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AI agent startup Sema4.ai has raised a $25 million Series A extension, which includes an investment from Snowflake Ventures, co-founder and CEO Rob Bearden tells Axios Pro.
Why it matters: Large enterprises looking to deploy more AI agents are often delayed by production challenges associated with creating them.
How it works: Sema4.ai's platform allows AI agents to be built and tested securely without writing code or disrupting other workflows.
- Sema4.ai is now available on Snowflake Marketplace.
State of play: Agentic AI startups have locked up massive rounds.
- Parloa, a developer of agentic AI for customer experience, raised a $120 million in Series C at a $1 billion valuation just last month.
- Snowflake also agreed to acquire database startup Crunchy Data earlier this week for a reported $250 million to help its customers build out their own AI agents.
Zoom in: The Sema4.ai round, which brought its Series A total to $55.5 million, also included participation from Rocketship VC, MVP Ventures and Cox Enterprises, and returning investors Mayfield and Benchmark.
What they're saying: "Just like how the cloud changed compute and storage, AI is doing the same thing with how work is delivered," Bearden says.
Bottom line: As more companies look to build out an agentic AI workforce, they could look to platforms that streamline the process.
