ISTANBUL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 11, 2025--
Agentic Commerce is a new paradigm where AI agents act as autonomous sales, service, and marketing entities, handling everything from product recommendations to checkout assistance and post-purchase follow-ups across web, WhatsApp, marketplaces, and social platforms.
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At the center of this transformation is Loops AI, whose agents are already transforming customer engagement into a revenue-producing channel through real-time, autonomous agents that learn from brand data and user behavior. The company reports up to 20x higher engagement, over 70% uplift in sales per visitor, and up to 40% total sales growth across brands using its system — signaling a shift from traditional chatbot interactions to fully autonomous commerce operations.
“Agentic Commerce is the next evolution of e-commerce,” said Yusuf Bahadır Co-Founder and CTO of Loops AI. “We’re moving from websites that wait for clicks to intelligent agents that take action — agents that talk, learn, and sell autonomously. Participating in the a16z Speedrun program gives us the global leverage to accelerate this revolution from Istanbul to the world.”
Loops agents now support over a million customer interactions, reaching up to 99%+ intent recognition accuracy and outperforming legacy chatbot deflection rates by a wide margin. Unlike legacy chatbots, Loops AI’s multi-model architecture continuously learns from brand data and customer behavior, enabling its agents to act with the intuition and precision of a trained sales associate, at internet scale.
Expanding from Istanbul to Global Scale
Loops AI has rapidly expanded beyond its roots, currently serving over 50 brands across Türkiye, MENA, and Europe, including major names such as Tudors, Paulmark, P&G Fairy, Radisson Collection, Movenpick, and EasyCep. A key driver of this adoption is the platform’s highly scalable architecture, which allows brands to go live in under seven days—providing a critical speed advantage for high-volume e-commerce operations.
To scale this model globally, Loops AI has secured strategic investment from a16z Speedrun, Andreessen Horowitz’s flagship program designed to help founders build, scale, and raise follow-on capital.
“We’re proud to represent this region in one of the most visionary programs in the world,” added Bahadır. “Agentic Commerce isn’t a feature — it’s a new operating system for brands.”
Headquartered in the US with operations in Türkiye and MENA, Loops AI will use the new capital to deepen partnerships and advance its platform with proactive purchase agents and visual shopping. A core focus is the Agentic Network, a shared learning layer that enables collective intelligence while strictly preserving each brand’s identity and data privacy.
About Loops AI
Loops AI is a US based AI company with operations in Türkiye and MENA, building intelligent sales and customer-experience agents for the new era of Agentic Commerce. Trusted by leading retail and hospitality brands, Loops AI delivers measurable growth by transforming every customer interaction into an intelligent, revenue-driven conversation.
www.loopsai.com
About a16z Speedrun
Speedrun is Andreessen Horowitz ’s (a16z) flagship program that invests in startups and helps founders build their company, scale traction, and raise follow-on capital.
https://speedrun.a16z.com/
Co-Founders Yusuf Bahadır, İlker Selim Zorluoğlu and Ari Nazir
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Washington state was under a state of emergency Thursday from a barrage of torrential rain that has sent rivers flowing over their banks, caused a mudslide to crash down on a highway and trapped people in floodwaters. Tens of thousands of residents could face evacuation orders.
Heavy rain continued to fall over parts of the state Thursday morning, prompting rising rivers, road closures, water rescues and suspension of Amtrak trains between Seattle and Vancouver. Rainfall intensity increased in several counties in Washington's Cascade Mountains, which had seen up to 6 inches (15.2 centimeters) of rain in a 24-hour period. One area, Snoqualmie Pass, picked up an additional 1.7 inches (4.3 centimeters) of rain in six hours, the National Weather Service said.
Emergency management officials urged residents not to drive through standing water. Those who live near rivers were advised to stay alert to evacuation orders.
“We ask you to be prepared. Be at the ready state right now. Have your bags packed,” Arel Solie, director of Pierce County Emergency Management, told KOMO-TV on Thursday morning.
After days of seemingly unrelenting heavy rain Gov. Bob Ferguson declared a statewide emergency by Wednesday night, warning "lives will be at stake in the coming days.” Some residents have already been ordered to higher ground, with Skagit County, a major agricultural region north of Seattle, ordering those within the Skagit River’s floodplain to evacuate.
“Catastrophic flooding is likely” in many areas and the state is requesting water rescue teams and boats, Ferguson said on the social media platform X on Wednesday night.
Hundreds of National Guard members will be sent to help communities, said Gent Welsh, adjutant general of the Washington National Guard.
In a valley leading out to the foothills of Mount Rainier southeast of Seattle, Pierce County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday rescued people at an RV park in Orting, including helping one man in a Santa hat wade through waist-deep water. Part of the town was ordered to evacuate over concerns about the Puyallup River’s extremely high levels and upstream levees.
A landslide blocked part of Interstate 90 east of Seattle, with photos from Eastside Fire & Rescue showing vehicles trapped by tree trunks, branches, mud and standing water. Officials also closed a mountainous section of U.S. 2 due to rocks, trees and mud.
More than 17,000 customers in Washington were without electricity Thursday, according to PowerOutage.us.
The Skagit River was expected to crest at roughly 47 feet (14.3 meters) in the mountain town of Concrete early Thursday, and roughly 41 feet (12 meters) in Mount Vernon early Friday.
“We feel very confident that we can handle a ‘normal flood,’ but no one really knows what a 41, 42 foot river looks like south of Mount Vernon," Darrin Morrison, a commissioner for Dike District 3 in Skagit County, said during a public meeting Wednesday night.
The county was closing non-essential government services Thursday, including all district and superior court services.
Flooding from the river has long plagued Mount Vernon, the largest city in the county with some 35,000 residents. Flooding in 2003 displaced hundreds of people.
The city completed a floodwall in 2018 that helps protect the downtown. It passed a major test in 2021, when the river crested near record levels.
But the city is on high alert. The historic river levels expected Friday could top the wall, and some are worried that older levees could fail.
“It could potentially be catastrophic,” said Ellen Gamson, executive director of the Mount Vernon Downtown Association.
Jake Lambly added sandbags, tested water pumps and moved valuables to the top floor of the home he shares with his 19-year-old son.
“This is my only asset,” he said Wednesday from his front porch. “I got nothing else.”
Harrison Rademacher, a meteorologist with the weather service in Seattle, described the atmospheric river soaking the region as “a jet stream of moisture” stretching across the Pacific Ocean “with the nozzle pushing right along the coast of Oregon and Washington.”
In Sumas, a small city along the U.S.-Canada border, a flood siren rang out at city hall and residents were told to leave. The border crossing was also closed to southbound commercial vehicles to leave more room for evacuations, according to the Abbotsford Police Department.
Climate change has been linked to some intense rainfall. Scientists say that without specific study they cannot directly link a single weather event to climate change, but in general it’s responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme storms, droughts, floods and wildfires.
Another storm system is expected to bring more rain starting Sunday.
“The pattern looks pretty unsettled going up to the holidays," Rademacher said.
Rush reported from Portland, Oregon. Associated Press writers Gene Johnson and Hallie Golden in Seattle; Martha Bellisle in Issaquah, Washington; Sarah Brumfield in Cockeysville, Maryland; and Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire; contributed to this report.
A flag ripples in the wind as snow falls in Lowville, New York, on Tuesday night, Dec. 9, 2025. The area faces a winter storm warning through Thursday. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)
Rescue workers with Chehalis Fire venture into a flooded neighborhood to pick up evacuees after heavy rains, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Chehalis, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A man checks on a car caught in flooding after heavy rains Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Napavine, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
