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This week, we're spotlighting Agent Employees →
Rise of the Agent Employee
The new default labor force for knowledge work
AI agents are replacing professional service roles in law, consulting, finance, and accounting at near-zero marginal cost. If 2024 showed AI could handle specific tasks, 2025–2026 is proving agents can own entire professional workflows, from customer service (Decagon AI) to outbound sales (1mind) and beyond.
This unlocks the largest labor arbitrage in decades, turning multi-trillion-dollar people businesses into high-margin, infinitely scalable software platforms. For example, Alex only recruits, while Obin only does financial analysis.
Every major professional workflow now has a purpose-built startup, with capital pouring in.
Autonomous AI Agent Startups
High-growth startups building autonomous agents to execute multi-step workflows end-to-end. Ranked by website visit growth over the last 3 months.
Fore AI | 15,859% growth in 3 months
Autonomous QA agent that independently creates, executes, and maintains software tests end-to-end. Raised a $8M round in March 2025.
Zürich, Switzerland
Reindeer AI | 14,187% growth in 3 months
AI agents that take end-to-end responsibility for back-office workflows, handling payment approvals, document classification, and data extraction autonomously for enterprise operations. Raised a $20M Seed in Dec 2025.
United States
Gitar | 3,936% growth in 3 months
AI agent to autonomously build CI/CD pipelines, diagnose failures, & deploys fixes end-to-end without engineer intervention. Raised a $9M Seed in Feb 2024.
San Mateo, US
Terrantic | 2,585% growth in 3 months
AI agents that autonomously manage operations across the food supply chain end-to-end, from farm to distribution. Raised a $5.25M Seed in Jun 2024.
Seattle, US
Twin | 1,192% growth in 3 months
AI agents automating complex enterprise operations end-to-end across fintech, e-commerce, health & customer support. Raised a $13M Seed in Jan 2026.
Paris, France
Autonomous AI Agent Founders
Recently funded founders building AI agents to autonomously own and execute professional workflows end-to-end.
Mukesh Bansal
Co-founded Myntra (acquired by Flipkart, 2014) and Cult.fit ($1.5B unicorn). Now founder & CEO of Nurix, building conversational AI agents that autonomously handle enterprise workflows end-to-end across sales, support, vendor management & internal operations. Raised a $27.5M Seed in Sep 2024.
Bengaluru, India
Elad Ferber
Previously founded Spry Health (acquired by Itamar Medical). Now co-founder & CEO of Synthpop, deploying AI agents that autonomously execute end-to-end healthcare administrative workflows. Raised a $25.8M Series A in Aug 2025.
Cambridge, US
Siavash Ghorbani
Previously founded Tictail (acquired by Shopify, 2018). Ex-VP of Engineering at Shopify. Now co-Founder of Stilla, building a multiplayer AI agent for product teams. Raised a $5M Pre-Seed round in January 2026.
Stockholm, Sweden
Tarek Alaruri
Forbes 30 Under 30 (Enterprise Tech, 2020). Previously founded Fairmarkit, the first AI/ML company in procurement. Now founder & CEO of Stuut, building AI agents that autonomously manage the full accounts receivable cycle end-to-end. Raised a $35.5M Series A in Nov 2025.
New York, US
David Villalón
Ex-Chief AI Officer at Clibrain. Ex-Director of Product at Voicemod. Now co-founder and CEO of Maisa, building autonomous Digital Workers for complex enterprise workflows with full auditability. Raised a $25M Seed in Aug 2025.
New York, US
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