Insider Brief
- Ciridae, an AI transformation firm founded by Jack Soslow and Jack Weissenberger, has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and others.
- The company builds AI operating systems for mid-market businesses in sectors like restoration, logistics, and industrial services, embedding directly with customers to deploy production-ready systems in as little as two weeks.
- Ciridae is already generating high seven-figure run-rate revenue within six months of selling, supports PE firms managing over $1.3 trillion in assets, and remains cash flow positive since hiring its first employee in February 2025.
PRESS RELEASE — Ciridae, the AI transformation firm building operating systems for real economy businesses, has announced it has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Sunflower Capital, and Backcountry Ventures. Founded by CEO Jack Soslow, former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and data scientist at Meta, and CTO Jack Weissenberger, former engineering team leader at Salesforce and Head of ML at Teneyx, Ciridae will use the new capital to expand its engineering team and further its mission of bringing AI transformation to real economy businesses.
Global AI spending is projected to hit $2.5 trillion in 2026, yet fewer than 5% of pilots ever reach production. The gap is sharpest outside the Fortune 500, where mid-market companies like restoration firms, logistics providers, and industrial services run on tribal knowledge, legacy ERPs, and manual processes with no AI team and no realistic path to building one.
Ciridae is building the AI operating system for these businesses. The company embeds with each customer, turns their core workflows into AI-native software, and runs it in production as mission-critical infrastructure. Ciridae transforms core processes as purpose-built AI software, implementing in as little as two weeks vs. the typical 18 months. The team is seeing early success supporting customers including PE funds with more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management.
“We built Ciridae to solve one of the quieter failures of the AI boom: the companies that stand to benefit most from AI have no way of actually adopting it,” said Jack Soslow, CEO and Co-Founder of Ciridae. “We believe the biggest AI opportunity is not adding another layer of enterprise software, but building the operating infrastructure for the businesses the industry has largely passed by.”
Ciridae’s initial focus is private equity-backed companies, from home services and industrial distribution to healthcare and construction, where the drive to improve operations is structural rather than aspirational. The company recently debuted its highly cited Ciridae AI Index, which evaluates PE firms and companies based on their AI transformation, assessing the risk and opportunity. The early results are a master class in how to build an early stage firm to scale at speed. Ciridae hired its first employee in February 2025 and has reached high seven figures in run-rate revenue within six months of selling, remaining cash flow positive throughout.
“The old playbook of financial engineering without operational transformation is breaking. AI is the new lever,” said Christine Esserman, Partner at Accel. “Ciridae combines world-class AI talent with operators who can actually implement change, delivering production systems in days. That’s why they’re already becoming the partner of choice for some of the most sophisticated companies.”
Ciridae is already seeing strong demand from firms looking to move beyond experimentation and into deployment, particularly in sectors where margins depend on workforce productivity and execution at scale. Unlike horizontal AI tools, Ciridae focuses on deeply integrated systems that reflect how these businesses actually operate, with significant results.
“Ciridae challenged us to elevate our thinking. They built a transformative AI operating system that powers and connects every core part of our business,” said Bryan Knodel, CFO of Knight Commercial.
ABOUT CIRADAE
Ciridae is an AI transformation firm building operating systems for real-economy businesses. Backed by Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Sunflower Capital, and Backcountry Ventures, the company was founded by CEO Jack Soslow, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and data scientist at Meta, and CTO Jack Weissenberger, a former engineering leader at Salesforce and Head of ML at Teneyx.
Ciridae partners with mid-market companies in sectors such as restoration, logistics, and industrial services businesses, embedding directly with customers to transform core operations into AI-native software and deploy mission-critical systems in as little as two weeks. Ciridae is already supporting customers and partners including private equity funds representing more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management.
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Jill Harding
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