Ex-Perplexity team bets on AI browsers again with $5.7M for Polar
What's the deal? PolarDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, an AI browser built for knowledge work, has raised $5.7 million in seed funding led by Madrona, with participation from angel investors including former GitHub CEO Thomas DohmkeDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Modal founder Erik BernhardssonDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
What does it do? Where the first wave of AI browsers stopped at answering questions and summarising tabs, Polar operates the web the way a person does — clicking, typing, and navigating the sites its users already work in, logged in as them. It takes on long, multi-step tasks and runs them start to finish, from a few minutes to several hours, and has completed tasks for over fifteen hours without intervention. Users have run more than 4.5 million actions through it across research, recruiting, sales, operations, and marketing in its first seven months.
Who's behind it? Polar was founded by Kevin JiangDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → (CEO), Vishaal RamDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Howard Zhong, a team with backgrounds from MIT, Perplexity, and leading quantitative funds.
The signal: AI browsers are becoming a contested category, with Perplexity's Comet among the early entrants. Polar's team — which includes talent from that early cohort — shows how fast ideas are spreading across the sector.
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