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Artisan, the ‘stop hiring humans’ AI agent startup, raises $25M — and is still hiring humans
It’s been a tough but exciting few months for 24-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI sales agent startup Artisan.
A year ago, Artisan was one of the most sought-after grads from the winter 2024 Y Combinator class, raising $12 million in September, one of the biggest rounds of the cohort. Artisan is also working on two new AI agent products: Aaron, which will handle inbound messages, and Aria, a meeting manager assistant. “We’ve historically sold to a lot of the wrong customers, and learned the hard way that it’s not just like a typical SaaS product where you can sell to everyone — you have to actually qualify pretty heavily,” says Carmichael-Jack.
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