Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed in 2025, at a $300M post-money valuation
Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That's the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and, in some markets, WhatsApp.
Two German kids met at a middle school hackathon. Then they built a 22-ton tunnel boring machine, beat every university engineering team on the planet, and won Elon's Not-a-Boring Competition in Las Vegas. They were 21 and 23. Then they pivoted to AI. Raised $15M from General
@TechCrunch Text is the easy part. The hard bit is permissions, retries, and not turning a phone number into a liability. Curious how they handle auth and audit logs when the agent goes off script.
If this data is accurate, Spark bought approx 3% for $10m. Seeing more venture rounds where the investor(s) are getting less than 5%. What do LPs think of this trend?
Poke is OpenClaw for normies. First AI product I've seen successfully scale on iMessage. Closed an unannounced $10M round at $300M from Spark in Q1. Congrats!