Solo founder raises $20M for Ando, says most competitors aren't real
julianweisser · x · 2026-10-24
Sara Du, who co-founded Alloy Automation, now runs Ando solo with $20M from Accel, Index and Emergence to build a workspace for humans and agents. Key points: every market has only a few serious players—the rest drift toward quick money ("you look at their GitHub and they're not dark green"); agents are coworkers, not tools; trust runs backwards with agents; and the bear/bull case for going solo.
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