Deck, a startup that claims that “plaid for the rest of the Internet” is being made, it has collected 12 million in the funding round in a series – about nine months after it is closed Seed fundingIt is called TechCrunch exclusively.
The new raising led by Infinity Ventures brought $ 5.5 million since January 2021, raised by the Montreal-based deck. Golden Ventures and Better Tomor Ventures have given co-leadership to grow seeds.
Deck Claims that it is creating infrastructure for access to the entire Internet-user-performing data access. Its browser-based data agents “unlock” data from a website through automation.
To say this simply, the deck helps users to connect any account online and to convert the data with full user permission to a structural, usable data.
President Frederick Lovoi, CEO Yaves-Gabriel Leboyef and CTO Bruuno Lambert (illustrated above, from left to right) co-founded Deck in June 2024.
The method of startup is to consider the web itself as an open platform. It conducts this basis that the users have “lots of valuable data” locked behind the username, password and session-based portals that have no real way to share it safely.
The deck expects to change it.
“Plade has given an easy, protected way to access bank account data with users’ user permission, just as the deck does the same for 95% platform that does not supply the Utility Portal, E-Commerce Backends, Pay Roll Systems and Government Services,” Lebouf Techcunch. Its goal is to make it easier for developers to access data users already left without all manual work
When a user connects an account, the deck’s infrastructure operates everything behind the screen. Its AI agents log in, navigate and extract the data “like a human being – but quickly, more reliably and scale,” said Lebuoff.
The AI then creates scripts to keep these connections live and reusable without going forward.
Lemonoff said, “APIs do not exist from their user’s data power places – or are incomplete, expensive or incredible, they use deck to remove their user’s data friction.” “We basically do any website ‘Plaid-iFi’ you are accounting you are accounting, KYC, automatic report or business, deck lets you create these features in a few minutes instead of a few months”
Re -founding
Lebouf and Lavoi had previously started flinks, it was a startup that was called “Plade for Canada”. The National Bank of Canada earned it at about $ 140 million in 2021. (Lambert was one of the first engineers of the Flinks))
After this sale, the founders started talking to entrepreneurs throughout the industry.
“Repeatedly, we heard the same thing: our data is broken,” “said Lemonoff.
A founder had a few million “cloak” distributors in distributors. To help users to claim more than one billion unpaid royalty – spending a few more months to access music royal data (and fail).
“We even got the first experience of the problem,” said Lovoi. “The pattern was clear: data access was fragile, fragile and failed – and not just in banking it was everywhere.”
So they made deck, which competes with today ArchidiaA company that the founder tried to use but was disappointed.
This trio believes that recent events of artificial intelligence (AI) have emphasized the urgent access to open access to non-meaningful data. Except for this, AI is at risk of being trained in old, biased or incomplete information.
Initially, the company has focused on working with utility agencies, with more than 100,000 utility suppliers in more than 40 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. Customers include Energy cap, AroundAnd GreenlyThe Deck is also working with Non-Eutality customers such as notes.FM, GlodiFi and Evive Smudi. It believes that its technology can be applied to any industry where the data is “trapped” on online accounts.
“Our application level and browser automation or playwright, browser use, OpenAI operators think as bridges like AI operators, as bridges in foundational equipment,” said Lebouf. “We have turned out to be messy, foundational pieces – authentication, data normalization, rate restriction, consent management and antibot protection – and turned them into a pause, productive platform.”
Growth
According to the founders, the deck has seen the number of developers on the platform of “severe growth” in the last few months. For example, its connections in February have increased by more than 120% than the previous month. The model of the startup price determination is the performance-driven, charges the clients based on the “successful” API calls.
“This means you only pay the money when the data works,” Lavoi said.
Like plaid and flink, the deck simply depends on the consent of obvious user for data connection and collection.
“Although it is inferring some of the terms, our technology follows the open data that was started with open banking and became widely popular, and the controllers around the world have pressured to clean up the jurisdiction that consumers and traders have the right to access and transfer their data,” Lebuf said.
He also claims that there is owned technology to avoid labels as deck bot or crawler. These technologies include several different methods such as Vision Computing and Human-National Mouse Movement.
“Although we see a lot of antibotable technology in sectors like Telkos or HR, where there is a lot of fraud from identity theft, many other data are not limited to any vertical antique technology,” Lavo said.
Suddenly, it is not using the data collection for training, instead of making the product at the top of the data collected, focusing on the best way to collect data.
“We manage in a dual consent environment where we need the last user’s consent and deck client’s consent to use the data,” said Lebuoff.
The company is planning to launch soon The vertical creator of a dataWhich it claims that any developer is “allowing any data to get up and run for an industry to be vertical … not at any time.”
Currently there are 30 employees of the deck.
Jeremy Zonker, co-founder and managing partner of Infinity Venture, believes that the deck is “converting”-prioritized data sector, “Open Banking has re-shape such financial information.”
“With a modular platform and reusable recipe, they provide speed, reliability and adaptability that extends well outside the utilities,” he told TechCrunch. Jonker joined the deck board as part of the money.
The intact initiatives, better tomorrow with previous supporters, participated in the finances of Ventures, Golden and Lewage Capital.