Onton raises $7.5M to expand its AI-powered shopping site beyond furniture TechCrunch By: Ivan Mehta 26 November 2025 at 07:00 Onton, which changed its name from Deft, is giving users an infinite canvas with AI-powered image generation to nudge them toward making quicker purchase decisions.
OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups arenβt sweating it TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 25 November 2025 at 14:35 Startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences.