- Airspeed has raised $20 million in a Series A led by DN Capital, bringing total funding to more than $25 million.
- The company, formerly known as Glyphic, rebranded just two weeks ago on 20 May 2026 — and has grown revenue 4x and doubled headcount in the past year.
- Founded by two former DeepMind research scientists, including Indian-origin Cambridge alumnus Devang Agrawal, Airspeed now serves 200 customers across 20 countries.
Enterprise software has spent a decade getting better at showing sales teams what is happening. Dashboards got smarter, call recordings got transcribed, CRM data got richer. But the work – the emails, the follow-ups, the deal updates – still fell to humans. Airspeed was built on the conviction that this is the problem worth solving next.
The London and New York-based company has raised $20 million in a Series A led by DN Capital, with participation from Vi Partners, Framework Venture Partners, and Atlassian Ventures. The round brings Airspeed’s total funding to more than $25 million.
From Glyphic to Airspeed
The company was founded in 2022 under the name Glyphic and rebranded as Airspeed on 20 May 2026, just two weeks before this funding announcement. The new name reflects a deliberate shift in positioning: where Glyphic described the product, Airspeed describes the outcome, keeping revenue teams moving faster than the market. The platform deploys autonomous AI agents that act on commercial context across calls, emails, tickets, and CRM systems, automatically updating records, flagging risks, and generating follow-ups without waiting for a human to trigger them.
The founders
Airspeed was founded by Adam Liska and Devang Agrawal, both former research scientists at Google DeepMind. Liska’s background spans DeepMind, Spotify, Facebook, and IBM, where he focused on machine learning and natural language processing, and holds a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Agrawal, who holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded the Dr. Manmohan Singh Scholarship, given to three outstanding students of Indian origin each year, previously worked as a machine learning engineer at Apple after DeepMind. He also co-founded the Indian Young Scientist Network to promote scientific curiosity among students in India.
The team has since built out a global engineering function drawing on alumni from Meta, Apple, and Spotify across offices in London and New York. Headcount has doubled over the past year.
Traction that justifies the raise
Airspeed already serves 200 customers across 20 countries, including Persona, Pricefx, Light, and Qdrant. Customers built thousands of custom agents on the platform in the first four months of 2026, with monthly run volume nearly tripling from January to April. Revenue grew 4x over the past twelve months.
One concrete proof point: Foleon, an enterprise content creation platform, saved more than $193,000 and reclaimed six hours per sales rep per week within its first 90 days on Airspeed. These are the numbers that make enterprise buyers pay attention.
“Revenue teams have systems of record and systems of intelligence. What they don’t have is a system of action – one that understands their unique commercial context and does the work. Dashboards weren’t wrong; they were incomplete. The next leap comes from agents that close the loop.” — Adam Liska, CEO and Co-founder.
“Most teams retrofit AI onto legacy systems. We built the foundation from scratch. Airspeed is a unified understanding of commercial context, an agent runtime with the right guardrails, and rigorous evaluations so every action is trustworthy. Our agents act on the live deal, not a stale snapshot of it.” — Devang Agrawal, CTO and Co-founder.
“Every CEO wants a single source of truth for what is driving the business. The next wave of enterprise AI belongs to systems that turn insight into execution. Airspeed is building that system of action for modern organisations.” — Thomas Rubens, Partner, DN Capital.
“The next wave of enterprise AI belongs to agents that act on deep context, not chat that summarises it. Airspeed is bringing the same paradigm to the revenue stack, with the research rigour of a team built out of DeepMind.” — Georgia Zhang, Head of Atlassian Ventures.
“The category-defining AI companies of this decade will be built by teams that combine research depth with commercial discipline and deep empathy for the end user. We love backing founders with European roots and the ambition to win globally.” — Olivier Laplace, Partner, Vi Partners.
The competitive landscape
Airspeed operates in an intensely competitive arena. 11x, the UK-founded AI sales rep startup, raised $50M in a Series B led by a16z to deploy autonomous digital workers for pipeline generation and outbound prospecting. Gong, the revenue intelligence giant valued at over $7 billion, and Salesloft and Outreach, both dominant sales engagement suites, continue to embed deeper AI capabilities into their platforms. Where these tools focus on individual functions or on surfacing insights, Airspeed’s differentiation is the unified execution layer: connecting customer conversations, live data systems, and back-end action in a single platform so sales teams don’t need to manually bridge disconnected tools.
DN Capital, which has previously backed category leaders including Shazam, Auto1, and Remitly, is betting Airspeed can do the same in enterprise revenue automation.
Market context
According to Grand View Research, the global AI in sales market was valued at $24.64 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $145.12 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 22.2%. Sales and marketing is projected to be the fastest-growing segment within the broader AI market through 2033, driven by demand for AI tools that move beyond insights to autonomous execution.
The harder question for Airspeed is not whether enterprise sales teams want AI that does the work. The question is whether a $25 million-funded startup can build a durable execution layer fast enough before Salesforce, Gong, and the next well-capitalised competitor decide that owning this category is worth a billion-dollar bet.
