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Founder · Instinct
Noah Shinn
From research scientist to a $10B agent company in about a year.
- Founded
- 2025
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
- Sector
- AI Agents
- Company
- Instinct
The story in brief
A former research scientist at Sierra, Shinn founded Instinct to build a personal AI agent that texts and calls businesses for users.
Instinct raised a $250M Series B and then a $1B Series C within about a month.
Read the full story · 3 min readInstinct Raises $1B Series C at $10B for a Personal AI Agent That Texts and Calls for You→Lessons for founders
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Ship before the app
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Speed attracts capital
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