Imbue is an Autonomous Agent Platforms company founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $232M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2023 at a $1B valuation.
United States| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2023 | Series B | $200M | $1B | Astera Institute |
| Oct 1, 2022 | Series A | $20M | — |
| — |
Imbue raised $200M in 2023 to build reasoning models and has since narrowed to Sculptor, an interface for running and verifying coding agents — a pivot into the single most contested corner of the AI tool market, where the frontier labs themselves ship the competing product. No structural barrier separates Sculptor from Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex-class agents, developer tooling is discretionary spend with free alternatives, and no revenue or pricing evidence is disclosed. The 2023 war chest buys time, but the honest read is a research lab still searching for a defensible business as the market consolidates around the model owners.
Kanjun Qiu is co-founder and CEO of Imbue (formerly Generally Intelligent), an AI research lab she started in 2020 with Josh Albrecht to build AI systems that can reason and code. She is also a general partner at Outset Capital. Under her leadership Imbue raised a $200M Series B in 2023 at a valuation above $1B and has shipped Sculptor, a tool for running and verifying coding agents.
Josh Albrecht is co-founder and CTO of Imbue, which he started with Kanjun Qiu in 2020. He leads the company's technical and research work on reasoning models and agentic coding tools.
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A user interface for coding agents that lets developers run multiple agents in parallel inside safe containers, preserve context across sessions, and instantly pull agent changes into their IDE to test and review. Rebuilt from the ground up and re-released in September 2025 after an April 2025 research preview.
Imbue's core research effort to train large models optimized for robust reasoning and code, intended to underpin AI agents that can reliably plan and complete multi-step tasks.
