AI-powered browser startup Strawberry has raised $6m as it releases a beta version of its agentic platform.
Investors have been funneling cash into Europe’s AI agent startups in recent months. Companies in the sector have picked up €4.7bn so far this year, according to Sifted data, more than €2.7bn in 2024.
The fresh funds were raised from General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, alongside founders at Lovable, Hugging Face and Supabase, Strawberry CEO Charles Maddock said in a LinkedIn post.
Strawberry is building an agentic browser that lets users automate tasks like sorting emails, copying meeting notes into CRMs and sourcing leads, without the need to code.
“Most people already spend 80% of their day inside a browser,” said Maddock. “In the browser we research, communicate, write documents, deploy apps. We also waste hours doing repetitive grunt work.”
Strawberry is among a new wave of European AI application startups — which build tools around models made by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic — that’ve increasingly been raising rounds as investors bet big on their potential to change how enterprises do work and hit revenue milestones in rapid time.
Headline raises including N8n’s $180m Series C, which saw a bidding war break out between VCs as its valuation ticked well north of $2bn.
Strawberry compatriot Lovable also picked up $200m at a $1.8bn valuation earlier in the summer and has reportedly been fielding offers valuing the company at more than double that.
