$30M in Series A funding for Notch, led by Headline with participation from Lightspeed, Jibe Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Phoenix Financial, as the company expands an AI operating system built for insurance and other regulated industries.
What makes the round worth watching is the product boundary. A lot of enterprise AI in regulated markets still stops at copilots or point tools because compliance, auditability, and workflow execution are harder than chat. Notch is trying to own the full operating layer: AI agents that handle broker and policyholder interactions, pull structured data from documents, route claims and submissions, and surface traceable answers for internal teams.
The timing also looks stronger than the average agent story. The company says ARR grew 12x over the last year and that adoption is already spreading across insurers and financial institutions. If buyers in regulated sectors keep preferring systems that can automate work without turning governance into a separate project, Notch is in a good spot to benefit from that shift.
Quick facts👇
● founders: Rafael Broshi; Elul Yaakobi; Yuval Peled
● total capital raised: $45M
● HQ: New York, New York
● Investors: Headline; Lightspeed; Jibe Ventures; Illuminate Financial; Phoenix Financial