# Ethos

> Ethos is a London-based AI company rebuilding the expert network from scratch. Its voice agents interview professionals to map the real shape of their skills, model the economy as a knowledge graph of people and companies, and match that talent to paid work - expert calls, surveys, fractional gigs, full-time roles. Its autonomous research agent can even conduct those expert interviews for you and hand back an investment-grade report in minutes. Founded in 2024 by ex-McKinsey and SoftBank operator James Lo and former DeepMind scientist Daniel Mankowitz, it raised a $22.75M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in May 2026.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** London, United Kingdom
- **Founders:** James Lo (Co-founder & CEO), Daniel Mankowitz (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~32 (as of mid-2026)
- **Products:** Ethos Expert Network, Ethos Investment Researcher, Voice onboarding agent
- **Notable:** Raised $22.75M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in May 2026, roughly 14 months after emerging from stealth., Onboarding a reported ~35,000 experts per week via AI voice interviews., Shipped an autonomous investment-research agent within weeks of the Series A and listed it on AWS Marketplace.

## Products & services

- **Ethos Expert Network** — An AI-native expert network. Voice agents interview professionals to map their real capabilities beyond a CV, enrich profiles from public data (papers, GitHub, podcasts, profiles), and match them to clients for paid expert calls, surveys, data-labeling, fractional and full-time roles.
- **Ethos Investment Researcher** — An autonomous investment-research agent that plans a deep dive, sources and interviews relevant experts on the client's behalf, and returns an industry-standard research report in minutes. Available via AWS Marketplace.
- **Voice onboarding agent** — AI voice interviewer that onboards experts across law, finance, healthcare, technology and skilled trades, capturing tacit expertise that resumes miss.

## Achievements

- Raised $22.75M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in May 2026, roughly 14 months after emerging from stealth.
- Onboarding a reported ~35,000 experts per week via AI voice interviews.
- Shipped an autonomous investment-research agent within weeks of the Series A and listed it on AWS Marketplace.
- Built a knowledge graph spanning a reported 60M companies, 5M academic papers and 3M podcasts.
- Backed by a founder team combining Google DeepMind research (AlphaDev, Gemini) with SoftBank and McKinsey operating experience.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Launched the Ethos Investment Researcher, an autonomous research agent, and listed it on AWS Marketplace.
- **2026-05** — Raised a $22.75M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with General Catalyst, XTX, Evantic Capital and Common Magic.
- **2025-03** — Emerged from stealth with a ~$3.25M seed round led by General Catalyst.

## Links

- Website: https://askethos.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/askethos

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Last updated: 2026-08-21