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InstaLILY AI

instalily.ai

InstaLILY builds AI teammates that create, operate, and maintain custom enterprise workflows across existing business systems.

HQNew York, New York, United States
Employees11-50
Funding$25M
15 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 20h ago
AI / MLAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$10M-$50M

About

InstaLILY builds Lily, an AI Forward Deployed Engineer that learns how businesses operate, creates the software their workflows require, and keeps it running across existing enterprise systems. It sells to operationally intensive companies in industries including construction, industrial distribution, logistics, and healthcare, differentiating through rapid deployment, cross-system agent coordination, and cloud, on-premise, or edge operation.

Market

InstaLILY competes in the enterprise and vertical AI-agent market, with a particular focus on automation for operationally intensive physical and regulated industries. Unlike horizontal agent platforms that primarily provide configurable tools inside an existing software ecosystem, InstaLILY positions Lily as a forward-deployed AI engineer that learns each customer's workflows, builds missing software, coordinates systems and agents, and remains responsible for improving the deployment. Its cloud, on-premises, and edge deployment options—supported by NVIDIA technology—also differentiate it for businesses with distributed sites, infrastructure, or data-residency requirements.

Target Customers

InstaLILY targets large, operationally intensive businesses in construction, industrial distribution, logistics, healthcare, and other physical or regulated industries. Its likely buyers are enterprise operations, sales, service, and technology leaders seeking customized automation embedded in existing systems rather than generic productivity software.

At a Glance

Problem

Operationally intensive businesses such as industrial distributors, construction suppliers, logistics companies, insurers, and healthcare organizations run on large catalogs, specialized knowledge, fragmented legacy systems, and high-volume, multi-step workflows. This creates expensive bottlenecks: expert employees spend time on repetitive but judgment-heavy work such as quoting, sales follow-up, issue triage, part identification, policy review, and exception handling instead of higher-value customer and account work. A representative use case is a $10B-plus construction-supply distributor using AI sales support to help more than 1,500 managers turn sales data into actionable follow-ups; at SRS Distribution, a pilot aimed at frontline sales bottlenecks scaled to 1,000 salespeople across 760 branches.

Product / Service

InstaLILY provides vertical AI agents—originally branded InstaWorkers and now centered on Lily, an AI forward-deployed engineer—that learn how a business operates, build the agents and software its workflows require, and deploy them inside the systems employees already use. Rather than asking customers to replace their ERP, CRM, ticketing, or other enterprise tools, the system works across those environments and handles end-to-end execution, including quotes, schedules, approvals, follow-ups, routing, revenue work, and field-service diagnosis.

The delivery model combines domain-trained agents with an ongoing implementation and deployment capability. Lily embeds with operators to understand workflows, data, systems, and approvals; builds the required automations; puts them into production; and continues improving as it learns from live work. The intended benefit is execution rather than simple recommendations or copilots: InstaLILY says its agents can own high-variation workflows and deliver software in days rather than quarters, while augmenting—not replacing—the operational teams that manage the work.

Market

InstaLILY competes in vertical AI, enterprise agentic automation, and AI-forward-deployed software for B2B companies with complex operational processes. Its initial wedge is distribution and adjacent industries, with stated expansion across construction, industrial distribution, logistics, healthcare, and other regulated or operationally intensive sectors. The competitive set spans both general AI-agent companies and automation platforms; third-party market tracking names Manus, UiPath, and WRITER among its top competitors, although these companies address somewhat different parts of the broader agentic-automation market.

The company is commercial and has demonstrated customer deployments rather than being pre-revenue. On July 14, 2026, InstaLILY announced a $60 million Series B, bringing total funding to nearly $100 million after reporting fivefold revenue growth over the prior year. Its customer evidence includes the SRS rollout and reported use cases in sales support, replacement-part identification, and insurance claims; a December 2025 third-party estimate put annual recurring revenue at $8.6 million, though the company’s later fivefold-growth disclosure does not provide an updated absolute revenue figure.

Founders & Leadership

Amit ShahFounder
Founder & CEO
Sumantro DasFounder
Co-Founder & COO

Funding History

2025-08
Series A$25M

Insight Partners

2026-07
Series B$60M

Energize Capital

Recent News

2026-07-21product
Lily: AI Engineer Across Your Business

InstaLILY introduced Lily as an AI Forward Deployed Engineer that works across enterprise systems and agents, coordinates work, and builds missing capabilities for businesses.

2026-07-15funding
Why We Invested in InstaLILY

Energize Capital announced its investment leadership in InstaLILY’s $60 million Series B, joined by Insight Partners, Home Depot Ventures, and United Rentals. The article highlights Lily, customer-owned InstaBrain models, and the company’s platform for automating complex supply-chain and operational workflows.

2026-07-14funding
InstaLILY Raises $60 Million Series B and Launches Lily, the World's First AI Forward Deployed Engineer

InstaLILY raised a $60 million Series B led by Energize Capital, with participation from Insight Partners, Home Depot Ventures, and United Rentals, bringing total funding to nearly $100 million. The company also launched Lily, which learns a business’s processes and executes work such as quoting, route planning, and equipment diagnosis.

2026-07-14product
The Engineer That Never Leaves

InstaLILY’s founder announced the $60 million Series B and positioned Lily as a persistent AI engineer focused on deployment rather than pilots. The announcement also describes InstaBrain as the intelligence system behind Lily and says the funding will support broader industry expansion and the Small Data Center.

2026-05-27product
InstaLILY Launches the Small Data Center: Extending Autonomous AI to the Physical Economy

InstaLILY launched its Small Data Center to support autonomous AI across cloud and localized edge infrastructure. The initiative was described as involving NVIDIA and Google and as part of the company’s effort to deliver lower-cost, always-on intelligence for operational businesses.

2025-10-20partnership
InstaLILY Launches AI Agents on Google Cloud Marketplace

After graduating from Google Cloud’s ISV Startup Springboard program, InstaLILY made its InstaWorkers AI agents available through Google Cloud Marketplace. The announcement also described ongoing collaboration with Google Cloud and Google DeepMind, including Gemini teacher models and Gemma student models for enterprise-specific AI deployments.

2025-09-02funding
InstaLILY Raises $25M to Bring AI Teammates to the Frontlines of Distribution

InstaLILY announced a $25 million Series A led by Insight Partners, with participation from Perceptive Ventures and Marvin Ventures. The company said it would use the funding to expand its catalog of domain-trained InstaWorkers, deepen enterprise-system integrations, and scale deployments across sales, service, and operations.

Active Roles

15
New York, New York, United States/Marketing/21d ago
New York, New York, United States/Sales/21d ago
New York, New York, United States, San Francisco, California, United States/Sales/34d ago
New York, New York, United States, San Francisco, California, United States/Sales/34d ago
Toronto /Engineering/34d ago
Toronto/Engineering/34d ago
New York, New York, United States, San Francisco, California, United States/Engineering/34d ago
New York, New York, United States, San Francisco, California, United States/Engineering/34d ago
New York, New York, United States, San Francisco, California, United States/Engineering/34d ago
New York, New York /Engineering/34d ago
New York, New York, United States/Operations/34d ago
New York, New York, United States/Sales Engineer/34d ago
London, United Kingdom/Engineering/34d ago
New York, New York, United States/Operations/34d ago
New York, New York, United States/Engineering/34d ago

Business Model

InstaLILY sells B2B subscriptions using a role-based pricing model, allowing customers to onboard AI teammates called InstaWorkers™ according to their operational needs. Its agents integrate with business systems such as Salesforce and SAP to automate sales, service, and operations workflows.

Products

Lily™ — an AI Forward Deployed Engineer that learns business processes, builds required software, deploys it, and continues maintaining itInstaWorkers™ — domain-trained AI Teammates for sales, service, and operationsSmall Data Center — NVIDIA-based infrastructure for running AI in the cloud, on premises, or at the edge

Customers

SRS DistributionUnited RentalsHenry Schein

Tech Stack

AI agents and domain-trained vertical modelsAI workflow automation and orchestrationNVIDIA-based cloud, on-premises, and edge infrastructureERP, CRM, inbox, and existing enterprise-system integrations

Competitors

Salesforce Agentforce
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Google Vertex AI Agent Builder
IBM watsonx
Palantir AIP
ServiceNow Otto / AI Agents

Key Investors

Insight Partners, Perceptive Ventures, Marvin Ventures