IBM Ventures backs Leena AI to accelerate agentic AI for the back office

IBM Ventures is putting money behind Leena AI, an enterprise software company building autonomous agents for the corporate back office. Think password resets, benefits questions, purchase approvals and expense queries. The size of IBM Ventures’ check was not specified. What Leena AI actually sells Leena AI was founded in 2018 by Adit Jain, Mayank Goyal and Anand Prajapati. The company is based in New York and San Francisco. It started out offering relatively simple conversational AI tools. Since then it has moved toward what the industry now calls agentic AI: software that does more than answer questions and instead completes multi-step tasks on its own. Leena AI brands its agents as “AI Colleagues.” They are autonomous and voice-enabled, and they target back-office workflows across HR, IT, Finance and Procurement. The platform connects to more than 200 enterprise systems. That list includes ServiceNow, Workday, SAP and Salesforce. The company also emphasizes human-in-the-loop governance, meaning people can review or step into what the agents are doing. In October 2025, it launched AI Colleague Studio, a tool that lets customers design their own custom agents. The numbers behind th...