Agentic AI Company Continua Raises $8 Million in Seed Funding to Bring Agents to Group Chats

Continua, founded by David Petrou, ex-Googler who helped found Google Goggles and Glass and led large teams launching on-device machine intelligence, has raised $8 million in seed funding from GV with participation from BVP and an all-star cast of angel investors. Backed by new funding, Continua.ai is tackling Social AI at scale. Its chatbot has already processed 7M+ messages with strong retention in an early capped release.

Continua becomes a trusted member of your group chats, helping in real-time with planning, decisions, and organization. It remembers key info buried in long threads, suggests the best options to cut through indecision, auto-generates living documents from ongoing conversations, and never forgets reminders or updates. You can even DM it privately to recall group context without bothering others. From trips to projects, it keeps everything organized, actionable, and up to date.

Continua works right where you already chat, just add its phone number to your group text or invite it to your Discord server. Built with a deep focus on privacy and security, it encrypts data at rest and in transit, earning trust as a smart, reliable presence in every conversation.

Social AI goes beyond simple one-on-one interactions, requiring models to engage in group conversations with awareness, context, and tact. Continua is designed to act like a thoughtful participant, enhancing discussions, not disrupting them, through custom-tuned models, proactive behavior, and deep conversational memory.