Trilogy Equity Partners leads the $11.7 million round, with participation from a16z speedrun, BMW i Ventures and Accel

SEATTLE, Sept. 30, 2026 — Kanu AI today announced $11.7 million in funding led by Trilogy Equity Partners, with participation from a16z speedrun, BMW i Ventures, and Accel. Founded just over a year ago, Kanu AI has more than doubled its revenue in each quarter since launch and now serves enterprises across a range of verticals, including commercial real estate, insurance, financial services, and technology.

A company’s most valuable intelligence rarely exists in software alone: it lives in how employees interpret data, make decisions, and drive outcomes. That judgment is often trapped in people’s heads, inboxes, spreadsheets and one-off work. Employees repeat the work, but the company’s systems do not learn from it, and the organization as a whole never compounds it.

Kanu AI automatically captures an enterprise’s intelligence and turns it into production-grade software. Staff members show Kanu AI how they work and connect the systems they already use. Kanu then builds those workflows into operational software in the customer’s cloud. Teams across the organization can use these workflows safely and predictably, with software that adapts as their work changes.

“Companies have spent decades buying software built around someone else’s idea of how they should work,” said Karan Grover, Founder and CEO of Kanu AI. “Instead of renting generic intelligence from another vendor, companies can use Kanu to turn their own data, judgment, and operating expertise into an asset they own, and compound it across the organization.”

For one national customer, Kanu AI reduced an analysis process that previously took up to eight weeks across PDFs, email, spreadsheets, CRM data, and GIS systems down to under 10 minutes. The customer is on track to cut software costs by more than $1 million this year and generate millions in additional revenue by year’s end.

Built for How Enterprises Actually Deploy AI

Kanu is designed to operate within the security, governance, and operating realities of the modern enterprise:

• Runs inside the customer’s cloud and security layer. Data stays with the customer, accessed via existing permissions and policies. Model choice, logic, and outputs are all under the customer’s control.
• Stays current. When a workflow changes, Kanu’s software adapts along with it. All it takes is for one person to teach Kanu something for the entire organization to benefit the same day. No rebuilds or rollouts, or another internal tool becoming obsolete.
• Shows its work. Every output can be opened to inspect what Kanu read, the information it used, how it interpreted that information, and why it reached its conclusion. It is a complete path, from source to decision.
• Is collaborative. Where review and judgment are required, Kanu’s workflows can include human review and approval checkpoints.

Enterprise buyers have moved beyond asking what AI can do. They are asking what can operate within their governance, data, and security requirements and become more valuable as their organization uses it. Kanu is designed for that standard.

“Top of every enterprise leader’s list is how to leverage AI to truly enhance their business performance in an enterprise-worthy fashion,” said Chuck Stonecipher, Managing Director of Trilogy Equity Partners. “Kanu AI’s solution uniquely answers that question.”

“We are strong believers in Kanu AI’s vision for the future: where code is a commodity but doesn’t feel like a commodity,” said Josh Lu, GM and Partner at a16z speedrun. “Kanu is creating this future by enabling generated workflows to be truly production-grade: stable, scalable and secure.”

“With Kanu AI, we see the emergence of a foundational technology for enterprise software,” said Kasper Sage, Managing Partner at BMW i Ventures. “The team is tackling one of the hardest and most valuable problems in the industry: giving organizations the ability to safely and reliably ship workflows without relying on long, manual engineering cycles.”

Kanu is available today through AWS Marketplace and Google Cloud Marketplace. The company is hiring across engineering and business roles.

About Kanu AI

Kanu AI turns how an organization works into software workflows the organization owns. Deployed inside the customer’s own cloud and security layer, Kanu learns from the company’s data, expertise, and approved work, then builds and maintains systems that produce finished outcomes. Every result is inspectable and every consequential step remains under human control. Other vendors sell companies’ software. Kanu builds them an asset they own. Kanu AI is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For more information, visit getkanu.com.

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