Imbue raises $12M from Amazon's Alexa Fund and Eric Schmidt
AI agent startup Imbue hits $210M total funding with Schmidt backing.
Imbue, the AI startup building foundation models for autonomous agents, announced Thursday it secured an additional $12 million in follow-on funding to its Series B round, bringing total cash raised to over $210 million. The round extension includes Amazon's Alexa Fund and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, adding to the $200 million Series B announced in September at a valuation exceeding $1 billion.
Imbue differentiates itself by focusing on AI systems that can perform sophisticated real-world tasks—like meeting scheduling and complex data analysis—without close supervision. CEO Kanjun Qiu emphasized the need for better reasoning capabilities to enable reliable agents, with the ultimate vision of reinventing the personal computer. The fresh capital will be used to buy compute resources and expand the team, specifically hiring a data executive and more product-focused engineers.
- Imbue raised $12M in follow-on funding from Amazon's Alexa Fund and Eric Schmidt, totaling over $210M in cash.
- Imbue's September Series B of $200M valued the company at over $1 billion.
- Funding will support compute resources, a data executive hire, and product-focused engineers for autonomous agent development.
Why It Matters
Imbue's funding signals investor confidence in autonomous AI agents, which promise to automate complex work tasks reliably.