Sierra, the customer support agent startup based by Bret Taylor, introduced on Thursday that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment, which helps companies combine AI into workflows.Β
That is Sierraβs third public acquisition. It beforehand purchased Japan-based enterprise AI options firm Opera Tech (which it acquired in late March) and voice agent firm Receptive AI (which it additionally introduced it acquired in late March). Fragment co-founders Olivier Moindrot and Guillaume Genthial can be becoming a member of the Sierra group.Β
In a weblog put up, Taylor and his co-founder, Clay Bavor, wrote that Moindrot and Genthial will convey βbeneficial powerβ to Sierraβs βagent improvement efforts in France.β Phrases of the deal weren’t introduced. PitchBook estimates that Fragment raised round $2 million by means of its seed spherical.
Taylor, who additionally serves as OpenAIβs chairman of the board, co-founded Sierra alongside Google alum Bavor after stepping down as co-CEO of Salesforce in early 2023. The startup claims Casper, Clear, and Brex as clients and has raised greater than $630 million in funding to this point, from traders together with Sequoia and Benchmark, giving it a $10 billion valuation.Β
