Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $ 350 million with a rating of $ 10 billion

It is clear that investors are optimistic about the former Salsforce Co-COO BRET Taylor Aic Starger Sierra.

Sierra, which helps institutions to build customer service agents, has announced that they have sparked a A 350 million dollar financing round Thursday. The tour, led by the former investor, Greenoaks Capital, is estimated to start with $ 10 billion, according to the company’s blog that confirmed A. Previous report From axios on Wednesday.

Sierra was founded in early 2024 by Taylor and Tawil Google Alum Clay Pavor. The company claims to have landed hundreds of customers, including Sofi, RAMP and Brex, among others, in 18 months of operating it.

Sierra now collected completely $ 635 million, including 110 million dollars It was closed in February last year led by Sikoya and standards, and A 175 million dollar tour This was closed in October last year led by Greenoaks.

Among its investors are iconiq and Thrive Capital.

As TECHCRUNCH mentioned before, Taylor and Bavor have a long history of customer service technology. Taylor spent nearly a decade in Salesforce and established for years, which bought Salesforce for $ 750 million in the summer of 2016. Bavor Managed Gmail and Google Drive in Google, among other products facing the consumer.

Taylor Balor met while he was in Google, where he worked before CTO worked on Facebook for several years. In Google, Taylor is widely attributed to helping Google Maps. Years later, he was supervising the Twitter board all over Elon Musk Acquisition From the social networking site.

Earlier this week, in fact, Taylor announced that Sierra will launch her second year of the so -called APX program, a rotational opportunity for new technical graduates who directly reflect the Google program, which launched both Taylor professions and co -founder Clay Pavor two decades ago.

The recruitment announcement is highlighted, while a marketing market has become increasingly increasing, especially since companies evaluate the power of artificial intelligence technologies such as those that Sierra sells and their potential impact on the workforce needs.

The program targets computer science graduates and says it provides experience in both agents engineering and product management. Taylor described the roles as what he calls “an irresponsible amount of responsibility” – similar to the freedom to build and launch the products he and Bavor have in Google – where new graduates are expected to work on multiple products for products during their first year.