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A startup that build AI bots for appendage mechanization ( aka automating end - to - end work flow ) , 11x.ai just raise a fresh $ 24 million Series A led by Benchmark . It is also one of a rise crew ofAI startups relocate its headquarters to San Francisco , Hasan Sukkar , the ship’s company ’s founding father and CEO , told us . It was founded in London .
The Series A comes about a year after 11x.ai raiseda $ 2 million cum roundled by Project A Ventures . Founded in 2022 , the company calls its AI agentive role “ automated digital workers , ” and like others in this field of force , its pitch is that its software system can handle repetitive tasks , allowing human employees to focalize on more strategic work .
The company focuses on go - to - market teams , like sales , selling , and gross operations . It start out with Alice , an AI sales representative , and has now launched Jordan , which serves as an AI earphone interpreter . “ He sounds like a actual human . He can have conversations up to 30 minutes in actual - clock time in a elbow room that ’s really thinking , ” Sukkar said .
He says the caller is also approaching $ 10 million in annual repeat taxation and say it counts company like Brex , DataStax , and Otter as client , according to itswebsite .
“ Thinking forrader , there will be two extra digital workers that we are launching in the coming months , ” Sukkar continued . “ All of this is part of our plan to build a rooms of deeply integrate agents ” — or virtual employees , he add up , that have names and faces with job categories they are trained on .
The 11x.ai digital workers are presently trained on 25 languages , including Swedish , Italian , German , and Hebrew . Sukkar antecedently told TechCrunch that he was working on a bot named James and one diagnose Bob cultivate to do natural endowment acquisition and human resources undertaking , but Sukkar said the company decided to release Jordan , the phone representative , first .
While Sukkar plain believes that autonomous agents are the futurity of the workforce , he also enjoin that such agent are in the very other days of innovation .
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“ alternatively of traditional software , which is tool and workflows that make people slightly more fat or effective , agents enable us to automate activities in a way that function on autopilot , in a direction that require no humanity , in a way that is extremely high skill , ” he say of his vision of a highly proficient , no - human - required workforce .
When AI agents can faithfully exchange humans in manual process , “ it would be a chemise almost as big as the internet or the cloud , ” he said . But 11x.ai is not without contest in this area . big demonstrate competitors let in company like UiPath , ServiceNow , and even Salesforce . Plus , as we previously report , AI sales event bots are such a tight - growing AI marketthat there are a good 12 of them beyond 11x.ai that are growing chop-chop , VCs have told TechCrunch . Some of the others include Docket , Regie.ai , AiSDR , and Artisan .
investor , like Sarah Tavel , a general pardner at Benchmark , who lead the $ 24 million Series A , is quite bullish on 11x.ai , though . Tavel , who also publish a thesis on the importance of AI in work software , now bring together the board at 11x.ai .
Sukkar said that the society received about eight investiture offers within 10 day . “ It was a really fast process , ” he said . “ We leaned into partnering with the team at Benchmark because of the coalition on the thesis and their cut record as one of the most successful investor in the world . ” Other investor in the stave included 20VC , Project A , Lux Capital , and SV Angel .
The company will use the money to further merchandise ontogenesis and spread out its team , which currently has a headcount of 27 . The company will retain an function in London , though most central stave will be relocated to SF .
“ I begin 11x out of an experience where , in one of my first ever jobs I did back when I was a student , a batch of work that was monotonous and repetitive , ” he said , adding that he recollect wishing there was a figurer that would do it for him and how much human potential is run off every day doing such heavy task . “ factor enable us to automate in a way that redefine what ’s possible . ”
