Michael Bajwa

Zaro Out of Stealth: Michael Bajwa & Chen on the Context Layer

Michael Bajwa and Chen, who built web agents at Convergence before its Salesforce acquisition, come out of stealth with Zaro and announce a $5.1M pre-seed led by Cherry Ventures, with angels including the Hugging Face co-founder and GitHub's former CEO. Zaro is a context layer giving agents long-horizon memory; they argue data, not the model, is why agents fail. They explain they deliberately avoid frontier models to control token costs, run the entire business on Zaro itself, and describe hiring a 13-person team in 11 weeks.

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