Malte Kasub

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6 Feb 2026$500M ElevenLabs, Attio & Parloa Founder Joins, Anthropic & OpenAI Beef

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Parloa CEO Malte Kasub: $350M Round & Enterprise AI Agents

Malte Kasub, co-founder and CEO of Parloa, explains how the platform helps enterprises like Booking.com, Allianz and IKEA build, deploy and scale AI agents for customer communication across phone, web and app. He traces his path from a school music-contest NGO and a song-lyrics poster e-commerce company to founding one of the first conversational AI agencies in 2017, years before LLMs made the tech actually work. He discusses the $350M round, the 'Parloa Promise' to enterprises, end customers and the labor market, why overloading agents with context degrades instruction following, and his Super Bowl-style hiring philosophy.