DryMerge raises $2.2M in seed funding

DryMerge is an organization founded by two friends who’ve known one another since elementary school, raised $2.2 million in seed funding. Yale University dropout Edward Frazer and University of Wisconsin graduate Samuel Brashears founded the corporate in 2023 and still run it today.

According to a press release, the corporate’s product streamlines user processes while saving time. “We founded DryMerge about a year ago with the idea that we could use AI to automate API integrations for developers. This year, our vision became much bigger—we realized we wanted to automate repetitive work for everyone, not just API integrations for developers,” Frazer wrote.

Frazer continued, “Work automation makes people’s jobs 10 times more enjoyable. Thousands of DryMerge users save hours every day by automating CRM data entry, support requests, targeted outbound calls, web research, and more. We think what our users do is amazing, and we spend almost all of our time helping them save more time.”

According to a press release, the corporate has received funding from Y Combinator, Garage Capital, Goodwater Capital, Ritual Capital, and Breakpoint Capital. It has also received angel investments from Umur Cubuku of Citus Data, JJ Fiegelman of Way Up, Kulveer Taggar of Zeus, and Nate Matherson of Positional, amongst others.

According to At first, the couple was unsure about their enterprisefuture. It took them a while to work out the best way to construct a product that may be useful to many users.

“…I’m a fairly young founder—I dropped out of Yale to build a company, and my co-founder Sam just graduated from the University of Wisconsin,” Frazer wrote on his LinkedIn page. His early confidence in what they were working on could border on arrogance, until he modified after receiving feedback.

Frazer continued: “I knew very little about how people worked, what problems they had, and how to solve them—and importantly, I didn’t care—I figured it was enough to build some cool technology and watch users come out of nowhere.”

Frazer concluded, “It wasn’t until halfway through that we realized that ‘cool tech’ was a useless value proposition—we had to talk to over 100 people from different segments like customer success, support, other founders, etc. before we had a solid picture of what people’s actual workflows looked like, and only then did we start building something valuable.”

The couple was also recent participants of the thirty eighth Demo Da Y Combinatory. In its blog post concerning the event, Y Combinator guarantees to speculate in each company it selects to participate in the YC Winter 2024 Batch for the corporate’s entire life. Out of greater than 27,000 applications, only 260 corporations were chosen, making its acceptance rate of lower than 1% one in every of the corporate’s most selective metrics. Y Combinator is increasingly specializing in corporations that leverage AI to facilitate practical applications of AI technologies and huge language models, which perfectly describes DryMerge’s mission and purpose.

According to , when their product works, users have a much easier time. While there are occasional mistakes, resembling the platform misunderstanding a user’s command or request, the platform still has potential. However, it’s one in every of the newest entries in an increasingly crowded platform-as-a-service integration market that’s currently expected to achieve $2.7 billion in market share by the tip of 2024.

However, Frazer is confident that he’ll have the option to realize a foothold in the market, regardless that his current user base is around 2,000.

“Our users range from online fashion retailers to school administrators to asset managers—the vast majority of whom have never touched a single line of code,” Frazer said. “They use us to save hours a day on tasks ranging from customer service automation to data entry to customer relationship management.”

Frazer continued, “We believe there is a huge opportunity for enterprise in simplifying automation and delivering easy-to-use tools that empower non-technical people.”