AgentsSeptember 10, 2026via GeekWire
Spotlight: Startup vet launches Latch to liberate humanity ‘from doing work that owns us’
Why it matters
A funded startup is building agent infrastructure to identify and automate repetitive workflows across enterprises—a deployment-focused play in the emerging agentic work automation category.
Key signals
- Latch: new enterprise AI startup focused on workflow automation
- $8M funding from FUSE
- Founded by serial entrepreneur Stefan Kalb
- Built with a PSL (Practical Systems Lab) alum
- Core mission: map real-world workflows and automate routine employee tasks
- Positioning: liberation from repetitive work, not just productivity gains
- Founder: Stefan Kalb (serial founder background)
- Funding: $8M from FUSE
- Product focus: workflow mapping and automation for enterprise
- Mission framed as liberating employees from routine tasks
- Co-built with PSL alum (partner/co-founder signal)
- Launch timing: September 2026
The hook
$8M for Latch: a new enterprise agent platform that maps workflows to automate routine work at scale.
Serial founder Stefan Kalb has launched Latch, an $8M FUSE-backed enterprise AI startup built alongside a PSL alum to map real-world workflows and liberate employees from the routine tasks that hold them back.