Phaze Raises $8.75 Million to Build Shared Desktops for AI Agents

Phaze has raised $8.75 million in seed financing to develop remote workstations where employees and AI agents can share computing resources for graphics-heavy work in real time.

Phaze announced the round Wednesday, Nov. 4, with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) leading. Indie, NextView, Makers and Lerer Hippeau also participated. The company plans to use the money to expand its engineering team, develop the product and grow its customer base.

The platform streams a remote workstation to a user’s device. Phaze lists computer-aided design, 3D design, Blender and Unreal Studio among the graphics-intensive work it supports. The setup gives users access to remote workstation capacity without requiring dedicated high-end hardware for every user, the company’s pitch.

A person and an AI agent can work in the same session in real time. Agents can also handle background tasks through model context protocol (MCP) servers. For enterprise customers, the platform includes centralized management and audit logs that let IT teams track access.

Phaze’s founders, Benjy Boxer and Chris Dickson, previously built Parsec, a remote-access company that Unity acquired in 2021.