Founder & CEO @messagebird | Bird’s Agentic Harness lets AI agents email, message and call. Building communications infrastructure for the agent economy.
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Bird secures $450M and opens its infrastructure to AI agents.
Debt financing led by J.P. Morgan. Still private and independent.
Meet Agentic Harness: agents can email, use WhatsApp, make calls—even get their own eSIM.
What would you build with it?
🤖 Made with AI
ALT Bird. Built for the agent economy. A dark globe with illuminated cities and arcs representing communication around the world.
Let’s gooo 🚀
GM. It's Friday. Massive line up + breaking news:
- @RobertDVis (Bird)
- @Dom_Hallas (Startup Coalition)
- @APompliano (Professional Capital Management)
- @So8res (MIRI)
- @swangentr (Dub)
- @ml_angelopoulos (Arena)
- Renato & Rafael (SAVA)
- Oana Jinga (Dexory)
Lets go.
🤣 sad but true
Only the EU could create a permanent revenue source by fining American Big Tech companies
While €5B is a good start, we need more. We must fine every major US company operating in Europe
At some point, we could finance the entire EU budget through fines, so Europeans would not need to work at all
That is the future Europe should be building
Robert Vis retweeted
The missing piece in Agent architecture is almost always the last mile.
Planning is solved well enough at this point.
Communicating with a real person on the channel they actually use is where most agents fail.
Great to see that treated as infrastructure.
Excited for what @messagebird is building to solve this!
Bird secures $450M and opens its infrastructure to AI agents.
Debt financing led by J.P. Morgan. Still private and independent.
Meet Agentic Harness: agents can email, use WhatsApp, make calls—even get their own eSIM.
What would you build with it?
ALT Bird. Built for the agent economy. A dark globe with illuminated cities and arcs representing communication around the world.
Robert Vis retweeted
Customer messaging company Bird.com has raised $450 million of debt financing led by JPMorgan , as it seeks to return cash to investors and employees. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Robert Vis retweeted
We use Bird at Airwallex. Excited to see Robert and the team open that communications infrastructure to AI agents. Congratulations on the $450M financing and the launch of Agentic Harness!
Bird secures $450M and opens its infrastructure to AI agents.
Debt financing led by J.P. Morgan. Still private and independent.
Meet Agentic Harness: agents can email, use WhatsApp, make calls—even get their own eSIM.
What would you build with it?
ALT Bird. Built for the agent economy. A dark globe with illuminated cities and arcs representing communication around the world.
Robert Vis retweeted
Massive from team @messagebird! Bird already powers an insane amount of the world's comms and this agent harness is battle tested at scale. Watch this space.
Bird secures $450M and opens its infrastructure to AI agents.
Debt financing led by J.P. Morgan. Still private and independent.
Meet Agentic Harness: agents can email, use WhatsApp, make calls—even get their own eSIM.
What would you build with it?
ALT Bird. Built for the agent economy. A dark globe with illuminated cities and arcs representing communication around the world.
The full story, and why I believe this is Bird’s biggest opportunity yet:
nitter.cf/RobertDVis/status/2102…
Bloomberg on the financing:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Bird has secured $450M in debt financing, led by J.P. Morgan.
We’re staying private and independent.
Today we’re launching Agentic Harness: AI agents can send messages, make calls and manage email.
What would you have your agent do first?
Congrats on the @airwallex team and especially @awxjack for raising $320M at an $11B valuation, 🤯 Could not be more proud as a customer and investor to see this insane execution globally. @messagebird consolidated over 30 banks to Airwallex and uses them as our single source of truth of all global banking (together with J.P. Morgan in the US).
For Sildi this is another great investment backing both craft and great execution in the Fintech vertical as the leading AI solution in banking.
2026 LFG 🚀 sildi.com/
Very true !!
Center Parcs was founded by a Dutchman in 1968
Now their European parks are being sold to Mubadala (the Abu Dhabi government) for €1 billion
Dutch idea, French operator, but soon to be owned by a random sheikh
Tourism is one of Europe’s last genuinely competitive industries
But even this is being sold off
I call it the Kensington-ification of Europe, since Kensington already is an enclaved Gulf State within London
Our continent is for sale...
Meanwhile the only foreign influence Eurocrats like @vonderleyen are concerned about are Russia and @elonmusk
Our finance team runs @messagebird this way every day 🚀
Introducing Airwallex AgentOS.
A toolkit for AI agents to work with Airwallex directly from @claudeai, @cursor_ai, or other terminal and chat-based agent environments.
Stupidity still amazes me. The only one that hurts is NL and Europe in this case. ASML is multi year capital investment it’s not something you just turn on and Off 🤯
For years I've been warning Europe on the effects of their regulations and behavior. I hope what happened last night is a wake up call.
If we do not act now we will lose in a way that is not reversible. The arrogance that Europe has been showing needs to stop. Note the specific language in the directive - No foreign national. This is a total and absolute precursor on what is about to come. Unilateral and absolute dominance.
Europe:
With immediate effect enforce a directive that demolishes most of the insane regulations and free up capital in the tens of billions a year. Spray and pray. Accept your behavior was stupid and just go as fast as you can. Dont think you can regulate your way out of this. You'll bring us all into the ground!
