Pascal AI Labs, a rapidly growing technology company focused on transforming how investment research is conducted, has announced the close of a $3.1 million seed funding round. The funding was led by Kalaari Capital, with additional participation from Norwest, Infoedge Ventures, Antler, and several prominent angel investors.
This funding marks a significant step in the company’s journey to bring advanced, AI-driven research capabilities to financial institutions worldwide.
The new capital will be used to speed up the development of Pascal AI’s autonomous investment workflows, expand its presence in the United States, and form strategic partnerships with key data providers.
The company’s platform is already in use by more than 25 financial firms across the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region, including private equity funds managing $2 billion in assets and one of the world’s top three asset managers with over $1 trillion under management.
Pascal AI offers secure and native connections to data on over 16,000 publicly traded companies across 27 markets, giving investment teams a broad and reliable foundation for their work.
The problem that Pascal AI is addressing is one that many investment professionals are familiar with. Analysts and portfolio managers are inundated with vast amounts of data from company filings, earnings call transcripts, market reports, and internal research notes.
While existing platforms can surface this information, they often fail to capture the accumulated judgment and institutional knowledge that experienced investors rely on. As a result, analysts spend hours manually piecing together information, and chief investment officers often lack a clear, forward-looking view of their portfolios.
Pascal AI takes a different approach by automating the entire investment lifecycle. The platform learns from a firm’s proprietary history—its past decisions, research notes, and investment patterns so it can reason and act like a seasoned investor rather than simply retrieving data. This means it can proactively connect insights, identify risks, and suggest actions in a way that reflects the unique thinking of each firm.
Because the stakes in investment decision-making are high, trust and security are central to Pascal AI’s design. The platform is built on a proprietary Knowledge Graph that makes every action fully auditable and traceable. It supports enterprise-grade security features, including role-based permissions and the option for on-premise deployment, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected while still enabling robust AI-driven analysis.
Pascal AI was founded by Vibhav Viswanathan and Mithun Madhusudan, both of whom bring deep expertise in finance, artificial intelligence, and scaling technology products.
Viswanathan, a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, previously led AWS Inferentia and Neuron in Silicon Valley and has hands-on investment experience from his time at Capital Group and NEA-IUVP.
Madhusudan, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, has led AI and product teams at Indian tech unicorns Apna and ShareChat, where he helped scale AI products to more than 100 million users.
KEY QUOTES:
“The future of investment management is autonomous investment research. Pascal AI is systematically automating complex investment workflows with the long-term vision of creating a fully autonomous investment research company. This funding allows us to accelerate that journey, moving from workflow automation to true autonomy, and giving analysts instant, auditable insights and CIOs a continuously updated view of exposures and performance”.
Vibhav Viswanathan, co-founder and CEO of Pascal AI
“At Kalaari, we believe the next decade will see a decisive shift toward autonomous research platforms that can scale human judgment with machine intelligence. Pascal AI is at the forefront of this transformation—building secure, auditable, and truly agentic workflows that don’t just process information, but reason like an investor. What stood out to us was the clarity and conviction with which Vibhav and Mithun are reimagining how investors and CIOs make decisions. With strong early traction from marquee global clients, the team has already validated the depth of the problem and the strength of their solution. We are excited to partner with them on this mission.”
Kalaari Capital Partner Sampath P
