Polar, the AI browser that automates the tedious parts of knowledge work, has raised $5.7 million in seed funding led by Madrona, with participation from angel investors including former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Modal founder Erik Bernhardsson.
Polar operates the web the way a person does, clicking, typing, and navigating the sites its users already work in, logged in as them. Where the first wave of AI browsers stopped at answering questions and summarizing tabs, Polar takes on long, multi-step tasks and runs them start to finish, from a few minutes to several hours. It has completed tasks for over fifteen hours without intervention.
The product has grown almost entirely by word of mouth over its first seven months, and users have run more than 4.5 million actions through it across research, recruiting, sales, operations, marketing, and more. Polar significantly outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on browser-agent benchmarks. Polar was founded by Kevin Jiang, Vishaal Ram, and Howard Zhong, a team with backgrounds from MIT, Perplexity, and leading quantitative funds. Polar is available now at polarbrowser.com.
KEY QUOTES:
“Almost all knowledge work runs through the browser, and until now nothing could do that work for you. We built Polar to take the busywork off people’s plates, on the sites they already use, so they can spend their time on the parts of the job that need a person.”
Kevin Jiang, Co-Founder and CEO, Polar
“Engineers got a transformative moment from tools like Claude Code, and most knowledge workers are still waiting for theirs. Their work lives in the browser, and Kevin, Vishaal, and Howard built the first agent that can operate there. That is why we led the round.”
Sabrina Albert, Madrona
