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Silicon Valley is licking its chops at the promise of AI 'agents.' These are the startups to watch.
What it is: Maven AGI reimagines enterprise customer support by leveraging agents.
Founded: 2023
Total funding: $28 million
Notable deal: Maven AGI launched from stealth in May with $28 million in Series A funding led by M13.
What it is: The Polish-British startup Wordware is building a software platform that can develop and deploy agents using plain English rather than code.
Founded: 2021
Total funding: $30 million
Notable deal: At $30 million, Wordware's November fundraise is one of the largest seed rounds in Y Combinator's history, the startup said. Spark Capital led the funding round, with YC and VC firm Felicis participating.
What it is: Decagon is developing agents that act as customer-support representatives for enterprise customers.
Founded: 2023
Total funding: $100 million
Notable deal: Decagon emerged from stealth in June and announced both its $30 million Series A and $5 million seed rounds. The startup's investors include Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and Elad Gil.
What it is: Resolve AI is building a production-engineer agent that troubleshoots errors and solves production issues, freeing up human engineers' time to create new products and features.
Founded: 2024
Total funding: $35 million
Notable deal: Greylock led Resolve AI's $35 million seed round in November. Unusual Ventures also participated in the round alongside the angel investors Fei-Fei Li, known as the "godmother of AI, and Jeff Dean, Google DeepMind's chief scientist. Executives from OpenAI, GitHub, AWS, and Notion also participated in the round.
What it is: Norm Ai enables corporate compliance chiefs to convert regulations from public laws to company policies into working computer code.
Founded: 2023
Total funding: $38 million
Notable deal: Norm Ai raised a $27 million Series A round led by Coatue in June, following an $11 million seed round earlier in the year.
What it is: Founded by two cybersecurity veterans, 7AI is building a "swarm" of agents that monitor for threats and protect enterprise companies from cyberattacks.
Founded: 2024
Total funding: $36 million
Notable deal: 7AI launched from stealth in June with a $36 million seed funding round led by Greylock. CRV and Spark Capital also participated in the round.
What it is: Developers at companies like Airtable, Instacart, and Stripe use Braintrust to build, monitor, and troubleshoot their artificial intelligence applications.
Founded: 2023
Total funding: $45 million
Notable deal: Andreessen Horowitz led a $36 million Series A funding round for Braintrust in August.
What it is: Lawhive's AI-powered legal assistant, Lawrence, automates routine legal tasks, from client onboarding and compliance checks to document drafting.
Founded: 2019
Total funding: $52 million
Notable deal: Lawhive closed two rounds of funding just eight months apart, with a $10 million seed round in April and a $40 million Series A round in December.
What it is: Formerly known as CodiumAI, Qodo deploys agents into the coding process to take over tasks such as generation, testing, review, and documentation.
Founded: 2022
Total funding: $50 million
Notable deal: Qodo raised a $40 million Series A funding round in September led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg. Firestreak Ventures, ICON Continuity Fund, TLV Partners, and Vine Ventures also participated in the round.
What it is: Rox's agents assist sales teams by monitoring customer activity, identifying risks and opportunities, and recommending action plans for human employees.
Founded: 2024
Total funding: $50 million
Notable deal: Rox completed its seed and Series A rounds in stealth. The deals — totaling $50 million from investors including GV, Sequoia, and General Catalyst — were announced in November.
What it is: Decart builds enterprise and consumer products on top of its own infrastructure stack, designed to reduce some of the costs of building or using AI models.
Founded: 2023
Total funding: $53 million
Notable deal: Decart emerged from stealth in October with $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital and Zeev Ventures and raised another $32 million in a Series A round led by Benchmark in December.
What it is: Founded by former Stripe tech chief David Singleton, /dev/agents is developing a cloud-based operating system for agents that works on any device.
Founded: 2024
Total funding: $56 million
Notable deal: The company emerged from stealth with $56 million in seed financing from Index Ventures, CapitalG, and Sarah Guo's fund, Conviction Capital, in November of 2024. The round also included names like OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Android founder Andy Rubin.
What it is: HeyGen, a generative-AI video creator for enterprises, launched agents as virtual avatars that can provide around-the-clock customer support.
Founded: 2020
Total funding: $60 million
Notable deal: Benchmark led HeyGen's $60 million Series A in June. Other investors in the round included Thrive Capital, Bond Capital, Conviction, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Aviv Nevo, Neil Mehta, and SV Angel.
What it is: 11x builds AI-powered sales development reps for handling the workflows of traditional revenue teams.
Founded: 2022
Total funding: $76 million
Notable deal: Andreessen Horowitz led a $50 million Series B round for 11x in November, just two months after the startup grabbed $24 million in a Series A round led by Benchmark.
What it is: Astrix Security is creating a security platform to shield an enterprise customer's agents from cyberattacks.
Founded: 2021
Total funding: $85 million
Notable deal: Astrix closed a $45 million Series B round in December, led by Menlo Ventures. Workday Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, CRV, and F2 Venture Capital also participated.
What it is: The buzzy legaltech startup Robin offers a copilot for lawyers to help draft and revise contracts.
Founded: 2019
Total funding: $60 million
Notable deal: The Singapore investment company Temasek led Robin's $26 million Series B funding round in January 2024, and the VC firms QuantumLight, Plural, and AFG Partners also participated in the round. The startup raised additional funding at the end of 2024.
What it is: Ema is building agents called "personas" that complete complex business tasks for their human employee counterparts.
Founded: 2023
Total funding: $61 million
Notable deal: Ema increased its Series A funding round to $50 million in July, and counts Accel, Section 32, Prosus Ventures, Sozo Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Wipro Ventures, SCB 10X, Colle Capital, and Frontier Ventures among its investors.
What it is: You.com's multi-agent system enables knowledge workers to conduct research, create content, and build custom agents on top of any AI model for virtually any task.
Founded: 2020
Total funding: $99 million
Notable deal: Georgian led a $50 million Series B round of funding for You.com in September.
What it is: Anypshere, the startup behind the AI-powered code editor Cursor allows developers to turn terse directives into working code.
Founded: 2022
Total funding: $171 million
Notable deal: Anysphere raised back-to-back rounds of funding just four months apart, with a $60 million Series A round in August and a $100 million Series B round in December. The latest round crowned Anysphere a unicorn, with a valuation of $2.6 billion.
What it is: Torq's multi-agent system enables security professionals to create and deploy sophisticated workflows, triage alerts, and respond to security events.
Founded: 2020
Total funding: $192 million
Notable deal: Torq closed two separate rounds of funding in the past 12 months, including a $42 million Series B round and a $70 million Series C round led by Evolution Equity Partners.
What it is: Legion, a workforce-management platform used by companies like Barry's and Five Below, has developed agents to predict customer demand across locations, create and analyze schedules and timesheets, and reduce human bias.
Founded: 2016
Total funding: $195 million
Notable deal: Legion landed $50 million in a growth round in May, led by Riverwood Capital. In December, it raised another $50 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank, bringing its total funding to $195 million.