Wordware, a San Francisco-based startup, has closed a $30 million seed round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Felicis and Y Combinator among others. This funding represents one of Y Combinator's largest early-stage investments to date.
- Wordware was co-founded by Filip Kozera, a Polish entrepreneur and former co-founder of KRISTALIC, and Robert Chandler, a British engineer with over a decade of experience in AI. Kozera studied Deep Learning at Cambridge, while Chandler, previously an early engineer at the self-driving car startup Five AI (acquired by Bosch), has a background in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
- The company develops a full-stack operating system for AI, allowing users to build advanced AI agents using natural language instead of coding.
- Wordware sets itself apart by focusing on AI agents rather than code generation, positioning them as the future of software and key drivers of automation and the economy, according to CEO Filip Kozera.
- With hundreds of thousands of users, including companies like Instacart and Runway, the startup believes AI development will shift from software engineers to domain experts.
- The seed round also includes participation from Day One Ventures, 20SALES, Figma Ventures, Innovation Nest, J4.Ventures, SV Angel, Friends & Family Capital, and notable angels such as Paul Graham and Webflow’s Vlad Magdalin.
- Wordware plans to broaden its reach in early 2025 by allowing individual users to automate personal workflows with its engine.
"In the space of next year, we want to build the best factory for building the AI engine. There is a potential to build a multi-trillion dollar company in the space of AI development — It’s going to be a battle, but it’s a battle I want to fight," Kozera said in his inteview.
