{"id":642739,"date":"2026-10-27T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642739\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:32:12","slug":"microsoft-alumni-score-funding-to-build-ai-agents-for-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642739\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Alumni Score Funding to Build AI Agents for Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyphenate Inc. has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, securing capital for an effort to create AI agents that can run finances for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year-old startup drew investors including B Capital Group US LLC to its Series A round, joined by existing backers Foundation Capital LLC and BoldCap Ventures LLC. The New York-headquartered firm known previously as Maximor has now raised $54 million in total.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2024 by Ramnandan Krishnamurthy and Ajay Krishna Amudan, the startup competes with the likes of Ramp to develop artificial intelligence platforms for financial services. Hyphenate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hyphenate Inc. has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, securing capital for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-642739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}