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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
Answer-first snapshotLatest 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
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- Andreessen Horowitz (lead)
- The General Partnership (lead)
- QED Investors (participant)
- FPV Ventures (participant)
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/meridian-ai-raises-17-million-to-remake-the-agentic-spreadsheet/
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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.
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Shortcut AI direct
Excel-native AI agent for spreadsheets; Meridian argues standalone IDE enables better auditability and data integration.
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Microsoft Copilot in Excel incumbent
Platform incumbent adding AI features; Meridian bets finance teams need purpose-built deterministic tooling.
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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.
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