# The infrastructure bet buried inside the Poke funding story

- slug: the-infrastructure-bet-buried-inside-the-poke-funding-story
- date: 2026-04-08
- category: Agentics

When Poke went viral, its messaging layer Linq was processing 30M messages a month for AI agents. Nobody covered the pipe. Now Linq has 295% net revenue retention and zero churn, and the company that pivoted to agent infrastructure to serve Poke is arguably the more durable bet.

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