Rowspace AI, a San Francisco, CA–based AI platform that accelerates financial services firms’ decision-making using proprietary data, has launched with $50 million in combined Seed and Series A funding.
Investors
The Series A was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Emergence Capital, with the Seed round led by Sequoia Capital. Additional investors include Stripe, Conviction, Basis Set Ventures, Twine Ventures, and angels from the finance sector.
Sequoia Capital is a Menlo Park, California–based venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage, early-stage, and growth-stage technology investments. The firm partners with founders from inception to IPO and beyond.
Emergence Capital is a venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage enterprise cloud companies, backing leaders reshaping how the world works—from cloud computing to AI-powered productivity platforms.
Rowspace Use of Funds
The funding will support the scaling of engineering and research teams, expansion of operations across San Francisco and New York, and accelerated product development for AI-powered financial decision intelligence.
About Rowspace
Led by CEO Michael Manapat, Rowspace is an AI platform designed to help financial firms make faster, sharper decisions by turning proprietary data into a compounding advantage. It connects structured and unstructured data across a firm’s historical records, document repositories, investment and accounting systems, and broader data infrastructure. The platform integrates directly into customer environments to ensure data sovereignty and delivers insights within existing workflows such as Excel, Microsoft Teams, and internal data systems. Already used by firms managing hundreds of billions to nearly one trillion dollars in assets, Rowspace supports portfolio monitoring, credit optimization, and complex historical analysis.
Funding Details
Company: Rowspace AI, Inc.
Raised: $50.0M
Round: Seed + Series A
Funding Date: February 2026
Lead Investor: Sequoia Capital (Seed & Series A), Emergence Capital (Series A)
Additional Investors: Stripe, Conviction, Basis Set Ventures, Twine Ventures, finance-sector angels
Company Website: https://www.rowspace.ai/
Software Category: AI Financial Intelligence
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