Lightspeed Venture Partners leads round less than two months after the company’s launch, alongside DST Global, NVentures, Radical, Felicis, 49 Palms, Sequoia, and others.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 26, 2026 — Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab founded by the co-creators of AlphaChip, today announced a $300 million Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $4 billion post-money valuation. The round follows Ricursive’s public launch less than two months earlier and includes participation from DST Global, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Felicis Ventures, 49 Palms Ventures, Radical AI, and Sequoia Capital.

Ricursive Intelligence was founded by Dr. Anna Goldie and Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini, whose pioneering work on AlphaChip was instrumental in establishing AI-driven chip design and has since been adopted across four generations of TPU and deployed by external semiconductor companies. Ricursive is building a next-generation platform that closes the recursive feedback loop between AI models and the chips that power them, addressing what has become the primary bottleneck to AI progress: the slow, capital-intensive process of semiconductor design.

The new funding will be used to scale Ricursive’s world-class research and engineering team and significantly expand its compute infrastructure, enabling faster iteration across the full semiconductor design stack.

“The pace of AI progress is dictated by hardware,” said Dr. Anna Goldie, co-founder and CEO of Ricursive Intelligence. “Ricursive’s mission is to radically accelerate chip design, and ultimately to use AI to design its own silicon substrate. This funding will allow us to grow our world-class team and build the infrastructure necessary to meet this challenge.” 

“To advance the state of the art in AI, we must operate at the Pareto frontier of intelligence and computational efficiency,” said Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini, co-founder and CTO of Ricursive Intelligence. “Ricursive is building toward a future where rapid AI and hardware co-evolution becomes reality, unlocking significant gains in performance and energy efficiency. Together with our exceptional team, we are excited to drive this paradigm shift.”

Ricursive’s rapid follow-on financing reflects strong conviction from both AI and semiconductor industry leaders in the company’s world-class team, technical approach, and long-term vision.

“Ricursive is addressing what may be the most critical bottleneck facing the AI industry today: the gap between AI advancement and semiconductor capability,” said Guru Chahal, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. “Anna and Azalia pioneered a new approach to chip design with AlphaChip. At Ricursive, they’re building a full-stack platform that creates a continuous improvement cycle between AI models and the hardware that powers them. The caliber of the founding team, the ambition of what they’re building, combined with the technical progress they’ve already achieved, made this a clear investment for us. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Ricursive Intelligence.”

Since its launch, Ricursive has attracted top-tier researchers and engineers across AI, systems, and silicon design from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Apple, and Cadence, positioning the company as a foundational player at the intersection of artificial intelligence and compute infrastructure.

About Ricursive Intelligence 
Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building the compute foundation for the next generation of AI. Founded by Dr. Anna Goldie and Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini, the scientists who pioneered AI for chip design and co-created AlphaChip, Ricursive Intelligence applies AI and distributed computing to drastically compress semiconductor development timelines. The company’s platform creates a recursive self-improvement cycle where AI designs silicon that powers the next generation of AI. By removing the hardware bottleneck that has held back AI progress, Ricursive Intelligence is forging a path toward artificial superintelligence and unlocking a Cambrian explosion of custom chips. Visit ricursive.com to learn more.

About Lightspeed: 
Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets. Since its founding in 2000, Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world including Abridge, Anthropic, Castelion, Glean, Mistral, Navan, Netskope, Rubrik, Snap, Wiz, and more. Visit lsvp.com to learn more.

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Formerly Fizz, Mine unveils a new brand and AI platform to help young adults overcome financial stress and build wealth

NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2026 — Mine, the personal finance company for young adults, today announced a $14 million Series A financing led by 359 Capital. The round includes participation from Kleiner Perkins and new investor FJ Labs. Existing investors Y Combinator and U.S. News & World Report also participated, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $28 million.

A New Name for a New Era of Personal Finance
The new name, Mine, reflects a mission: to make money feel personal again for a new generation of young Americans. What started as a single credit-building tool has become a complete platform that helps young adults take ownership of their financial lives. “Your finances should feel like they’re in your hands — not hanging over your head,” said Scott Smith, Co-founder of Mine. “The new name represents our commitment to helping young adults truly own their financial lives and build a foundation for their futures.”

Introducing Your Personal Finance Agent, MoneyGPT
Meet MoneyGPT — your personal finance agent, powered by Mine’s proprietary data models. It learns your habits, understands your goals, and gives you practical, instant advice to help you save, spend, and grow smarter.

The agent provides hyper-personalized insights and advice tailored to each customer’s unique financial situation, goals, and concerns. Whether you’re navigating student loans, building credit for the first time, or trying to understand how to save for an upcoming trip, MoneyGPT delivers actionable, custom advice instantly.

Unlike generic financial tools or general-purpose AI models, MoneyGPT adapts to your spending patterns, anticipates your needs, and proactively offers insights to help you make smarter financial decisions. MoneyGPT helps you think through the realities of variable income, gig work, and the pressure to balance short-term fun with long-term goals.

Addressing a Critical Gap in Financial Wellness for Young Adults

Today’s financial system wasn’t built for the next generation. Most young adults are juggling variable income, side gigs, debt, and shifting goals — yet still relying on tools designed for their parents. Nearly 60 percent of students worry about covering basic expenses, and 37 percent stress over loan repayment — making financial anxiety the number-one reason students drop out of college.

Mine is tackling that challenge head-on. Financial needs have evolved faster than the solutions available to meet them. Young adults today face complex realities — variable income from nontraditional jobs, rising healthcare costs, mid-career resets, and new questions around family support and inheritance — yet they’re still left to navigate with outdated tools.

“Money shouldn’t be a mystery,” said Carlo Kobe, Co-founder of Mine. “Our goal is to give young adults the clarity and confidence to make smarter choices every day. This funding helps us scale a platform that not only educates, but empowers.”

By combining data, design, and AI, Mine is already changing how young adults engage with their money. Early results show the impact: 75 percent of users report feeling more financially confident, and 70 percent say they feel more financially independent after using Mine.

A Complete Money Platform Built for Young Adults

Mine offers a suite of tools designed specifically for the young adult experience:

• AI Personal Finance Agent, MoneyGPT: Clear recommendations tailored to your accounts, cash flow, and goals—not boilerplate tips.
• Mine Card: A smarter credit-building card that looks out for you. See what’s genuinely safe to spend in real time, and earn rewards.
• Effortless tracking: Track all of your accounts in one place. See cards, banks, brokerages, retirement funds, credit history, and student loans together in one interface.

“We’re thrilled to lead Mine’s Series A,” said David Hartwig, Partner, 359 Capital. “The team has built something truly differentiated—a platform that meets young adults where they are and gives them the tools to build real wealth. Mine’s rapid growth and the overwhelming demand we’re seeing from this demographic make it clear they’re solving a real need, and the addition of AI-powered personalized guidance measurably improves our ability to raise financial literacy.”

About Mine

Mine is the personal finance company built for young adults. Formerly Fizz, Mine helps users take control of their financial lives through a complete money platform that includes MoneyGPT, a personal finance agent, alongside tools for credit building and account tracking — designed for the realities of modern income, spending, and goals. Mine is based in New York.

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 Susquehanna Growth Equity fuels Visitt’s rapid expansion

NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2026 — Visitt, the AI-native property operations platform transforming the future of commercial real estate, today announced that it has raised $22 million in Series B funding from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), an entrepreneur-centric growth equity firm, with participation from existing investors Vertex Ventures Israel, Anfield, and Sarona Ventures.

The funding round follows a year of rapid expansion for Visitt, which today has over 150 customers, achieving over 900% growth in managed square footage in 2025. The company is bringing operational innovation back to property teams, replacing stagnant legacy systems with a unified platform where AI was built into the operational core from day one, delivering practical solutions to real, day-to-day building operations challenges.

Co-founded by Chief Executive Officer Itay Oren, Chief Technology Officer Idan Wender, and Chief Product Officer Jonathan Kroll, Visitt built its platform around real-world workflows, informed by live building operations with world-class operators across office, industrial, data center, multifamily, and retail properties.

“As the first platform to deeply embed AI into day-to-day CRE operations, Visitt is purpose-built to meet new expectations for operational excellence and tenant experience. Legacy systems were designed for a different era and can’t meet these demands. Operators need speed, clarity, and real outcomes through a single interface with AI built into the operational core,” said Itay Oren, CEO and Co-founder of Visitt. “This investment allows us to accelerate innovation while staying true to how we operate: as true partners with our customers, building in their buildings and supporting their success. SGE shares our commitment to supporting property teams, bringing valuable experience from its real estate technology investments.”

Visitt’s all-in-one platform unifies workflows that traditionally live in disconnected CRE systems, including work orders, compliance, predictive maintenance, tenant communications, equipment lifespan tracking, security, amenities, and finance. Its workflows are supported by millions of operational data points that Visitt has amassed, combined with continuous feedback loops with on-site property teams.

“We are thrilled to partner with Itay and his talented team, who have built a best-in-class platform through relentless commitment to solving common issues in the commercial real estate industry,” said Josh Elser, Managing Director, Susquehanna Growth Equity. “Visitt is well-positioned to capture a massive whitespace opportunity, and we are eager to support the entire team as they continue to scale the platform.”

Tobias Lange, Investor, Susquehanna Growth Equity, added “We’ve been tremendously impressed with Visitt’s user-friendly AI workflows, which enhance commercial real estate building operations and tenant experience, driving higher satisfaction and measurable ROI for owners and operators.”

Visitt plans to expand its single AI interface for property operations inside the workflows teams use every day, building on its existing capabilities such as work order intelligence, its AI Agent for certificate of insurance management, and multilingual communication tools. Additionally, the company will introduce new AI Agents that save time on manual work, build more predictive intelligence, scale customer experience teams to ensure every customer succeeds, and continue advancing its proprietary onboarding technology.

About Visitt

Visitt is an all-in-one AI-native property operations platform built to handle day-to-day operations. Designed to address the tech stack overload faced by CRE owners and operators, Visitt consolidates critical property management functions into a single, intuitive platform, automating workflows and repetitive tasks so teams can focus on higher-value work. Its core features – such as streamlined work order and preventive maintenance tools, in-app team and tenant communication, amenity management, visitor access, and predictive maintenance – drive stronger portfolio performance with happier tenants and property managers.

Backed by proprietary research, Visitt delivers 2-3x improvements in property efficiency and response times, saving thousands of hours per portfolio annually. To request a demo, visit www.visitt.io

About Susquehanna Growth Equity

Susquehanna Growth Equity (“SGE”) is an entrepreneur-centric growth equity fund with flexible capital and time horizons. SGE has invested over $5.0 billion in 110+ market-leading technology and services companies over the last 20 years and has portfolio companies across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. To learn more, please visit www.sgep.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 2026 — DealHub’s recent $100 million growth round, led by Riverwood Capital, is more than a milestone for the company; it’s a signal to the market. In this emerging category of agentic platforms, DealHub is positioning itself as the defining leader for revenue execution.

Enterprise monetization has fractured into a maze of models: usage-based pricing, subscriptions, self-serve, tiered plans, contract-driven enterprise sales, embedded consumption, and AI-based credits—all coexisting within the same organization. Go-to-market strategies now blend SLG, PLG, and self-service motions. The result is unprecedented flexibility for buyers and unprecedented operational risk for sellers.

The Enterprise Pricing Problem 

Most large enterprises now operate with what can only be described as ‘hybrid monetization stacks.’ A single customer may start in self-serve, expand through usage, convert into an enterprise contract, and renew on a custom commercial model. Pricing logic changes mid-cycle. Entitlements evolve. Usage spikes unpredictably. Revenue must still be recognized accurately, forecasted reliably, and governed globally.

Traditional CPQ systems were built for static rules, linear deal flows, and relatively stable pricing models. Even many ‘modern’ point solutions (usage metering tools, billing engines, contract repositories) address only fragments of the problem. They require brittle integrations, manual reconciliations, and downstream patchwork logic.

This fragmentation creates a fundamental blind spot: leadership no longer has a real-time, unified view of revenue.

Instead, finance teams reconcile. RevOps teams interpret. Sales teams work around. And the business absorbs risk quietly until it surfaces as missed forecasts, revenue leakage, pricing inconsistency, or compliance exposure.

Agentic Systems

Agentic software represents a shift from passive systems of record to active systems of reasoning. Rather than waiting for human inputs at every decision point, agentic platforms interpret context, evaluate constraints, and execute actions continuously.

In revenue terms, this means software that understands deal structure, pricing dependencies, entitlements, discount policies, usage patterns, and revenue recognition rules—not as static fields, but as dynamic relationships.

DealHub’s Agentic Quote-to-Revenue vision aims to do exactly this: unify pricing, packaging, quoting, contracting, billing, and revenue orchestration into a single intelligent backbone.

The $100M funding round marks an important milestone. The investment will support continued innovation and help advance the shift from workflow automation to autonomous revenue execution.

One Platform, Not a Patchwork

One of DealHub’s most consequential moves is its rejection of the ‘best-of-breed sprawl’ model that has dominated RevOps architecture for the past decade. While many vendors focus on solving individual stages of the funnel, DealHub is consolidating CPQ, Subscription Management, CLM, Billing, Revenue Recognition, DealRoom collaboration, and API-first headless quoting into a single, orchestrated system.

There are two key reasons for this:

First, it eliminates fragile dependencies. Every handoff between systems is a point of failure. Every sync is a lag. Every reconciliation is a risk. A unified platform removes the need to reconcile truth across silos.

Second, it creates contextual intelligence. When pricing logic, contract terms, billing events, and revenue recognition live in the same system, the software can reason holistically. It can understand how a discount affects long-term ARR, how a usage threshold impacts margin, or how a renewal structure impacts forecast stability.

This is the core of revenue autonomy: not just automating steps, but understanding consequences.

Real-Time Revenue Is a Strategic Requirement

For C-suite leaders, the most compelling promise of agentic revenue systems is not speed—it’s certainty.

In an AI-driven economy, waiting until month-end or quarter-close to understand revenue performance is no longer viable. Leaders need to know, at any moment in the quarter, where revenue stands, what is at risk, what is accelerating, and what structural factors are influencing outcomes.

DealHub’s approach is designed to deliver this continuous visibility. Real-time dashboards and context-aware insights generated directly from the revenue execution layer itself.

This is a fundamental shift from reporting on revenue to actively governing it.

It Sets a New Bar for CPQ

The CPQ category has historically focused on configuration accuracy and quote speed. Those capabilities remain necessary, but they are no longer sufficient.

In a world of AI-driven monetization, CPQ must evolve into a control plane for revenue logic. It must understand not only what can be sold, but how it will be billed, recognized, expanded, and governed over time.

DealHub’s Agentic Quote-to-Revenue platform reframes CPQ as an intelligent system of action. That’s what differentiates category leaders from feature competitors.

The Market Signal Is Clear

This investment is not just a vote of confidence in DealHub’s execution. It is a validation of the solution itself: revenue systems as strategic infrastructure.

As monetization becomes more flexible, revenue execution becomes more complex. And as complexity increases, the cost of manual intervention, fragmented tooling, and static logic becomes untenable.

DealHub’s $100M round marks a shift toward platforms that actively support and govern growth. In doing so, it sets a new standard for what CPQ can be and establishes a clear leadership position in the emerging Revenue Autonomy category.

Contact:
Allison Porter
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The fund invests in category-defining private technology companies through scalable and customized
secondary solutions

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22, 2026 — Pinegrove Opportunity Partners (“POP”), a dedicated venture and growth secondaries investor, today announced the close of its inaugural fund, Pinegrove Opportunity Partners I (“POP I”), with $2.2 billion of capital commitments. POP I was oversubscribed relative to its original $2 billion target and is the largest first-time venture secondaries fund.

POP I invests in mid-to-late-stage private technology companies by delivering flexible liquidity and financing solutions to founders, management teams, venture firms, and their investors. The company is led by Brian Laibow, Prateek Bhide, Gaurav Mathur, and an experienced team with extensive primary underwriting and structuring expertise, as well as deep relationships across the venture industry.

Founded in 2023 with significant strategic and financial backing from Sequoia Heritage and Brookfield, POP was established as a partner to the venture and growth ecosystem to address growing liquidity challenges. POP helps meet this need by offering tailored capital solutions at scale, including direct investments such as company tenders, GP continuation vehicles, LP fund interests, and NAV loans. POP operates as a dedicated strategy within the Pinegrove platform, which also includes leading venture fund primaries, co-investments, and credit strategies (formerly known as SVB Capital).

“Over the past decade, the landscape for venture capital and growth investing has undergone a structural shift. Companies are staying private longer, which creates significant capital needs as stakeholders seek liquidity options to de-risk and diversify their portfolios,” said Brian Laibow, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Pinegrove Opportunity Partners. “POP was launched to address this persistent gap in the venture market and serve as a non-competitive, value-add partner. We are grateful for the strong support from our global and diversified limited partners. We look forward to leveraging our expertise and network to identify differentiated investments for our investors and support category-defining technology companies.”

To date, POP I has invested approximately $1 billion and has a robust, selectively curated, and highly proprietary pipeline of future investment opportunities.

About Pinegrove Opportunity Partners

Pinegrove Opportunity Partners (POP) is an independent investment manager founded in 2023 to provide investors with access to leading mid-to-late-stage private technology companies. Backed by Sequoia Heritage and Brookfield and managing more than $2 billion in assets, POP delivers scalable secondary and bespoke financing solutions to the venture and growth ecosystem.

POP leverages proprietary sourcing channels, differentiated underwriting, structuring expertise, and deep relationships within the venture ecosystem to deliver long-term value for its investors. To learn more, please visit POP.Pinegrove.vc.

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The new round brings total capital raised to $29 million and accelerates product innovation, team growth, and continued expansion for the AI-native communications platform built specifically for automotive dealerships.

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 22, 2026 — Mia Labs, Inc., the company behind Mia, the AI-powered conversational platform for automotive dealerships, today announced it has raised a $20 million Series A, bringing its total capital raised to $29 million. The round was led by Permanent Capital Ventures, with participation from Norwest alongside earlier investors Eniac Ventures, Vine Ventures, Analog Ventures (formerly J Ventures), and Logos Fund, as well as strategic automotive investors and industry leaders, including Yossi Levi of Car Dealership Guy.

This funding caps off a breakout year for Mia Labs. In 2025, the company expanded its footprint to over 350 franchise dealerships nationwide, enabling more than $45 million in dealership revenue while saving over 1.5 million human hours through AI-powered customer conversations.

This capital also positions Mia as one of the most well-funded AI-native communications platforms built specifically for car dealerships, reflecting both the scale of the opportunity and the company’s growing momentum.

To date, Mia has:

• Powered over 1 million customer conversations
• Booked more than 130,000 sales and service appointments
• Saved dealerships over 1.5 million human hours
• Enabled over $45 million of revenue from AI booked appointments
• Scaled to over 50 employees

Mia’s conversational AI platform supports multiple departments and communication channels, enabling dealerships to replace fragmented, manual workflows with a single intelligent system that drives revenue, improves the customer experience, and scales efficiently. Unlike legacy call centers, IVRs, and standalone chatbots, Mia replaces fragmented dealership communication tools with a single AI-native system operating across departments and channels.

A key differentiator behind Mia’s momentum is the team building the platform. Across engineering, sales, customer success, and leadership, Mia Labs brings together more than 100 years of combined automotive experience, spanning dealership operations, OEMs, automotive software, and frontline retail roles. This deep, firsthand understanding of how dealerships work informs every product decision, ensuring Mia is built for real-world dealer environments, not theoretical use cases. As a result, some of the largest dealership groups in the country trust Mia with their stores’ customer communications.

“This Series A funding is a major vote of confidence in Mia’s vision and the real results we’re delivering for automotive dealerships,” said Brian Hoang, CEO and co-founder of Mia Labs. “In today’s competitive landscape, dealerships can’t afford outdated tools and broken data that slow them down. We’re directly addressing this by building the most sophisticated AI super employee in the automotive space; one that’s deeply familiar with dealership operations, elevates the customer experience, and continually improves to help dealers drive more revenue.”

“Mia Labs is addressing one of the most mission-critical challenges in automotive retail: customer communication at scale,” said Mike Gamson, Managing Partner at Permanent Capital Ventures. “The team combines deep automotive expertise with world-class AI execution, and their momentum in just this last year alone speaks for itself. We’re excited to support Mia as they define the future of dealership operations.”

“Mia stands out because it was built by people who deeply understand dealership workflows and the realities operators face every day,” said Yossi Levi, Founder of Car Dealership Guy. “Their approach to AI is practical, results-driven, and purpose-built for automotive. I believe Mia is becoming a foundational platform for modern dealerships.”

On the tail of this announcement, Mia is set to ignite the future of automotive retail at NADA 2026 in Las Vegas, where they will reveal more game-changing product innovations. Mia will be at booth #6568N, where the company plans to show dealers, partners, and industry leaders exactly how Mia’s cutting-edge communications are transforming dealership operations and customer experiences.

About Mia Labs, Inc.

Mia Labs, Inc. is modernizing automotive retail with AI technology built for dealership operations. Founded in 2023, Mia combines decades of automotive retail experience with advanced artificial intelligence to create an AI super employee that answers calls, engages customers, and converts conversations into revenue opportunities 24/7/365.

Mia integrates directly with dealership systems, streamlines dealer technology stacks, and is customizable across sales, service, and reception. Designed for natural, human-like conversations, Mia supports multiple languages and delivers industry-leading performance to help dealerships operate more efficiently and serve customers better.

For more information about Mia Labs or to schedule a demo, visit www.mia.inc.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2026 — Waldo, a New York–based investment firm, today announced the close of its $225 million inaugural fund, Waldo I. Waldo locates and invests in proven, early-growth stage software and tech-enabled services companies.

Waldo was built for an expanding set of technology founders: entrepreneurs building enduring companies with both ambition and intention. These businesses are grounded in strong fundamentals and real-world traction, poised to become scaled market leaders, all without relying on capital markets to define their success.

True to its name, Waldo proactively seeks out unique, hard-to-find companies. Waldo combines institutional rigor with a founder-first mindset, building its investment platform with next-generation data and technology in the same way modern founders build their businesses.

Waldo was founded by Managing Partners Jon Rosenbaum and Julie Effron, long-time collaborators since their undergraduate years at the University of Pennsylvania. Both bring more than a decade of investing experience, having built distinguished track records at Insight Partners and Elephant, including over 30 combined board roles. Julie also has firsthand founder experience, having co-founded ALICE, a hotel software company acquired by Expedia. These experiences shape Waldo’s focused approach to partnering with founders.

Waldo I is backed by a high-quality group of institutional investors with deep domain expertise, including foundations, fund of funds and multi-family offices. Many of these institutions, alongside founders and operators investing in the fund, have known the firm’s founders throughout their careers. The fund was raised on an accelerated timeline and was oversubscribed.

With its core team and foundation already in place, Waldo is partnering with exceptional founders globally, wherever they are building. 

About Waldo

Waldo is a New York-based investment firm that locates and invests in proven, early-growth stage software and tech-enabled services companies.

Contact:

[email protected]

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-Mews obtiene una inversión de 300 millones de dólares para consolidar su posición como el sistema operativo hotelero líder en el mundo

• EQT Growth lidera la ronda de financiación Serie D para acelerar el futuro nativo de IA de los hoteles a nivel mundial, con la participación de los nuevos inversores Atomico y HarbourVest
• El valor de la inversión asciende a 2.500 millones de dólares
• El volumen de transacciones de la plataforma de Mews alcanzó los 19.700 millones de dólares en 2025

NUEVA YORK, 22 de enero de 2026 — Mews, el sistema operativo para hostelería, anunció hoy que ha recaudado 300 millones de dólares en una ronda de financiación Serie D liderada por EQT Growth, con los nuevos inversores Atomico y HarbourVest Partners, y la participación de los inversores existentes Kinnevik, Battery Ventures y Tiger Global. Esta inversión marca un momento decisivo para la tecnología hotelera y valora a la empresa en 2.500 millones de dólares. Tras un año de crecimiento sólido y duradero, durante el cual el beneficio bruto de SaaS aumentó un 55 %, esta recaudación de fondos establece a Mews como el proveedor líder de tecnología hotelera para hoteles de todos los tamaños.

En 2025, la compañía consiguió:

• Una base de clientes de 15.000, con más de 132.000 hoteleros activos mensuales en 85 países
• 42,3 millones de reservas registradas, de las cuales 3,2 millones a través de Mews Kiosk¹
• Volúmenes de transacciones de plataforma de 19.700 millones de dólares
• Crecimiento acelerado del beneficio bruto de SaaS del 55%
• Creó más de medio millón (537 millones de dólares) en ingresos adicionales para los hoteleros a través de su función patentada Mews Spaces², impulsada por más de dos millones de reservas no relacionadas con habitaciones.

“Con la incorporación de EQT Growth, además de los nuevos inversores Atomico y HarbourVest, tenemos el respaldo para seguir avanzando más rápido que nadie en la industria”, afirmó Matt Welle, consejero delegado de Mews. “Estamos diseñando un sistema operativo que está cambiando la forma en que los hoteleros interactúan con sus huéspedes. Mews existe para manejar la complejidad operativa para que los hoteleros puedan centrarse en lo que importa: hacer que la hospitalidad sea aún más divertida, rentable y satisfactoria”.

La financiación ampliará las inversiones de Mews en inteligencia artificial, integrando sistemas controlados por agentes en toda la plataforma para automatizar flujos de trabajo complejos, reducir la carga cognitiva del personal, mejorar significativamente la experiencia de los huéspedes y acelerar la forma en que se construyen e implementan los productos, lo que permitirá a las propiedades:

• Orquestar operaciones en tiempo real con automatización inteligente
• Optimizar los ingresos y las ganancias con información avanzada sobre el comportamiento de los huéspedes
• Escalar el negocio sin la deuda de la tecnología heredada
• Simplificar radicalmente los flujos de trabajo para incorporar equipos más rápido

“La hospitalidad es el negocio de las experiencias”, afirmó Richard Valtr, fundador de Mews. “La validación de nuestro producto por parte del mercado es clara, tanto en EE.UU. como en Europa, y es fantástico ver cómo ahora nos estamos adelantando a cualquier otra empresa hotelera en términos de IA y hospitalidad de agentes. Es un momento emocionante para reforzar nuestra visión de hacer de los hoteles Mews los más rentables de la industria”.

Un nuevo estándar para una industria global

“He tenido el placer de conocer al equipo de Mews durante varios años y ser testigo de cómo la empresa pasó de una visión audaz a una organización que ofrece resultados a escala”, afirmó Kirk Lepke, socio de EQT Growth. “La hostelería es una de las industrias más grandes del mundo, pero sus sistemas centrales permanecen décadas atrás. Mews está creando un estándar tecnológico moderno, un sistema operativo hotelero habilitado para IA que ayuda a resolver la fragmentación que vemos en la industria. En EQT Growth estamos increíblemente emocionados de liderar esta ronda y asociarnos con Mews”.

Mews también acelerará la expansión de Mews Payments y su infraestructura fintech más amplia, integrando el comercio en el núcleo de las operaciones hoteleras y posicionando a Mews como el conector entre experiencia e ingresos. Además, la compañía continuará su ambiciosa expansión internacional en sus principales geografías de América del Norte y Europa, además de expandirse a nuevos mercados.

“Matt y Richard han creado una plataforma que define una categoría con la profundidad, el ritmo de innovación y el alcance global que requiere la hostelería moderna”, afirmó Laura Connell, socia de Atomico. “Los constructores más ambiciosos del sector hotelero se centran en ofrecer experiencias cada vez mejores para sus consumidores finales, y necesitan tecnología que pueda seguir el ritmo de las crecientes expectativas en torno a la velocidad, el servicio y la personalización. Mews es el facilitador clave para el futuro de la hostelería, y el equipo está en camino de construir una empresa generacional”.

La inversión se produce poco después de la finalización de la decimocuarta adquisición de Mews, DataChat, la plataforma líder de análisis de IA generativa. En enero de 2026, Mews fue nombrado el sistema de gestión de propiedades número uno por tercer año consecutivo y el sistema de punto de venta de hoteles número uno del mundo por los clientes y revisores de Hotel Tech Report, un reflejo de su capacidad para liderar las capas operativas y comerciales de la hostelería.

La ronda de financiación está sujeta a las condiciones de cierre regulatorias habituales.

¹ La capacidad de gestión de múltiples espacios de Mews que permite a una propiedad gestionar y vender cualquier tipo de espacio (no solo habitaciones) directamente en el sistema de gestión de propiedades (PMS).

₂ Un quiosco de autoservicio de check-in y check-out que permite a los huéspedes gestionar ellos mismos la llegada y la salida.

Acerca de Mews

Mews es el sistema operativo para hostelería, que unifica los flujos de trabajo en ingresos, operaciones y el recorrido del huésped para que los equipos puedan automatizar lo mundano y centrarse en experiencias memorables para los huéspedes. La plataforma Mews abarca PMS, POS, RMS, limpieza y pagos, ayudando a los hoteleros a pasar de la gestión de propiedades a la gestión de beneficios. Con 15.000 clientes en 85 países, la empresa fue nombrada Mejor PMS (2024, 2025, 2026), Mejor POS (2026) y figura entre los Mejores Lugares para Trabajar en Tecnología Hotelera durante seis años consecutivos por Hotel Tech Report.

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Turning ad creative into a feedback-driven system, starting with interactive ads

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22, 2026 — San Francisco–based startup GIGR (dba. Playad) today announced it has raised $5.4 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of AI marketing agents that help teams create, test, and improve advertising creative with less manual work and less guesswork. 

The round was led by BRV Capital Management and Mirae Asset Venture Investment, with participation from angel investors including Bora Chung (board member at Krafton and former executive at Bill.com), Jihun Yu (founder of Hyprsense, acquired by Epic Games), and Krew Capital.

From one-off assets to a workflow that learns

Even with modern tooling, producing effective ad creative is still slow, fragmented, and expensive. Teams move from briefs to handoffs to revisions, then stitch together performance insights after the fact – often without a clear path to what to build next. GIGR’s view is that the next leap in marketing won’t come from yet another tool. It will come from an AI-native workflow that turns performance signals into faster iteration – so creatives improve with every cycle.

That is what GIGR is building: a multi-agent marketing workflow designed to support the full creative lifecycle – briefing, production, experimentation, measurement, and iteration – so teams can run more tests and learn faster.

Why Playad starts with interactive ads

GIGR’s product, Playad (launched 3Q 2025) starts where the signal is strongest: interactive ads. Especially in gaming, these formats are widely used because they often drive higher conversion at lower CPI by letting users experience the product. They also capture granular actions – taps, swipes, and choices – making iteration clearer by showing not just whether a creative worked, but how users engaged. Industry analysis shows playable ad performance reached record highs in 2025, reinforcing the growing effectiveness of interactive formats.

Historically, however, interactive ads have been powerful yet impractical – slow to build, prohibitively expensive, and dependent on specialized developers. Playad makes them fast enough to iterate and simple enough for marketers to own, which changes creative from a bottleneck into a repeatable workflow at a fraction of cost. In addition, Playad is designed for rapid experimentation, and teams can A/B test interactive ads by instantly creating a wide range of variations.

While interactive formats are the initial wedge, Playad is built as a broader AI-native creative platform, enabling teams to create and iterate across image, video, and interactive formats within a single system.

“Marketing performance increasingly depends on how quickly teams can learn from creative – and act on it,” said Steve Chung, co-founder of GIGR. “We’re building AI agents that make iteration the default, so teams can quickly apply what’s already working across the market to their next creative without sacrificing quality.”

Customers feel the difference in speed and in confidence

Customers adopt Playad for speed, but what keeps them coming back is the workflow: teams can ship iterations faster, run more experiments, and tighten the loop between creation and performance.

In practice, customers have reported meaningful outcomes, including major reductions in production cost – as much as 90% in some cases – alongside measurable improvements in acquisition efficiency.

“We’re not trying to simply produce ‘more assets,'” said Jay Cho, CEO and co-founder of GIGR. “We’re building a system where every launch creates learning – and that learning directly improves the next creative decision. Creative is the most important lever for improving ROAS in modern marketing, and we are going beyond just efficiency gains to help businesses eliminate uncertainty across their decisions when it comes to digital advertising.

Team

GIGR’s founding team brings experience across high-growth startups and global technology companies, united by a single obsession: removing the bottleneck between creative iteration and ad performance.

What sets the team apart is its seven-founder structure. GIGR was built by long-time collaborators who chose to start together – each owning a distinct problem space, and all committed to rebuilding broken marketing workflows.

• Jay Jaeyeon Cho (Co-founder, CEO) previously headed the AI game studios at Bagelcode, playing a key role in the company’s growth to 50M+ users and approximately $70M in annual revenue. He brings a product-first view of growth at the intersection of games, AI, and performance marketing.
• Steve Nam Hyuk Chung (Co-founder, Business) has over a decade of experience across investment banking, strategy, and business development, including roles at Bank of America, PlayStation, YouTube, and 20th Century Fox. Educated at MIT and Wharton, he focuses on turning creative insight into repeatable business systems.
• Jayden Hyun Jae Park (Co-founder, Engineering) has led engineering teams building production-grade systems, including as a tech lead at Devsisters, with deep experience scaling AI-driven products from early prototypes to real-world usage.
• The remaining founders – Simon, Arthur, Daniel, and Youn – bring deep technical rigor and a competitive builder’s mindset, shaped by top-tier engineering training at Stanford and POSTECH and years of high-intensity problem solving.

About GIGR (Playad.ai)

GIGR is building a multi-agent AI platform for marketing, starting with an AI-native creative workflow that makes interactive ads practical – while enabling iteration across image, video, and interactive formats in one system. Learn more at https://playad.ai.

SOURCE GIGR