Startup profile for Meridian: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Meridian funding, valuation and investors

Agentic IDE for finance — auditable Excel-style modeling without black-box LLM outputs.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Seed

$17M · February 2026

Latest known valuation

$100M post-money

Seed · February 2026

Total disclosed equity funding

$17M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

seed · New York, New York

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Andreessen Horowitz , The General Partnership

Other: QED Investors , FPV Ventures

Sources: latest funding · techcrunch.com Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Meridian, legally Longitude Labs Inc., is a New York AI startup building an IDE-like workspace for institutional financial modeling. Instead of bolting agents into Excel, Meridian provides a standalone environment integrating multiple data sources with deterministic, auditable outputs — designed for investment banks, private equity, and high-growth startups where every number must trace to source data. Founded by John Ling, George Fang, and Zach Kirshner (Scale AI alumni), Meridian raised $17M seed funding in February 2026 co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and The General Partnership at a $100M post-money valuation.

Why Meridian is interesting

Meridian (Longitude Labs) exited stealth with a Cursor-for-finance pitch: standalone workspace for deterministic, traceable financial models — a16z co-led $17M seed at $100M post (Feb 2026) after signing $5M contracts in December alone.

Product & use cases

Meridian automates repeatable financial modeling workflows — DCFs, LBOs, comps — in a standalone IDE that conforms to firm templates and standards. Outputs are reviewable with full traceability to source data, working both in Meridian's app and inside Excel/Google Sheets plugins.

  • Investment banking analysts accelerating model builds with agentic automation
  • Private equity teams running auditable LBO and portfolio models
  • High-growth startups (Decagon, OffDeal named) replacing manual spreadsheet workflows

Key facts

  • Seed (Feb 2026): $17M at $100M post co-led by a16z and The General Partnership (TechCrunch)
  • Signed $5M in contracts in December 2025 — clients include Decagon and OffDeal
  • Founders are Scale AI and Goldman Sachs alumni — John Ling (CEO), George Fang, Zach Kirshner
  • Works in standalone IDE plus Excel and Google Sheets integrations

Funding history (newest first)

Seed

2026-02 $17M Valuation: $100M post-money

Source: Read source · techcrunch.com

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andreessen-horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: Founders were 'top 1% performers' at Scale AI per a16z — bringing LLM reliability expertise to finance's zero-tolerance-for-hallucination environment. Standalone IDE architecture avoids Excel plugin limitations that constrain competing agents.

Excel AI agents are crowded, but finance demands audit trails incumbents ignore. Meridian's $5M December contracts and $100M seed valuation signal early enterprise pull — if outputs stay deterministic as models evolve.

  • Shortcut AI direct

    Excel-native AI agent for spreadsheets; Meridian argues standalone IDE enables better auditability and data integration.

  • Microsoft Copilot in Excel incumbent

    Platform incumbent adding AI features; Meridian bets finance teams need purpose-built deterministic tooling.

  • Manual analyst workflows alternative

    Status quo in banking/PE — slow but trusted; Meridian must prove speed without compliance risk.

Notable stories

  • CEO John Ling told SiliconANGLE Meridian secured $5M in contracts in a single month (December) before announcing its seed round — unusual traction velocity for a stealth finance AI startup.
  • a16z's Kimberly Tan highlighted founders as 'top 1% performers' at Scale AI — positioning Meridian as LLM reliability experts applied to high-stakes spreadsheets.

Industries

ai-ml fintech enterprise-saas

Market / IPO context

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FAQs about Meridian

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Meridian builds an AI-powered IDE for financial modeling — automating repeatable Excel workflows with deterministic, auditable outputs for banks, PE firms, and startups.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) co-led Meridian's $17M seed (Feb 2026) with The General Partnership. QED Investors and FPV Ventures also participated.
$100M post-money at the February 2026 seed round, per TechCrunch.
Shortcut embeds agents in Excel. Meridian uses a standalone IDE (like Cursor for finance) for better data integration and auditability, with Excel/Sheets plugins available.
John Ling (CEO), George Fang, and Zach Kirshner — former Scale AI operators with finance backgrounds including Goldman Sachs.
February 2026 — $17M seed at $100M valuation, emerging from stealth.
Publicly named: Decagon, OffDeal, plus a top investment bank and private equity firms per a16z's announcement.
Financial models in banking and PE require every figure to trace to source data. Black-box LLM outputs are unacceptable — Meridian mixes agents with deterministic, reviewable tooling.
Seed stage (founded 2024, seed Feb 2026).
Yes — Meridian is the product brand; Longitude Labs Inc. is the legal entity per SiliconANGLE.
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