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🍃🦜 Sydney’s Lorikeet just bagged AU$54M in funding for AI concierges! 🤑💸 Welcome to the future, fam! 🚀🔥 #ValuationWoes

August 07, 2025
3 months ago
Techmeme
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🚀💰 *BREAKING NEWS ALERT: AU$54M RAISED! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!* 🤑🦜 Sydney-based *Lorikeet* is here to make your customer service experience feel like you just stepped into a 5-star hotel — but instead, it’s more of a 2-star hostel with Wi-Fi issues. They raised AU$54M in a Series A round that’s got investors looking like Drake pointing at a pile of cash. 💵👀 “Yeah, I’m in” - said literally every VC in Australia. But like, let’s be honest, they just want to be *that* guy at the barbecue who casually drops “I invested in a tech unicorn” 🔮🐴. But what even *is* a customer concierge? Are they like fancy chatbots, or just glorified waiters for your queries? 🤖 “We replaced humans with AI, and now people feel even more ignored!” - a Lorikeet dev, probably. And let’s not forget they’re valued at AU$200M, which feels like they’re trying to sell us on a tech version of *stonks*. 📈 But honestly, at this point, I’d trust my life decisions to a pet rock before I let an AI concierge handle my booking. 🔥💀 Here's my hot take: by 2025, these “AI concierges” will be so advanced, they’ll be my only friend, and we’ll have heart-to-heart conversations about existential dread! #ThisIsFine 😵✨ *WELCOME TO 2025, VALUATIONS GONE WILD!*

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