# Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do > Source: > Published: 2026-06-04 14:12:00+00:00 #### TL;DR Airspeed, formerly Glyphic, has raised $20 million in a Series A led by DN Capital to build an AI execution layer for revenue teams. Founded by two ex-DeepMind researchers, the London-based startup deploys autonomous agents that act on sales signals rather than just surfacing them. The pitch deck for every AI sales tool tells the same story: more signals, better insights, smarter forecasting. What they leave out is that most of those insights end up ignored. Reps drown in dashboards. CRM records go stale. The deal that should have closed last week slips because nobody acted on the intent signal that arrived on Tuesday. [Airspeed](https://www.goairspeed.com/), a London-based startup founded by two [former Google DeepMind](https://thenextweb.com/news/inherent-ai-50-million-seed-deepmind-faraday-science) researchers, has raised $20 million in a Series A to attack that problem directly. The round was led by [DN Capital](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260520633431/en/Glyphic-Becomes-Airspeed-Launching-the-Next-Era-of-AI-native-GTM-Execution), with participation from Vi Partners, Framework Venture Partners, and [Atlassian Ventures](https://thenextweb.com/news/atlassian-confluence-remix-partner-agents). The funding brings Airspeed’s total raised to more than $25 million, including an earlier pre-seed round of over €5 million. ## From insight to action Airspeed deploys autonomous AI agents that work across calls, emails, support tickets, and CRM systems. Rather than surfacing insights for humans to act on, the agents act themselves: updating records, flagging risks, generating follow-ups, and routing tasks without waiting for a rep to notice. Co-founders Adam Liska and Devang Agrawal left DeepMind together in 2022 to start the company from a small WeWork in London. Liska, who holds a PhD in brain and cognitive sciences and previously worked at Spotify and Facebook, frames the problem as one of execution rather than intelligence. “*You can have all the data in the world and still lose because no one executed at the right moment, in the right way,*” he [wrote](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adliska_today-im-thrilled-to-share-that-airspeed-ugcPost-7468275717269585920-Novx/) announcing the round. Agrawal, who studied engineering at Cambridge on a Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarship, [described](https://www.goairspeed.com/blog/the-story-behind-airspeeds-20m-series-a) how the DN Capital relationship began not in a boardroom but at a customer event in Stockholm, where the investor saw the intensity of customer engagement firsthand. The company was originally called Glyphic and [rebranded to Airspeed](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260520633431/en/Glyphic-Becomes-Airspeed-Launching-the-Next-Era-of-AI-native-GTM-Execution) on 20 May 2026. ## Traction and growth Airspeed says it has grown revenue four-fold year on year and now serves close to 200 customers across 20 countries, including identity verification platform Persona, vector database provider Qdrant, and pricing software company Pricefx. Customers have reportedly built thousands of custom agents on the platform in the first four months of 2026, with monthly run volume nearly tripling between January and April, [according to VentureBurn](https://ventureburn.com/airspeed-raises-20m-series-a-revenue-execution/). The company operates across London and New York and plans to put the new funding into product development and go-to-market hiring. ## A crowded but expanding market Airspeed enters a market with no shortage of competitors. Revenue intelligence and sales engagement tools from companies like Gong, Clari, and Outreach already absorb significant enterprise budgets. What Airspeed bets on is that the next wave is not about better analytics but about [agentic execution](https://thenextweb.com/news/acceleratorx-launch-european-ai-startup), AI that does the work rather than telling humans what work to do. The involvement of Atlassian Ventures is notable. Atlassian has been building its own [agent ecosystem](https://thenextweb.com/news/merantix-capital-103m-ai-fund) around Confluence and Jira, and a strategic investment in an agentic GTM platform suggests the company sees revenue operations as adjacent to its own product roadmap. Whether agentic AI in sales represents a genuine shift or just the latest packaging for CRM automation will depend on whether tools like Airspeed can demonstrate measurably better outcomes than the dashboards they aim to replace. The [DeepMind pedigree](https://thenextweb.com/news/google-deepmind-hassabis-startup-pace) of the founding team lends credibility to the technical bet, but the harder test is commercial: convincing revenue leaders that an agent they cannot see is doing the job better than the rep they can.