Soma Capital

Today, Created by Humans is announcing a partnership with The Authors Guild, America's oldest and largest professional organization for writers. This collaboration is a huge step forward in empowering authors in the AI era. As AI reshapes publishing, we're seeing both incredible potential and real concerns about creators' rights. At CbH, we're building a bridge between authors and AI companies. Our goal is simple: give writers control over their work while providing AI developers access to high-quality, authorized content. We've created our proprietary "AI rights" framework, which defines 3 categories of AI rights - training, reference, and transformative. We’ve also built a really elegant product that allows authors to manage and license their AI rights, which is currently in private beta and will go live this fall. This product will allow authors to determine whether and how they want to engage with AI. The Authors Guild has been leading the charge in advocating for writers' rights in this new landscape. Their commitment to putting authors first aligns perfectly with our vision at CbH. Through this partnership, the Authors Guild will help promote CbH to its members and help us make decisions about our platform. I'm thrilled to welcome Mary Rasenberger, CEO of The Authors Guild, to our author advisory board. The future of publishing is being written now, and it's critical that authors have a voice in shaping it. By joining forces, we're taking an important step toward a future that benefits creators, technology, and society. This is just the first chapter. I'm deeply grateful to everyone who helped make this partnership happen. There's still work ahead, but I'm more optimistic than ever about human creativity thriving in the AI age. This is a key inflection point in our exciting journey to preserve human creativity and make it thrive in the AI era. Learn more about this news in today's article in the The New York Times.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $10M Series A led by Valor Equity Partners with Day One Ventures, Friends & Family Capital, UpHonest Capital and 20Growth. Some of the best builders & operators have invested in us, including Michael Stoppelman (former SVPE, Yelp), Zachary Bookman (CEO, OpenGov), Prasanna Sankar (CTO, Rippling), Adrian Fenty (former Mayor of DC & a16z advisor), Yahya Mokhtarzada (Co-Founder, Truebill) and more. Zamp is the first-ever managed sales tax solution in the market, combining a real-time technology platform with sales tax experts. Our vision - to eliminate the amount of time teams spend on sales tax, so they can focus on building a thriving business and achieve the American Dream. Only a year since launching, we are now the trusted sales tax partner to over 400 businesses: → E-commerce - CULT GAIA, GLAMNETIC, and Portland Leather Goods? → CPG - Four Sigmatic, Masienda, and Sanzo → SaaS - Puzzle ????, Finfare, and Teal All of whom are saving dozens of hours each month managing sales tax. With this new capital, we will continue investing in our existing customer experience and building on that vision. Over that last year, we also witnessed the impact from the rapidly growing accounting talent shortage first-hand. Accountants do not have enough bandwidth or resources to satisfy every client request amidst increasing compliance requirements. Today, we are addressing that issue head-on to support our accounting and bookkeeping partners. We are making our managed sales tax solution more accessible and launching a new white-label product called Z-Tax (link ??). Z-Tax allows our partners to offer sales tax compliance as a service without increasing headcount or overhead costs, so they can focus on delivering high-value services. Thank you to our incredible customers, partners, and investors who have supported us so far. None of this would be possible without you. Thank you to every single person on our team who has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to our mission. Your relentless efforts have gotten us here. Thank you to TechCrunch's Marina Tremkin for covering our news (link ??) This is only the beginning of a bigger chapter…

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