Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/11/a16z-apple-alums-20m-ai-real-businesses/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260517/i14.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260517/p14#a260517p14" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jack Kubinec / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/11/a16z-apple-alums-20m-ai-real-businesses/">Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; AI is swiftly rewiring the way people work, but an outsize amount of this workplace revolution has so far been confined to Fortune 500-style companies.</p>