Blocks raises $20M to build autonomous digital workforces

Israel-based Blocks Platforms Ltd., a startup providing solutions that help companies build and deploy intelligent autonomous apps and agents for a digital workforce, today announced it has raised $20 million in early-stage funding. 

Entrée Capital led the Series A round. The capital infusion arrives three months after the company’s launch and follows $10 million in seed funding led by Monday.com and Qumra Capital in September. 

Blocks deploys artificial intelligence agents that take on the roles and digital appearances of actual employees. It integrates with the tools that everyday knowledge workers also access, including HubSpot CRM, LinkedIn, Gmail, Notion, Snowflake and Monday.com boards. 

The company’s AI agents don’t simply chat, the company posits. They’re capable of taking action, assisting with scheduling, interacting with the company environment, using those tools, reading emails, sending emails, updating schedules, sending messages and more. 

They can also build dashboards and reports that regularly update insights without prompts or code. The idea is to provide an interface that acts and reacts similarly to another employee in the workforce. 

This is becoming a more common paradigm that startups are trying to bring to the agentic AI experience. Allowing users to interact with AI agents without treating them like chatbots, more like peers that they can orchestrate, provide permissions to productivity tools and set them loose. 

Blocks said it wants to differentiate itself by connecting deeply to the systems businesses already exist: customer relationship systems, enterprise resource management, data warehouses and collaboration tools. 

Organizations are already using Block’s digital workforce in finance to transform investment options for portfolio management and reporting, in insurance to manage the customer lifecycle and professional services to scale output without scaling headcount to serve more clients. Blocks also said construction companies integrated digital employees to manage project workflows and customer portals and recruitment firms added agentic AI flows into otherwise manual processes to streamline what used to be thousands of hours of work. 

With this new funding, Blocks said, it’s launching additional dedicated AI solutions for mission-critical solutions across organizations. It’s also expanding partnerships to create further industry-specific integrations on top of the platform. 

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