FirstWork

Applied AI for frontline enterprises. Forward-deployed AI agents that automate workforce operations inside your existing systems.

AI agents Legal and compliance Developer tools and cloudY Combinator

Latest funding

$15M Series A · October 21, 2026

Source: finsmes.com

Total raised: $20.5M* across 3 sourced rounds

All 3 rounds ↓

Website: firstwork.com.

X: @firstworkhr · 67 followers.

LinkedIn: firstworkhr.

Categories: AI agents Legal and compliance Developer tools and cloud.

Sectors: B2B, Human Resources, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Workflow Automation, Compliance.

Stage: Series A.

Based in: San Francisco, United States.

Total raised: $20.5M* in 3 sourced rounds.

Last round: Oct 21, 2026 · 22 days ago.

Team: 9 people on the team page.

On Recent Funding since: Sep 28, 2026.

Signals

X account@firstworkhr · created May 11, 2024 (2 years old) · 67 followers

Website registeredApr 21, 2004 (22 years old)

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

FirstWork | 292 days from X account to first raise on record

@firstworkhr·Raised $20M in 2 sourced rounds·1 signal before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

October 21, 2026
Series A · $15M
Source: finsmes.com
February 27, 2025
Seed · $5M
GGradient Ventures (lead), DDeel, DDonald Stalter, FFelipe Navio, HHoughton Street Ventures, KKulveer Taggar, PPhilippe Bouaziz, Rrow capital, SSoma Capital, YY Combinator
Source: fundraisingfox.com
May 11, 2024
X account created
April 21, 2004
Website created
Date unknown
Round · $500K*
YY Combinator
Source: ycombinator.com

Founders and team

VK
Vardhan Kapoor CEO & Co-Founder

LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
SC
Shubham Choudhary Co-Founder and CTO

LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com

Investors

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Sources and API

Every amount links to the page it came from. * Estimated from an accelerator's published standard deal, not a company-specific disclosure. How Recent Funding sources and verifies funding data. The same data as JSON: /api/v1/companies/firstwork (get a free API key).