H (company)
French artificial intelligence company
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H Company, also known simply as H, is a French artificial intelligence startup which develops "action-oriented" artificial intelligence agents for enterprise automation and productivity. In May 2024, H Company closed a record-setting $220 million seed round, at the time the largest AI raise in Europe.[1][2]
- Laurent Sifre
- Charles Kantor
- Daan Wiestra
- Karl Tuyls
- Julien Perollat
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Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2023 |
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| Headquarters | , France |
Key people | Gautier Cloix (President, CEO) |
Number of employees | 90 (2026) |
| Website | hcompany |
In 2026, H Company released Holo 3, the latest generation of its computer-use AI models. The update marked a major advance in agentic AI, enabling agents to navigate any user interface, interpret screens, and complete complex, multi-step tasks across enterprise systems—much like a human user. This breakthrough positioned H Company at the frontier of computer-use autonomy, accelerating the integration of AI in enterprise workflows.
History
H Company was founded in 2023 in Paris by Laurent Sifre, Charles Kantor, and three DeepMind veterans: Daan Wiestra, Karl Tuyls, Julien Perollat.[1] In May 2024, the firm secured what was then the largest European AI seed round, totaling $220 million led by US investors including Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), Amazon, and backed by Accel, Bpifrance, UiPath, Eurazeo, Xavier Niel, Yuri Milner, Bernard Arnault, Samsung and others.[1][2] In August 2024, three cofounders (Wiestra, Tuyls, Perollat) left the company over operational disagreements.[3]
In November 2024, H launched Runner H, its first agentic-API platform, which combined a large language model (LLM) and a reduced, 2-billion parameter vision-language model (VLM).[4][5] In May 2025, H Company acquired Mithril Security,[6] and in June 2025 the company widened its offering for agentic models.[7] In June 2025, Gautier Cloix (formerly CEO Palantir France) replaced Charles Kantor as CEO of H Company,[8][9] aiming to pivot the company towards a "forward deployed engineers" model.[10] In July 2025, H Company introduced Surfer-H-CLI, an open-source, web-native Chrome agent designed for browser-based automation—able to search, scroll, click, and type on behalf of users and controllable via any visual language model (VLM). When paired with its June 2025 open-sourced 3B-parameter Holo-1 model, Surfer-H-CLI achieved 92.2% WebVoyager benchmark accuracy.[11]
Activity
H Company creates enterprise AI models and agents (agentic AI) to automate and optimize complex workflows.[1] H Company specifically designs AI agents called computer use capable of autonomously interfacing with any software (local or cloud-based) to detect and automate repetitive operations.[10]
H Company is based in Paris, France, with international offices in London and New York. H Company raised $220 million since its inception.[1] Gautier Cloix is president and CEO of the company.[9] H Company client include the French national lottery FDJ United.[12]
In March 2026, H Company released Holo3, a family of artificial intelligence models designed to operate digital systems by interacting directly with user interfaces. Holo3 enables agents ("virtual humanoids") to understand what is displayed in front-end environments—such as web pages, desktop applications, and other graphical user interfaces—and perform actions such as clicking, typing, and navigating across them to complete multi-step tasks.
On the OSWorld-Verified benchmark, Holo3 reportedly achieved about 78.9%, surpassing the scores of OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 on this specific test, at roughly one-tenth of the inference cost of these proprietary systems. The release has been presented as a significant step toward automating routine digital workflows, allowing organizations to offload repetitive on-screen work, such as data entry and reconciliation across multiple tools, to AI-based agents.