Neo raises $100 million to hunt the zombie AI agents haunting your company
I was tardy to my own interview, but my AI notetaker was right on time.Recommended Video It captured Neo CEO and co-founder Nick Warner describing a call he’d been on a few weeks earlier. Three people were on it, along with about seven AI notetakers that had joined the meeting as well. Warner’s co-founder Shlomi Salem has three of his own notetakers and often starts meetings by disabling them while one keeps trying to resurrect itself.
- ▪I was tardy to my own interview, but my AI notetaker was right on time.Recommended Video It captured Neo CEO and co-founder Nick Warner describing a call he’d been on a few weeks earlier.
- ▪Three people were on it, along with about seven AI notetakers that had joined the meeting as well.
- ▪Warner’s co-founder Shlomi Salem has three of his own notetakers and often starts meetings by disabling them while one keeps trying to resurrect itself.
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I was tardy to my own interview, but my AI notetaker was right on time.Recommended Video It captured Neo CEO and co-founder Nick Warner describing a call he’d been on a few weeks earlier. Three people were on it, along with about seven AI notetakers that had joined the meeting as well. Warner’s co-founder Shlomi Salem has three of his own notetakers and often starts meetings by disabling them while one keeps trying to resurrect itself. “Just racking up tokens,” Warner quipped. It’s a fitting scene to describe Neo, which emerged from stealth this week with a $100 million seed and Series A investment, with backing from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners.
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