Convey raises $38 million for its AI teammates platform

Published: 2026-06-18T09:23:44.000Z

The criticism that has dogged enterprise AI for the past couple of years is that companies keep spending on it without seeing much come back. Convey has built its entire pitch around fixing that. The San Francisco startup has raised $38 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to scale its digital teammates platform.

The criticism that has dogged enterprise artificial intelligence for the past couple of years is that companies keep spending on it without seeing much come back. Convey has built its entire pitch around fixing exactly that, and investors are clearly listening. The San Francisco startup has raised $38 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with continued backing from Khosla Ventures and Pear VC, to scale a platform that lets non technical workers build and run what it calls digital teammates. As part of the deal, a16z partner Joe Schmidt joins the company's board, and his framing of the problem captures the whole thesis, namely that enterprise AI's defining failure right now is adoption without impact, where usage keeps climbing but the return never shows up. The distinction Convey draws is between an assistant and a teammate, and it matters more than it sounds. Most AI tools, the chatbots and copilots flooding the market, help a single person work a bit faster. Convey instead lets a team stand up an entire AI workforce that takes ownership of complete operational tasks, things like processing invoices, reconciling financial data, managing campaign reporting and ingesting advertising assets at scale. Crucially, an operator can build one of these digital teammates without writing a line of code, onboarding an end to end teammate in around three hours rather than the weeks or months a traditional automation project demands. The company says organizations see meaningful impact within one to two months. The early traction is what gave the round its momentum. Convey, founded only in 2025, says its digital teammates have already completed more than a million hours of background work for a customer list that includes NBCUniversal, Samsara, TelevisaUnivision, Unity, Faire and ChargePoint. The reported results are concrete rather than vague, with the chauffeur service Savoya citing a 40 percent jump in EBITDA year over year and a target of reclaiming 10,000 hours in 2026, while Faire automated hundreds of hours of invoice processing. Demand has also spread organically inside customers, with adoption at ChargePoint reportedly jumping across departments as teams noticed the time savings. The founder's background is part of the sell. Chief executive Rohan Chopra spent eight years at DoorDash, joining as an early engineer and leaving as part of the leadership team of a 10,000 person company, the kind of operational scaling experience that resonates with backers. Khosla's Samir Kaul explicitly drew the parallel, comparing the AI race now to food delivery a decade ago and pointing to Chopra's track record. Convey also positions itself as a partner to IT rather than a workaround, giving each digital teammate its own identity and permissions so automation happens inside existing security frameworks, and it carries SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance. The regional read is unusually direct given the moment. Across the Gulf, the message from this year's KPMG data and the broader enterprise push has been that the era of AI experimentation is over and the era of execution has begun, with Saudi and UAE organizations demanding measurable returns within a year. A platform built specifically to make AI own outcomes rather than merely assist fits that mood precisely, and as Gulf enterprises chase ROI from their heavy AI spending, outcome focused tools like Convey are exactly what the region's procurement teams are now hunting for.