Rogo
Vertical AI (legal, health, finance) · https://rogo.ai
Verdict: Hold · Confidence: medium · Reviewed 2026-10-15
Rogo builds AI workflows for investment banks and asset managers. It raised a $75 million Series C in January 2026, taking total funding above $165 million, then a $160 million Series D led by Kleiner Perkins on April 29, 2026. It says more than 25,000 financial professionals use it daily, including at Rothschild & Co, Jefferies, and Lazard. Revenue and valuation were not on the company posts opened.
Rubric
| Dimension | Score (1–5) | Notes & sources |
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| Real customers & revenue quality Are there named paying customers, recurring revenue, and retention evidence? | 3/5 | Rogo says more than 25,000 financial professionals use the product daily and names Rothschild & Co, Jefferies, and Lazard. The Series D post says it is deployed across many top investment banks, asset managers, and private equity firms, without a revenue figure.
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| Unit economics Do gross margins survive inference/compute costs? Is pricing durable? | Unknown | Unknown — no public figure found. |
| Moat Proprietary data, distribution, switching costs, or tech that is hard to copy? | 3/5 | Named bank deployments and a team of former bankers are the moat Rogo claims. Sequoia's Brian Halligan said demanding institutions trust the product. Generic copilots and bank-built tools remain alternatives, and no retention or revenue figure was disclosed.
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| Platform risk Could a model provider or incumbent ship this as a feature? (higher score = lower risk) | 3/5 | Rogo sells into institutions that can build on frontier models themselves. Its edge is workflow and security packaging, not ownership of a model or a market data monopoly. J.P. Morgan is an investor, which is distribution and also a customer that could insource.
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| Team & execution Shipping cadence, leadership track record, stability. | 4/5 | CEO Gabe Stengel raised a Sequoia-led $75 million Series C and, three months later, a $160 million Kleiner Perkins-led Series D, and opened a London office under co-founder John Willett.
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| Funding vs. traction Is capital raised justified by verifiable traction? | 2/5 | Disclosed equity is a $75 million round (total then above $165 million) plus a $160 million Series D, against named logos and 25,000 users and no public revenue. Capital is ahead of the financial evidence.
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| Hype signals Demo-driven marketing, vague metrics, valuation outrunning evidence? (higher score = fewer red flags) | 3/5 | Customer names are a real check on the story. The posts still use 'world's first' agentic-system language and do not disclose revenue or valuation.
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Listing source: https://rogo.ai. Revenue, users, and valuation figures appear only when publicly sourced; otherwise they are marked unknown.