A four -year -old Swiss startup raised a large part of change to capitalize on the nascent movement of “agentic AI”.
Unique said Thursday that he had raised $ 30 million in a series of funding from the series led by the venture capital company based in London Capital DN And TradingThe branching of investments by Germany Commerzbank.
“Aiatic IA” is among the larger trends in technology at the moment, although there is no unique definition of what IA agent in fact the east. The underlying basic concept is that an AI agent should be capable of much more than just a chatbot, with the ability to make decisions and make a range of tasks – anything from Online shopping and the deposit of expenditure reports at Improved efficiency in factories.
Founded in Zurich in 2021 by the CEO Manuel Grenacher, the CCO Michelle Heppler and the CTO Andreas Hauri (photo above), single wishes to fuel an AI origin for financial services such as the bank, insurance and capital investment.
This means automating workflows in fields such as research, compliance and Kyc (“Know your customer”). Unique offers a lot of customizable AI agents outside, one of which is a Investment research agent This is based on internal and external knowledge to provide responses to natural language requests.
There is also a reasonable diligence agentWho analyzes documents such as the transcription meeting and compares them to the evaluations passed to suggest potential questions that the bank staff should ask.
The company was originally concentrated on Video fueled by AI for sales teamsbut In the intermediate years He has evolved into something that is a “co -pilot for financial teams”. And in 2023, unique went to live With the Swiss Private National Bank Pictet, which also has a strategic investor.
Unique also has other large Swiss financial institutions as customers, including UBP and Graubündner Kantonalbank.
With a new $ 30 million in the bank, the Unique said that it plans to accelerate its international expansion, with a particular accent on the American market. The company has raised a total of $ 53 million to date.
