Funding

AI Startup Ollie Raises $7.5M in Seed Funding Round

Sep 8, 2026 | By Devin Jacobs

SUMMARY

Ollie raised $7.5M in seed funding.
The funding will support AI development and team growth.
Ollie builds conversational AI tools for businesses.

Ollie, a San Diego, CA-based artificial intelligence and workforce productivity startup, has raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from AI House.

The company will use the capital to expand its engineering team, train specialized operational reasoning models and strengthen business development for enterprise customer acquisition.

Funding Snapshot

Metric	Details
Fundraise Amount	$7.5 million
Funding Round	Seed
Lead Investor	Khosla Ventures
Company	Ollie
Sector	AI & Workforce Productivity
Headquarters	San Diego, California, USA

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About Ollie

Founded in 2023 by Bill Lennon, Christy Shannon, and Rushabh Doshi, Ollie develops an intelligent conversational AI assistant and agentic workspace platform designed to automate day-to-day tasks. The platform connects with calendars and email and can operate through group chats, helping users manage schedules, lists, reminders, meals, shopping, appointments and payments.

Core offerings include:

Conversational AI assistant
Calendar and email integration
Household scheduling and task management
Agentic workflow automation

Core Technologies / Products / Services

Capability/Product	Application/Use Case
Conversational AI	Managing everyday tasks through text
Calendar integration	Coordinating schedules and appointments
Email integration	Managing communications and tasks
Agentic workspace	Automating multi-step workflows

Leadership Comments

Co-founder and chief executive officer Bill Lennon said the company wants users to see the assistant as working directly for them, rather than relying on personal data for advertising or model training.