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Ando

Team messaging app where AI agents join channels as teammates with identity and permissions

Pace
6:00/kmWarm-up3.25
Distance
Distance Unproven.
Open ops roles
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Last week
#511
Move
▼ 65
Peak
#511
Weeks in the 100
0
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Rank and score over time
Board rank
#501#535#568#511Oct 18#558Oct 25
Pace score
02462.5Oct 183.3Oct 25

One point per Sunday re-rank, tracking since Oct 18. The lines fill in week by week.

Ando runs in the Warm-up lane (6:00/km): 14 of 94. Further right = more momentum. No competitors on the board yet, so it runs alone.

Also competes with: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Buzz (Jack Dorsey)

Total raised
$20M (pre-seed + seed combined)see rounds ↓
Headcount
~14as of Oct 2026 tracxn.com ↗
Founded
2025
HQ
San Francisco, CA

Leadership

The problem

Slack-style tools treat agents as bolt-on bots, so teams can't share context or coordinate work with them

What they do

Team messaging app where AI agents join channels as teammates with identity and permissions

Traction Customers in ~15 countries, mostly small teams (2-40 people); waitlist; no revenue disclosed

Hiring trend

Open roles
5
Headcount
~12-17

Tiny team, ~12-17 staff (sources conflict: LinkedIn-based count 12, -14% YoY = -2 people; Tracxn 14; Built In 17); 5 open roles, all SF onsite

Hiring in

  • San Francisco

Funding

Last round
$20M (pre-seed + seed, announced together)
Stage
Seed
Date
Sep 2026

Led by Accel (pre-seed); Index Ventures, Emergence Capital (seed)

Distance

Unproven

Just out of stealth, waitlist-gated, with small teams as customers; competes head-on with Slack's native agents, Microsoft Teams Copilot and Jack Dorsey's Buzz.

Sources: TechCrunch: $20M, 15 countries, many small teams (Sep 2026) ↗ · Accel: pre-seed lead, Index and Emergence led seed ↗ · Tech Beat: rivals Slack agent, Microsoft Copilot, Buzz ↗

Open ops roles

No ops roles open right now

Last checked Oct 25, 2026

News timeline

  1. Sep 2026Emerges from stealth with $20M pre-seed + seed from Accel, Index, Emergence techcrunch.com ↗
  2. Jul 2026Completes SOC 2 Type I; Type II in progress proofstory.co ↗
  3. Apr 2026New Ontologies profile: 'Ando: Building Slack from Scratch' newontologies.substack.com ↗

Funding historyTotal raised $20M (pre-seed + seed combined)

  1. Sep 2026Seed$20M (pre-seed + seed combined)Led by Index Ventures, Emergence Capital globenewswire.com ↗
  2. Pre-seedLed by Accel accel.com ↗

Profile facts checked Oct 20, 2026. Every fact links to its public source.

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