Apple and Andreessen Horowitz alums raise $20 million to bring AI to ‘real economy’ businesses

AI is swiftly rewiring the way people work, but an outsize amount of this workplace revolution has so far been confined to Fortune 500-style companies. Ciridae has raised $20 million in seed funding on the promise of bringing AI to the many U.S. businesses that don’t hold quarterly earnings calls.

The funding round was led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst. Its co-founders, former a16z partner Jack Soslow and former Apple and Tenyx machine learning lead Jack Weissenberger, see AI adoption as an existential issue for the mid-market companies their startup is focused on servicing.

“Many of the businesses most exposed to AI risk [are] least equipped to do this rearchitecture themselves. These are businesses in home services, construction, industrial distribution—the businesses that compose our........

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