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Finextra
25-06-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Barclays and Citi lead $7 million investment in deal intelligence platform Claira
Barclays and Citi have co-led a $7 million seed funding round in deal intelligence platform Claira. 0 Claira brings smart automation to an area of the market which has traditionally seen an over-reliance on manual processes and workflows. Claira's technology embeds AI into deal workflows, accelerating due diligence and providing easy access to historical deal data and insights. 'Firms are sitting on a trove of proprietary research which they are not leveraging,' says Eric Chang, CEO of Claira. 'Claira is the first platform to both streamline the work and systematically capture and apply institutional investment knowledge to future transactions.' He says the firm will use the funding to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, deepen partnerships with top financial institutions, and further develop its AI capabilities tailored to the nuances of capital markets.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Claira Raises $7 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Deal Intelligence for Financial Institutions
NEW YORK, June 24, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Claira ( an AI-powered Deal Intelligence platform for financial institutions, announces a successful close of $7 million seed funding round. The round was co-led by Barclays, Citi, and Reimagine Tech Ventures, with additional participation from Activant Capital, KDX, and OPCO Ventures. Claira is transforming the way private credit funds and financial institutions approach deal analysis and management. By integrating purpose-built, domain-native AI directly into deal workflows, Claira empowers banks, lenders, and investment professionals to scale more effectively, expanding their deal flow through accelerated due diligence, deeper insights, and more time spent on high-conviction opportunities. By centralizing deal analysis, Claira enables easy access to historical deal data and insights, driving smarter decision-making and more predictive future analysis. Investment analysis and decision-making for private credit and other private market investments remain antiquated, often relying on humans to remember past lessons. "Firms are sitting on a trove of proprietary research which they are not leveraging," said Eric Chang, CEO of Claira. "Claira is the first platform to both streamline the work and systematically capture and apply institutional investment knowledge to future transactions." "We're excited to back Eric and his team as they apply technology to an area of the market which has traditionally seen an over-reliance on manual process and workflow" said Kester Keating, Head of US Principal Investments at Barclays. "Claira fits into existing systems and enables more granular, efficient deal analysis," said Neil Agarwal, Founding Partner of OPCO Ventures. "What excites me most is where they're heading—by being tied into the nuanced processes of institutional investing, Claira is uniquely positioned to build foundational technology for the next generation of financial infrastructure, enabling agentic AI that cuts through complexity, automates workflows, and ultimately drives better investing." Claira plans to use the funding to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, deepen partnerships with top financial institutions, and further develop its AI capabilities tailored to the nuances of capital markets. ABOUT CLAIRA Claira empowers financial institutions to make smarter decisions faster through our purpose-built AI. We transform the way institutions collect, analyze and manage their deals and supercharge their investment and trading processes. Our customers are financial institutions who believe the Claira platform gives them a competitive advantage in their investment decisions. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts For media inquiries, please contact mediarelations@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
24-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Claira Raises $7 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Deal Intelligence for Financial Institutions
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Claira ( an AI-powered Deal Intelligence platform for financial institutions, announces a successful close of $7 million seed funding round. The round was co-led by Barclays, Citi, and Reimagine Tech Ventures, with additional participation from Activant Capital, KDX, and OPCO Ventures. 'Firms are sitting on a trove of proprietary research which they are not leveraging,' said Eric Chang, CEO of Claira. Claira is transforming the way private credit funds and financial institutions approach deal analysis and management. By integrating purpose-built, domain-native AI directly into deal workflows, Claira empowers banks, lenders, and investment professionals to scale more effectively, expanding their deal flow through accelerated due diligence, deeper insights, and more time spent on high-conviction opportunities. By centralizing deal analysis, Claira enables easy access to historical deal data and insights, driving smarter decision-making and more predictive future analysis. Investment analysis and decision-making for private credit and other private market investments remain antiquated, often relying on humans to remember past lessons. 'Firms are sitting on a trove of proprietary research which they are not leveraging,' said Eric Chang, CEO of Claira. 'Claira is the first platform to both streamline the work and systematically capture and apply institutional investment knowledge to future transactions.' 'We're excited to back Eric and his team as they apply technology to an area of the market which has traditionally seen an over-reliance on manual process and workflow' said Kester Keating, Head of US Principal Investments at Barclays. 'Claira fits into existing systems and enables more granular, efficient deal analysis,' said Neil Agarwal, Founding Partner of OPCO Ventures. 'What excites me most is where they're heading—by being tied into the nuanced processes of institutional investing, Claira is uniquely positioned to build foundational technology for the next generation of financial infrastructure, enabling agentic AI that cuts through complexity, automates workflows, and ultimately drives better investing." Claira plans to use the funding to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, deepen partnerships with top financial institutions, and further develop its AI capabilities tailored to the nuances of capital markets. ABOUT CLAIRA Claira empowers financial institutions to make smarter decisions faster through our purpose-built AI. We transform the way institutions collect, analyze and manage their deals and supercharge their investment and trading processes. Our customers are financial institutions who believe the Claira platform gives them a competitive advantage in their investment decisions. For more information, visit
Time Business News
23-04-2025
- Time Business News
The Vanishing Act of Hyeji Bae: Running from Her Crimes, But Not Fast Enough
In the seedy underworld of drug runners, romance scammers, and crypto cons, one name continues to reek like rot beneath perfume: Hyeji Bae. Known for her deceptions and debauchery from Seoul to Tokyo, this elusive manipulator has finally made one major misstep—and it's not going unnoticed. Once flaunting her life under the Instagram handle @oliviahyevang, Hyeji has now panicked her way into obscurity by changing her username to the cryptic @duchgafdcf. A laughable attempt at escaping scrutiny? Absolutely. In doing so, she left her original username up for grabs, and someone with a conscience—and receipts—snatched it like a vulture circling a rotting carcass. That reclaimed tag is now being used as an open archive to expose her horrifying legacy—and let's just say, the contents are explosive. Screenshots, voice memos, transaction records—it's all there. Crimes Hyeji thought she buried are now resurrected in full view, unfiltered and undeniable. Click onto her former username now and you're no longer met with self-indulgent selfies and dishonest captions. Instead, you're dragged down the hellhole of: Drug trafficking confessions across multiple Asian countries. across multiple Asian countries. Her stint as a Piggy Cell crypto scam executive , stealing hundreds of thousands from victims. , stealing hundreds of thousands from victims. Chilling voice recordings of her boasting about smuggling substances. of her boasting about smuggling substances. Evidence of her manipulating and exploiting romantic partners , including a victim defrauded of over $500,000 USD . , including a victim defrauded of over . Her connections to the infamous Burning Sun scandal, standing side by side with disgraced figures like Seungri and known criminals like Eric Chang. What's even more telling is who Hyeji ran with. This isn't just a case of one corrupt influencer. Hyeji was frequently seen plotting and partying with Yui Miura (a serial liar and scammer), Keigo Miura (fraudster with pilot delusions), and Silverstar Oh, the DJ turned disgrace. These three helped Hyeji lie to her then-boyfriend while he unknowingly funded their crimes and hotel stays, as she snuck off to sleep with criminal flame Eric Chang behind his back. When the lies came crashing down? Hyeji didn't apologize. She did what cowards always do—she vanished. Changing your name to a mess of letters won't erase the hundreds of pages of documents, files, photos, and voice recordings that detail your destruction. This isn't just a smear campaign. This is the receipt book you authored, one lie, one scam, one manipulated soul at a time. You can run from accountability, Hyeji, but you can't outrun the internet—and you sure as hell can't outrun the people you've wronged. We see you. We remember. And now, so does the world. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
