Polar raises $5.7M seed to build an AI browser that does the work
What's the deal? PolarDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, an AI browser that automates routine knowledge work, has raised $5.7 million in seed funding led by Madrona. Angel investors including former GitHub chief executive officer Thomas DohmkeDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Modal founder Erik BernhardssonDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → also participated.
What's the endgame? Polar operates the web as a person does — clicking, typing, and navigating sites while logged in as the user. Rather than answering questions or summarising tabs, it runs long, multi-step tasks start to finish, from minutes to several hours; it has completed tasks for over 15 hours without intervention.
What led here? The product has grown almost entirely by word of mouth over its first seven months. Users have run more than 4.5 million actions through it across research, recruiting, sales, operations, and marketing.
The company says it significantly outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on browser-agent benchmarks. Polar was founded by Kevin Jiang, Vishaal Ram, and Howard Zhong, a team with backgrounds from MIT, Perplexity, and quantitative funds.
Why now? "Engineers got a transformative moment from tools like Claude Code, and most knowledge workers are still waiting for theirs," said Sabrina Albert of Madrona, who led the investment. "Their work lives in the browser, and Kevin, Vishaal, and Howard built the first agent that can operate there."
The signal: The first wave of AI browsers stopped at answering questions. Polar's bet — and Madrona's — is that the next wave will do the busywork itself, on the sites people already use.
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