2026-10-29
$389M of new funding is targeting AI agents and automation at work
5 funded companies building into AI agents and automation at work. The work in scope is what the Senior Leader owns today.
The funding
Tab Emerges From Stealth at $300M to Put an AI Agent in iMessage
Tab Emerges From Stealth at $300M to Put an AI Agent in iMessage →Wabi is the AI assistant you use together. Plan the trip, book the stay, and turn the joke into a game, all in one place.
Wabi Raises $55 Million Led by IVP at $1.25 Billion Valuation →AuxoAI pairs forward-deployed engineers with agentic AI to deploy production-grade systems for G2000 enterprises - strategy to production in weeks.
AuxoAI Raises $20.7M Series A Led by NTTVC →Rocker is the AI assistant for work that knows the history, the people, and what matters. For you or your whole company, connecting people and agents in flow.
Rocker Raises $12.85M to Develop AI Assistants for Collaboration →Create images, videos, and voice content with Higgsfield AI from text prompts or references. Edit and upscale media, automate creative workflows with its AI agent, and generate content on web and mobile.
Nvidia and TCV back Higgsfield in a Series B extension as Jensen Huang visits Kazakhstan →What it means
Capital arriving in a function is a reliable leading indicator. It does not mean the incumbents are wrong, and it does not mean these companies will succeed. It means that within the next few quarters the people who run this work will be asked what their function is doing about it, and the honest answer has to start with where that function actually stands.
So we built the assessment for it. Not a purchase decision, a structured set of questions to take to your own team.