

Media Contact Information

Murat Ilgazi
 İzmir, Turkey
 [email protected]
 +90 850 441 66 66
 https://www.ilgazi.com/en/

SOURCE: İlgazi Technology

DALLAS, TX

RedPresswire –  In a moment that left viewers breathless, Ron White — two-time USA Memory Champion, U.S. Navy veteran, and Afghanistan war veteran — sat before the camera on the Shawn Ryan Show, closed his eyes, and did something he had never done before in over a decade of performing this tribute: he recited, entirely from memory, the rank, first name, and last name of all 2,459 American service members killed in the Afghanistan War — without a wall, without a marker, and without a single note.

White began memorizing the names in 2012, a process that took 10 months and required committing over 7,500 words to memory — each name, each rank, in the exact order of death. From 2013 to 2021, he performed this tribute more than 30 times across the country, writing the names by hand on a 52-foot memorial wall that echoes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — at country music concerts, sporting events, military bases, and historic sites — delivering a simple, powerful message:

“You are not forgotten.”

But the appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show marked a historic first. For the first time in the history of this tribute, White did not write the names on a wall. He simply sat, closed his eyes, and spoke each name aloud — one by one — for all 2,459 fallen. No props. No performance. Just a veteran honoring the people he served alongside and the thousands who came after.

“If I was a painter, I would have painted a portrait. If I was a singer, I would have written a song,” said White. “It only made sense to use my memory. Every name I say is a life— a family — a sacrifice that the American public deserves to remember.”

ABOUT RON WHITE

Ron White is a two-time USA Memory Champion (2009 and 2010), a former USA record holder for the fastest memorization of a shuffled deck of cards (1 minute, 27 seconds), and a U.S. Navy veteran who served as an intelligence specialist from 2002–2010, including a deployment to Afghanistan in 2007. He has appeared on the History Channel’s Stan Lee’s Superhumans, National Geographic’s Brain Games, Fox’s Superhuman with Kal Penn and Mike Tyson, as well as Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and CBS Evening News. He is the founder of Brain Athlete and travels the country delivering keynote speeches and memory training workshops.

WATCH THE TRIBUTE

Full video from the Shawn Ryan Show: https://youtu.be/2EiEPPZ1WLY

NOTE TO EDITORS 

Ron White is available for interviews, media appearances, and comment. B-roll footage of the Afghanistan Memory Wall tribute is available upon request. Ron White is also available to perform memory demonstrations live for television and radio audiences.

Brain Athlete, founded by two-time USA Memory Champion Ron White, offers memory training workshops, keynote speaking, and online courses. Learn more at BrainAthlete.com.