Key facts
- June, a startup co-founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport, has launched.
- The company raised $20 million in pre-seed funding, led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures.
- June's platform aims to simplify the integration of AI agents into complex enterprise systems.
- The platform scans existing business processes, identifies bottlenecks, and builds optimized, agent-powered workflows.
- Paul Akinmade, CSO at CMG, used June to overcome integration challenges with Salesforce.
June, a new startup co-founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport, has emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding, including investment from Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, and George Kurtz. The company aims to solve the complex challenge of deploying AI tools within large businesses, a problem often requiring specialized forward-deployed engineers (FDEs).
Rapoport and her co-founders, who previously founded Bonobo AI and were acquired by Salesforce, observed firsthand how companies struggled to integrate AI into their existing platforms. They noted that before AI can deliver value, significant work is needed to address fragmented data, complex workflows, and technical debt within legacy systems.
June's platform is designed to scan a company's existing systems, understand its business processes, identify bottlenecks, and then automatically build optimized, agent-powered processes. It provides a step-by-step roadmap for successful enterprise AI implementation, guiding users through tasks like data source connection and duplicate field removal.
Paul Akinmade, Chief Strategy Officer at CMG, a mortgage lender, shared his experience using June. After facing difficulties integrating AI tools with Salesforce, his team found June's platform provided clarity and enabled safe deployment of agents, even before official kickoff meetings. Akinmade emphasized his desire for an easy-to-use tool that did not require FDEs, a need June appears to have met.