Rocker Launches as the Context-Aware AI Work Assistant for the Busiest People at the World’s Most Ambitious Companies

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Postmedia has not reviewed the content. by Business Wire Rocker Launches as the Context-Aware AI Work Assistant for the Busiest People at the World's Most Ambitious CompaniesAuthor of the article:THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman, and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESCreate an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one account.Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments.Enjoy additional articles per month.Get email updates from your favourite authors.THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK.Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one accountShare your thoughts and join the conversation in the commentsEnjoy additional articles per monthGet email updates from your favourite authorsSign In or Create an AccountBuilt by leaders who spent decades at Google and Stripe as the human orchestration and context layer they’re now building.SAN FRANCISCO — Rocker, the AI assistant for busiest people at the world’s most ambitious companies, today announced $12.85M in funding led by Greycroft, with participation from Anthropic and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund, Matchstick, Stripe, and operators Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel), Fran Ryan (CBO, Stripe), and David Singleton (Meta SuperIntelligence Labs leadership).This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.For the last few years, AI innovation has focused on optimizing the individual, arming them with agents to complete financial analysis, write code, redline contracts, and more. Now, the market is crowded with agents aiming to accelerate the individual, but without the context they need. They don’t understand priorities, the complicated history of the project being worked on, or the dependency between an individual’s work and their coworker’s. And ultimately, without shared context, a company full of fast individuals doesn’t make the fastestcompany. Rocker is built for this problem.Get the latest headlines, breaking news and columns.By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Top Stories will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try againRocker understands people, their agents, and their organization while powering every individual to work smarter. It can be used as an individual assistant, or deployed across the company in which case every new Rocker connects to a shared AI nervous system to multiply the collective impact.“I’ve tried every fashionable leadership methodology during my career, and the only thing that really works is brute force: caching an entire organization in your head. Who’s blocked, whose work is about to collide with another team’s, how reality is diverging from plans. That’s how I ran the product portfolio behind 90-plus percent of Stripe’s revenue, and I’m confident that’s how all the best companies in the world actually operate,” said Alex Vogenthaler, cofounder and CEO of Rocker. “Imagine if AI could orchestrate people and their agents into something greater than the sum of their parts because they have the same depth of understanding and the drive to act on that knowledge. ”Rocker is a proactive, stateful, context-rich multiplayer system. It holds a living model of projects, decisions, people, and history instead of rebuilding context from scratch, and connects every person’s agent in the organization so hand-offs stop failing, dependencies surface early, decisions get made and critical context is understood. It is built to respect human realities and social norms. Nothing from a person’s private context is shared without approval, and humans stay in the loop throughout.“Privacy, trust, and auditability aren’t checkboxes in this space. They’re core differentiators, and we’ve built for them from day one: we had our SOC 2 compliance before we were nine months old,” said Peter Terrill, cofounder and CTO of Rocker. “And our entire stack is designed around customers owning and controlling their data and every user of the system to be able to trust it.”This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Rocker’s system can be deployed inside each customer’s own cloud (“BYOC”): a direct answer to a concern rising to the top of the CIO agenda: enterprises shouldn’t send all their data to any single vendor. No SaaS tool has ever needed to see the entire company at once the way a company-wide context engine needs to. Rocker solves that by bringing the system to the data rather than the data to the system.“Harnesses are the new software, but many large enterprises are hesitant to let corporate memory live outside their environments. Rocker has built a harness that can run in a company’s own cloud, providing shared context for employees while keeping IP in-house,” said Ian Sigalow, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Greycroft. “Alex, Peter, and the team lived through this problem, and it shows in the product.”“We spend enormous amounts of time consuming information ‘just to stay in the loop’ and the problem is every piece of information has a cost,” said behavioral scientist Kristen Berman, cofounder and CEO at Irrational Labs, co-founder and principal at Common Cents Lab, author, and advisor. “The best information system isn’t one where everyone knows everything. It’s one where the right person knows the right thing at the right time. Rocker makes that possible.”For more information, and to partner with Rocker, visit rocker.ai.Rocker is the AI assistant for the world’s busiest people. Rocker can be used as an individual assistant, or deployed across the company in which case every new Rocker connects to a shared nervous system to multiply the collective impact. Founded in 2025 by Alex Vogenthaler, who spent more than two decades leading product at Google and Stripe, most recently running the product portfolio behind over 90% of Stripe’s revenue, and Peter Terrill, who founded startups acquired by Google and Stripe and led engineering for Stripe’s anchor product, Rocker has raised $12.85M from Greycroft, Menlo and Anthropic’s joint Anthology Fund and others. Lexicon and Multiadaptor are award-winning partners in the build.View source version on businesswire.com: This advertisement has not loaded yet.Notice for the Postmedia NetworkThis website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.