Convey Raises $38M Series A from a16z to Build AI Digital Teammates
Convey (convey.dev) raised a $38 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with continued backing from Khosla Ventures and Pear VC. a16z partner Joe Schmidt joins the board. The round was announced June 17, 2026, on the back of the company crossing one million hours of automated work for customers including NBCUniversal, Samsara, TelevisaUnivision, Unity, Faire, and ChargePoint.
It’s another large early round in the “AI that does the work, not just the talking” category — landing the same month Town raised $55M from a16z and Forerunner — and a signal that investors are putting real money behind autonomous agents that execute, not assist.
What Convey does
Convey lets a non-technical operator create an AI “digital teammate” by describing a workflow or sharing their screen. The teammate learns the process, then runs it autonomously in the background — multi-step operations across the tools a business already uses — and reaches out to a human only when it hits a decision it shouldn’t make alone. Setup runs roughly three hours end-to-end per teammate.
It’s aimed squarely at the enterprise back office: revenue ops, finance, support, and HR teams drowning in repetitive, cross-system work. Convey connects to systems like Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday, Outlook, Teams, and a long tail of legacy software, and it ships with the enterprise table stakes — role-based access, agent identity management, SOC 2 Type II, and HIPAA compliance.
The bet a16z is making
Convey was founded in 2025 by CEO Rohan Chopra, an early engineer at DoorDash who spent eight years there moving from IC to the leadership team. The thesis a16z is funding: companies won’t scale operations by making people incrementally more productive — they’ll scale by onboarding a digital workforce that does measurable work on its own. That’s the same shift toward AI agents that take action rather than generate text, pointed at enterprise operations instead of the individual inbox.
Where Convey leaves gaps
For anyone evaluating Convey off this news, the platform’s strengths come with a clear shape — and a clear set of people it isn’t built for:
- Enterprise-only, sales-led. There’s no public pricing and no self-serve sign-up — you go through sales, and onboarding is a guided multi-hour process per teammate. If you’re an individual, a founder, or a small team, that’s a heavy on-ramp.
- Back-office processes, not your inbox. Convey automates operational workflows across enterprise systems. It isn’t built to run your personal email and calendar day to day.
- Built for scale you may not have. The value lands when you have repetitive, high-volume processes across departments. Smaller teams rarely have the volume to justify an enterprise rollout.
If you want the “teammate that finishes the work” idea without the enterprise contract, Carly is the self-serve version: email a named agent and it executes across 200+ integrations, it runs your real inbox and calendar on both Outlook / Microsoft 365 and Google, automation workflows run free, and AI agents start at $35/month — no sales call required. We lined up the full field — Carly, Relevance AI, Lindy, Dust, and more — in the best Convey alternatives.
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