What H Company does

H Company is a Paris-based AI startup founded in 2023 by Charles Kantor and Laurent Sifre (CTO, formerly of DeepMind) that builds agentic foundation models enabling autonomous computer use across web, desktop, and mobile environments. The company's technology stack centers on the Holo family of multimodal computer-use models (Holo1 through Holo3.1) and the Holotron line (Holotron-12B, Holotron 3 Nano), post-trained from open foundation models including NVIDIA Nemotron and Qwen3-VL. These models power the Surfer 2 cross-platform agent architecture, which has set state-of-the-art benchmarks across OSWorld (78.85% pass@1 via Holo3-122B-A10B), WebVoyager (97.1%), AndroidWorld (87.1%), and WebArena (69.6%), with a proprietary Synthetic Environment Factory training agents on millions of simulated enterprise scenarios rather than static datasets.

The company operates a multi-channel go-to-market: a product-led growth funnel via the free HoloTab Chrome extension (with "Routines" recording and scheduled execution), an API-first monetization path through the Holo Models API on hub.hcompany.ai (token-priced usage with free and paid tiers), and an enterprise direct-sales motion with Forward Deployed Engineers who embed with customers to deploy H Agents and the H Platform across banking, supply chain, procurement, and revenue operations. API pricing is publicly disclosed at $0.25 input / $1.80 output per 1M tokens for the open-source Holo3-1-35B-A3B and $0.40/$3.00 per 1M tokens for the flagship Holo3-122B-A10B — positioned as roughly 30-40× cheaper than frontier proprietary alternatives on input-heavy computer-use workloads. The company also runs a Design Partner co-development motion with strategic customers including FDJ UNITED (gaming and lottery) and St John's Research Institute (healthcare administration in India).

H Company employs approximately 75 people across Paris, London, and New York City as of November 2025, including a 30+ researcher team led by CTO Laurent Sifre. The company raised approximately $220 million in a 2024 funding round with Accel, AWS, Samsung, Eric Schmidt, Bernard Arnault, UiPath, Bpifrance, and others, and subsequently joined NVIDIA's Nemotron Coalition in June 2026. Leadership transitioned in June 2025 when the co-founders appointed Gautier Cloix — former CEO France at Palantir — as CEO to scale commercial operations while Sifre remained CTO. H Company holds SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications and offers sovereign European hosting to serve regulated enterprises under the EU AI Act.

Name

H Company

Legal name

H Company

Website

https://hcompany.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

H Company is a Paris-based AI startup building multimodal computer-use foundation models (Holo, Holotron) and autonomous agents that automate workflows across web, desktop, and mobile environments for enterprise customers in banking, supply chain, gaming, and healthcare worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Computer-Use AI Agents

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

HRIS/HCM Managed Services & Support (BPAEAGAF)

Keywords

• Computer-use AI agents
• Multimodal foundation models
• Agentic AI platform
• Browser automation agents
• Enterprise AI automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Holo Models API (Usage-Based Pay-As-You-Go): Token-priced API for Holo3-1-35B-A3B ($0.25 input / $1.80 output per 1M tokens) and Holo3-122B-A10B ($0.40 input / $3.00 output per 1M tokens), billed by credits with no monthly minimum; data not retained.
2. Free Tier for Holo3-1-35B-A3B: Free tier via Portal-H with rate-limited access to the Apache 2.0 open-source Holo3-1-35B-A3B model API (no credit card required), intended to drive adoption and developer mindshare.
3. Enterprise Platform Subscriptions (Holotron, H Agents, H Platform): Quote-based enterprise contracts covering H Platform (orchestration, infrastructure, applications), H Agents, and Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) implementation services, with managed cloud or on-premise VPC deployments in Europe.
4. Forward Deployed Engineering & Implementation Services: Professional services delivered by FDEs who embed with customer teams to design, integrate, and operationalize agentic workflows; included as part of enterprise engagements and tied to measurable ROI.
5. Holo2-30B-A3B and Holotron Models — Non-Commercial Licensing: Flagship Holo2-30B-A3B and research models (Holo2-235B-A22B Preview, Holo3-122B-A10B) released under non-commercial licenses with revenue derived from paid commercial agreements negotiated directly.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

H Company builds a family of multimodal computer-use foundation models (the Holo and Holotron series) and AI agents that navigate any digital interface — web, desktop, and mobile — by clicking, typing, and reading screens like a human. The company sells this capability through four product surfaces: the HoloTab free Chrome extension for individual browser automation, the Holo Models API for developers (free tier plus usage-based paid tiers on hub.hcompany.ai), the open-source HoloDesktop CLI for on-device agent execution, and the H Platform enterprise stack (H Agents plus orchestration) deployed via managed cloud, regional VPC, or on-premise with embedded Forward Deployed Engineers.

Product overview

H Company offers a platform-plus-modules architecture for autonomous agentic AI centered on computer-use capabilities. The portfolio combines the HoloTab browser extension (consumer-facing AI agent), the Holo Models API (managed access to multimodal computer-use models), the open-source HoloDesktop CLI (on-device agent client), and the H Platform enterprise stack (infrastructure + orchestration + applications). At the model layer, H Company maintains two parallel families: the Holo series (Holo1, Holo1.5, Holo2 / Holo2-235B-A22B Preview, Holo3, Holo3.1) covering 0.8B-235B parameters with Apache 2.0 open variants, and the Holotron series (Holotron-12B, Holotron 3 Nano) built by post-training NVIDIA Nemotron backbones on H Company's proprietary data mixtures. These models power H Agents and the Surfer 2 / Runner H agent architectures that orchestrate multi-step task execution across web, desktop, and mobile environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HoloTab: Chrome extension that deploys an AI agent inside the browser to navigate websites, fill out forms, and complete tasks on the user's behalf.
• Holo Models
• Holotron
• Surfer
• Runner H
• HoloDesktop CLI

Products and services

• HoloTab Chrome extension that deploys H Company's AI agent inside the browser to navigate websites, fill out forms, and complete tasks on the user's behalf. Supports Routines (recorded workflows), voice input, and scheduled execution; available free via the Chrome Web Store.
• Holo Models API Managed API offering multimodal Holo3 computer-use models (Holo3-1-35B-A3B on free + paid tiers, Holo3-122B-A10B paid only). Accepts text + image inputs and produces text outputs, with zero data retention and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 infrastructure.
• HoloDesktop CLI Open-source command-line client that launches and drives H Agent directly on a user's local machine, providing computer-use capabilities across the desktop via MCP, ACP, and A2A integration with popular agent harnesses such as Claude Code, Cursor, Hermes, OpenClaw, NemoClaw, and Codex.
• H Platform Integrated enterprise stack providing infrastructure, orchestration engine, and applications to run end-to-end agentic workflows. Combines proprietary Holo3 models with execution-layer H Agents; deployable via managed cloud, regional VPC, or on-premise. SOC 2 certified and hosted in Europe for data sovereignty.
• H Agents Intelligent agents that act on behalf of enterprise teams by combining Holo3 model capabilities with workflow automation. They navigate apps, websites, and internal tools to complete repetitive or high-priority tasks across Banking & Financial Operations, Global Supply Chain & Manufacturing, Strategic Procurement, and Revenue & Sales Operations.
• Surfer 2 Cross-platform computer-use agent architecture unifying desktop, web, and mobile with an orchestrator + sub-agent ReAct loop. State of the art on OSWorld (60.1% pass@1), WebArena (69.6%), WebVoyager (97.1%), and AndroidWorld (87.1%) at time of release.
• Holo3 / Holo3.1 Flagship multimodal computer-use model family based on Qwen, with sizes ranging from 0.8B to 122B. Holo3-122B-A10B scores 78.85% on OSWorld-Verified; Holo3.1 adds mobile robustness, cross-harness function-calling, and quantized checkpoints (FP8, Q4 GGUF, NVFP4) for local inference.
• Holo2 Cost-efficient computer-use model series in 4B, 8B, and 30B-A3B sizes based on Qwen3-VL with thinking paradigm and MoE architecture. Powers Surfer 2 across web, desktop, and mobile environments; 4B and 8B released under Apache 2.0; 30B-A3B under non-commercial license.
• Holo1.5 Open foundation models for Computer Use Agents in 3B, 7B, and 72B sizes. Delivers >10% accuracy improvement over Holo1 and state-of-the-art UI localization on ScreenSpot-Pro, with strong UI Visual Question Answering performance. Open weights on Hugging Face.
• Holotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B multimodal computer-use model post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on H Company's proprietary data mixture. Uses a sparse hybrid Mamba/MoE architecture with 256K context window and C-RADIOv4 vision encoder; scores 76.7% on OSWorld-Verified. Available on Hugging Face under NVIDIA Open Model License; live in HoloTab.
• Holotron-12B 12B multimodal computer-use model post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron-Nano-2 VL. Uses a hybrid State-Space Model + attention architecture that delivers >2x the inference throughput of Holo2-8B on a single H100; WebVoyager performance improved from 35.1% to 80.5%. Available on Hugging Face under NVIDIA Open Model License.
• Runner H / The Studio Earlier-generation web AI agent and developer platform. Includes the Studio for designing, reviewing, and editing web automation pipelines and a private-beta API; Runner H achieved 67% on WebVoyager vs Anthropic Computer Use's 52% in 2024 evaluations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30% projected increase in philanthropic revenue for Handicap International after deploying H Agents
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability11 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Claude Code (Anthropic)coreTechnology or Integration · 22 June 2026HoloDesktop CLI integrates with Claude Code via MCP — coding agents can delegate GUI-bound tasks (QA testing, expense reports, file management) to H Company's computer-use agent on the user's machine.
• NVIDIAflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 June 2026H Company joined the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition at GTC Taipei on June 4, 2026. The coalition, launched by NVIDIA on March 16, 2026, brings together leading open-source AI labs to advance frontier foundation models. The collaboration builds on prior post-training work — Holotron-12B (post-trained from Nemotron-Nano-2 VL) and Holotron 3 Nano (post-trained from Nemotron 3 Nano Omni) — and was jointly promoted at COMPUTEX 2026 alongside NVIDIA RTX Spark and NemoClaw updates.
• MicrosoftcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 June 2026Announced at COMPUTEX 2026 alongside NVIDIA's RTX Spark launch — Microsoft and NVIDIA unveiled Microsoft eXecution Containers (MXC) for sandboxing and NVIDIA OpenShell for runtime integration. H Company's Holo 3.1 is positioned as one of the agent models expanded across Windows and Linux platforms.
• Handicap International SwitzerlandcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 20 May 2026Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with Handicap International's fundraising team to build agents that screen 13,000 Swiss philanthropic foundations against custom relevance criteria, producing a continuously updated, prioritized pipeline. Projected 30% increase in philanthropic revenue; agent is being explored for additional markets.
• St John's Research Institute (St John's Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 February 2026MoU signed in February 2026 at the India AI Impact Summit to deploy agentic AI for hospital administration. Pilot phase focused on resource management and staff coordination before going live in the hospital environment. Cited by French President Emmanuel Macron as a flagship Indo-French AI collaboration.
• FDJ UNITEDflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 November 2025Announced at the Choose France Summit as a Design Partner relationship to co-design and iteratively deploy agentic AI across selected FDJ UNITED processes. Initial use cases: automated quality testing, commercial performance management of the retail network, intelligent customer support, and fraud detection. The partnership builds on FDJ UNITED Ventures' 2024 investment in H Company (€25M of €111M AUM allocated to AI startups).
• SkyPilot (Skypilot.org)coreTechnology or Integration · 17 October 2025H Company uses SkyPilot as its unified training orchestration layer, running workloads across both Kubernetes and Slurm clusters and across multiple cloud providers. The integration enabled online RL production by bridging K8s-based vLLM inference with Slurm-style training, and has been adopted by the entire 30+ person research team.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• MultiOn: MultiOn develops an AI agent that autonomously navigates browsers and applications to complete tasks, directly comparable to HoloTab and Runner H. Both sell consumer and developer access to screen-driving AI agents with a PLG motion.
• Anthropic: Anthropic ships Claude Computer Use, a direct competitor to H Company's Surfer 2 and HoloTab agents for navigating desktops, browsers and mobile. Both target enterprise automation via multimodal LLM-driven UI control and compete on the same computer-use benchmarks.
• Adept AI: Adept builds agents that operate software via screen-based actions, directly comparable to H Company's Surfer 2 cross-platform agent. Both target enterprise workflows over legacy software without APIs, and both release computer-use benchmarks and model weights.
• OpenAI: OpenAI's Operator and ChatGPT computer-use capabilities compete head-to-head with H Company's Holo models and Surfer 2 agent architecture on OSWorld, WebVoyager and WebArena. Both sell API access to multimodal agents that drive browsers and desktops autonomously.

Emerging players

• Cognition AI: Cognition (Devin) builds autonomous software engineering agents that operate IDEs, browsers and terminals, overlapping with H Company's HoloDesktop CLI and Surfer 2 in computer-use capability. While focused on developer workflows, it shares the same agentic foundation model.
• Rabbit: Rabbit's r1 device and Large Action Model approach to operating applications via a neural interface overlaps with H Company's screen-grounded computer-use agents. Both target consumer and prosumer use cases for AI-driven task execution across apps.
• Sierra AI: Sierra builds conversational AI agents for enterprise customer experience, overlapping with H Company's H Platform agentic offering. Both pursue a design-partner model with large enterprises and target regulated, brand-sensitive deployments.

Regional players

• Mistral AI: Mistral is the leading European open-weight foundation model lab and a natural regional counterpart to H Company. While Mistral focuses on general-purpose LLMs rather than computer-use agents, the two share the European sovereign AI positioning, investor base and enterprise buyer relationships.

Broad incumbents

• Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind's Project Astra and Gemini-based computer-use features compete with H Company's agent stack, and DeepMind sets the high-water mark on many of the same agentic benchmarks. As a much larger incumbent, DeepMind competes both as a research leader and as a hyperscaler distributing Gemini to enterprises.
• UiPath: UiPath is the incumbent in robotic process automation, a category that H Company's computer-use agents directly disrupt. UiPath is also a financial investor in H Company, creating a competitor-investor dynamic across enterprise process automation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hcompany_ai
• GitHubgithub.com/hcompai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/h-company-ai

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors15 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

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