{"id":401545,"date":"2026-04-16T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:22:08","slug":"ai-start-up-audrey-raises-1-8m-to-grow-audit-platform-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401545\/","title":{"rendered":"AI start-up Audrey raises $1.8m to grow audit platform \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin-based start-up Audrey AI has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding to build its AI for financial auditors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The company is building a platform that automates manual work in audit engagement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The cash will be used to fund growth in engineering and audit specialists, with the company targeting expansion in Ireland, the UK and further afield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Founded by Ryan Loughran and David Burke in 2025, Audrey AI is targeting an industry that is still heavily reliant on manual work. The $100 billion financial auditing market has complex workflows and data that may not be suited to general-purpose AI tools. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cDevelopers have Copilot, lawyers have Harvey, but auditors still primarily work in Excel,\u201d said Loughran. \u201cWe\u2019re building AI that understands auditing deeply enough to raise the bar on quality, not just speed, freeing auditors to focus on the judgment and oversight that matters most.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Audrey AI has developed an system that can deal with client data and apply audit procedures end-to-end, learning how each firm audits as it is used. The system has been piloted at top-10 and top-20 audit firms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The round was led by Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) and Delta Partners, attracting support from Enterprise Ireland, former Calypso AI chief executive Donnchadh Casey and former Wayflyer executive Conor Jones, among others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cRyan and David have built something that doesn\u2019t just automate tasks but raises the bar on audit quality across the profession,\u201d said Dermot Berkery, partner at Delta Partners. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to back them.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin-based start-up Audrey AI has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding to build its AI for financial auditors.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-401545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}