Instinct
Instinct is an AI startup that builds a personal AI agent product.
- TYPE
- Company
- SIGNALS
- 11
- FIRST SEEN
- Aug 26, 2026
- LAST SEEN
- Oct 17, 2026
Recent signals
- Websites are closing their doors to AI agents Oct 17, 2026
- Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction (Eli Tan/New York Times) Oct 9, 2026
- Meta, Walmart, Instinct, Shopify, Sierra, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure how AI bots interact with businesses (Kate Rooney/CNBC) Oct 6, 2026
- Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account Oct 5, 2026
- Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation Sep 28, 2026
- AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service (Utkarsh Shetti/Reuters) Sep 28, 2026
- Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw Sep 24, 2026
- Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media) Sep 3, 2026
- AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding Aug 27, 2026
- AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding Aug 27, 2026
- Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation Aug 26, 2026