Nebuly gets $21 million to measure the value of AI agents

Nebuly, a startup with offices in Turin and New York, supplies software that shows the work of AI agents and the value of that work. It got $21 million in a Series A round (a step of funds for new companies), with Planven, a Zurich investor, as the lead investor. Most clients have more than $1 billion in revenue, and Nebuly gave no revenue numbers.

How it works

Nebuly sees the work of a person as many tasks, each with a value. A task of three hours that is 15 minutes with AI gives back almost three hours. For customer assistants, it also shows revenue, churn risk and upsell chances.

The numbers

In a Gartner survey of 1,303 persons, 85% of leaders plan to increase AI budgets. Only 22% have expanded AI across the company.

What is not known

Finance teams will want clear numbers. It is not known if the assumptions are sufficient for auditors. Datadog, a company that makes tools for developers, has an agent console that also measures use, effect and returns.

Insight: Whoever sets the AI value number steers staff decisions

Nebuly CEO Francesco Signorato tells that firms make decisions on staff numbers from assumptions about AI productivity, not from data. Nebuly works on top of tools such as Datadog, which also measures this. This reads as a move to control the value number that the board uses, because it can change staff and budgets. Leaders must tell who checks the assumptions.