Artisan AI, a startup that builds AI employees and software for large enterprises, has raised $7.3 million in a round led by Oliver Young, an early investor in Airbnb, Rippling, Revolut, and several other unicorns.
Other investors include Sequoia Scout, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, BOND Capital, Anu Hariharan, Paul Daversa, Fellow's Fund, Mento VC, and more. Investors had strong conviction in Artisan AI, allowing them to collect an unlimited 20% SAFE discount – meaning the round would convert at a 20% discount to their Series A valuation.
The YC-backed San Francisco company is building fully autonomous AI craftsmen and employees and a unified platform to replace the entire SaaS stack so humans and AI can work together seamlessly and enterprise teams can stop context switching.
Starting with sales, Artisan replaces and automates the entire GTM SaaS stack
Literal AI It launched its AI BDR company, Ava, in February 2023. It automates 80% of the BDR role. It works within the Artisan Sales platform, which replaces 10 outgoing sales tools into one unified platform. It's also the only sales software that automates personalized email writing using dynamic email playbooks that can mimic any style a human BDR might write. Artisan AI has seen strong interest from large B2B SaaS companies willing to integrate their complex and fragmented software stack.
Artisan's mission is to create a comprehensive platform to replace and integrate best-in-class SaaS products into the GTM space, where artisans work alongside human teams to automate most of their work. Next in their plan are Liam, a marketing artist, and James, a customer success artist.
Artisan is the only company that creates AI-driven employees and integrates a SaaS suite. “Our competitors are building solutions that outperform existing software stacks – and that's not the way to go,” says CEO Gaspard Carmichael Jacques. “Our vision is to become the go-to platform for GTM SaaS and digital work. When you hire people who work in AI, you don't want to either In paying for the software tools they can use, we're at war against context switching, poor user experience, and manual workflows and we're on a mission to make B2B SaaS exciting!
6 months ago, Artisan was accepted into Y Combinator with a team of 3 people. Since then, they have released the second version of their platform, have joined more than 100 companies, and have 13 employees working on their product.
