GoKawiilArga raises $10M seed to build enterprise-software 'digital twins' for AI agent training
Arga, a startup led by CEO Philip Li, announced a $10 million seed round led by General Catalyst, with Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel also participating. The company builds full replicas of enterprise tools like Salesforce, Workday and email clients, complete with permissions and web hooks, so AI agents can be trained and tested repeatedly without disrupting live systems.
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Reinforcement learning typically requires running scenarios thousands of times, but enterprise software can't easily be reset or cloned, making that kind of iterative training impractical at scale. By simulating realistic, resettable environments, Arga addresses a core bottleneck holding back reliable enterprise AI agents, potentially accelerating how quickly businesses can safely automate cross-system workflows.
- Arga raised $10M in seed funding led by General Catalyst.
- Its platform creates full digital replicas of enterprise software rather than simple API endpoints.
- The approach aims to solve the reset-and-scale problem that limits reinforcement learning for enterprise AI agents.
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