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amber Raised €7 Million to Build the Boring Layer Europe’s AI Agents Need
The Aachen startup began with a search box. Now it is betting that Europe’s mid-sized companies need something less visible - a governed context layer that lets AI find, explain and eventually do the work.
Definite
Definite is a Y Combinator (S26) startup building the data layer for finance agents. It plugs read-only into a company's ERP, ledger, payroll, and payments systems and compiles everything into one clean, always-current model of the books. Finance teams can then build back-office agents in plain English on top of that model - without engineers or data pipelines. The system reads and reconciles, but never writes back and never moves money.
Default
Default is a New York-based go-to-market software company building the data and infrastructure layer that revenue teams - and their AI agents - use to run sales, marketing, and operations. It began as an all-in-one inbound platform for lead routing, scheduling, forms, and enrichment, then rebuilt itself around a real-time revenue data layer and an AI agent named Dot that plans and executes GTM work across a company's connected CRM, marketing, and enrichment systems. Backed by 8VC, Craft Ventures, and Jack Altman with $20M in total funding, Default serves fast-growing companies including Perplexity, Cortex, Owner, and Airbyte.