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Redcar, developers of the world’s most accurate and flexible AI sales agents, recently announced it has raised USD 5.3 million across its seed round led by Khosla Ventures and pre-seed led by humbition. The raise includes participation from notable industry and AI leaders such as Elias Torres – Co-Founder and CTO of Drift, CEO of Agency, Rob Goldman – Former VP at Meta and Indiegogo Board Member, Stan Chudnovsky – Former VP of Meta for Messenger, David Patterson – Turing Award Recipient and Co-Inventor of RISC and RAID, Siqi Chen – CEO of Runway, Nancy Xu – CEO of Moonhub, and many others as investors.
This investment will accelerate Redcar’s mission to give every sales team AI superpowers – starting with account research, prospect identification, and personalized outbound at scale.
Today, salespeople spend less than half of their time actually selling. Instead, they are bogged down by manual tasks like researching leads, writing outreach emails, and prepping for meetings. Traditional sales tools often force teams to conform to rigid processes, resulting in inefficiency and missed opportunities.
Redcar addresses this challenge by building AI agents that adapt to a company’s unique sales workflow. Its flagship product, the F1 Agent, mimics the workflows of a team’s best-performing reps. By automating research, lead qualification, and personalized messaging across public and proprietary data sources, Redcar’s proprietary AI platform – AgentExpress – eliminates busy work and enables human reps to focus on closing deals.
“Our mission is to create agents that 10X your reps’ performance,” said Jeff Chen, CEO and co-founder of Redcar. “F1 adapts to your best reps’ playbooks and works tirelessly in the background to make every seller more effective. We believe this is the future of sales – and of work in general.”
Redcar’s founding team brings deep expertise in automation, go-to-market strategy, and AI product development. Co-founder and CEO Jeff Chen previously sold startups to Google and Zynga and helped launch the Google Assistant after building Skyvi, the largest AI assistant on Android at the time. Co-founder and head of growth Er Jia (CJ) Jiang developed go-to-market strategies at BCG, driving multimillion-dollar expansion plans, while co-founder Ben Wu has built automation tools used by millions since college.
“Redcar is trying to solve the core problem their founders faced running previous startups: spending too much time generating leads instead of closing customers,” said Jon Chu, Partner at Khosla Ventures. “Their full-stack AI puts an SDR in reach of any company by bringing automation to the front end of the sales motion.”
The new capital will be used to expand Redcar’s engineering and product teams, onboard new customers, and continue rapid development of the AgentExpress platform. Redcar is already seeing strong traction with B2B teams using the F1 Agent to hit quota more efficiently and effectively. The company also plans to extend its AI agent capabilities into adjacent fields such as recruiting, marketing, and customer success.
