Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation

Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor’s Ai Agent Startup Sierra.

Sierra, which helps companies to build customer service AI agents, has announced that it is one $ 350 million financing round On Thursday. De Ronde, led by earlier investor Greenoaks Capital, appreciates the startup at $ 10 billion, according to a company blog message that one Previously report From Axios on Wednesday.

Sierra was founded at the beginning of 2024 by Taylor and the old Google alumklei of the Google. Among other things, the company claims to have landed hundreds of customers, including Sofi, Ramp and Brex, in its 18 months of operation.

Sierra has now collected $ 635 million, including $ 110 million That was closed in February last year under the leadership of Sequoia and Benchmark, and a round of $ 175 million that was closed in October last year under the leadership of Greenoaks.

Others of his investors are Iconiq and Thrive Capital.

As WAN has previously reported, Taylor and Borger have a long history in customer service. Taylor spent almost a decade at Salesforce and founded Quip years ago, who bought Salesforce for $ 750 million in the summer of 2016. Bavor managed Gmail and Google Drive at Google, in addition to other products with consumers.

Taylor met Bom during Google, where he worked before he served as CTO of Facebook for a few years. At Google, Taylor is credited on a large scale to help launch Google Maps. Years later he would supervise the Twitter board in the takeover of the social media site of Elon Musk.

Earlier this week, Taylor actually announced that Sierra launches his second year of his so-called APX program, a rotation option for recent technical graduates who directly reflects the Google program that two decades ago launched both Taylor’s and co-founder of Clay Borger.

The recruitment announcement is striking in what has become an ever -heavy labor market, especially because companies assess the power of AI technologies, such as that Sierra sells and their potential impact on the needs of the workforce.

The program focuses on computer science and says that it offers experience in both agent engineering and product management. Taylor described the roles as the provision of what he calls “an irresponsible amount of responsibility” – similar to the freedom to build and launch products that he and Borger had at Google – expected to work with new graduates on multiple product launches during their first year.