Salesforce founder among investors in the new startup of the company's alumni
June AI has raised $20 million in a pre-seed round. The startup, founded by former Salesforce employees, focuses on integrating enterprise AI solutions into existing business systems.
June AI, which develops a model for enterprise software integration in the era of artificial intelligence, has raised $20 million in a pre-seed round led by Time Ventures of Marc Benioff, CEO and founder of Salesforce, with the participation of Michael Dell - founder of Dell, George Kurtz - founder of CrowdStrike, Yasmin Lukatz, and other investors and funds. June AI employs about 20 people, most of them in Israel, and plans to expand its global operations in the coming year. The platform it developed helps organizations integrate and manage complex software systems, accelerate implementation processes, and continuously adapt them to business changes using AI agents.
June AI was founded at the end of 2025 by Efrat Rapoport (CEO), Idan Tsitiat (CTO), Barak Goldstein (President), and Ohad Chen (Chief Architect). These are the founders of the company Bonobo.AI, which was sold to Salesforce in 2019 for approximately $50 million, according to reports. After the acquisition, the four continued to work together at Salesforce for about five years, during which time Rapoport served as CEO of the R&D center in Israel. Together, they led the development of enterprise AI solutions and were exposed up close to a challenge that recurred in almost every project: organizations invested in advanced technologies but struggled to integrate them into existing systems and derive business value from them over time. From this insight, June AI was born.
Rapoport told Calcalist:
"Every large company works on a collection of different technology platforms. You need to integrate them and keep them aligned with the business at any given time. Today, this is a process that takes a lot of time and is done manually. We are creating a new integration model in organizations. In the first stage, we scan the organization in depth, look at all the systems, and understand the business processes that are cross-system. In the second stage - we identify the opportunities in the organization for process optimization and where an agent can be introduced to facilitate the path. Today, an implementer sits on the integration, and we optimize the work. In the third stage - we make the change in the environment in a secure and thorough manner. In the last stage - we ensure the adoption of the agents to deal with the problem of organizations that do not implement the processes."
At June AI, they believe that the next big barrier is not the technology itself, but the ability of organizations to integrate it into existing systems and derive business value from it. As models become more advanced, the challenge of adoption and integration becomes more complex and significant. The company explains that as more organizations adopt AI, the need for professional integration actually grows. Even tech giants including Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI have established dedicated teams in recent months whose role is to help customers integrate AI solutions into the organization, evidence that the central challenge is no longer developing the model, but its practical application.
Rapoport added:
"Paradoxically, artificial intelligence has created more demand for integration services - not less. Organizations are no longer asking whether to use AI, but how to make it work within complex systems that have existed for years. They are investing billions in new models, but are forced to deal with outdated processes, scattered data, and a huge technical debt. This is exactly the problem we are solving. June not only recommends what needs to be done, but also performs the integration, ensures it continues to work over time, and adapts it continuously to changes in the organization."
