Dust
Dust builds the multiplayer operating system for enterprise AI: a platform where human teams and AI agents work together sharing context, data, and governance in a structured way.
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Podcast Episode
๐๏ธ Deep Dive
Daily News โ May 18, 2026
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Dust is a Paris-based startup founded in 2022 that addresses one of the most underappreciated challenges of the enterprise AI era: the lack of a shared layer between artificial agents and human teams. While most AI solutions focus on automating single tasks, Dust builds a collaboration infrastructure where hundreds of AI agents and dozens of human teams work together on shared data, contexts, and objectives. The platform is already adopted by over 3,000 organisations and has deployed more than 300,000 AI agents. Engagement metrics tell the story clearly: 70% weekly active usage and zero churn recorded in 2025 โ figures that are exceptionally rare in enterprise SaaS. This is not just a product companies choose; it is one they rely on every day. The $40 million Series B, led by Abstract and Sequoia with participation from Snowflake and Datadog, sends a clear signal: those building the infrastructure for collaborative enterprise AI are attracting top-tier capital. Sequoia does not invest in marginal categories, and the fact that Snowflake and Datadog โ two companies that live at the heart of the enterprise data ecosystem โ participated says a great deal about Dust's strategic position. In a market where many enterprise AI tools remain instruments for individual power users, Dust bets that the future of AI in the workplace is team-centric: not a single agent helping a single employee, but an infrastructure where knowledge, governance, and automation are shared across the entire organisation.
How Dust works
Business Model
Enterprise SaaS with consumption-based and per-seat pricing.
Revenue Model
Monthly or annual subscriptions for organisations, tiered by number of agents deployed and active users.
Market & Clients
Key Customers
Targets mid-to-large enterprise organisations adopting AI at scale that need a shared governance, context, and collaboration layer between agents and teams.
Geographic Presence
Funding & Investors
Funding Rounds
- 2026 - Series B: $40M
Lead: Abstract, Sequoia Capital
Key Investors
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