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Channel3 Secures $6M Seed Funding to Build the Infrastructure Behind Agentic Commerce
Today, Channel3, the company building the connected database of every product on the internet, announced its $6 million seed round led by Matrix, with participation from Ludlow Ventures, Paul Graham, Sri Batchu (former CMO of TheRealReal) and Matteo Franeschetti (founder of EightSleep). The investment underscores growing momentum around agentic commerce, a new channel of AI-driven shopping experiences, and positions Channel3 to accelerate its mission of making every product on the web discoverab
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