# Switchboard

> Switchboard was a cloud coworking platform built for remote and hybrid teams. Instead of screen-sharing and tab-juggling, it put video and live, editable web apps - Google Docs, Figma, Jira, Trello and more - side by side in persistent virtual rooms, so a team could return to a project exactly where it left off. Founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneur Amir Ashkenazi, the company raised roughly $38 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Icon Ventures, Spark Capital and HubSpot Ventures, and held five patents. In late 2024 Ashkenazi wound down Switchboard and pivoted the company into Airtop, an AI web-agent and browser-automation platform.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA (remote-first)
- **Founders:** Amir Ashkenazi (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** Small venture-backed team; founders and early staff included alumni of Apple, eBay, Samsung, Mozilla and Dropbox
- **Products:** Switchboard cloud coworking rooms, Switchboard notepad and in-room apps, Airtop (successor)
- **Notable:** Raised roughly $38 million in total funding across seed and Series A rounds, Held five patents on its collaborative coworking technology, Backed by Sequoia Capital, Icon Ventures, Spark Capital, HubSpot Ventures and Cisco Investments

## Products & services

- **Switchboard cloud coworking rooms** — Persistent virtual rooms combining video with live, multiplayer web apps (Google Docs, Figma, Jira, Trello, Miro and others) so teams work side by side instead of screen-sharing, with all content and context preserved between sessions.
- **Switchboard notepad and in-room apps** — Built-in tools such as a shared notepad added to rooms so teams could capture notes and materials in the same persistent space.
- **Airtop (successor)** — After winding down Switchboard, the same company pivoted into Airtop, an AI web-agent and browser-automation platform that lets people build agents to log in, browse, extract data and complete web tasks from plain-language instructions.

## Achievements

- Raised roughly $38 million in total funding across seed and Series A rounds
- Held five patents on its collaborative coworking technology
- Backed by Sequoia Capital, Icon Ventures, Spark Capital, HubSpot Ventures and Cisco Investments
- Angel investment from Figma CEO Dylan Field, Loom CEO Joe Thomas, former Mozilla CEO John Lilly and Notion COO Akshay Kothari
- Series A reportedly valued the company at about $200M post-money

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Added a shared notepad app inside Switchboard rooms to help teams capture notes in the same persistent space.
- **2024-12** — Founder Amir Ashkenazi wound down the Switchboard coworking product and pivoted the company toward AI web agents.
- **2025-06** — Ashkenazi published a public reflection on the persist-or-pivot decision as the company rebranded to Airtop, an AI web-agent and browser-automation platform.

## Links

- Website: https://switchboard.app
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/switchboard-app
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/GetSwitchboard

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Last updated: 2026-07-17