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HappyRobot
Custom AI agents that automate communication-heavy work for enterprise operations teams
HappyRobot builds and runs AI agents for communication-heavy work inside enterprise operations, across eight industries including logistics, utilities and insurance. Its site names DHL, Naturgy, Kuehne+Nagel and CMA CGM as customers, with case studies for several others. Its careers page lists forward deployed engineer and deployment strategist roles and its site describes a fully custom deployment on its own platform.
- Type of firm
- Platform with embedded engineers
- Known for
- AI agents automating enterprise communication work
- Based in
- United States
- Funding
- Series B or later (Series C)
- Total raised
- $165.6M
- Ownership
- VC-backed
- Status
- Active
- Generalist or specialist
- Generalist
- Own product
- Yes: HappyRobot platform
- Founders
- Pablo Palafox, Javi Palafox, Luis Paarup
- Website
- happyrobot.ai
Funding and deals
- 2026-08: Series C, $150M, led by Prysm Capital and Eurazeo (co-led)
- 2024-12: Series A, $15.6 million, led by a16z (lead)
Investors
- a16z
- Y Combinator
- Bankinter
- Base10
- Endeavor Catalyst
- Kfund
- Koch Disruptive Technologies
- Orange
- Prysm Capital and Eurazeo (co-led)
- T.Capital
- Wave-X
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