Zaro Raises $5.1M Pre-Seed for Anti-Vendor Agent Memory
Zaro, a London startup, came out of stealth on June 9 with a $5.1M pre-seed led by Cherry Ventures, and look at the angel list: Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, Charlie Songhurst, plus the founders of Convergence. The team is the story. Several of Zaro's eight engineers built agents at Convergence, got acquired by Salesforce, then helped build Agentforce. Now they are building its opposite.
Their pitch is a knife aimed at their old employer. From inside Salesforce they watched every company running Agentforce make Salesforce smarter, not themselves. Every agent interaction, every automated decision accumulated as institutional intelligence inside the vendor's infrastructure, and the customers paying for it walked away with nothing. Zaro's answer is a shared memory layer for AI agents plus one adaptive workspace, so what your agents learn compounds for the company that owns the data, not for the software vendor.
This extends the agent-memory wave of the past month (Supermemory, Hyper, Walrus, MemPalace, UMP) but asks a different question. Not how agents remember. Who owns what they learn. Anti-vendor memory could be the enterprise version of the rent-versus-run split, and the fact that the GitHub CEO personally backed an explicitly anti-platform thesis tells you how live this question is.
https://tech.eu/2026/06/09/zaro-lands-51m-to-build-the-next-layer-of-enterprise-ai/
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Their pitch is a knife aimed at their old employer. From inside Salesforce they watched every company running Agentforce make Salesforce smarter, not themselves. Every agent interaction, every automated decision accumulated as institutional intelligence inside the vendor's infrastructure, and the customers paying for it walked away with nothing. Zaro's answer is a shared memory layer for AI agents plus one adaptive workspace, so what your agents learn compounds for the company that owns the data, not for the software vendor.
This extends the agent-memory wave of the past month (Supermemory, Hyper, Walrus, MemPalace, UMP) but asks a different question. Not how agents remember. Who owns what they learn. Anti-vendor memory could be the enterprise version of the rent-versus-run split, and the fact that the GitHub CEO personally backed an explicitly anti-platform thesis tells you how live this question is.
https://tech.eu/2026/06/09/zaro-lands-51m-to-build-the-next-layer-of-enterprise-ai/
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