Berlin-based Needle, an AI-powered search and agent improvement platform, has raised €2 million Seed funding to develop their engineering staff, strengthen its core know-how, and speed up its go-to-market initiatives.
The spherical was led by 468 Capital and Presight Capital.
Jan Heimes, CEO, and Co-founder of Needle stated: “Organisations are sitting on goldmines of knowledge present AI techniques merely can’t faucet into. Our platform gives the muse for organisations to grasp, determine and rapidly leverage their current information belongings and construct highly effective AI functions with just some clicks.”
Based in 2024 by Onur Eken and Jan Heimes, Needle focuses on accessing worthwhile info ‘locked away’ in inaccessible legacy techniques, fragmented buildings, and siloed storage that conventional AI options wrestle to course of. An absence of accessibility, Needle argues, creates inefficiencies, communication bottlenecks and prevents organisations from benefiting from the facility of AI.
Eken has led engineering groups at Everstores and helped scale Supply Hero and Celonis whereas Heimes has labored as an information engineer at Climeworks and Notable Labs (YC 2015).
The founders skilled the inefficiencies of siloed information of their respective industries and now need to democratise AI adoption and rework each organisation to AI-enabled one.
Needle addresses the problem by giving organisations prompt, seamless and common entry to the info – in paperwork, notes, information – by a unified search layer which may scan all inside techniques, from Gmail to Confluence and Github.
Customers join current instruments equivalent to Confluence, Slack, Gmail, and Dropbox to Needle’s platform, which then indexes their information, making it immediately searchable and accessible. Via an internet interface or API, customers can retrieve solutions and insights, automate workflows, and construct highly effective context-aware AI brokers, all with out deep technical experience.
The platform’s agentic retrieval-augmented technology (RAG) know-how offers direct, clear solutions and gives customers with dependable info to spice up productiveness.
Needle ensures that they make implementing RAG know-how in an agent framework simple, which is usually a daunting problem requiring time, experience, and sources.
Florian Leibert, Common Companion of 468 Capital, stated: “Companies and organisations shouldn’t have to rent a staff of specialists or spend months working to combine AI. The staff at Needle have discovered a fast and straightforward resolution for companies of all sizes to unlock the complete potential of their information for AI functions.”
The platform is accessible to organisations of all sizes, because of its user-friendly interface, information supply integrations and free tier.
It permits firms to implement AI options rapidly, in areas equivalent to buyer help, compliance and inside data administration, with out important upfront funding.
