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Ex-Agentforce team raises $5.1M for 'anti-vendor' AI
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.
TL;DR
- Zaro, a London startup, has raised $5.1 million in pre-seed funding led by Cherry Ventures.
- The company was founded by former members of the Salesforce Agentforce team, who aim to create an AI workspace owned by the company, not software vendors.
- Zaro's platform centralizes AI agents around a shared context layer, allowing for custom app development based on a company's proprietary data.
- The startup claims its approach can cut costs by routing routine tasks to cheaper AI models and offers ownership of context, which can be transferred.
- Key investors include Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf and GitHub chief Thomas Dohmke.