Berlin-based Needle, an AI-powered search and agent growth platform, has raised €2 million Seed funding to broaden their engineering workforce, strengthen its core expertise, 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 mentioned: “Organisations are sitting on goldmines of knowledge present AI techniques merely can not faucet into. Our platform gives the muse for organisations to know, establish and rapidly leverage their present information property and construct highly effective AI purposes with only a few clicks.”
Based in 2024 by Onur Eken and Jan Heimes, Needle focuses on accessing beneficial info ‘locked away’ in inaccessible legacy techniques, fragmented buildings, and siloed storage that conventional AI options wrestle to course of. A scarcity of accessibility, Needle argues, creates inefficiencies, communication bottlenecks and prevents organisations from benefiting from the ability of AI.
Eken has led engineering groups at Everstores and helped scale Supply Hero and Celonis whereas Heimes has labored as a knowledge 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 immediate, seamless and common entry to the info – in paperwork, notes, recordsdata – by means of a unified search layer which may scan all inside techniques, from Gmail to Confluence and Github.
Customers join present instruments equivalent to Confluence, Slack, Gmail, and Dropbox to Needle’s platform, which then indexes their information, making it immediately searchable and accessible. By way of an online 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 era (RAG) expertise provides direct, clear solutions and gives customers with dependable info to spice up productiveness.
Needle ensures that they make implementing RAG expertise in an agent framework straightforward, which could be a daunting problem requiring time, experience, and assets.
Florian Leibert, Common Associate of 468 Capital, mentioned: “Companies and organisations mustn’t have to rent a workforce of specialists or spend months working to combine AI. The workforce at Needle have discovered a fast and simple answer for companies of all sizes to unlock the complete potential of their information for AI purposes.”
The platform is accessible to organisations of all sizes, because of its user-friendly interface, information supply integrations and free tier.
It permits corporations to implement AI options rapidly, in areas equivalent to buyer assist, compliance and inside information administration, with out important upfront funding.
