--- title: Ex-Agentforce team raises $5.1M for 'anti-vendor' AI description: Zaro, a London startup founded by engineers who helped build Salesforce's Agentforce, has raised $5.1M in a pre-seed round led by Cherry Ventures. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ex-agentforce-team-raises-5-1m-for-anti-vendor-ai-h1xk6zkyb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ex-Agentforce team raises $5.1M for 'anti-vendor' AI | daily.dev og:description: Zaro, a London startup founded by engineers who helped build Salesforce's Agentforce, has raised $5.1M in a pre-seed round led by Cherry Ventures. 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The platform replaces fragmented AI tools with a single workspace where agents share a context layer, and routes routine tasks to cheaper models to cut costs. Notable angels include Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf and GitHub chief Thomas Dohmke. The startup is eight people and just out of stealth, with several of its performance claims still unverified. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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