Agentic AI: Lean AI Startup Ninjatech AI Wants to Handle Administrative Tasks End-to-End

The high growth agentic AI market has attracted several players with startups gaining traction as enterprise interest shifts from passive co-pilots to more autonomous systems. Palo Alto-based Ninjatech AI is one such player in the market.

Ninjatech’s Offerings

Ninjatech AI was founded in 2022 by former Google, Meta, and AWS engineers – Babak Pahlavan, Sam Naghshineh, and Arash Sadrieh. After selling his AI startup CleverSense to Google, Babak worked as a Senior Director Product Management at Google. Sam built AI infrastructure at Meta and founded earlier startups focused on sensing and signal processing. While working at Google and Meta, Babak and Sam realized that they and their teams were spending a lot of time on administrative tasks. They needed executive assistants to address some of these concerns, but they were costly and scarce. The option was to build AI assistants that could be efficient. They set up Ninjatech AI with a mission to save every busy professional time and money by democratizing access to a safe and reliable Personal AI.

They created Ninja, an autonomous AI assistant that goes beyond generating responses to completing tasks. It handles research, calendar coordination, and content generation with minimal user input. Their goal is to simplify how users interact with multiple AI models while offloading repetitive work. Unlike assistants built on a single model, Ninja gives users access to OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Anthropic’s Claude 3, and Google’s Gemini. It integrates over 20 external AI models from providers, features a proprietary coding model based on Llama 3.1 405B, and offers personalized AI avatars fluent in over 20 languages. Users can run tasks across models and select the most useful response.

This flexibility is aimed at professionals who need both reliability and control over outputs. The team is currently focused on closed beta pilots with knowledge workers—PMs, researchers, executive assistants—who spend time on coordination, synthesis, and follow-ups.

Ninjatech’s Financials

Ninjatech operates on a subscription model offering tiered based plans. Higher tiers unlock more advanced features and access to multiple LLMs. The company also offers enterprise features that let teams manage access and customize usage. Being privately held, Ninjatech does not disclose financial details.

In May 2023, the company raised $6 million in pre-seed funding from investors including SRI Ventures, DCVC, and Candou Ventures, with participation from Laszlo Bock and Jeff Ullman at an undisclosed valuation. It is one of the lean players in the industry that is said to operate with 22-39 employees.

Ninjatech is one of several startups targeting the agentic AI opportunity. Players like Adept and Rewind are working on building similar agents that act inside enterprise software and improve employee productivity.

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