Kernel
Run browsers in the cloud for automation and agent tasks.
Kernel Funding History
Kernel provides cloud-hosted browsers for AI agents and web automation through kernel.sh.
Company Overview
Kernel
Founded 2025
Official WebsiteKernel Funding Timeline
Seed + Series A
$22M
Kernel framed the financing around scaling browser infrastructure that lets developers run AI agents.
Led by Accel. Participation included Y Combinator, SV Angel.
Source · kernel.sh ↗
Kernel Founding Team
Catherine Jue saw the need for better infrastructure for AI agents while leading an engineering team at Cash App. She started Kernel with Rafael Garcia, who had co-founded the education identity platform Clever. Their early work included a lightweight environment that could start Chrome in milliseconds.
Kernel Products
Kernel Company Development
Browser Infrastructure for Agent Workloads
Kernel built its service around cloud-hosted browsers so agent developers could run automation sessions without operating their own browser fleet. Its launch announcement frames those browsers as infrastructure that can be embedded into an agent’s application.
Kernel Competitive Landscape
Browser Sessions and Full Compute Environments
Kernel provides hosted browsers for agents that need to interact with websites. Modal gives developers a broader remote execution environment for Python and other workloads. The practical distinction is whether the team needs a browser runtime or a general application runtime.
