Noah Shinn Co-Founded Instinct Raises $1 Billion in Series C Funding

Instinct, a San Francisco, CA-based company building a personal agent for everyday life, has raised an additional $1 billion in its Series C funding round.

The round saw backers including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue.

The company plans to use the funds to expand its operations, development efforts and business reach.

What is Instinct?

Instinct is developing a personal AI agent designed to handle everyday tasks from start to finish.

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Users can text or call Instinct and ask it to handle tasks such as planning a trip, ordering groceries, cancelling subscriptions, making phone calls or arranging appointments. The agent uses its own phone and computer to complete these tasks.

Instinct is currently available through early access.

How Much Funding Has Instinct Raised?

Instinct has raised an additional $1 billion in its Series C funding round.

The source does not provide details about Instinct’s previous funding rounds or total funding raised.

Who Invested in Instinct’s Series C Round?

The Series C round included:

• Sequoia Capital
• Benchmark Capital
• Coatue

The source does not identify a lead investor.

Why the Funding Matters

Instinct plans to use the new funding to expand its operations, development efforts and business reach.

The company has also been developing new features focused on handling more complex personal tasks and improving the reliability and privacy of its AI agent.

Who founded Instinct?

Instinct was founded by Noah Shinn and is based in San Francisco, California.

The company is building a personal agent designed to understand and manage the personal details involved in everyday tasks.

"We're building Instinct to be the best personal agent that can handle the deeply personal nuances of everyday life," said Noah Shinn, Founder of Instinct. "This funding helps us bring Instinct to more people and continue building the future of personal AI.

Market and Business Growth

Instinct remains in early access but has released several product updates in recent months.

Its Instinct Concierge service handles high-touch tasks such as making phone calls, booking services that do not accept online reservations and joining cancellation lists.

Its Trusted Person Network allows Instinct assistants to communicate with other Instincts to coordinate plans and share files such as PDFs, images and spreadsheets.

Instinct has also introduced location sharing through iMessage, allowing the agent to recognize when users arrive at a location and provide suggestions based on their preferences.

What Happens Next?

Instinct plans to continue developing its personal AI agent and expanding its capabilities. The company is also continuing to improve privacy and reliability through isolated sandboxes, short-lived local credentials, identity-signed tool execution and an active detection system designed to identify subtle hallucinations before responses are generated or actions are executed.

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