Millions for Artisan: Startup wants to replace employees with AI agents

Artisan has set itself the task of replacing a number of repetitive tasks that are done by people. For this it plans to replace employees with AI agents.

The startup recently completed a Series A financing round of 23.25 million euros ($ 25 million) under the direction of Glade Brook Capital. Oliver Jung, Day One Ventures, Bond, Soma Capital and Sequoia Scout also took part in the round, as did the startup accelerator y Combinator.

Artisan was a member of the YC-Batch Winter 2024 and had previously received a seed round over ten million euros ($ 11.5 million) under the direction of Angel investor Oliver Jung in October 2024.

Artisan was founded in 2023 by Jaspar Carmichael-Jack and Sam Stallings. The startup develops AI employees, so-called artisans, which fully take over certain tasks that are otherwise done by humans. These tasks are often routine work, such as copying and inserting data, updating CRM systems and writing emails.

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AVA, the first artisan employee, is a fully automated sales assistant who can take over every part of the outbound sale, from discovering leads to their research and contact to booking meetings.

Artisan Viral went with a marketing campaign. In a recently carried out campaign, the founders entered T-shirts with the inscription “Place Artisans, no people”-but the overarching goal of the startup is that by transferring routine tasks to AI agents, human employees can focus more on creative tasks.

Thanks to the progress of the AI, this would reality, explains Carmichael-Jack, CEO of Artisan.

“Six months ago, investors just wanted to hear something about the potential of AI,” he told Business Insider Us. “The conversations developed from 'What could become of it?' To 'What does it bring to customers now?' “

“That is the reason why our campaign 'does not have a human employee was so well received,” he says. “She dealt with the question of what role people will play in the future.”

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AI agent is also interesting for investors

The role of artificial intelligence in the workplace is a much discussed topic in which both employers and employees exchange ideas about the advantages and disadvantages of using this technology at the workplace.

Mira Murati, the former CTO of Openaai, who is now heading a Ki startup, said last year that some jobs that could be replaced by AI should not have existed from the outset-which led to outrage.

The controversy has not prevented a whole series of US startups from developing workplace-related AI agents. The AI ​​speaker Vapi received $ 20 million from Bessemer in December. The AI ​​job mediator Optimhire received $ 5 million start-up financing in March. And at the beginning of this month, Trail, which AI agent used in the quality check of websites, received a $ 4.5 million start-up capital round from First Round and Pear.

See the 16-page Pitcheck with which Artisan has completed its Series A round. You can find more pitch decks on our Pitcheck overview, For your own slides you can get feedback from experts.