Fixie, Seattle, WA-based platform for building applications using large language models, raised $17 million in seed funding to accelerate its growth and power the next wave in innovation with AI.
The round was led by Redpoint, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Zetta Venture Partners, SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, and Kearny Jackson. Angel investors include current and former executives from companies like Google, Amazon, and Apple.
This funding will allow Fixie to scale up the team and continue expanding the reach of the Fixie platform. The company is hiring for multiple roles on our team in Seattle, including engineering, product, and developer relations.
Fixie also announced the launch of the Fixie Developer Preview, enabling anyone to integrate LLMs into their applications, data, and tools.
Fixie can be used to automate business processes, build natural language understanding into existing products, answer questions about data hosted behind APIs, and more.
It supports popular models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 out of the box, but agents can also use their own models or integrate with other commercial and open source models, such as AI21’s Jurassic-2, GPT-NeoX, or Cohere.
Company: Fixie.ai, Inc.
Raised: $17.0M
Round: Seed Round
Funding Month: March 2023
Lead Investors: Redpoint
Additional Investors: Madrona Venture Group, Zetta Venture Partners, SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, and Kearny Jackson
Company Website: https://www.fixie.ai/
Software Category: LLM Application Platform
About the Company: Fixie is a cloud-based platform for building, hosting, and scaling natural language agents that integrate with arbitrary tools, data sources, and APIs. Fixie can be used by businesses for a variety of purposes, including customer assistance, business automation, business intelligence, content development, CRM automation, and more. With customers, Fixie is developing solutions to automate support ticket processing, enable custom chatbots that can query disparate data sources, and incorporate generative AI into applicant tracking systems. It comes with over 30 agents built-in that provide access to a broad range of systems and tools, including databases, complex APIs such as GitHub, productivity tools like Google Calendar, and public data sources such as Web search and Twitter. Fixie was founded by engineering and product leaders with experience building products used by billions of users at companies like Google, Apple, Shopify, and elsewhere.
Source: https://blog.fixie.ai/the-future-of-software-development-with-llms-is-here-announcing-fixies-developer-preview-and-17m-cf6fca0c4041