Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

Poetic is building AI-driven automation tools aimed at streamlining complex, judgment-heavy business workflows. The company operated in stealth prior to announcing the $50 million investment and has shared limited public information about its leadership, technology, or development timeline. Its stated focus is automating tasks that traditional software struggles to handle, targeting enterprise customers. The $50 million backing from OpenAI provides a strategic relationship with a leading model provider, though no financial metrics or valuation were reported. Poetic is entering a crowded market of automation and agent-building startups, and the report does not include user, revenue, or growth metrics. The company’s future plans beyond using the funding to scale its product and go-to-market were not detailed in the coverage.

Led · Series B · Apr 2026

Actively’s platform deploys a dedicated AI agent for each account that operates continuously to research, identify opportunities, and advance next steps across sales, marketing, and revenue operations. The company positions this per-account, persistent intelligence as a replacement for stitching together many point tools and for purely human-led execution. Customers named in the article include Attentive, Ironclad, Ramp, and Samsara, where Actively agents are deployed across a 1,000+ person GTM team. Reported outcomes at Samsara include 2x conversion rates on Actively-driven outreach, lifts in quota attainment among top-half sellers, and millions saved in internal compute and token costs. Actively plans to use its newly raised capital to build additional go-to-market products, expand into more enterprises, hire world-class talent, and open a San Francisco office. The company’s leadership includes CEO Mihir Garimella and co-founder Anshul Gupta, and the team was founded by former Stanford AI researchers. The business has raised $68 million in total to date.

Led · Seed · Feb 2026

Simple AI is a San Francisco–based startup developing a voice AI agent platform designed to answer and handle inbound phone calls for both sales and customer-support use cases. The system ingests a customer’s full product catalog—including SKUs, metadata, and pricing—so the agent can take actions such as placing orders directly during calls. Leveraging real-time customer data, the AI personalizes each interaction and produces a full transcript, summary, and actionable insights after every conversation. Founded by Catheryn Li and Zach Kamran, the company targets businesses looking to reduce call-center costs and improve conversion rates through automation. Simple AI has not publicly disclosed revenue or user counts, but it recently secured a $14 million seed round, giving it the capital to accelerate product development and expand operations. The fresh funding underscores investor confidence in the firm’s technology and market opportunity in voice-based customer engagement solutions.