Serval
Facts
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA 94104
- Sectors
- Artificial Intelligence, IT Service Management, Enterprise Software
Apptio Co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer Launch Thira, Raise $21M Seed Led by Madrona to Build Autonomous IT Support Agents
Apptio co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer launched Bellevue-based enterprise AI startup Thira to build autonomous agents for IT support and back-office work, and raised $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona. Thira will integrate with tools like ServiceNow, Jira Service Management and identity/device-management systems, with plans to expand into finance and HR amid competition from companies such as ServiceNow (Moveworks), Aisera, Rezolve.ai, and Serval.
Madrona Announces 2026 Intelligent Applications 40 as AI Market Shifts to Enterprise ROI; Cites Cursor $60B, Wiz $32B, OpenRouter ~$7B, Hugging Face $12.9B
Madrona released its 6th annual Intelligent Applications 40 list highlighting a shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-ready products that deliver measurable ROI, noting recent big acquisitions (SpaceX–Cursor $60B, Google–Wiz $32B, OpenRouter ~$7B, Nvidia–HuggingFace $12.9B). The list emphasizes value creation in harnesses and aggregation layers—agentic systems, routing, hosting, and inference services—rather than models alone.
