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Deck, an emerging company claiming to adopt “The Plaid for the rest Seed financingTeccrunch exclusively.
The new increase, led by Infinity Ventures, has raised the total deck -based Deck, which was raised since its inception in January 2024 to $ 16.5 million. Golden projects and Better Tomorow Ventures participated in lifting seeds.
Shift It claims that it is building the infrastructure to access the data that is provided-over the entire Internet. Data agents based on the browser “Open” data from any website through automation.
Simplyly, Deck helps users connect any online account and aims to convert information into organized and usable data, with the permission of the full user.
President Friedrich Lavoi, CEO Yves Gabriel Lebop, and CTO BRUNO LAMBERT (in the picture above, from left to right) participated in establishing Shipping in June 2024.
Starting the starting approach is to handle the web itself as an open platform. It works in light of the hypothesis that users have “tons of valuable data” closed behind the names of users, passwords and the session on the session without any real way to share them safely.
The deck hopes to change this.
“Just like Plaid, giving developers an easy and safe way to access bank account data with the user’s permission, Deck does the same for 95 % of platforms that do not provide application programming facades such as utility gates, e -commerce rear, government salary and service systems,” said Leboeuf techcrunch. Its goal is to facilitate developers to access the data that users already enjoy without all manual work
When the user connects an account, the DECK infrastructure deals with everything behind the scenes. “The agents of artificial intelligence are working to log in, move and extract data” just like humans – but faster, more reliable, and on a large scale, “Leipop said,” Lybovov said. ”
Then he generates textual programs to keep these connections directly and reusable without sharing artificial intelligence to move forward.
“Companies use a deck to get rid of contact with their user data from places where there are no applications of application programming – incomplete, expensive or unreliable,” said Libopov. We are basically “engraved” any web sites. Whether you are accountable, KYC, or automated or verify a company, DECK allows you to build these features in minutes instead of months.
Repeat the founders
Leboeuf and Lavoie previously began Flinks, a start -up company called “Mangasad for Canada”. The National Bank of Canada acquired 2021 for about 140 million US dollars. (Lambert was one of the first engineers in let us deny.)
After this sale, the founders began talking to entrepreneurs through industries.
“Repeated and repeatedly, we heard the same thing: our data is broken,” said Leboyouf.
One of the founders had millions of food sales intelligence trapped in dozens of “Clunky” gates. Other months have spent an attempt (and their failure) to reach property rights data – to help users claim more than a billion unpaid royalties.
“We faced the problem directly,” Lavoi said. “The pattern was clear: access to data was fragile, fragile and failure – not only in banking services. It was everywhere.”
So they built the deck, which is competing today ArcadiaAnd it is a company that the founders have tried to use, but it originated in frustration.
The trio believe that recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) has emphasized the urgency of open access to non -financial data. Without this, artificial intelligence risks training in old, biased or incomplete information.
Initially, the company focused on working with utility companies, after communicating with more than 100,000 service providers in more than 40 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. It includes customers Energyand QuadrilateralAnd green. Deck also works with without attention clients such as Notes.fm, Glowtify and Evive Smoothies. It believes that its technology can be applied to any industry in which the data is “besieged” in the online accounts.
“Think of us as a bridge between the application layer and the constituent tools such as the browser automation or AI factors such as the theatrical writer, the use of the browser, Opeenai Operator,” said leboeuff. “We have taken chaotic and founding pieces – ratification, data normalization, average, approval management, and antagonist protection – and turned them into a smooth and varied platform.”
Rapid growth
DECK has seen the number of developers on its platform “Growing Great” in the past two months, according to its founders. In February, for example, its links grew by more than 120 % compared to the previous month. Pricing form is moved by performance, and customers are charged based on “successful” API calls.
“That means you only pay when the data works,” Lavoi said.
Like Plaid and Flinks, Deck only depends on the user’s explicit approval to connect and collect data.
“Although it may violate some terms and conditions, our technology follows the international trend of open data that it has begun largely by open banking, and prompted organizers all over the world to clarify this in many judicial authorities that consumers and companies have the right to access and transfer their data.”
Deck also claims to have ownership techniques to avoid describing them as robots or crawl. These technologies include several different ways, such as vision computing and human -like mouse movement.
“While we see a lot of antibot technologies in sectors like Telcos or HR, where there are a lot of fraud of identity theft, many other data are limited to the lack of antibot technologies.”
Currently, do not use data collection to train models, instead of focusing on building the best way to collect data instead of building products above the collected data itself.
“We are working in a double approval environment, where we will need the final user approval, and the approval of the Deck customer, to use the data,” said Leboeuff.
The company soon plans to launch Vertical data originatorAnd who claims to allow any developer “seizure and operation on any vertical data for any industry … at any time.”
Nowadays, Deck 30 employees have.
Jeremy Jonker, co -founder and administrative partner at Infinity Ventures, believes that Deck “turns” the data sector that was presented to the user, “just like open bank financial statements.”
“Through a standard platform and recipes, it provides speed, reliability and ability to adapt that extends beyond the facilities.” Jonker joined the DECK board as part of funding.
She also participated in the financing of the series A alongside former supporters Better Tomorow Ventures, Golden and Lue Capital in the Funding of the series A.