June, which launched from stealth Monday with $20 million in funding, is betting that the path to enterprise AI isn't more people, but better software. Led by Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures, the round includes backing from industry figures like Michael Dell and Aaron Levie. The founders—Rapoport alongside Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat—previously built Bonobo AI, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2019.
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June emerges with $20M to automate the messy work of AI deployment
Corporate AI adoption currently relies on armies of human consultants to navigate technical debt, a model Efrat Rapoport calls unsustainable. Her new startup, June, aims to replace this manual labor with an automated platform that scans legacy infrastructure to build and deploy AI agents without external intervention.

Rather than forcing companies to rely on forward-deployed engineers to patch together siloed databases, June’s platform automatically maps business processes and identifies the specific technical bottlenecks hindering agent deployment. It provides a granular roadmap, instructing teams to remove duplicate fields or connect specific data sources before executing the build process. For executives like Paul Akinmade of CMG, the tool offered a way to bypass the frustration of expensive consultants and stalled integrations, allowing his team to deploy agents into complex environments without the need for a black-box service.
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