Ciridae, an AI transformation firm building operating systems for real economy businesses, has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from 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 will use the new capital to expand its engineering team and advance its mission of bringing AI transformation to mid-market companies that have largely been left behind by the broader AI boom.
Ciridae is building what it describes as an AI operating system for real-economy businesses — companies like restoration firms, logistics providers, and industrial services operations that run on tribal knowledge, legacy ERPs, and manual processes, with no dedicated AI team. The company embeds directly with each customer, converts core workflows into AI-native software, and runs it in production as mission-critical infrastructure, with implementations taking as little as two weeks compared to the typical 18-month timeline. Ciridae is already supporting customers, including private equity funds with more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management, and has reached high seven figures in run-rate revenue within six months of selling while remaining cash flow positive.
Ciridae’s initial focus is private equity-backed companies across home services, industrial distribution, healthcare, and construction, where operational improvement is a structural imperative. The company recently launched the Ciridae AI Index, which evaluates PE firms and portfolio companies on their AI transformation readiness, assessing both risk and opportunity. Ciridae hired its first employee in February 2025 and has scaled rapidly since, positioning itself as a deployment-focused alternative to horizontal AI tools that rarely reach production.
Global AI spending is projected to hit $2.5 trillion in 2026, yet fewer than 5% of pilots ever reach production — a gap that is sharpest outside the Fortune 500. Ciridae is targeting that gap directly, offering deeply integrated systems built around how mid-market businesses actually operate rather than layering software on top of existing infrastructure.
KEY QUOTES:
“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. 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.”
— Jack Soslow, CEO and Co-Founder, Ciridae
“The old playbook of financial engineering without operational transformation is breaking. AI is the new lever. 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.”
— Christine Esserman, Partner, Accel
“Ciridae challenged us to elevate our thinking. They built a transformative AI operating system that powers and connects every core part of our business.”
— Bryan Knodel, CFO, Knight Commercial
