Venture builder Improbable backs AI business messaging app with $10M
Tech.eu John Reynolds
Improbable just launched Bolter, an AI messaging app for business tasks, and put $10M of its own money behind it. It’s aiming at Europe’s messaging stack, with humans and AI agents working together.
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Improbable has pulled a third product out of stealth: Bolter, an AI messaging app built to automate business processes, and it is backing the launch with $10 million of its own money.
The London company has come a long way from its gaming and metaverse infrastructure days. Founded in 2012 and backed by $500 million from SoftBank in 2017, it now describes itself as a venture builder, seeding products internally and potentially bringing in outside funding later.
Bolter itself began as a personal project that Improbable co-founder and CEO Herman Narula coded. The product is run by a team of seven and is pitched as an AI-native messaging platform for non-technical operators: users describe the goal in plain text, then the agents plan, debate and hand work off to one another.
There’s also a clear regional pitch baked in. Bolter is leaning on European sovereign messaging credentials and arguing that Europe should have its own major messaging platforms. It is also model-neutral, routing each request to whatever AI model it thinks fits the task best.
Bolter follows two earlier stealth exits from Improbable’s new playbook, the blockchain product Somnia and the AI product Kallikor. Narula says the company knows it is up against some of the biggest firms in the world, but still thinks a messaging platform built for mixed teams of humans and AI agents is worth trying in Europe.
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This is the kind of move that sounds either very ambitious or slightly mad, which is usually where the interesting stuff happens. Improbable is betting that Europe needs its own serious messaging layer and that model-neutral AI is a feature, not a compromise. That’s a cleaner argument than most of the “AI workplace” noise, which is mostly just chat boxes wearing a tie.
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