Polar

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Founded 2026
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised $5.7M
Website https://polarbrowser.com
Sector
ai ai-browser productivity agentic-ai knowledge-work developer-tools

Investors

Koen Bok Seed ($10M) (2025)
Tobi Lutke 2025-06-17 (2025)
Paul Copplestone Seed (2025)
Guillermo Rauch Seed (2025)
Thomas Dohmke
Madrona Venture Group seed (2026)
framer Seed ($10M) (2025)
independent 2025-06-17 (2025)
vercel Seed (2025)

Founders

Kevin Jiang CEO & Co-Founder
Vishaal Ram Co-Founder
Howard Zhong Co-Founder

About

Polar is an AI-first web browser designed for knowledge workers, enabling workflow automation, prompt saving, and agent-based task assignment for professionals in sales, recruitment, marketing, research, and business operations 1. The company was founded in 2026 by CEO Kevin Jiang, Vishaal Ram, and Howard Zhong; Jiang previously worked at Perplexity on Comet, and the team has backgrounds from MIT, Perplexity, and leading quantitative funds 123. Polar operates on a freemium model with paid plans starting at $20/month 1. On 2026-07-29, Polar announced a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona 123. Per TechCrunch, individual angels in the round include Thomas Dohmke (ex-GitHub CEO), Phoebe Gates (Phia founder), Erik Bernhardsson (Modal CEO), Benjamin Spector (Flapping Airplanes co-founder), Rob Wachen (Etched co-founder), and Robert Yang (Fundamental Research Labs co-founder/CEO) 1. The company’s press release names only Thomas Dohmke and Erik Bernhardsson explicitly 3.

Disclaimer: This is a lean profile built from initial round coverage and may be expanded as more information becomes available.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-07-29 Seed $5.7M Madrona Thomas Dohmke, Phoebe Gates, Erik Bernhardsson, Benjamin Spector, Rob Wachen, Robert Yang 123

What Investors Say

“Engineers got a transformative moment from tools like Claude Code, and most knowledge workers are still waiting for theirs.”

— Sabrina Albert, Madrona (round lead), July 2026 3.

What Founders Say

“We’re focused on where browser agents are actually valuable, which is knowledge work.”

— Kevin Jiang, CEO of Polar, on the company’s positioning versus consumer AI browsers 1.

“Almost all knowledge work runs through the browser, and until now nothing could do that work for you.”

— Kevin Jiang, CEO of Polar, July 2026 3.

Sources

  1. TechCrunch, “Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work,” July 29, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/perplexity-employee-who-worked-on-comet-launches-an-ai-browser-aimed-at-knowledge-work/↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  2. Tech Startups, “Polar, AI startup founded by former Perplexity engineer behind Comet, raises $5.7M for AI browser that automates knowledge work,” July 29, 2026. Accessed July 30, 2026. https://techstartups.com/2026/07/29/polar-ai-startup-founded-by-former-perplexity-engineer-behind-comet-raises-5-7m-for-ai-browser-that-automates-knowledge-work/↩↩↩

  3. BusinessWire (via Las Vegas Sun), “Polar, the AI Browser That Does Real Work, Raises $5.7M,” July 29, 2026. Accessed July 30, 2026. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/jul/29/polar-the-ai-browser-that-does-real-work-raises-57/↩↩↩↩↩↩