Prentis — Hoffman and Pincus's Computer-Use Lab — In Talks for $100M at a $1B Valuation Four Months After Launch

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TechCrunch reported July 24 that Prentis, co-founded in April by Ritankar Das with Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation to train models on how office workers navigate routine document and system workflows. Named target use cases are the unglamorous back-office ones — handling insurance claims and automating customs duty refund exceptions 'without needing a human to hunt down paperwork' — with early customers including a healthcare management service organization and manufacturers, and investor materials projecting a $75M annualized run rate. Computer-use agents aimed at exception handling attack the workflow layer that vertical SaaS sells without needing any integration surface at all.