“Stealthy Emergence: Ema, the Revolutionary ‘Universal AI Employee’, Secures $25M”
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A new startup called Ema out of San Francisco thinks it’s a lot more than just a passing fancy.
“Our goal is to build a universal AI employee,” Surojit Chatterjee, the CEO and co-founder, said in an interview.
Accel, Section 32 and Prosus Ventures are co-leading, and Wipro Ventures, Venture Highway, AME Cloud Ventures, Frontier Ventures, Maum Group and Firebolt Ventures also participating.
He himself has some 40 patents to his name in areas like machine learning enterprise software and ad tech.
Most recently, he was VP of engineering at Okta where he oversaw data, machine learning and devices; and prior to that he was also at Google, where he was engineering lead for data and machine learning where he focused on privacy and safety.