Unique, a Swiss AI platform for finance, raises $30M

A four-year-old Swiss startup has raised a sizable chunk of change to capitalize on the burgeoning “agentic AI” movement. Unique said on Thursday that it has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round that was led by London-based VC firm DN Capital and CommerzVentures, the investment offshoot of Germany’s Commerzbank. “Agentic AI” is among the biggest trends in technology right now, though there is no one definition of what an AI agent actually is. The core underlying concept is that an AI agent should be capable of much more than a simple chatbot, with the ability to make decisions and do a range of tasks — anything from doing your online shopping and filing expense reports to improving efficiency in factories. Founded in Zurich in 2021 by CEO Manuel Grenacher, CCO Michelle Heppler, and CTO Andreas Hauri (pictured above), Unique wants to power an agentic AI workforce for financial services such as banking, insurance, and private equity. This means automating workflows across a ... Read full article.