The central pitch of AI browsers like Perplexity’s Comet, Opera’s Neon, and The Browser Company’s Dia is that they’ll help you complete daily tasks more efficiently. While these are agents that are limited to one browser, Composite aims to build an agentic solution that helps professionals with their tasks, regardless of which browser they use.
The startup was started earlier this year by Yang Fan Yun and Charlie Deane. Yun is a former product manager at Uber, while Deane founded a company selling server proxies. When he was at Uber, he realized that a lot of people around him were doing grunt work in their browsers.
“I saw people in different roles, including marketing, sales, recruitment, and security engineers, do a lot of tedious work in their browsers. I felt that this stops them from putting their education and skill to full use, and I wanted to automate this work easily for them,” Yun told TechCrunch over a call about Composite’s core problem statement.
The company said today that it has raised $5.6 million in seed funding in a round led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross’s venture firm NFDG, with participation from Menlo Ventures and Anthropic’s Anthology Fund.
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Composite offers its solution for Macs at the moment, and setup is very easy, as you just need to install the browser extension for agents to make use of that browser. You can issue different commands across tools that you use on the web, and Composite will get the work done. For instance, it can help you go through your Jira backlog for bugs using relevant documents, leave comments on high-priority bugs, and also mark duplicate bugs as resolved.
The startup says security engineers can use it for looking up candidates across sites and draft personalized emails, security engineers can create vulnerability tickets based on alerts, and marketers can pull reports from different sources to create short insights reports.
Yun said that other AI browsers and agents from companies like OpenAI and Perplexity are solving for non-professional needs, such as helping with shopping and booking tickets.
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“We are an ideal tool for professionals who want to set their workflows without having technical knowledge. Composite is very good at atomic actions like clicking on different elements of the website or typing in boxes, and that gets the job done for our users,” he said.
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