Scuba, which is building a “context engine” designed to serve as a shared memory hub for human workers and AI agents, raised $34M across pre-seed and seed
The $34 million financing gives Scuba backing to pursue a shared layer for both employees and AI agents, extending the human-and-agent workflow framing also visible in Snorkel AI’s agentic data-development platform.
First-order effects
Scuba gains $34 million across its pre-seed and seed rounds to build its context engine for human workers and AI agents.
Enterprise teams evaluating agent deployments gain another vendor pursuing a shared-memory layer between staff, organizational knowledge, and agents.
Second-order effects
Jedify and Skan AI face a more defined contest to own enterprise context: API-connected knowledge, observed work activity, and shared human-agent memory are competing approaches.
Buyers will have to assess whether a context layer fits into their existing knowledge sources and employee workflows, rather than selecting an AI agent in isolation.
Third-order effects
If enterprise agents become routine collaborators, the context layer may become a strategic control point: vendors that organize work and knowledge can shape which agents are useful across a company.
The category points toward AI-workspace consolidation, with the durable advantage likely resting on systems that connect human activity and enterprise knowledge without fragmenting them across separate agent tools.
The trend:Enterprise AI is shifting from standalone models toward context layers that give human workers and agents a shared view of organizational knowledge and work.
Exclusive: new startup Scuba launches today with $34M in funding and a mission to build the “context engine” for more effective teamwork using AI tools. I spoke to its ex-Slack founders, Noah Desai Weiss (@noah_weiss) and Dolapo Falola (@dolapo), about their product and work 👀
It's so fun rooting for great people. Twenty years in, @noah_weiss is still one of the most thoughtful builders and sharpest product thinkers I know. I've been on the beta for months as I build my new company. Huge congrats on the Scuba launch! https://scuba.app/
I've been secretly using @withscuba for months to diligence cos, support founders, build theses and run my household. Has been an absolute game changer for a person who takes a ton of notes & is working on too many streams at once. Go @noah_weiss and @dolapo go! So proud!!
Last year, I got a tip that Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield was taking meetings for a new startup. I was intrigued. I asked around 👀 Turns out, @stewart was backing — and advising — a stealth startup led by his former head of product, Noah Desai Weiss (@noah_weiss). Now, a y…
Brilliant team and super-cool product. @noah_weiss and I overlapped back in the Google Docs days. Scuba is Git for the context that lives outside the codebase.
Super excited about what @noah_weiss, @dolapo & team have been working on over the past year or so. We all know that it's never been faster for a single person to build software with AI. It's still devilishly hard to make it add up as a team. They've built https://scuba.app/ to k…
Super excited for https://scuba.app/. Frontier models know the public internet, not what makes your company unique. That's the gap @noah_weiss and @dolapo are closing with Scuba. It captures your company's context and make it a shareable asset. In beta now.