London-based CodeWords, an AI agent startup previously known as Agemo, has raised $9 million in a seed funding round led by Visionaries, with participation from firstminute capital, Sequel, and Illusian.
They are joined by angel investors and advisors such as Andrey Khusid, CEO of Miro; Mati Staniszewski, CEO of ElevenLabs; Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio; Robert Gentz, CEO of Zalando; Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell; Alexandre Berriche, founder of Fleet; Kieran Flanagan, CMO at Hubspot; and François Chollet, co-founder of the ARC Prize, along with executives at OpenAI, Mistral, n8n, and Zapier.
Founded in 2023 by Osman Ramadan and Aymeric Zhuo, with backgrounds from Microsoft, Palantir, Meta, and PolyAI, CodeWords builds Cody, an AI agent that handles repetitive business workflows automatically, without users needing to write, deploy, or maintain any code.
“The best operators don’t wait to be asked. We built Cody on the same principle — an agent that learns about your business, sees what needs doing, and delivers outcomes,” says Zhuo.
The platform is already handling 500,000 workflows a month for teams such as agencies, go-to-market operators, and other users without great technical skills, the company says. Examples include automating deal-flow monitoring, social media publishing, and lead-generation tasks.
Alongside the funding, the startup is rolling out three new features: contextual memory, WhatsApp support, and different Cody modes that change how the agent plans and carries out tasks.
While tools such as Zapier and Make offer no-code automation, they still require users to design and maintain their own workflow logic. CodeWords removes that layer entirely: users describe what they need, and Cody handles deployment, setup, and ongoing maintenance in the background.
“Most automation tools promise simplicity, but still require technical thinking underneath. CodeWords is one of the first products we’ve seen where that truly disappears — you describe the task, and Cody runs it. What impressed us just as much is the team’s speed and conviction: Aymeric and Osman moved from research to a working product in a matter of months. That combination is very rare and hugely exciting,” says Robert Jäckle, partner, Visionaries.
The funding will be used to expand CodeWords’ go-to-market and engineering functions.
