Modem raises $4.4M to build the auto-triage PM for the agentic coding era
Ben VinegarModem has raised $4.4M in funding led by Accel, with participation by Inovia Capital, to build the auto-triage Product Manager for the agentic coding era.
Like a lot of developers, I've spent the last few years bouncing between AI coding tools. Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, back to Cursor again. By the time Sonnet 3.7 came out a year ago, the writing was on the wall: everyone would be writing code with AI. More code, more reliably, faster than ever.
But thinking back on my years leading teams at Sentry, writing code was rarely the bottleneck. Corralling feedback from users across a dozen channels. Building alignment on what to build. Actually following up when you ship something. That was always the hard part, and it was almost entirely manual.
Speeding up coding is only half the picture. When code gets written faster, everything around it becomes the constraint. Roles shift. Engineers start owning more of the product process. PMs become less about gatekeeping specs and more about strategy. But the tools we use to gather signal, prioritize work, and communicate with users haven't changed at all. They're still built for the old way of working.
That's why we built Modem.
Modem, your auto-triage Product Manager
Modem is an auto-triage Product Manager, purpose-built for this moment.
Chaos into clarity. Modem connects to Slack, Discord, GitHub, Linear, email, and more, and builds a context graph from your product discussions. Messy conversations become structured topics, automatically categorized and prioritized. No tagging, no manual triage. We build user and company profiles to help you understand who matters and who can wait, and help you spot trends before they become fires.
Act on it instantly. Modem isn't just a dashboard. It's a conversational AI agent your team can talk to directly. Ask it what your biggest customer pain points are. Create context-rich tickets without leaving Slack. Delegate tasks to engineers or coding agents, with prompts grounded in months of user context instead of a ticket that just says "fix search."
Close the loop. When features ship, Modem can notify affected customers, generate tailored release notes, and send personalized digests to keep your team and stakeholders in sync. Critical when you're deploying code faster than your team can keep up with.
Coding agents leveled up how you ship code. Modem levels up how you ship product.
Our backers
To deliver on this vision, we've raised $4.4 million in funding, led by Accel, with participation from Inovia Capital and a group of incredible angels behind foundational developer tools and AI products:
David Cramer and Chris Jennings (Sentry), Ivan Zhang (Cohere), Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk (Framer), Lindsey Simon (Vercel), Armin Ronacher (Flask), Jacob Thornton (Bootstrap, Pierre Computer Co), John Laban and Kenneth Rose (OpsLevel), Dave Johnson (PhoneGap/Cordova), and others we're lucky to have behind us.
This funding lets us go deeper on building the product tools that the agentic coding era demands, so teams can finally keep up with the pace their own code sets.
Try Modem today
We've had dozens of organizations using Modem for months, and you can try it today. If your team is shipping software and wants to move as fast as its code does, sign up and see what an auto-triage PM can do for you.
— Ben Vinegar, co-founder & CEO of Modem
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