Ando raised $20M to build team chat where agents are members.

The launch from founder Sara Du, backed by Accel, Index and Emergence, gives agents their own identities, inboxes and permissions. Agents join channels, DMs and calls and can message people without being tagged. It works with whatever agents a team already runs, including Codex and Claude, keeps Slack as a bridge, and has users in about a dozen countries. Separately, Island closed a $400M Series F at $6.4B, up 33% from March 2025, now pitching its enterprise browser as an "agentic control plane" for governing people and agents together. Agent identity and agent governance are both becoming product categories with real money in them.