Fern Labs

We test every new promising model that comes out. Sometimes we find interesting things like below!

Very pleased to be named as one of Europe’s most promising startups in the Euro Seed 50 by Creandum. Check out the full Euro Seed 50 list - it’s a strong cohort and definitely worth a scroll - AI, bio, hardware, and, of course, B2B saas! Link in comments.

Welcome to the team Oscar Chung! Oscar builds resilient distributed systems, and is already pushing forward work around our agent engine. Thrilled to have you on board! On the side Oscar has already been creatively using Fern to fuel his Bufo (frog) passion - here's a video Fern made demo-ing (sound on!) a Bufo-themed live multiplayer chess app, also made by Fern! Fern can make it's own demo videos now!

Welcome to the team Tofunmi Kupoluyi! Tofunmi is a brilliant engineer. His time at Citadel and X running high-throughput, high-availability infra is going to be incredibly helpful as we expand the base primitives of Fern! If you're keen to solve the hard engineering challenges of increasingly-autonomous large-scale agent systems, get in touch!

We're looking for people who want to design and build the interface for collaborating with AI, so we can focus again on being human. https://lnkd.in/dhGdATKQ

Product update: Fern can now run on its own for up to 10 hours. Over the weekend, Sam Sklar used that window to build a live transcription tool with ElevenLabs Speech-to-Text - without being at the keyboard for most of the day. It’s a clear example of how Fern can move a project from idea to demo with very little oversight. We’re opening a few more early-access spots. If you’d like to try Fern on your own project, join the wait-list here → https://fern-labs.ai/

Welcome Clara Gila to Fern! Clara will be helping us build and scale Fern's microservices to run thousands (and eventually millions!) of concurrent agents. Her experience at both startups and Microsoft is going to be very valuable as we scale! If you're interested in tackling the problems around scaling thousands of concurrent agents, get in touch!

Excited to welcome Sam Komesarook to the team! Sam will be helping us bring Fern into real-world use cases - applying autonomous, long-running agents to solve actual multi-day client projects. He's a stellar engineer, already familiar with tackling these kinds of problems from his times at Palantir and Kiwi Biosciences! If you're curious about getting autonomous agents to work on multi-day/week problems, reach out!

🇩🇪 Berlin's neobank N26 is breeding Europe's next generation of startup founders. According to Sifted, at least 34 startups have emerged from N26, with seven founded by former employees in just the past year. These recent ventures include Alex Goddijn's Fern Labs (AI agent embedding platform), Alexander Weber's stealth healthtech startup, Alexander Walsh's Oraion (AI-powered customer insights), Evgeny Krapivin's Hiring Method (AI-powered recruiting system), John Arts' Emerge Data (customer behaviour tracking), Prokopis Gryllos' Emblematic AI (AI for accounting teams), and Omkar P.'s stealth AI software quality management startup. Founded in 2013 by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal, the Berlin-based neobank has raised over $1.5 billion from investors like Dragoneer Investment Group, Earlybird Venture Capital, and Coatue, and serves over 4 million customers across 24 European countries. This story was initially published in this week’s issue of Global Fintech Insider. To read the other crunchy fintech stories I've covered in it, click the link in the comments.