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Exclusive: Taktile raises $110 million from Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global to automate high-stakes financial decisions
Fortune • • business
Key Points:
- Taktile, co-founded by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, raised $110 million in a Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from Tiger Global, Index Ventures, and Y Combinator.
- The startup focuses on developing AI-driven operating systems that enable financial institutions to create specialized agents for complex and sensitive tasks, rather than competing with general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT.
- Taktile's platform aims to streamline processes such as insurance claim assessments, using multiple AI agents to read documents, interpret data, and make payout decisions, significantly speeding up traditionally slow workflows.
- The company plans to use the new funding to enhance its software offerings and expand its presence by opening a new office in São Paulo.
- Wehmeyer emphasized that 2026 will be a pivotal year for AI adoption in financial services, as AI models have matured to outperform humans in many complex tasks.
