Exclusive: This founder went from pressure washing to Wharton—and just raised $40 million for AI
- Business, Finance, Startups & Venture, Tech
- June 23, 2026

For months, Kleiner Perkins partner Aditya Naganath had been mulling over his investing thesis that the next wave of AI wasn’t going to be a chatbot—it was going to be software that does the work autonomously, for hours at a time, across thousands of tasks at once. The trouble was, nobody had built the plumbing
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The 24 year-old spent six summers pressure washing houses in upstate New York with his dad. Now he has a Wharton degree, and just raised $40 million from two of the most competitive names in venture capital to fix blue-collar and home services problems at scale. Probook, his New York-based startup, raised a $34 million
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