Artisan AI raises $2.3M pre-seed
Artisan AI, which creates digital workers dubbed 'artisans', has raised a $2.3 million pre-seed and will be participating in the W24 Y Combinator batch.
The firm was founded by Caspar Carmichael-Jack, a 22-year-old from Surrey, England, and CTO Dr. Rupert Dodkins, who has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford and has been working in machine learning for 8 years.
Artisan AI's 'Artisan workers' are digital workers hat automate job workflows form end to end. According to the company 'Artisans act as additions to teams they join, rather than software tools for them to use - this makes them notably distinct from existing solutions which require constant management from a human'.
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The first Artisan, Ava, is a sales representative launching on December 4th. Discussing AVA, a spokesperson for Artisan AI said: ''Right now, she automates the full outbound sales cycle, but she will soon be able to automate the entire sales cycle, doing most things herself and acting as a co-pilot to the human when needed. We plan to release 5 more Artisans next year.''
Other participants in the pre-seed round at the W24 Y Combinator batch include Bayhouse Capital, and Oliver Jung, who was an early investor in Revolut, Robinhood and Brex.
According to a spokesperson for the company: ''Artisan AI is using the funding to build a team, with a heavy focus on engineering and product.''
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