Redcar, which are developers of the world’s most accurate and flexible AI sales agents, announced it has raised $5.3 million across its seed round led by Khosla Ventures and pre-seed led by humbition. The funding round includes participation from notable industry and AI leaders such as Elias Torres (Co-Founder and CTO of Drift and CEO of Agency), Rob Goldman (Former VP at Meta and Indiegogo Board Member), Stan Chudnovsky (Former VP of Meta for Messenger), David Patterson (Turing Award Recipient and Co-Inventor of RISC and RAID), Siqi Chen (CEO of Runway), Nancy Xu (CEO of Moonhub), and many others as investors.
This funding will advance Redcar’s mission to give every sales team AI superpowers – starting with account research, prospect identification, and personalized outbound at scale.
Salespeople now spend less than half of their time selling. Instead, they handle manual tasks like researching leads, writing outreach emails, and prepping for meetings. Traditional sales tools often force teams to conform to rigid processes, resulting in inefficiency and missed opportunities.
Redcar tackles this challenge by building AI agents that adapt to a company’s unique sales workflow. And its flagship product, the F1 Agent, mimics the workflows of a team’s best-performing reps. By automating research, lead qualification, and personalized messaging across public and proprietary data sources, Redcar’s proprietary AI platform – AgentExpress – eliminates busy work and enables human reps to focus on closing deals.
Redcar’s founding team has automation, go-to-market strategy, and AI product development expertise. Co-founder and CEO Jeff Chen previously sold startups to Google and Zynga and helped launch the Google Assistant after building Skyvi, the largest AI assistant on Android at the time. And Co-founder and head of growth Er Jia (CJ) Jiang developed go-to-market strategies at BCG, driving multimillion-dollar expansion plans, while co-founder Ben Wu has built automation tools millions use since college.
This new funding round will expand Redcar’s engineering and product teams, onboard new customers, and continue rapid development of the AgentExpress platform. Redcar is already seeing strong traction with B2B teams using the F1 Agent to hit quota more efficiently and effectively. The company also looks to extend its AI agent capabilities into adjacent fields such as recruiting, marketing, and customer success.
KEY QUOTES:
“Our mission is to create agents that 10X your reps’ performance. F1 adapts to your best reps’ playbooks and works tirelessly in the background to make every seller more effective. We believe this is the future of sales – and of work in general.”
– Jeff Chen, CEO and co-founder of Redcar
“Redcar is trying to solve the core problem their founders faced running previous startups: spending too much time generating leads instead of closing customers. Their full-stack AI puts an SDR in reach of any company by bringing automation to the front end of the sales motion.”
– Jon Chu, Partner at Khosla Ventures
