Crisp’s latest $26 million raise lands with the kind of clarity you rarely see in the AI funding drumbeat: investors are betting not on another generic platform touting “AI for everything,” but on a vertical system built to solve very specific pain points in retail and CPG. The announcement has a certain energy to it, almost like the industry’s finally admitting that horizontal … [Read more...] about Crisp’s $26M Series B1 Shows Why Vertical AI Is Pulling Ahead