Ema raises $77M in funding to deploy AI employees across enterprise HR, IT and finance departments

Ema Unlimited has closed a $77 million Series B to push its “AI employees” deeper into enterprise operations. Creagis led the round, and existing backers Accel, S32 and Posus all came back with larger checks, according to the company.

The startup’s pitch is pretty blunt. Its agents are not meant to answer questions the way a chatbot does. They’re supposed to plan a task, act inside the software a company already uses, check their own work and only tap a human when something sensitive needs approval. Ema is aiming that setup at HR, IT and finance.

That approach has given the company some traction, at least by startup standards. Ema says revenue has grown more than 50 times in the last two years, though it didn’t say where it started. It also says the average customer has more than doubled spending over the past year as initial deployments expanded.

The best proof points come from bigger names already in the mix. Wipro has rolled out Ema-powered assistants for more than 240,000 employees across 65 countries, with the system handling about 2.9 million queries a year across roughly 100 automated workflows and cutting IT support tickets by 50%. Hitachi says it went from concept to full production in less than four weeks, tied the agents into more than 20 enterprise systems, and has since seen support ticket volume fall 30% while employee efficiency rose 70%, per Ema.

And that’s the real subtext of this round. Not the funding number, but the fact that some enterprise AI buyers seem to have skipped the demo phase and gone straight to production. Ema says the money will go into go-to-market hiring, more executive leadership and further development of its agents, all in service of getting more firms off the pilot treadmill.