Isara is a San Francisco-based AI startup founded in June 2025 that is building the orchestration layer for large-scale multi-agent systems, what the company calls AI agent swarms. Rather than focusing on a single autonomous agent, Isara designs the underlying architecture that lets many specialized agents align on goals, exchange information, and divide labor across complex tasks, functioning more like a coordinated team than a collection of isolated tools.
The company was founded by Eddie Zhang, a former OpenAI AI-safety researcher who previously held a visiting research position at MIT, and Henry Gasztowtt, a computer science student at Oxford, both 23 years old at founding. Since launching, Isara has recruited roughly a dozen additional researchers from Google, Meta, and OpenAI, signaling an ambition to compete at the frontier of agent coordination research.
Isara drew significant attention when it raised $94 million at a $650 million valuation just months after founding, with OpenAI participating as a key investor. Other backers include Amity Ventures, former Creative Artists Agency chairman Michael Ovitz, and legendary hedge-fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller. The round stands out both for its size relative to the company's age and for OpenAI's direct involvement in a multi-agent infrastructure bet.
The startup is initially targeting investment firms with predictive-modeling software, using large swarms of agents to analyze data and forecast outcomes. Early demonstrations reportedly coordinated around 2,000 agents to forecast gold prices. Biotechnology and geopolitical analysis are named as secondary markets, with a longer-term vision of agent swarms collaborating on challenges like tracking geopolitical shifts and forecasting economic trends.
Isara sits at the speculative, research-heavy frontier of the agentic AI wave, betting that the next breakthroughs come not from smarter individual agents but from systems that let thousands of them work together coherently at scale.