Photon raises $4.5M to build a messaging channel for personal agents
Photon's Spectrum SDK lets developers write an agent once and connect it to iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and more, with sub-second responses and 99.95% uptime.
PHOTON RAISED 4.5M TO REPLACE APPS WITH VIRAL PERSONAL AGENTS first they held a funeral for mobile apps. in a real church, with a coffin > Muse hit No. 1 on the App Store > Instinct raised $1B at a $10B valuation > Wajo launched Fo, xAI has Grokbot, OpenAI dropped Do everyone is shipping a personal agent. Photon is the pipe that gets it into your texts: > write the agent once with the Spectrum SDK > it texts on iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS/RCS, Telegram, Slack, Discord > iMessage can't land, it falls back to Telegram in one call > under 1s end to end, 99.95% uptime, SOC 2 + HIPAA Hermes Agent ships it as the default iMessage layer. Mastra, Vercel's Chat SDK, LangChain and Convex plug in. Boardy and Ditto already run on it since April: 50K+ devs, 450K npm downloads a month, 10x revenue broke the whole flow down in the video, the fallback hits at 0:20 apps get funerals. agents get phone numbers.
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