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About us

We build the boring
part of AI.

Kestrel started in 2024 when three engineers got tired of agents that demoed well and failed quietly. Today we’re 34 people in Toronto and Berlin, building the infrastructure that makes agents dependable.

Kestrel started in 2024 when three engineers got tired of agents that demoed well and failed quietly. Today we’re 34 people in Toronto and Berlin, building the infrastructure that makes agents dependable.

Fig. 02 — The short version

2024 → Now

Mar 2024

Founded

Three engineers, one rule: no agent ships without a trace.

Nov 2024

Seed, $6M

First 40 design partners, mostly finance and support teams.

Jun 2025

1M runs / week

Approvals land in Slack. Handoffs drop below 5%.

Feb 2026

Series A, $28M

Self-hosting, evals and the agent library go GA.

Today

2.1M runs / week

400+ teams. Still boring. On purpose.

What we believe

Three rules we don’t break

01

Boring is a feature

An agent that works 99 times and surprises you once is a liability. We optimise for predictable, not impressive.

02

Humans stay in the loop

Agents should know when to ask. Every irreversible action has a line, and a person on the other side of it.

03

Show the receipts

Every step, token and dollar is on the record. If we can’t explain what an agent did, it shouldn’t have done it.

The team

Small team, sharp tools

See open roles

LF

Lena Fischer

Co-founder, CEO

AM

Arjun Mehta

Co-founder, CTO

SO

Sam Okoro

Co-founder, Eng

PN

Priya Nair

Head of Product

TR

Tomás Ruiz

Applied AI Lead

HK

Hana Kim

Design Lead

JW

Jonah Weiss

Solutions Eng

AD

Amara Diallo

Security Lead

Backed by

Northstar Ventures

Lattice Capital

Foundry Seed

Ember Fund

Orbit Angels

Careers

Come build the
boring part.

Remote-friendly across UTC−5 to UTC+2. Equity for everyone, and a hardware budget you’ll actually use.

$ npx kestrel init invoice-triage

Copy

Your first agent ships
this week.

Start free with 1,000 runs. No card, no sales call, no 40-page security review — until you want one.

$ npx kestrel init invoice-triage

Copy

Your first agent ships
this week.

Start free with 1,000 runs. No card, no sales call, no 40-page security review — until you want one.

$ npx kestrel init invoice-triage

Copy

Your first agent ships
this week.

Start free with 1,000 runs. No card, no sales call, no 40-page security review — until you want one.

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