AI context lab building Sauna — an intelligent workspace with persistent memory and learned user preferences
AI📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2021
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2024-Q4
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Wordware going public?
No. Wordware is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Wordware's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Wordware. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Wordware filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Wordware.
Who are Wordware's investors?
Wordware's investors include Spark Capital, Felicis, Y Combinator, Day One Ventures.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Wordware is a San Francisco-based AI context lab founded in 2021 by Filip Kozera and Robert Chandler (Y Combinator), building Sauna — an intelligent workspace and assistant designed around persistent memory and learned user preferences as the foundational substrate rather than as bolt-on features. The product composes long-term context across documents, conversations, and tools, and proactively surfaces relevant information. Wordware also ships a visual agent IDE that lets non-engineers build AI agents with natural language. The company raised an unusually large $30M seed in November 2024 led by Spark Capital with Felicis, Y Combinator, and Day One Ventures participating, signaling investor conviction in the memory-first agent thesis.
Company Profile
CEO
Filip Kozera
Founded
2021
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~15
Total Raised
$30M
Growth
Pre-revenue/early; $30M seed (Nov 2024); building Sauna as an AI workspace where persistent memory is the substrate, not a feature
Last Round
Seed — $30M (Nov 2024) · Lead: Spark Capital
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Seed · $30M · 1y 9mo ago
privateTotal raised $30M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Seed
$30M
Nov 2024
Spark Capital
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
0
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
2
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Wordware" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
10
via ashby
Product-build share
70%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 70% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 3 of 10 open roles are design.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Designer (Brand and Marketing)Applied AI EngineerProduct DesignerSenior Frontend EngineerSenior Full Stack Engineer (Back-End)Staff Engineer
Counted from Wordware's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Filip KozeraRobert Chandler
Investors
Spark Capital · Felicis · Y Combinator · Day One Ventures
Products
Sauna (AI workspace with persistent memory)
Wordware visual agent IDE (natural-language programming for AI agents)
Personal-workflow automation engine
Competitors
Glean · Notion AI · ChatGPT (OpenAI) · Granola · Mem · Reflect
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2024-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.