Zero-employee startup Polsia raises $30 million in funding! Participating investors include well-known actors, and the company's name spelled backward is AI Slop.

Claimed to be a zero-employee AI startup Polsia announces $30 million in funding, claiming it can autonomously run an entire company through AI agents, but whether it's sarcasm or with deeper meaning, many netizens have noticed that reversing the name Polsia spells "AI Slop."

Claimed zero-employee startup Polsia raises $30 million

Recently, Polsia founder Ben Cera posted an announcement that they completed $30 million in funding, with a valuation of $250 million. Investors include Sound Ventures, True Ventures, Offline Ventures, and angel investors. He claims that Polsia's annual recurring revenue is approaching $10 million, and the company has only him as the founder plus AI, with no employees.

Polsia's main product is a collaborative system composed of multiple agents that can autonomously operate a company end-to-end, covering programming, market research, cold outreach, advertising, and customer service.

In simple terms, users who want to try starting a company with AI can use Polsia to create a business without hiring employees—just give commands. The main target audience is ordinary people with laptops and ideas.

Image source: Ben Cera/X Claimed zero-employee startup Polsia completes $30 million funding

Ben Cera also emphasized that most of Polsia's fundraising process is handled by AI, with himself only responsible for the final signature. Currently, this funding announcement is widely circulated, with 5.33 million views.

Investors include well-known actors, but user reviews are overwhelmingly negative

After the news of Polsia's funding broke, it sparked polarized opinions. Investor Ashton Kutcher, founder of Sound Ventures and American actor, responded, thanking the tool for empowering his ambitions and confirming his participation in the funding.

However, open-source developer Peter Steinberger criticized, saying that this company frequently sends spam emails to him and has blocked many of Polsia's AI agents.

Blockchain developer DeFiniTed pointed out that Polsia's rating on review site Trustpilot is only 2.1 stars, and antivirus software also recommends avoiding visiting their website.

Image source: Trustpilot Polsia's rating on review site Trustpilot is only 2.1 stars, and antivirus software also recommends avoiding visiting their website.

According to user reviews on Trustpilot, most people believe the product has no commercial value, only generating fake companies and workflows, and the system often falls into endless error loops.

Some users also complain about overcharging, with subscription fees skyrocketing from $28 to $78, and even after turning off ads, they are still billed. When users face account bans and data loss, they can only communicate with customer service bots that cannot resolve issues.

At this point, if you look at Polsia's company name again, you'll find that reversed it spells "AI Slop," (AI Garbage), and it's unclear whether the founder is deliberately mocking users or if there's some deeper meaning.

Investigation claims Polsia has a 48% monthly churn rate and 90% of generated companies are inactive

Amidst the controversy over Polsia's funding news, an X account named NotOnKetamine analyzed data via its API and raised questions.

The investigation shows that, of the nearly $10 million in annual recurring revenue Polsia claims, about 20% is spent on advertising, meaning the actual recurring revenue is only about $4.6 million. Due to a monthly churn rate of 48%, the actual retained recurring revenue after a year is almost zero.

Image source: NotOnKetamine

Additionally, the source code of Polsia reveals that there are human reviewers internally rating AI outputs, and administrators have the highest override permissions, indicating significant human involvement, with core technology being a connection to the Claude model on AWS Bedrock.

The investigation also found that out of over 110k companies generated via Polsia, only 6.3% are active, while 93.7% have already shut down.

Image source: NotOnKetamine

Polsia publicly shows 16 generated fund companies with zero revenue, and the latest generated websites even lack checkout and payment channels. Moreover, the publicly accessible dashboards generated through Polsia leak private data such as owners' real names, individual agent operating costs, and financial balances, even with default privacy settings.

NotOnKetamine jokingly concludes that they have completed the due diligence (DD) that Polsia overlooked in raising $30 million, emphasizing that based on Polsia's own data, the only thing that continues to grow is their computing bills.

Polsia is not truly a one-person company

As of today (5/25), the news of Polsia's $30 million funding has not been cited by mainstream financial or venture capital media, but the company was mentioned by the well-known magazine Fortune.

The reporter also pointed out that Polsia is not a genuine one-person company, Ben Cera still hires law firms for legal matters, and the system is managed by an infrastructure team, so the company is just not hiring "direct employees," but outsourcing staff.