capital · May 20, 2026
Silicon Valley Investors Bet on 22-Year-Old Founder Jessica Wu of Sola AI Startup
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Jessica Wu, co-founder and CEO of Sola, raised $21 million by age 22 from top Silicon Valley investors for the AI startup. Sola, co-founded with Neil Deshmukh, automates repetitive manual tasks such as invoicing, shipment building, and healthcare data entry using AI agents. The funding includes a $3.5 million seed round led by Sarah Guo at Conviction and a $17.5 million Series A led by Kimberly Tan at Andreessen Horowitz. Sola operates as an agentic process automation platform for B2B domains in enterprise workflows and cybersecurity. The company went through Y Combinator and emerged from stealth to offer a copilot for robotic process automation without code or heavy setup.
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