Banks and insurance companies spend billions of dollars to employ staff to screen risky transactions, process claims, and onboard new customers. If these decisions go awry, there can be serious consequences. The AI startup Taktile aims to automate even these risky calls, and one of the largest financial institutions has decided to back the company.
Cofounded by machine-learning engineers Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, Taktile announced Wednesday that it has drummed up $110 million in a Series C fundraise. An arm of Goldman Sachs led the round, with participation from brand-name investors like Tiger Global, Index Ventures, and Y Combinator. Wehmeyer declined to specify at what valuation his startup raised the capital.
“AI has been around for a couple of years, but 2026 is the year where AI comes to financial services,” he said. “The models have now increased to such a strong level that they finally allow for agents to perform better than humans at many complex tasks.”
AI tornadoes
Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, business leaders have trumpeted AI’s potential to handle tasks long reserved for a massive white-collar workforce. Software engineers have arguably been the first class of workers to see the technology upend their jobs, as programming tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex have exploded in popularity.
