Polar has raised $5.7 million in seed funding for an AI browser designed to automate recurring work across sales, recruitment, marketing, research and business operations. Madrona led the round as the browser market shifts from AI-assisted search towards agents that can complete multi-step online tasks.
Founder and Chief Executive Kevin Jiang previously worked on Perplexity’s Comet browser. He said Polar is aimed at professionals who regularly use browser-based tools rather than consumers who occasionally use AI to book travel or make reservations.
Agents Work Across Open Tabs
Polar lets users assign tasks to AI agents based on the websites and services already open in their browser. They can save prompts, schedule recurring workflows and ask agents to complete tasks across logged-in accounts.
Possible uses include researching prospects, updating sales records, comparing candidates, monitoring competitors and gathering information from several websites. The browser gives agents access to the context contained in a user’s active tabs, reducing the need to repeatedly provide the same information.
Polar is free to download and includes a limited number of daily credits for AI tasks. Paid subscriptions with higher usage limits start at $20 per month.
The company said many early users continue to use another browser for ordinary browsing and open Polar specifically for automation. Its immediate goal is therefore to become a work tool rather than replace Chrome, Safari or Edge as a user’s default browser.
Browser Access Supports Logged-In Workflows
Madrona partner Sabrina Albert said browsers provide agents with access to the websites people already use for work. Because users are signed in, an agent can operate across services that would otherwise require separate integrations.
Building reliable agents for the open web remains difficult because websites change frequently and tasks may involve several steps, permissions and unexpected interruptions. Polar is betting that controlling the browser layer will make these workflows easier to observe and automate.
The round also included former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, Phia co-founder Phoebe Gates, Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson, Flapping Airplanes co-founder Benjamin Spector, Etched co-founder Rob Wachen and Fundamental Research Labs CEO Robert Yang.
AI Browser Market Moves Towards Automation
The launch follows a shift across the AI browser market. OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, 2026, while moving parts of its browsing technology into ChatGPT and a browser extension.
Other companies, including Browser Use, Strawberry, Aside and Perplexity, are also concentrating on agents that complete online work. Polar’s narrower focus is that these tools may provide their strongest value in repeated professional workflows rather than occasional consumer tasks.
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