Broccoli AI, a San Francisco startup that sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC and electrical businesses, raised $52 million across a $22 million Series A and a $30 million Series B. Both rounds were led by Khosla Ventures, with Y Combinator and Operator Partners participating. Fortune reported Broccoli is valued at about $300 million post-money. The company says more than 1,500 businesses use its platform, it has handled more than 10 million customer conversations, and it has booked 2.5 million appointments. Revenue has tripled since the Series A, and headcount has grown from 15 to more than 150 people.
Home-service contractors often miss calls after office hours and struggle to follow up on estimates. Broccoli's AI agents answer inbound calls, book jobs directly into scheduling software, renew service memberships and chase open estimates. The company says its AI does work equivalent to roughly 30% of a typical contractor's office staff.
Broccoli AI raised $52 million across a $22 million Series A and a $30 million Series B, both led by Khosla Ventures, with Y Combinator and Operator Partners participating. Fortune reports the company is valued at about $300 million post-money.
Infisical raised a $40 million Series B at a $600 million valuation led by Elad Gil, with Y Combinator, Gradient Ventures and other investors participating.
Infisical announced a $40 million Series B led by Elad Gil, describing the round as building security infrastructure for the AI era.
CA plumbing shop in Sacramento just became an AI company's secret weapon.
MSecret weapon? That sounds like a very expensive phone tree.
Cfundable posted on X that Broccoli AI raised fifty-two million, reportedly across two rounds.
MI checked Fortune: about three hundred million valuation. The post also says Khosla Ventures led both rounds.
CThe founders walked into a plumbing shop, and the owner, Marcelle Flowers, became their first COO.
MSo their pitch is 'we'll handle calls,' and the customer came aboard? Either brilliant or a red flag.
CShe knows what a missed call costs. After hours, a clogged drain doesn't wait for Monday.
MNeither does a flooded basement. If the AI mishears the address, that's someone's house.
CThey're not dispatching trucks; they're booking the job into scheduling software.
MThey say it does the work of thirty percent of office staff. That's not just phones—that's people.
CSmall shops can't afford a receptionist at midnight. This keeps them from losing jobs to big chains.
MAnd what happens when it renews a service membership without explaining the price? I don't trust that.
CThe company says it has already booked two and a half million appointments, and that revenue tripled since the Series A.
MScale doesn't mean good. Comcast books millions of appointments, too.
COh, come on—no, wait—you're comparing a plumbing scheduler to a cable monopoly?
MI'm saying a chatbot that answers the phone is not the same as a human who knows the customer's house.
CBut the human's not there half the time! That's the whole point. The AI answers every call.
MFine. I'll grant you it's useful after hours. But thirty percent of office staff? I need that audited.
CThe company says fifteen hundred businesses are using it now. It's not a pilot.
MAnd how many of those are still hiring office staff? That's the real test.
CWhy is it bad if a small shop gets more jobs with fewer missed calls?
MBecause if the AI is wrong, the owner can't put the AI on a performance plan.
CNo, they just turn it off and answer the phone themselves.
MMaybe. But I've seen enough AI agent demos that work great until the fourth turn in the conversation.
CThis one's not a demo; it's generating revenue for plumbing shops. That's real.
MI'll give you revenue. I'll hold the applause on replacing office staff.
CI'm not saying it's a people replacer. But it's a tool, and small shops need tools.
MA tool now valued at three hundred million. The hype is real.
CKhosla wouldn't write the checks if it were just a phone tree.
MDifferent world entirely: another raise, but for security infrastructure.
CTraded and Menlo Times both posted that Infisical raised forty million at a six hundred million valuation.
MThe post reportedly names Elad Gil as lead. Open-source tools for managing secrets, certificates, privileged credentials.
CAnd open-source means developers can actually see if it's garbage.
MSix hundred million is still a lot for a startup that basically manages passwords.
CIt's more than passwords. Every cloud breach is a leaked credential or a secret in code.
MTrue. And the AI era makes it worse: every agent needs permissions. Maybe they timed this well.
CThat's exactly my point. Security gets boring until it fails.
MFair. I'll take boring security over another chatbot.
COne more from London: Tarique Sha posted on X that Easol raised about twenty-seven million euros.
MIf the post is right, their total would be fifty-three point six million, and it names Y Combinator and Tiger Global as backers. I couldn't confirm those numbers.
CThe post says they do commerce for festivals, with Coachella and Stagecoach as clients.
MThat's a claim from the post. If true, experience commerce is becoming a real category.
CAfter live events came back, people want to book the whole trip, not just the ticket.
MOkay, but we're not calling it a done deal until the company confirms.
CWe'll see which one of these actually ships.