Aampe raises $18 million in Series A funding led by Theory Ventures
Aampe have announced that it has secured $18 million in Series A funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing Aampe’s total funding to $27.3 million to accelerate the adoption of its agentic infrastructure. Z47 also participated in the round.
Aampe’s agentic infrastructure enables marketing and product teams to deliver continuous personalization across channels and surfaces without having to build and maintain complex segments and campaigns across multiple tools.
Conventional approaches to personalizing digital products have relied on humans manually creating rules and segments to determine what users see and when. This approach — unchanged for over a decade — requires teams to manually orchestrate the message or product surface that will best serve the end user’s interests, whether they’re making a purchase, evaluating content options, or trying new features. With consumer preferences rapidly and continually changing, the conventional approach creates a massive human bottleneck and non-scalable operational workload.
Aampe’s infrastructure takes a fundamentally different approach: deploying a unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent for each user that continuously learns from interactions and intelligently decides what to show, when to show it, and most importantly, whether to show anything at all. Designed to continuously monitor usage and engagement data, each agent skillfully observes and learns the user’s changing preferences. Agents are then responsible for translating inferences into optimal management of the user’s interactions with the product – enabling genuine 1:1 personalization even for products that serve tens of millions – or more – users every day.
“Consumer applications today almost universally look the same to everyone who opens them, with personalization limited to narrow recommendation feeds,” said Paul Meinshausen (pictured center), Co-Founder and CEO of Aampe. “We’ve designed and developed infrastructure that enables every aspect of an application to adapt to each user’s context and preferences, continuously. Our mission is to fundamentally improve the way users experience digital products.”
Founded in 2020 by a trio of scientists, Aampe emerged from a unique combination of expertise. Meinshausen, who previously co-founded PaySense, met Co-Founder Schaun Wheeler (pictured left) in a U.S. Army Intelligence Analysis unit in 2009. Along with Sami Abboud (pictured right), a former semiconductor engineer and neuroscience PhD, the founding team combines backgrounds in cognitive and behavioral science, engineering, and experimentation. They’ve harnessed their specialized backgrounds to design a new AI architecture for user interaction.
Rather than using traditional machine learning or generative AI alone, Aampe’s infrastructure leverages a subset of AI called reinforcement learning to enable continuous, parallelized experimentation. Each agent learns and adapts in real time, helping their user manage their attention and make complex choices in a world of material and content abundance. The agents operationalize their decisions by intelligently managing a range of existing product and marketing tools – including data platforms and warehouses, marketing delivery platforms, and product analytics tools, allowing companies to extract more value from their current technology investments.
“AI agents can make decisions at a scale that is impossible for any human,” said Andy Triedman, Partner at Theory Ventures. “Aampe allows customer engagement teams to craft experiences for their diverse user base, versus just one or two flows targeted at the typical person. This new type of infrastructure will be transformational for companies looking to provide personalization driven by data.”
Aakash Kumar, Managing Director at Z47, added, “The world of app engagement has not delivered on the promise of deep learning led personalization. Agentic AI provides the opportunity to break through. Paul and the team at Aampe are shaping the future of agentic infrastructure for user journey personalization, with excellent feedback and adoption from their early customers.”
The company’s privacy-centric approach, using zero-PII storage practices and anonymized behavioral patterns, has already attracted major consumer businesses across Southeast Asia and North America. The company has already deployed over one hundred million (100,000,000) agents for enterprise customers across 4 continents. As Aampe scales, it plans to double its team by the end of 2025, focusing on helping enterprise customers successfully migrate their workflows and adopt agentic infrastructure into their organizations.
Looking ahead, Aampe aims to power the next generation of consumer applications through its easy-to-deploy agentic infrastructure. While their earliest applications focused on on marketing and messaging channels, Aampe has been rapidly extending their agents capabilities to manage the entire user experience—from interface layouts to feature discovery—enabling every interaction to adapt continuously to every user and their preferences at any given point in time.
