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Aisera
Aisera spent years teaching enterprise software to answer the help desk. Now, inside Automation Anywhere, it is trying to make those answers act - across the tangled systems where work actually gets stuck.
Threado
A community-management dashboard that turned itself into a support AI - how two ex-Zomato builders taught software to answer the questions people keep asking.
Teneo.ai
AI that doesn't guess. Ever.
Sierra Charges Only When Its AI Agents Actually Fix Your Problem
Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor built a customer-service company that bills per resolution, not per seat. Two years in, it is worth $15.8 billion and runs support for 40% of the Fortune 50.
How boost.ai Turned Norwegian Banking Chat Into a Global AI Play
A conversational AI company from Stavanger now runs 600+ live virtual agents across 450+ organizations - and it is competing for enterprise deals against Uniphore, Intercom and Five9.
Sierra Hit $15.8B, Aisera Got Bought. The Agents Grew Up.
Two AI customer service companies took very different exits from the same stretch of the agentic-AI boom. One raised nearly a billion dollars at a $15.8B valuation; the other got folded into a bigger machine. The split says a lot about where enterprise AI is heading.
Stella
Stella is a Y Combinator-backed AI assistant that turns any website into a 24/7 customer expert. Installed with a single line of code, it learns from a site's own content to answer visitor questions, qualify leads, and route complex cases to humans. Founded by Ryan Endacott (YC S22), Stella serves small businesses, SaaS companies, and local governments - including the Town of Carmel, NY, where it answered more than 2,400 resident questions and saved staff over 200 hours.
The Workforce That Never Clocks Out
Agentforce is Salesforce's platform for building and deploying autonomous AI agents that work alongside humans across sales, service, marketing, and commerce. Launched at Dreamforce in September 2024 and powered by the Atlas Reasoning Engine, it lets companies stand up agents that resolve customer queries, qualify leads, and complete tasks grounded in their own CRM data. It has become the fastest-growing product in Salesforce history, reaching a $1.2 billion annual recurring revenue run rate by April 2026.
Nate Okonkwo
Nate Okonkwo (also known as Aneto Okonkwo) is the co-founder and CEO of Remarkable AI, the New York software company formerly called Chatdesk. After 7+ years at Google building Voice Search and the Google Assistant, he left to apply machine learning to customer service - an industry that employs millions and, in his view, was ripe for both better software and better jobs. His platform now helps more than 1,000 brands grow revenue through personalized messaging across email, social, and SMS, blending AI with human agents to hit 90%+ customer satisfaction.
Bret Taylor
Bret Taylor is the co-founder and CEO of Sierra, an enterprise AI agent platform valued at $15.8 billion following its $950M Series E in May 2026. A Stanford computer science graduate, he co-created Google Maps, helped invent Facebook's Like button, served as Facebook CTO, co-founded Quip (acquired by Salesforce), and rose to co-CEO of Salesforce before founding Sierra in 2023. He also chairs the OpenAI board, having stabilized the company after Sam Altman's brief ouster in November 2023. Forbes recognized him as a billionaire in 2025, and Silicon Valley has nicknamed him the 'Forrest Gump of Silicon Valley' for his uncanny presence at every landmark moment in the internet age.
Ahmed Reza
Ahmed Reza is the Founder and CEO of Yobi, an AI workforce platform that deploys synthetic agents to handle calls, texts, and social DMs for small businesses 24/7. A Milken Scholar at Cornell University who wrote image-processing software for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Reza went from child actor in Bangladesh to homeless student to serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. His previous ventures include Call Sumo (call tracking analytics) and Dental Web Now (AI dental marketing, acquired by NPI). Yobi raised a $2.37M seed round in 2023, reached $2.4M ARR by late 2025, and in 2026 partnered with Microsoft to develop a private foundation model for predictive behavioral intelligence.