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Imbue

Foundation Models

AI reasoning research company building agents that can code and reason.

Total funding$232M

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2021

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Blueprint Developer tool Sold on its own

  Planning assistant that turns a task into a plan a coding agent can follow.

• Sculptor Developer tool Sold on its own

  Parallel coding workspace that runs coding agents in isolated containers on the user's own machine.

• Vet Developer tool Sold on its own

  Reviews a coding agent's output and flags its mistakes before they are merged.

• Bouncer Application

  Social-media feed filter that removes unwanted content based on natural-language rules, using the open-source Gemma model to understand context and meaning beyond keyword matching.

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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 7 Sep 2023

TechCrunch's coverage of Imbue's $200M Series B; combined with its disclosed $20M Series A and a $12M extension, the cumulative total is $232M.

Valuation

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable priced round found. Searched: stockanalysis.com's private-company pages, which footnote each valuation to the announcement that priced it; the company's own newsroom; and named press coverage. Nothing found. The $1B figure appears only in aggregators.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Company disclosure · 11 Sep 2026

Imbue's own About page states: "We founded Imbue in 2021."

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