Fixie – a cloud-hosted platform-as-a-service company that enables companies to build and integrate smart agents that utilize the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) with connections to their own data sources, systems, and tools – announced that it has raised $17 million in seed funding. And the company also announced that it launched the Fixie Developer Preview, which enables anyone to integrate LLMs into their own applications, data, and tools.
The $17 million funding round was led by Redpoint with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Zetta Venture Partners, SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, and Kearny Jackson. Angel investors include current and former executives from companies like Google, Amazon, and Apple.
The seed round of funding will enable the company to scale up their team and continue expanding the reach of its platform.
Founding Team
— CEO and co-founder Matt Welsh – Previously worked as an engineering leader at OctoML, engineering lead of machine intelligence at Apple, a principal leader at Xnor, and principal leader at Google.
—Co-founder and CTO Justin Uberti – Previously worked as a software engineer at Clubhouse, over 14 years at Google, and over 9 years at AOL as a chief architect.
— Co-founder and chief product officer Zach Koch – Previously a director of product management at Shopify and over 6 years at Google.
— Co-founder and Chief AI Officer Hessam Bagherinezhad – Previously worked at Apple as a staff machine learning engineer for over 2 years and the head of machine learning at Xnor.ai
KEY QUOTES:
“Fixie comes with over 30 agents built-in that provide access to a broad range of systems and tools, including databases, complex APIs such as GitHub, productivity tools like Google Calendar, and public data sources such as Web search and Twitter. The Fixie Agent SDK makes it super easy to build your own agents which can be deployed to the cloud in a single click.”
— Matt Welsh, co-founder and CEO of Fixie, in a blog post about the funding news
“Existing LLMs are incredibly powerful and are only going to get more advanced, but the true magic comes from combining them with internal data and systems to dramatically improve the way businesses operate. That’s precisely what Fixie delivers. With world-class product, engineering, and AI experts at its helm, Fixie brings to life the promise of generative AI for companies in a way that’s never been possible before.”
— Erica Brescia, Managing Director, Redpoint
