Celery, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based financial operations platform leveraging AI to automate internal financial controls, has raised $6.25 million in seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by Team8, with participation from Verissimo Ventures, Centre Street Partners, 97212 Ventures, and additional strategic angel investors.
Team8 is a global venture-creation and venture capital fund that creates and invests in companies across cybersecurity, data and AI, fintech, and digital health. The firm combines venture capital with hands-on company building, working closely with entrepreneurs to launch startups from the ground up.
Celery Use of Funds
Celery will use the funds to expand its go-to-market operations, accelerate product development, and launch new audit agents focused on expense review, fraud detection, and fixed asset controls.
About Celery
Founded by Yuval Brot, Noam Slomianko, and Hillel Shalev, Celery is an AI-driven financial oversight platform that helps finance teams catch costly financial errors—before they impact the bottom line. Designed for healthcare and other labor-intensive industries, Celery replaces complex manual reviews with intelligent audit agents that detect fraud, compliance risks, and inefficiencies in minutes. Celery started in payroll audits and expanded to revenue and expense monitoring, offering CFOs real-time visibility into profit gaps and opportunities for optimization. The company's mission is to help finance teams achieve maximum profitability and mitigate risks to the bottom line.
Funding Details
Company: Celery
Raised: $6.25M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: May 2025
Lead Investor: Team8
Additional Investors: Verissimo Ventures, Centre Street Partners, 97212 Ventures, and strategic angel investors
Company Website: https://www.celeryway.com/
Software Category: Financial Operations / Fintech / AI Audit Automation
Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/celery-secures-fresh-funding-to-anticipate-and-prevent-costly-financial-errors-before-they-happen-302453810.html