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)

Lisa Bonos / Inc: 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 — 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.