Sol Foundry has come out of stealth with $4 million in seed funding for Sol, an AI assistant built around one small but universal problem: the things you promise in email and then forget. General Catalyst and Nexus Venture Partners backed the round, along with DeVC, Peercheque and CRED founder Kunal Shah.
“Sure, I’ll send over the deck by Friday.” “Let me pull those numbers together.” Everyone writes lines like these, and they pile up. Sol reads a user’s Gmail, spots these commitments and starts on the work before being asked.
“If I’ve already said I’ll do something, there should be an AI that gets started on it,” says CEO Anish Karan.
How it works
Sol runs in its own computing environment with browser access and more than 100 specialized skills. Once it finds a commitment, it pulls in the surrounding context and does the multi-step work across whatever tools are needed. It can research a question, draft a document, build slides, schedule a meeting or write a reply. Nothing leaves without the user’s say-so, though. Sol hands the finished work back for approval before anything is sent or published.
That approval step matters. Agents that act on their own inside an inbox make most people nervous. Sol does the legwork and leaves the final call to a human.
Team and availability
Karan is a second-time founder. He started the company with Prateek Srivastava and Ranjith Nair, and the three worked together at CRED. Sol is available by invitation, with a waitlist at hellosol.app. General availability is planned soon. Pricing hasn’t been announced.
Akarsh Shrivastava of General Catalyst describes it as a problem that’s “simple and deeply felt.” Most AI assistants wait for a prompt. Sol goes looking for work, and that proactive approach is the part investors are paying for.