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Poetic Secures $50 Million Series A Backed by OpenAI and Kleiner Perkins

With a valuation now hitting $500 million, the artificial intelligence startup Poetic has closed a $50 million Series A funding round. The investment, spearheaded by Kleiner Perkins with support from OpenAI, signals a significant push to industrialize AI-driven automation for high-stakes corporate environments.

By Money Talk·June 10, 2026·2 min read

Poetic Secures $50 Million Series A Backed by OpenAI and Kleiner Perkins

Founder and CEO Markie Wagner describes the firm’s proprietary software as a hybrid architecture that learns like an AI model but executes with the precision of traditional code. This technical distinction underpins the company's stated mission: to deploy agents capable of handling complex, sensitive business processes with greater reliability than standard autonomous systems.

The financing round also drew capital from Founders Fund and First Harmonic. Poetic is already scaling its platform within the financial and insurance sectors, counting SoFi and AIG among its early enterprise customers.

Poetic Secures $50 Million Series A Backed by OpenAI and Kleiner Perkins

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