AI Startup Coworker Raises $13 Million to Bring ‘AI Teammates’ to Workplace
Coworker.ai, a startup founded by former Uber managers Alex Calder and Bradford Church, has secured $13 million in seed funding to develop its general-purpose AI workplace agents. The funding round was led by Triatomic Capital, with participation from Abstract Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and others.
The San Francisco-based startup’s AI technology is designed to act as a ‘teammate’ in various workplace functions, including engineering, product management, sales, marketing, and operations. Coworker.ai’s agents can perform tasks such as writing code, creating pull requests, automating release notes, analyzing sales calls, and generating proposals.
According to CEO Alex Calder, Coworker.ai has been beta testing its technology with about 25 companies since late 2024. The startup uses its own products internally, which Calder believes gives them an edge in developing new features. ‘In the last six months, we’ve seen our internal team going from ‘AI is good at giving me information’ to ‘AI is good at using that information to do work for me’,’ Calder said.
The AI agent market is becoming increasingly crowded, with other startups like ThriveAI and StackAI also developing AI workplace agents. However, Calder believes that Coworker’s focus on customer usage and real-world impact helped secure the funding. ‘VCs are desensitized to jaw-dropping AI demos these days,’ Calder said. ‘What they really care about is how customers are actually using the product and whether it can solve real problems at scale.’
Coworker.ai previously raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding from investors including Soma Capital and Focal VC. The latest funding brings the total raised to $16.5 million.
