Needle, a Berlin, Germany and San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-powered search and agent development platform, raised $2.2M in Seed funding.
The round was led by 468 Capital and Presight Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to expand engineering team, strengthen its core technology, and accelerate its go-to-market initiatives.
Founded by Onur Eken (CTO) and Jan Heimes (CEO), Needle provides a platform that allows companies to implement AI solutions in areas such as customer support, compliance and internal knowledge management, without upfront investment, giving organizations access to the data – in documents, notes, files – through a unified search layer which can scan all internal systems, from Gmail to Confluence and Github.
Users connect existing tools such as Confluence, Slack, Gmail, and Dropbox to Needle’s platform, which then indexes their data, making it instantly searchable and accessible. Through a web interface or API, users can retrieve answers and insights, automate workflows, and build powerful context-aware AI agents, all without deep technical expertise.
Its agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology gives direct, clear answers and provides users with reliable information to boost productivity.
FinSMEs
03/03/2025