Voi founders' AI startup Pit raises $16M from a16z
ex-voi founders launched pit, a stockholm-based enterprise ai startup, securing $16m in seed funding led by a16z. the platform uses agentic ai to build custom software automating internal processes, targeting sectors like telecom and healthcare. unlike standard wrappers, pit offers 'pit studio' for process guidance and 'pit cloud' for governance, pitching an 'ai product team as a service' model.
Pit, a new Stockholm-based enterprise AI startup founded by Voi co-founder Fredrik Hjelm and former Klarna engineers, raised $16 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The startup targets enterprise back-office automation with an 'AI product team as a service' model, moving beyond simple chatbots to agentic workflows that generate custom software based on client guidance. Pilot programs began in mid-January across telecom, healthcare, and logistics sectors, utilizing 'Pit Studio' for process mapping and 'Pit Cloud' to meet enterprise governance requirements. The company controversially claimed that AI agents perform tasks previously done by junior engineers, though the CEO has since walked back that statement, noting the need for a balanced team as they scale.