Benioff-Backed Startup June Aims to Solve AI's Enterprise Deployment Problem

June, founded by Efrat Rapoport, Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat, raised $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, with backing from Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, and George Kurtz. The founders previously built Bonobo AI, which Salesforce acquired in 2019, and then worked on Salesforce's AI initiatives. June's platform scans a company's existing systems to understand processes, find bottlenecks, and build optimized agent-powered workflows, providing step-by-step guidance to implement agents in complex enterprise environments. Paul Akinmade of mortgage lender CMG used June to integrate Claude Code with Salesforce, after struggling with traditional methods. Rapoport positions June as complementary to forward-deployed engineers, but customers may use it to avoid them altogether, as Akinmade emphasized he wanted an easy-to-use tool without requiring FDEs.