H Company
Paris, FR Β· 317 employees on LinkedIn Β· 15 known investors
HoloTab is a browser extension that uses AI agents to automate repetitive tasks for individuals and enterprises, allowing users to create routines that automate manual work.
Also known as H Β· Hcompany Β· Holistic
Founders & leadership
Investors Β· 15
Also in the syndicate Β· 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$220M disclosed across 1 round Β· 2024
- $220MSeedMay 2024 Β· 3 sources
Amazon (lead), Eric Schmidt (lead), Accel, Bernard Arnault, Bpifrance, Creandum, Eurazeo, Samsung, UiPath, Xavier Niel, Yuri Milner
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026H Company, also known simply as H and previously called Holistic, is a Paris-based artificial intelligence company developing "action-oriented" AI models and agents for enterprise automation and productivity. Its core technology is a family of multimodal computer-use models (Holo, Holotron) that interpret graphical user interfaces β web pages, desktop applications and other front ends β and take actions such as clicking, typing and navigating in order to complete multi-step tasks across enterprise systems. The company positions this as a full-stack enterprise platform combining models, agents, scalable execution and continuous learning for what it calls "Autonomous Enterprise Operations."
Products include the Holo Models API (serving Holo3 multimodal models), HoloTab, a Chrome extension that runs an AI agent in the browser to navigate sites, fill forms and complete tasks, with "Routines" for repeatable automation, HoloDesktop CLI, and fully managed Computer-use Agents that act on computers. Earlier products include Runner H, an agentic API platform launched in November 2024 that paired a large language model with a compact 2-billion-parameter vision-language model, and Surfer-H-CLI, an open-source Chrome agent released in July 2025 that could be driven by any vision-language model. The company publishes open model weights and demos on Hugging Face, including Holo1, Holo2, Holo3/Holo3.1 and Holotron variants ranging from 1B to 35B parameters.
H Company is a private company founded in 2023. It is organized around research lab, forward deployed engineering, and product development teams, and reported roughly 90 employees in 2026.
Founding story
H, originally named Holistic, was founded in 2023 in Paris by Stanford researcher Charles Kantor and Google DeepMind alumnus Laurent Sifre (Chief Technology Officer), together with DeepMind veterans Daan Wierstra, Karl Tuyls and Julien Perolat, with a stated ambition around artificial superintelligence and multi-modal-to-action models.
Business model
H Company sells enterprise AI software: an agentic platform and computer-use models delivered to large organizations, with model access offered to developers through the Holo Models API and a consumer-facing Chrome extension (HoloTab) as an entry point. Deployment is supported by an internal Forward Deployed Engineering organization that works directly with enterprise customers, a model the company adopted under CEO Gautier Cloix.
Sources describe API access to Holo models, an enterprise platform offering, and a downloadable browser extension; specific pricing or contract terms are not disclosed.
Traction
Reported staff grew from roughly 50 in Paris and London in late 2024 to about 90 in 2026. Open models on Hugging Face show substantial download activity, including 169k and 25.9k monthly downloads for 35B Holo variants and 9.83k for a 5B Holo3.1 model, across 19 published models, 2 datasets and 5 demo spaces. Disclosed customer work includes a partnership with FDJ United (November 2025) and a Handicap International deployment that turned 13,000 foundations into a prioritized funding pipeline. H Company also joined NVIDIA's Nemotron Coalition, launched in March 2026.
Latest developments
In 2026 the company released Holo3 (March), Holotron-12B (March), HoloTab (April), Holotron 3 Nano post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (April), Holo3.1 (June), HoloDesktop CLI (June) and fully managed Computer-use Agents (July). It also published research on cross-platform computer-use agents (Surfer 2) and on computer-use for generative engine optimization, unified its training stack with SkyPilot, and joined NVIDIA's Nemotron Coalition.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
H Company is one of the more prominent European agentic-AI startups; its May 2024 seed round of $220 million was reported at the time as the largest AI seed raise in Europe, and it drew attention for raising heavily before shipping a product. It competes with agent and computer-use efforts from Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, Mistral and Meta, and has claimed benchmark advantages over rival computer-use models with comparatively small, cheaper-to-run models.
The company emphasizes comparatively small, low-cost computer-use models β a 2B vision-language model in Runner H and a 3B Holo1 β that it says match or beat larger proprietary systems on web and OS agent benchmarks, plus open weights, edge-to-cloud model sizes, and a forward-deployed engineering delivery model borrowed from Palantir.
Technology
The company builds multimodal vision-language and vision-language-action models specialized in UI understanding, localization, planning and navigation. Holo1 (3B parameters, open-sourced June 2025) powered the Surfer-H agent, which reached 92.2% accuracy on the WebVoyager benchmark. Holo2 added larger UI-localization models including Holo2-235B-A22B Preview. Holo3, released March 2026, scored about 78.85% on OSWorld-Verified, which the company and Wikipedia describe as exceeding OpenAI GPT-5.4 and Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 on that benchmark at roughly one-tenth the inference cost; Holo3.1 followed in June 2026 with models spanning edge to cloud (1B, 5B, 9B, 35B). Holotron-12B and Holotron 3 Nano were post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron open models. Infrastructure work includes unifying Slurm and Kubernetes via SkyPilot for training and production online reinforcement learning, plus engineering on cold-start latency and GPU VRAM management.
Go-to-market
Enterprise sales supported by forward deployed engineers embedded with customers, complemented by open-weight model releases and papers on Hugging Face, a technical blog, an open developer API, and a free Chrome extension for bottom-up adoption.
Global enterprises and public-sector organizations seeking to automate repetitive on-screen work such as data entry and reconciliation across multiple tools, plus developers consuming the Holo Models API and individual users of the HoloTab browser extension. Named users include FDJ United, the French national lottery operator, and Handicap International.
Geography
Headquartered in Paris, France, with a hub in London and, per Wikipedia, an international office in New York.
History
Founded in 2023 in Paris, H closed a $220 million seed round in May 2024 backed by Eric Schmidt, Amazon, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance, UiPath, Eurazeo, Xavier Niel, Yuri Milner, Bernard Arnault and Samsung. In August 2024, three cofounders (Wierstra, Tuyls and Perolat) left over operational disagreements. In November 2024 the company launched Runner H, its first agentic API platform. It acquired open-source AI agents startup Mithril Security in May 2025 and broadened its agentic model lineup in June 2025, open-sourcing the 3B Holo1 model. In June 2025 Gautier Cloix, formerly CEO of Palantir France, replaced Charles Kantor as CEO and shifted the company toward a forward-deployed-engineering model. Surfer-H-CLI, an open-source Chrome agent, followed in July 2025. Holo2 models arrived in late 2025 and early 2026, Holo3 in March 2026, HoloTab in April 2026, Holotron 3 Nano in April 2026, Holo3.1 in June 2026, HoloDesktop CLI in June 2026 and managed Computer-use Agents in July 2026.
Risks & controversies
H drew scrutiny for raising a record $220 million seed before releasing a product. In August 2024, three of the five cofounders departed months after founding over operational disagreements, and in June 2025 cofounder Charles Kantor was replaced as CEO by Gautier Cloix roughly a year after the raise, events covered by Bloomberg and Sifted. Benchmark claims for Holo models are company-reported.
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Competitors Β· 1
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Timeline Β· 17
launches, deals, and filingsH Company launched Computer-use Agents, fully managed agents that take actions on computers.
H released Holo 3.1, the next generation of its computer-use model family, spanning edge-to-cloud sizes from 1B to 35B parameters.
Holotron 3 Nano was built by post-training NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni model.
HoloTab, a Chrome extension deploying an AI agent in the browser to navigate websites, fill forms and complete tasks, with automated 'Routines', was released alongside a tutorial.
Holo3, a family of models that operate digital systems by interacting with user interfaces, scored 78.85% on the OSWorld-Verified benchmark; reported as surpassing OpenAI GPT-5.4 and Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 on that benchmark at about one-tenth the inference cost.
H Company joined NVIDIA's Nemotron Coalition, launched 16 March 2026, which gathers research laboratories and technology companies.
Holotron-12B was post-trained from the open NVIDIA Nemotron-Nano-2 VL model on H Company proprietary data, optimized for scale and production performance.
H released its largest UI localization model to date, Holo2-235B-A22B Preview, two months after the first Holo2 models.
French national lottery operator FDJ United entered a partnership with H Company, per coverage cited by Wikipedia.
H introduced Surfer-H-CLI, an open-source web-native Chrome agent controllable via any vision-language model; paired with Holo1 (3B) it achieved 92.2% accuracy on the WebVoyager benchmark.
H released Holo1, a family of GUI automation vision-language models powering the Surfer-H agent, including an open-sourced 3B-parameter model, and widened its agentic model offering.
Gautier Cloix, formerly CEO of Palantir France, became president and CEO of H Company, replacing cofounder Charles Kantor, and moved the company toward a forward deployed engineers model.
H Company acquired open-source AI agents startup Mithril Security.
H launched Runner H, its first agentic-API platform combining a large language model with a 2-billion-parameter vision-language model, targeting business process outsourcing, quality assurance and robotic process automation.
Cofounders Daan Wierstra, Karl Tuyls and Julien Perolat departed months after founding, attributed to operational disagreements/differences.
H Company closed a $220 million seed round led by US investors including Eric Schmidt and Amazon, with participation from Accel, Bpifrance, UiPath, Eurazeo, Xavier Niel, Yuri Milner, Bernard Arnault, Samsung and Creandum.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does H Company do?
- French AI company building computer-use models and agents that operate software interfaces for enterprise automation.
- Who founded H Company?
- H Company was founded by Julien Perolat, Laurent Sifre.
- Who are H Company's investors?
- H Company's investors include Accel, Creandum, Daphni, FirstMark Capital, Polytechnique Ventures, Samsung Next, Elaia, Eric Schmidt and 3 more.
- How much funding has H Company raised?
- H Company has disclosed $220M raised across 1 round.
- Where is H Company headquartered?
- H Company is headquartered in Paris, FR.