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Metal

Private capital’s judgment, available to its AI.

Company snapshot

Stage
Seed
Funding
Seed · $5M · Sep 9, 2025
Status
published
Updated
Nov 4, 2026
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Website
metal.ai

What they're building

Private capital’s judgment, available to its AI. Metal turns a private investment firm’s documents, systems, and decision history into an AI context layer that supports diligence, sourcing, and institutional memory.

Founders

Taylor Lowe

Co-founder and CEO

Foundation model usage

Editorial estimates from product descriptions. Model providers and actual usage are not confirmed.

Inferred architecture
Batch document processing, Embeddings & semantic search
Estimated model demand
Moderate intensity

NYC footprint

Documented NYC location
300 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249 · Current occupancy not confirmed; see sources below.

Funding

Latest funding: Seed · $5M · Sep 9, 2025. Lead investor: Base10 Partners.

Sources & location evidence

Open research desk ↗

Profile source review: 2026-11-03. Disambiguated from unrelated metal.so business and manufacturing firms. Primary job confirms current occupied Brooklyn office, but current exact Refinery address is not directly published by the company. Founder interview explicitly names seed round.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn · reported office

300 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Current occupancy not confirmed. Current company job establishes occupied Brooklyn office; September 2025 founder post mentions a new office. Landlord supplies Refinery street identity, but no later primary exact-building confirmation found. Exact address occupancy remains unknown.

Two Trees - Refinery office leases and expansions ↗

Source checked 2026-11-03 · original source 2025-10-14

Notes

Metal is tagged recently added based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.

Hiring

Open roles at Metal

2 roles from the company's careers page.

Updated 1h ago

Developer Documentation

EngineeringListed 1h ago

and API reference for Metal, the AI context layer for financial firms.","colors":{"primary":"#AF4719","light":"#E0764A","dark":"#8F3A14"},"logo":{"light":"https://mintcdn.com/metal-05dd0988/nE9Niq1EZxmrmtFS/logo/light...

Forward Deployed Engineer

EngineeringListed 1h ago

Who You'll Work With The customer's teams, day to day and on site at their office: their internal AI and automation lead, deal teams, and operating partners.

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