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Asteroid

Winter 2025 · Active

AI Browser Agents for the Back-Office

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2024

Team size: 4

About

Asteroid builds and hosts AI browser agents for back-office tasks. With guardrails, evaluations, and human oversight, we deliver enterprise-grade reliability across millions of operations, even in regulated industries. Companies can build agents themselves or rely on us to deliver and maintain them.

Founders

  • David MlcochFounder

    Co-founder and CEO of Asteroid, a platform to deploy safe and reliable browser AI agents. I have a background in AI (Edinburgh University), autonomous agents (Co-founder and CTO of Trident AI), robotics (CTU, NTU, TAU) and space (EUSPA, SpaceKnow).

  • Joe HewettFounder

    Co-founder and CTO of Asteroid. At Netcraft, I built agents that find bank accounts being used for fraud, disrupting an estimated $XXXm/year in stolen funds.