"Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has raised a $21.5 million Series A led by Felicis, with existing seed investors NVentures (NVIDIA's venture arm), South Park Commons, and others joining in. Simular is an interesting agentic startup because unlike others, it isn't trying to control the browser but the PC itself. (Agentic AI refers to systems that can autonomously complete complex tasks with minimal human intervention.) "We can literally move the mouse on the screen and do the click."
"Another reason to watch Simular is the bona fides of the founders: Li is a continuous learning scientist who previously worked at Google's DeepMind, where he met his cofounder, reinforcement learning specialist Jiachen Yang. While their team published their fair share of papers, the work wasn't strictly academic, Li said. It was intended to improve Google products, including Waymo. That AI product background is helpful because, before the agentic future of Silicon Valley's dreams can materialize, there are a host of technical problems to solve."
Simular builds agentic AI that controls the PC itself for Mac OS and Windows, enabling agents to move the mouse and perform tasks like copying and pasting into spreadsheets. The company raised $21.5 million in a Series A led by Felicis with participation from NVentures, South Park Commons, and others. Simular released version 1.0 for Mac OS and is collaborating with Microsoft on a Windows agent through the Windows 365 for Agents program. Founders Ang Li and Jiachen Yang bring DeepMind reinforcement-learning and continuous-learning experience. The team must address technical challenges such as LLM hallucinations that can invalidate multi-step agentic workflows.
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