Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio that builds companies from scratch. Madrona Venture Labs is based in Seattle and housed at Madrona Venture Group. The studio makes use of money from its funds to incubate concepts and recruit a management crew to ultimately run the enterprise.  Founded in 2014, MVL has spun out greater than a dozen firms, together with some that had been later acquired by Nordstrom, Uber, and Mailchimp.

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We invest wherever the Seattle Mariners play on TV. When I say “we”, I mean me and Jen, our mighty Chief of Staff. Marketplace, Consumer Brands, Ecommerce, B2B Software are my sweet spots. Preferred stage is pre-seed, preferred check $250-$750K. Ascend’s Limited Partners are a diverse group of technology leaders, financiers, and entrepreneurs.

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Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm. The firm prefers to invest in businesses that are involved in information technology, e-commerce, digital media, advertising, software, gaming, data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure.

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Finpilot

Finpilot's chatbot tool seeks to increase the efficiency of financial analysts. It uses artificial intelligence to explore publicly available corporate files and respond to research requests in natural language.

Finpilot is an AI-powered platform that helps financial analysts streamline their research and analysis workflows. The company's technology extracts knowledge from unstructured financial data sources including SEC documents, call transcripts, research reports, and private financial documents. The platform features a web-based AI chat tool that enables analysts to search and query information across multiple sources through a conversational interface. Unlike generic AI models, Finpilot provides source-linked answers with references to primary materials, allowing users to verify the accuracy of information whether in charts or text format. As of February 2024, the platform was available in public beta with plans for a self-serve business model for individual analysts and an enterprise version. The platform also includes task agents designed to automate complex workflows such as report generation, company comparisons, trend analysis, and extraction of segment data from charts and text. Finpilot was spun out of Euclidean Technologies, an investment firm focused on quantitative analysis.

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Finpilot Secures $4 Million in Seed Funding to Boost AI Financial Platform

Finpilot is an AI-powered platform that helps financial analysts streamline their research and analysis workflows. The company's technology extracts knowledge from unstructured financial data sources including SEC documents, call transcripts, research reports, and private financial documents. The platform features a web-based AI chat tool that enables analysts to search and query information across multiple sources through a conversational interface. Unlike generic AI models, Finpilot provides source-linked answers with references to primary materials, allowing users to verify the accuracy of information whether in charts or text format. As of February 2024, the platform was available in public beta with plans for a self-serve business model for individual analysts and an enterprise version. The platform also includes task agents designed to automate complex workflows such as report generation, company comparisons, trend analysis, and extraction of segment data from charts and text. Finpilot was spun out of Euclidean Technologies, an investment firm focused on quantitative analysis.

Finpilot Raises $4 million for Finance Specific AI Model that Reimagines the Financial Analyst’s Journey

Finpilot Secures $4 Million in Seed Round

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Finpilot, a Seattle startup using generative AI to help financial analysts with research, raises $4M

Our Investment in Finpilot: Reimagining the Financial Analyst’s Journey With AI

Finpilot Raises $4M in Seed Funding

Rogo offers GenAI solutions for financial institutions with tools specifically designed to meet the unique needs of global hedge funds, investment banks, private equity firms, and institutional investors. The company utilizes proprietary financial AI, combining large language models (LLMs) and expertise on financial services, which can adapt to understand the language and data specific to an organization. It can help teams with tasks like accelerating research, making data-driven decisions, and producing finance-related materials.The platform extracts data from internal sources like company presentations, memos, models, databases, data rooms, and meeting notes, combined with a library of 100+ million various external sources, including filings, investor calls, and transcripts of over 70,000 companies globally, along with real-time market data, news and media sources, web searches, and other third-party data.

Rogo

Portrait Analytics is a Boston-based startup developing a GenAI platform for investment research and thesis creation. Founded in 2022 by David Plon, a former principal analyst at Baupost Group, and Connell Gough, a full-stack developer, the company aims to revolutionize the way investment analysts conduct research and generate investment ideas. Portrait's platform leverages advanced AI models to accelerate the speed of research by answering complex questions and producing insights for users. The technology extracts and synthesizes key information from company filings, documents, and other sources to provide factual, auditable responses to user queries.The company's first product is a Q&amp;A-based application that incorporates GenAI search and summarization capabilities. It is designed to function as a "junior analyst," capable of performing tasks such as finding investment ideas, building financial models, and creating pitch decks. Portrait's platform includes an idea generation tool that helps analysts sift through thousands of companies to identify potential investment opportunities. It also provides comprehensive research summaries to quickly familiarize analysts with specific companies or sectors. As of July 2023, the platform was in private beta testing with select asset managers, with plans to expand access to more analysts in the coming months.

Portrait Analytics

Helix by HL is a joint venture between TIFIN, a developer of AI-powered wealth management solutions, and private market investments manager Hamilton Lane.It develops a GenAI assistant, powered by proprietary data and industry expertise of Hamilton Lane, which generates data-driven insights on private market benchmarking, forecasting, and diligence for wealth investors and their intermediaries. Its platform offers a conversational tool that answers private market questions and generates insights in plain English.

Helix by HL

Wokelo AI operates a secure GenAI platform geared toward accelerating business research. It provides customized, in-depth analyses for market intelligence and investment research, distinguishing itself through the creation of human-like syntheses at scale.The company's platform serves as a research assistant and co-authoring tool, capable of generating high-fidelity, factually bounded reports and presentations. It offers information on various business aspects, like mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, product strategy, and user reviews, among others​. It is also capable of generating various business documents, including sector briefings, company due diligence, financial analysis, earnings transcripts and annual reports analysis, investment memos, and market maps​.Wokelo AI utilizes a proprietary cognitive engine that curates a range of data, including analyst reports, internal data, podcasts, product reviews, call transcripts, articles, and news, along with 500+ pre-integrated datasets. It also utilized GPT models by OpenAI and open-source models like LLaMA as of November 2023.Key customers and partnershipsThe primary clientele of Wokelo comprises professionals from private equity firms, investment banks, corporate strategy departments, and venture capital firms. Some of its disclosed customers as of May 2024 included Guggenheim, Sage, Tata, Deloitte, Gratia, and Seven Seven Six.

Wokelo AI

Platforms that help financial market participants collect, manage, and use traditional and alternative data, derive market insights from news, and provide trade signals to make informed decisions.

Platforms that help institutions such as asset managers, investment banks, and hedge funds to develop platforms to trade and operate brokerage services for various financial assets and instruments such as stocks, fixed income securities, derivatives, commodities, and foreign currencies.

Companies that use blockchain technology to share and synchronize data and improve efficiency across the trading workflow and post-trade actions such as clearing and settlement.

Platforms that help companies meet anti-money laundering requirements and provide identity verification tools such as KYC checks.

These platforms provide services such as risk detection, regulatory compliance, risk management, risk intelligence, collateral management, internal processes management, and strengthening of internal controls.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for capital markets

Uses GenAI to automate analysis, optimize portfolios, predict market trends, and enhance risk management

Uses AI/ML to process market data and information to derive valuable and timely insights

Uses blockchain to automate certain workflows between institutions and capital market participants

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<div>
 
 Finpilot, a platform that supports financial analysts, has garnered USD 4 million in a funding round spearheaded by Madrona, and saw contributions from Ascend and numerous angel investors.
 The company plans to use this funding to drive the continued development and enhancement of its platform.
 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 This round follows the company’s previous round of <a href="https: 
//www.geekwire.com/2024/finpilot-a-seattle-startup-using-generative-ai-to-help-financial-analysts-with-research-raises-4m/"> USD 0.5 million </a> through a convertible security from Madrona Venture Labs and Ascend in June last year. Repeat investments from the same investors within a short span of eight months may indicate the perceived growth potential of the company.

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