A startup’s mission is to replace a bunch of repetitive work that humans do, and it just marked a large financing tour to replace workers with AI agents.
The Startup, craftsman, has just raised a series of funding of $ 25 million, led by Glade Brook Capital. Oliver Jung, Day One Ventures, Bond, Soma Capital and Sequoia Scout also participated in the Round, with the Y -Cominator start -up accelerator.
Craftsman was a member of the Lot of Winter 2024 of YC, and he previously raised a round of seeds of $ 11.5 million in October 2024 led by the providential investor Oliver Jung.
Co-founded in 2023 by Jaspar Carmichael-Jack and Sam Stallings, craftsman develops AI employees, called craftsmen, who fully take specific jobs that have been traditionally carried out by human workers. These works are often routine – think of the copy and collage of data, update of CRMs and the writing of emails.
The first craftsman’s artist, Ava, is a fully autonomous commercial development representative who can attack each part of outgoing sales, discovery leads to seeking them to raise awareness of reservation of meetings.
Part of the craftsman’s marketing has collected a viral shock value-in a recent campaign, its founders have put on t-shirts by reading “rental craftsmen, not humans”, but the wider objective of the startup is only by the parascium tasks of the discharge for AI agents, their human co-works are less in the museum and can be more focused on Creativity.
Thanks to the progress of AI, it became a reality, explained Carmichael-Jack, CEO of craftsman.
“Six months ago, all investors wanted to hear about AI potential,” he told Bi. “Conversations have evolved from” What could it become? “To” what is he doing for customers right now? “”
“This is why our campaign” Human hiring stop “resonated so strongly,” he said. “He addressed the question of what will be the role of humans in the future.”
The role of AI in the workplace was a recently a field button problem, employers and employees weighing on the advantages and damage to the use of technology at work.
Mira Murati, the former Openai CTO, who now directs an AI startup, said last year that certain jobs in danger of being replaced by AI should not have existed in the first place – which prompted.
The controversy has not dissuaded a multitude of startups from developing AI agents at the workplace. Vapi Vapi vocal agent raised $ 20 million in December from Bessemer. IA Optimhire’s employment recruiter won a seed of $ 5 million in March. And earlier this month, Spur, who uses AI agents for testing test sites, has collected a series of 4.5 million dollars seeds since the first round and pear.
Discover the craftsman with 16 pitch deck slides used to collect its $ 20 million A series.