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AI firm Viktor raises $75 million to put a virtual ‘coworker’ in Slack and Teams
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Peter Albert, co-founder and CTO of Viktor, joined Meta with the aim of finding a co-founder.
Key facts
- The company has raised a $75 million Series A, led by London-based venture capital firm Accel with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, Inovo VC, and Tenacity Capital
- Angel investors, including Slack cofounders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson, Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli, and executives from Google DeepMind, Figma, and ElevenLabs also participated
- Peter Albert, co-founder and CTO of Viktor, joined Meta with the aim of finding a co-founder
- After landing in the social media giant’s AI ranks, he met Fryderyk Wiatrowski, and the pair spent their evenings experimenting with AI, aiming to develop agents that could eventually take
Summary
After landing in the social media giant’s AI ranks, he met Fryderyk Wiatrowski, and the pair spent their evenings experimenting with AI, aiming to develop agents that could eventually take over the most tedious parts of knowledge work. The company has raised a $75 million Series A, led by London-based venture capital firm Accel with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, Inovo VC, and Tenacity Capital. Viktor is supposed to function like a colleague, with team members messaging the bot to ask for help for things like pulling a report or building an internal app. The company says Viktor can also scan public channels and propose new workflows it can take over.