Gravity, which places text-based ads within AI chatbots, raised a $30.5M Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed, taking its total funding to $38.5M (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)

<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatbot-ad-platform-gravity-raises-series-a-2026-8"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260806/i43.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260806/p43#a260806p43" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lara O'Reilly / <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Business Insider</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatbot-ad-platform-gravity-raises-series-a-2026-8">Gravity, which places text-based ads within AI chatbots, raised a $30.5M Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed, taking its total funding to $38.5M</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Zach Oldham, cofounder of the adtech startup Gravity, thinks AI ads will eventually become the world's largest advertising channel.</p>