{"id":181252,"date":"2024-01-24T02:34:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/singapore-financial-data-startup-raises-6-5-million-series-a-to-double-down-on-ai"},"modified":"2024-01-24T02:34:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:34:39","slug":"singapore-financial-data-startup-raises-6-5-million-series-a-to-double-down-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/singapore-financial-data-startup-raises-6-5-million-series-a-to-double-down-on-ai","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Financial Data Startup Raises $6.5 Million Series A To Double Down On AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/singapore-financial-data-startup-raises-6-5-million-series-a-to-double-down-on-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bluesheets, an AI-powered financial data startup based in Singapore, announced Tuesday it raised $6.5 million in a Series A funding round led by fintech-focused VC Illuminate Financial, bringing the four-year-old startup\u2019s total funding to $12.5 million.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Participating in the round were returning investors Insignia Ventures Partners, Antler Elevate\u2013the emerging growth fund of VC firm Antler\u2013and 1982 Ventures. The Series A values the startup at $30 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of organizations are trying to implement [AI] applications, but are struggling quite a lot,\u201d says Luca Zorzino, general partner and head of Asia at Illuminate Financial, in a video interview. \u201cWhat we liked about Bluesheets is that not only have they implemented AI themselves, but they can actually form the foundational layer for more AI adoption in financial services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2020, Bluesheets develops AI-powered data entry and management tools that aim to help companies process their financial data for accounting, reporting and other operations. The startup claims it can update records in real-time while integrating with other enterprise software tools from Google, Microsoft, Quickbooks, Stripe and SAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluesheets, an AI-powered financial data startup based in Singapore, announced Tuesday it raised $6.5 million in a Series A funding round led by fintech-focused VC Illuminate Financial, bringing the four-year-old startup\u2019s total funding to $12.5 million. Participating in the round were returning investors Insignia Ventures Partners, Antler Elevate\u2013the emerging growth fund of VC firm Antler\u2013and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}