Reload, An AI Workforce Management Platform, Has Raised $2.275M For AI Agents To Become Teammates And Employees

Reload has secured new funding to launch its first AI employee.

Reload is an AI workforce management platform co-founded by Newton Asare and Kiran Das, launched with the belief that employees will serve as managers of AI teammates who will handle roles in streamlining orchestration, access management, tracking, and payments, according to a news release shared with AFROTECH™.

Reload’s inaugural product is EPIC, its first AI employee. Per the release, EPIC is described as an AI solutions architect that can work with software engineers and the AI agents they have already deployed. The technology is already a verified extension in AI software, Cursor, per the news release.

“Coding agents are optimized to respond to the next prompt, not to remember why decisions were made. That leads to lost context, constant re-prompting, and wasted tokens,” said Newton Asare, co-founder and CEO of Reload, in the news release. “EPIC gives coding agents the intelligence of a senior solutions architect, working alongside them to provide persistent architectural memory so teams can build production-grade systems that scale.”

Reload has raised $2.275 million in a pre-seed round led by Anthemis, according to a news release shared with AFROTECH™. Zeal Capital Partners, Plug and Play, Cohen Circle, Axiom, and Blueprint also participated in the round.

“What excites us about Reload is that they’re building foundational infrastructure for the AI workforce,” said Bukie Adebo Umeano, Anthemis investment principal, according to the news release. “As AI agents move from experimentation to real work inside organizations, management, governance, and collaboration become critical. EPIC, as the first AI employee, introduces shared architectural memory and coordination, enabling agents to work together with structure and oversight as organizations scale.”

The funds will support long-term infrastructure development for EPIC. Developers and engineers are already using EPIC at startups and companies, and the technology has been adopted in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy, per the news release.