Enterprise artificial intelligence startup Ema has raised $77 million in Series B funding, giving the company fresh capital to expand its AI agents as businesses increasingly look to automate everyday corporate work.
The funding round was led by Creaegis, with participation from existing investors including Accel, Section 32 and Prosus Ventures, taking Ema’s total funding to approximately $140 million.
The latest investment comes as AI agents — systems designed to independently carry out tasks rather than simply answer questions — become one of the fastest-growing areas of enterprise technology.
Building AI employees for businesses
Ema, whose name stands for Enterprise Machine Assistant, is developing what it describes as “Universal AI Employees” capable of performing complex tasks across different departments within an organisation.
Rather than requiring businesses to deploy separate AI tools for every function, Ema’s technology is designed to work across areas including customer support, human resources, finance, legal, sales and information technology.
The platform can connect with existing enterprise applications and data, allowing its AI agents to access information and complete multi-step workflows on behalf of employees.
The broader ambition is to move generative AI beyond chatbots and assistants towards autonomous digital workers capable of taking action inside companies.
Enterprise AI enters its agent era
Ema’s latest funding arrives amid an industry-wide shift towards agentic AI.
While the first wave of generative AI adoption largely centred on tools that could generate text, images and code, technology companies are increasingly developing systems capable of reasoning through tasks, interacting with software and completing workflows with less human intervention.
That transition has opened another competitive battleground in enterprise software as startups and major technology companies race to convince businesses that AI agents can reduce repetitive work and improve productivity.
For Ema, the opportunity lies in allowing companies to create and deploy specialised AI employees without having to build the underlying infrastructure themselves.
Fresh funding to accelerate expansion
The $77 million investment is expected to support Ema’s continued product development and expansion as demand for enterprise AI automation grows.
The company is competing in an increasingly crowded market as businesses experiment with autonomous agents across customer service, software development, administration, sales and internal operations.
However, enterprise adoption also comes with challenges. Companies deploying autonomous AI systems must consider issues including data security, accuracy, governance and how much decision-making authority should be given to AI agents.
Ema is positioning its platform around enterprise requirements while attempting to make AI agents capable of working across the fragmented software environments used by large organisations.
