Ando exits stealth with $20M to build a Slack rival where agents are team members
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Founder Sara Du's Ando raised $20M in pre-seed and seed funding from Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence Capital. Its messaging platform gives agents their own identities, inboxes and permissions. Agents can join channels, DMs and calls and message people without being tagged. It works with whatever agents a team already runs, including Codex, Claude and Grokbot, keeps Slack as a bridge, and already has users in about a dozen countries.