# Bianca Anghelina

> Bianca Anghelina is the Romanian-born founder and CEO of Aily Labs, an enterprise AI company she started in 2020 after nearly 11 years at Novartis, where applying AI compressed months-long planning work into weeks. Raised in Sibiu and educated in Munich, she built Aily around a recurring problem she had met across automotive, energy and pharmaceuticals: large companies possessed abundant data but struggled to turn it into timely decisions. She bootstrapped the company for three years, won Sanofi as an early customer, raised a €19 million Series A in 2023 and an $80 million round in November 2025, and grew a team distributed across New York and five European hubs.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Aily Labs
- **Organizations:** Aily Labs, Novartis, Sandoz, BMW Group, E.ON
- **From:** Sibiu, Romania
- **Nationality:** Romanian
- **Education:** Business administration with a finance focus, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technology management, Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), Economics studies, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
- **Known for:** Founded Aily Labs in 2020 and bootstrapped it for three years., Built the company's first product in eight weeks and secured Sanofi as its first client., Raised a €19 million Series A from Insight Partners in 2023.

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked as an SAP consultant, including implementing a planning system at BMW that standardized data across countries and the global organization.
- **c. 2009-2020** — Spent almost 11 years at Novartis and Sandoz, moving through business planning and analysis, global financial planning and senior digital finance leadership.
- **2020** — Left her corporate role and founded Aily Labs in June during the first phase of the pandemic; AI specialist Sara Bisbe López joined as co-founder in August.
- **2020** — The founding team produced Aily's first product in eight weeks; Sanofi became the company's first client.
- **2020-2023** — Bootstrapped Aily Labs for its first three years and reported profitability from the first year.
- **2023** — Raised a €19 million Series A from Insight Partners.
- **2024** — Expanded the team beyond 330 people across five European hubs and New York; the company reported 500% customer growth in the preceding year.
- **2025** — Named a CNBC Changemaker; Aily Labs announced an $80 million funding round led by FPV Ventures with Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan and other strategic investors.
- **2026** — Spoke at HumanX on workforce reskilling and AI in executive decision-making and continued presenting Aily's decision-intelligence approach across enterprise and industry forums.

## Achievements

- Founded Aily Labs in 2020 and bootstrapped it for three years.
- Built the company's first product in eight weeks and secured Sanofi as its first client.
- Raised a €19 million Series A from Insight Partners in 2023.
- Grew Aily Labs to more than 330 employees across New York and five European hubs by 2024.
- Named to CNBC's 2025 Changemakers list.
- Announced an $80 million funding round in November 2025 led by FPV Ventures.
- Named to Inc.'s 2026 Female Founders 500 list, which cited growth to more than 350 employees in five global offices.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Discussed how enterprise AI needs business context, strategic understanding and human feedback in an interview at HumanX Amsterdam.
- **2026-05** — Joined Fairchild Media CEO Amanda Smith at the WWD Beauty CEO Summit to discuss decision intelligence for beauty companies.
- **2026-04** — Spoke at HumanX San Francisco on workforce reskilling at AI scale and the changing role of AI in boardroom decisions.
- **2026-02** — Appeared on the Capital & Power podcast to discuss how CEOs can lead enterprise-wide AI transformation.
- **2025-11** — Aily Labs announced an $80 million funding round led by FPV Ventures with participation from Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan and other strategic investors.
- **2025-02** — CNBC named Anghelina to its 2025 Changemakers list.

## Links

- Website: https://ailylabs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bianca-diana-anghelina-310b453
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ailylabs

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Last updated: 2026-09-28