Maestro AI, a vertical AI platform built for mortgage origination, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate go-to-market efforts, expand product capabilities, and scale adoption across the mortgage industry. The round was led by New Stack Ventures, with participation from Family VC, ZFO, Roark’s Drift, and local angel investors.
The company is led by founder and CEO David Rogove, a mortgage industry veteran and serial founder who previously built and sold mortgage fintech company Wemlo to RE/MAX Holdings, Inc. Maestro AI’s leadership team also includes CTO Sugi Venugeethan, COO Chelsea Balak, and Joe Roos, a local angel investor and family office CIO at ZFO, who is supporting strategic finance initiatives.
Maestro AI positions its product as an agentic AI operating system that orchestrates mortgage workflows across teams and systems, with a focus on automating processes and integrating with lenders’ existing loan origination technology stacks. The company says its approach targets an industry it characterizes as manual and fragmented, where disconnected systems and human-intensive workflows add cost and slow loan production.
Maestro AI is integrating with ICE Mortgage Technology’s Encompass loan origination system and has launched early integrations and pilot programs with lenders. The company says the new capital will help accelerate deployments as it targets a total addressable market exceeding $100 billion.
Maestro AI also recently completed the Gold Coast Tech Accelerator, which it describes as being supported by Related Ross, eMerge Americas, and FC100, and designed to connect high-growth startups with capital and mentorship.
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“Mortgage origination is one of the last major financial workflows still dependent on manual labor. We believe agentic AI will fundamentally change how these processes operate, and Maestro is building the infrastructure to lead that shift. Founders with this level of domain expertise and execution history are rare, which is why we were excited to lead the round.”
Nick Moran, Founder And General Partner, New Stack Ventures
“I built and sold my first mortgage fintech company because I lived inside this broken process every day. Agentic AI finally makes true end-to-end automation possible, and Maestro is purpose-built to deliver the infrastructure that lenders have been missing.”
David Rogove, Founder And CEO, Maestro AI
“Maestro is a strong example of what can happen when high-potential fintech teams are paired with the right mentorship and capital, which is exactly what our accelerator program is designed to support.”
Melissa Medina, Co-Founder And CEO, eMerge Americas
