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February 14, 2025

Can this London-based AI agent maker beat OpenAI and Anthropic?

Fresh from raising Europe’s largest pre-seed round in 2024, Convergence AI chief talks pricing, rivals and agents’ threat to workers


Marvin Purtorab and his cofounder Andy Toulis

Convergence AI has only existed since June 2024 but already it’s raised one of Europe’s largest pre-seed rounds ever: a $12m deal led by Balderton Capital, announced last September.

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Federico Scolari

Federico Scolari is a senior intelligence analyst and data lead at Sifted. Find him on LinkedIn

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