In the past year, we've roughly doubled the size of our team at USV — not by hiring more people, but by building AI agents that work alongside us.  These agents research companies, review legal documents, write code & build apps, maintain our internal databases and much more. They aren't just chatbots who answer the occasional question – they’re digital teammates, integrated in our team spaces and handling real operational tasks. The platform we built them on is Tasklet, and today we are excited to announce that USV has co-led a $20 million financing in Tasklet, alongside Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Jeff Dean, Patrick and John Collison, and others.

We believe agents represent the next major platform shift in computing. Instead of people operating tools directly, people will work with agents and agents work with tools. But agents aren't just a productivity story. They also interact with the web and with each other — browsing, transacting, and collaborating on behalf of people and organizations. The next internet will be a network of agents. It's a platform shift as fundamental as the web and mobile before it.

Tasklet is a platform for teams to create AI agents. Each agent has its own tools, data, and memory, and works autonomously — on a schedule, in response to events, or on demand. Agents build things for the rest of the team to use: apps, reports, dashboards, databases. You describe what you need, and the agent handles the rest.

Tasklet was founded by Andrew Lee and Jonny Dimond, who were both part of the founding team at Firebase — a past USV portfolio company that built foundational infrastructure for the era of mobile and web computing. Andrew and Jonny went on to build Shortwave, where much of the underlying agent infrastructure for Tasklet was initially developed. Last summer, when Andrew & Jonny first sketched out the idea of Tasklet for me on a whiteboard, I immediately signed a blank check enterprise contract on behalf of USV: