CodeWords, the London-based AI agent startup formerly known as Agemo, has secured $9 million in seed funding. The round was led by Visionaries, with participation from firstminute capital, Sequel, and Illusian.
A large group of prominent angel investors and industry executives also backed the round, including Andrey Khusid (CEO of Miro), Mati Staniszewski (CEO of ElevenLabs), Hanno Renner (CEO of Personio), Robert Gentz (CEO of Zalando), Ilkka Paananen (CEO of Supercell), Alexandre Berriche (founder of Fleet), Kieran Flanagan (CMO at Hubspot) and François Chollet (co-founder of the ARC Prize). Executives from OpenAI, Mistral, n8n and Zapier also participated.
Founders and Company Background
Founded in 2023 by Osman Ramadan and Aymeric Zhuo, CodeWords originally operated as Agemo, an AI research lab focused on neuro-symbolic reasoning. Both founders bring experience from major technology firms including Microsoft, Palantir, Meta and PolyAI. Zhuo holds engineering degrees from École Polytechnique and previously spent time at Activision Blizzard King, where he was part of a media team that scaled to $400 million in revenue and helped launch the mobile version of Call of Duty. He later led product initiatives at TikTok that reached hundreds of millions of users. Ramadan built his first application at age 11 in Sudan and later studied Computer Engineering at Cambridge University, graduating with Senior Scholar distinction. His research expertise lies in language models and privacy-preserving AI.
Product: Cody and How It Stands Apart
CodeWords builds Cody, an AI agent designed to handle repetitive business workflows automatically, without requiring users to write, deploy or maintain any code. The platform currently processes 500,000 workflows per month for teams such as agencies and go-to-market operators. Examples include deal-flow monitoring, social media publishing and lead generation. Alongside the funding, the startup is rolling out three new features: contextual memory, which allows Cody to proactively suggest automations based on business context; WhatsApp support; and different modes that change how the agent plans and executes tasks.
While no-code automation tools such as Zapier and Make already exist, they still require users to design and maintain their own workflow logic. Cody removes that layer entirely: users describe what they need, and the agent handles deployment, setup and ongoing maintenance in the background. Aymeric Zhuo, co-founder of CodeWords, said: “The best operators don’t wait to be asked. We built Cody on the same principle — an agent that learns about your business, sees what needs doing, and delivers outcomes.” Robert Jäckle, a partner at Visionaries, said: “Most automation tools promise simplicity, but still require technical thinking underneath. CodeWords is one of the first products we’ve seen where that truly disappears — you describe the task, and Cody runs it. What impressed us just as much is the team’s speed and conviction: Aymeric and Osman moved from research to a working product in a matter of months. That combination is very rare and hugely exciting.”
The company’s approach positions it as a step beyond traditional no-code platforms, which include competitors such as Workato, n8n, Microsoft Power Automate and others. Visionaries is also an investor in n8n. A separate coding assistant also uses the name Cody but focuses on developer code suggestions rather than business workflow automation.
Future Plans
The $9 million seed funding will be used to expand CodeWords’ go-to-market and engineering functions. The company plans to open an office in San Francisco and increase headcount across those teams.
