Stilla emerges from stealth with $5M to address collaboration challenges in AI-driven companies

Stockholm-based Stilla has emerged from stealth with $5 million in pre-seed funding to develop an intelligence layer designed to support collaboration between humans and AI within product teams. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from a group of angel investors.

As organisations accelerate the adoption of AI across workflows, coordination has become an increasing challenge. Information is often distributed across tools and teams, while individual productivity continues to rise. Fragmented context, time-intensive alignment processes, and the parallel use of multiple AI agents can make it difficult for organisations to maintain a shared view of priorities and progress.

Stilla is designed to address these challenges by providing an infrastructure layer for collaboration. Rather than operating as an individual AI assistant, the platform connects core workplace tools (including Slack, Linear, GitHub, and Notion) to maintain a continuously updated understanding of what teams are working on, why decisions are made, and how work progresses. By distributing relevant context across teams and AI systems, Stilla aims to support coordinated execution as organisations scale.

The company was founded by Siavash Ghorbani and Kaj Drobin, who previously contributed to the development of Shop and Shop Pay at Shopify. Commenting on the shift toward organisations where both people and AI systems contribute to decision-making, Ghorbani said:

Without real-time shared context, speed creates chaos. Getting everyone aligned — humans and AI alike — is now the single biggest unlock for companies.

Stilla is already in use at companies including Spotify, Ramp, Lovable, and Legora. Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable, described the platform as an early indication of how work may evolve, noting that it captures context automatically and translates it into coordinated action. Legora CEO Max Junestrand added that in AI-driven environments, speed is essential, and said Stilla helps reduce communication overhead by maintaining alignment across teams, likening it to an AI-enabled chief of staff.

The company plans to use the capital to further build its core infrastructure, enabling better coordination between human teams and AI agents as organisations scale their use of AI. The funding will also support continued integration with existing workplace systems and the expansion of the platform’s capabilities based on early adoption by product teams.