Poke provides a text-based AI agent that performs and automates tasks via messaging platforms, offering pre-built "recipes" and user-created automations that integrate with services like Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Strava, Philips Hue and developer tools such as GitHub and Vercel. The product runs on the model best suited to each task (including models from major providers and open-source models) and leverages Linq to operate inside messaging apps without requiring an app install. The company emphasizes a layered security model with limited permissions, penetration testing, and opt-in logging for users, and has paid creators to drive discovery of shared recipes. Pricing is free to start with variable charges for real-time inference and heavy automation; leadership says growth is the priority over near-term profitability. Poke is a roughly 10-person Palo Alto-based startup co-founded by Felix Schlegel, and since launch users have created thousands of recipes while signups have reportedly grown tenfold in recent months.

Total raised

$25M

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2

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Apr 2026