
Parloa is a Berlin-born enterprise software company building an AI Agent Management Platform that lets large organizations design, test, deploy, and optimize autonomous AI agents for customer service across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and Microsoft Teams. Founded in 2018 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald, it serves Global 2000 brands like Allianz, Booking.com, SAP, and Swiss Life, operating in 100+ countries and 140+ languages. In January 2026 it raised a $350M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $3B valuation.
Imbue is a San Francisco AI research lab building agents that can reason and code. Founded in 2021 as Generally Intelligent and renamed in 2023, the company is led by CEO Kanjun Qiu and CTO Josh Albrecht. After a $200M Series B that valued it above $1B, Imbue is focused on practical agent tools - most visibly Sculptor, a UI for running parallel coding agents safely in containers - guided by a mission to keep humans in control of powerful AI.