Fryderyk Wiatrowski, CEO and co-founder of Viktor, joined Meta with the aim of finding a co-founder.
After landing in the social media giant’s ranks, he met Peter Albert, an engineer who had worked on Meta’s Llama 2 team, and the pair spent their evenings experimenting with AI, aiming to develop agents that could eventually take over the most tedious parts of knowledge work. Several products later, that partnership has produced Viktor, an AI agent that operates like a virtual coworker embedded inside a company’s Slack or Microsoft Teams workspace.
The company has just raised a $75 million Series A, led by London-based venture capital firm Accel Partners with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, and Tenacity Capital. Angel investors, including Slack cofounders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson, Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli, and executives from Google DeepMind, Figma, and ElevenLabs also participated in the funding round. Just three months after Viktor’s public launch in February, the company says it has reached a $15 million annualized revenue run rate and has more than 2,000 organizations using the product across sectors like e-commerce and technology.
Viktor is supposed to function just like a colleague, with team members messaging the bot to ask for help for things like pulling a report or building an internal app. It can connect to the systems the business relies on—such as Google Drive, Meta Ads, Airtable, Notion, and Shopify—and build up a persistent memory of how the organization operates.
