{"id":643133,"date":"2026-05-01T17:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:02:41","slug":"macquarie-backed-ai-biz-woos-investors-for-200m-eyes-us1b-plus-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643133\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie-backed AI biz woos investors for $200m, eyes $US1b-plus IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firmus Technologies grabbed the headlines last week with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/firmus-talks-up-sale-and-leasebacks-in-ipo-pitch-eyes-on-client-book-20260419-p5zp5b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">much talked-about roadshow<\/a>. But there\u2019s another heavily backed artificial intelligence business that\u2019s raising money too, this one in total stealth mode.<\/p>\n<p>Founded and run by former Macquarie Capital investment banker Michael Hunter and ex-McKinsey &amp; Co bigwig Mehrdad Baghai, Future Secure sells automated co-workers \u2013 each with their own name and face \u2013 which it says will cut costs by carrying out tasks like bank reconciliations.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firmus Technologies grabbed the headlines last week with its much talked-about roadshow. But there\u2019s another heavily backed artificial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-643133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}