Poke

Summary active Updated May 26, 2026

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Location Palo Alto, California
Founded 2024
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised $25M
Website https://www.poke.com
Sector
AI consumer messaging

Investors

General Catalyst seed (2026)
village-global seed (2026)
earlybird seed (2026)

Founders

Marvin von Hagen Co-Founder
Felix Schlegel Co-Founder

About

Poke, created by The Interaction Company of California, is a Palo Alto-based AI agent that lives inside iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and WhatsApp 1. Users interact with Poke via text messages to handle everyday tasks including daily planning, calendar management, health and fitness tracking, smart home control, and photo editing 1. The company was co-founded by Marvin von Hagen and Felix Schlegel, who previously co-founded TUM Boring and won Elon Musk’s 2021 Not-a-Boring Competition 2.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2025-09-08 Seed $15M (at $100M val) General Catalyst Village Global, Earlybird, angels from Stripe, Dropbox, Google, OpenAI 23
2026-04-08 Seed extension $10M (at $300M val) Spark Capital, General Catalyst John & Patrick Collison, Jake & Logan Paul, Logan Kilpatrick, Joanne Jang, Scott Wu, Walden Yan, Guillermo Rauch, Ken Howery, Arash Ferdowsi, Brendan Foody, Thomas Wolf, Ben Spector 1

The initial $15M seed was raised at a $100M valuation; the additional $10M extension brought the post-money valuation to $300M 2.

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Sources

  1. AlleyWatch, “The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 4/13/26,” April 13, 2026. https://alleywatch.com/2026/04/the-weekly-notable-startup-funding-report-4-13-26/↩↩↩

  2. TechCrunch, “Poke makes using AI agents as easy as sending a text,” April 8, 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/poke-makes-ai-agents-as-easy-as-sending-a-text/↩↩↩

  3. Tech Startups, “Poke.com launches iMessage AI assistant with $15M seed funding at $100M valuation,” September 8, 2025. Accessed May 2026. https://techstartups.com/2025/09/08/poke-com-launches-imessage-ai-assistant-with-15m-seed-funding-at-100m-valuation-now-used-by-6000-vc-insiders/↩