Endex

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AI-powered financial analysis agents inside Excel. $14M funding led by OpenAI Startup Fund with Palantir, Two Sigma, and Coatue execs. Vision models transcribe PDFs/screenshots into Excel structures.

Score 45

Where it wins

$14M funding led by OpenAI Startup Fund — strongest institutional backing in sub-category

Featured by OpenAI as showcase customer (rare signal)

Palantir, Two Sigma, and Coatue executives as investors

Vision models transcribe PDFs/screenshots into Excel — unique capability

Excel-native: agents work directly inside the spreadsheet

Where to be skeptical

Research Associate niche — not a full three-statement modeling tool

No public user counts or revenue data

No HN signal, limited independent reviews

Depends on vision model quality for PDF extraction accuracy

Editorial verdict

Best-funded AI financial modeling tool ($14M, OpenAI-led). Unique PDF-to-Excel pipeline using vision models. Featured by OpenAI as showcase customer. Wins for 'Research Associate' niche — extracting data from PDFs into structured Excel. Not a full modeling tool like o11 or Tracelight.

Source

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Public evidence

strong2025-08-06

Endex raises $14M led by OpenAI Startup Fund

Participation from Neo and executives from Palantir, Two Sigma, and Coatue. Strongest institutional backing in financial modeling AI.

TechStartups featureIndependent press

strong2025

OpenAI customer story: Endex featured as showcase

'Endex builds the future of financial analysis.' Featured by OpenAI as a showcase customer — unusual signal of institutional confidence.

OpenAI customer storyOpenAI (partner, not independent — but rare for OpenAI to feature)

Raw GitHub source

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