Engineers who helped build Salesforce’s Agentforce raised $5.1M to build its opposite
A London startup called Zaro has come out of stealth. Cherry Ventures led its $5.1mn pre-seed round. Zaro wants to build one AI workspace that a company owns, not its software vendors.
Who is backing Zaro
The angel list is senior for such an early round. Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf and GitHub chief Thomas Dohmke both invested. Investor Charlie Songhurst, Trouva’s Mandeep Singh, and Convergence co-founders Marvin Purtorab and Andy Toulis joined them.
Cherry Ventures committed before Zaro had a product. The firm showed the startup off at its London summit on Tuesday.
From Agentforce to a rival
Five of Zaro’s eight staff once built AI agents at Convergence. Salesforce bought that startup 11 months in. The team then helped ship Agentforce, Salesforce’s flagship AI agent product.
Chief executive Michael Bajwa was Convergence’s first hire. He says he grew it from zero to £1mn in annual recurring revenue...
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