TESS: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)
Founded in California by Brazilian entrepreneurs, TESS AI is an enterprise-grade autonomous agentic AI platform engineered to deliver hard corporate ROI. The company empowers professionals to build highly customized AI agents orchestrating over 250 AI models, featuring native integration with global automation ecosystems. By pioneering a disruptive, "seatless" pricing model, TESS eliminates restrictive per-user licenses, generating up to 90% in cost savings and allowing enterprises to consolidate their stack by replacing 4 to 5 traditional SaaS tools within the first six months. Powered by a complex agentic architecture—outperforming Meta’s $2B Manus AI—TESS is driving explosive adoption, with over 16,000 users executing more than 600,000 autonomous tasks every month.
TESS has raised $4.9M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Seed of $4.9M announced in Mar 2026.
That round is below the $6.0M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.
TESS Company Profile and Key Stats
Latest funding round on record: Mar 2026.
TESS Funding Rounds
TESS Founders and Leadership Team
Contact details for the TESS team: 1 has a LinkedIn profile.
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TESS' latest round of $4.9M is below the median round in Artificial Intelligence. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.
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TESS Funding FAQs
What does TESS do?
Founded in California by Brazilian entrepreneurs, TESS AI is an enterprise-grade autonomous agentic AI platform engineered to deliver hard corporate ROI. The company empowers professionals to build highly customized AI agents orchestrating over 250 AI models, featuring native integration with global automation ecosystems. By pioneering a disruptive, "seatless" pricing model, TESS eliminates restrictive per-user licenses, generating up to 90% in cost savings and allowing enterprises to consolidate their stack by replacing 4 to 5 traditional SaaS tools within the first six months. Powered by a complex agentic architecture—outperforming Meta’s $2B Manus AI—TESS is driving explosive adoption, with over 16,000 users executing more than 600,000 autonomous tasks every month.
How much funding has TESS raised?
TESS has raised $4.9M across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Seed of $4.9M announced in Mar 2026.
When did TESS last raise funding?
TESS' most recent funding round on record is a Seed of $4.9M, announced in Mar 2026.
Who founded TESS?
FundedIQ lists Tess Michaels (Founder) at TESS.
Where is TESS headquartered?
TESS is based in Concord, California, United States.
How many employees does TESS have?
TESS is in the 11-50 employee band.
How does TESS' funding compare to other Artificial Intelligence startups?
TESS' latest round of $4.9M is below the $6.0M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies on FundedIQ across 7,241 tracked companies over the last two years.
About FundedIQ's TESS Funding Data
FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.
Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for TESS is left off this page rather than filled in.
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