Filip Kozera (CEO) and Robert Chandler (CTO) Wordware , the first full-stack operating system for AI development, has announced a $30 million seed round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Felicis, Y Combinator, Day One Ventures, and angel investors including Paul Graham, Vlad Magdalin (Webflow), Mathilde Collin (Front), Paul Daugherty (Accenture), and others. This funding—one of the largest seed rounds in Y Combinator’s history—will accelerate Wordware’s mission to democratize AI development and redefine how AI solutions are built. Wordware empowers anyone to create, iterate, and deploy AI agents using plain English.
By introducing natural language as the new programming language for AI, Wordware enables domain experts and engineers to collaborate seamlessly in building sophisticated AI solutions. “Excel gave us power over numbers. Notion gave us power over information.
Wordware gives us power over AI. We’re creating the new standard for encoding human expertise into AI systems,” says Filip Kozera, Co-founder and CEO, describing the vision. From Cambridge to Y Combinator The company was founded by Filip Kozera (CEO) and Robert Chandler (CTO), who met nearly a decade ago while studying deep learning at the University of Cambridge.
Filip went on to launch a company focused on augmenting human memory with Transformers, while Robert led machine learning operations for self-driving cars at Five AI, later acquired by Bosch. When large language models (LLMs).