Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (Lisa Bonos/Inc)

<a href="https://www.inc.com/lisa-bonos/two-ex-toast-engineers-just-raised-19-5-million-to-solve-a-problem-most-small-businesses-dont-know-they-have/91367470"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260630/i41.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p41#a260630p41" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lisa Bonos / <a href="https://www.inc.com/">Inc</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.inc.com/lisa-bonos/two-ex-toast-engineers-just-raised-19-5-million-to-solve-a-problem-most-small-businesses-dont-know-they-have/91367470">Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Pie, which spent the past year building quietly, is betting small businesses need help showing up in AI search the way they once needed help showing up on Google.</p>