# Artisan AI

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/artisan-ai

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: San Francisco, US
- Website: www.artisan.co/
- Total disclosed funding: $32M
- Latest round: Series A (Apr 9, 2025)
- Investors on record: 10

## About

Founded in 2023 and based in California, US, Artisan AI, Inc., is a software development company that utilizes Ava, an AI sales representative, to deliver automation workflows for team activities. The company was founded by Jaspar Carmichael-Jack and Rupert Dodkins. In November 2023, Artisan AI, Inc. raised USD 2.3 million in venture funding led by Y Combinator and Bayhouse Capital. The company offers digital workers called Artisans, which includes various digital skilled labor. The digital workers offered by the firm include Ava which is a sales Representative. It writes and sends bespoke email sequences and books meetings into the SDR’s Calander. It also offers Liam, who is an artificial intelligence-based marketing executive, Noah, the designer, etc. In April 2025, Artisan AI, Inc.raised USD 25 million in series A funding led by Glade Brook Capital Partners, with participation from Bond, Day One Ventures, Fellows Fund, HubSpot Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Soma Capital Management, Y Combinator, individual investors and other unspecified investors. The company plans to use the April 2025 funding to product expansion and artificial intelligence employee development.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Apr 9, 2025, $25M — Hong Shan, Y Combinator, Glade Brook Capital Partners, Soma Capital Management, Day One Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Bond, Fellows Fund
- Seed, May 13, 2024, $7.3M — Hong Shan, Y Combinator, Fellows Fund, Soma Capital, Bond Capital

## Investors

- Hong Shan — Seed, Series A
- Y Combinator (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/y-combinator) — Seed, Series A
- Fellows Fund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/fellows-fund) — Seed, Series A
- Soma Capital — Seed
- Bond Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bond-capital) — Seed
- Glade Brook Capital Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/glade-brook-capital-partners) — Series A
- Soma Capital Management (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/soma-capital-management) — Series A
- Day One Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/day-one-ventures) — Series A
- HubSpot Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/hubspot-ventures) — Series A
- Bond (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bond) — Series A