Rowspace

Rowspace is a San Francisco and New York financial-AI company founded in 2024 by CEO Michael Manapat (former Notion CTO) and COO Yibo Ling (two-time CFO; former Uber corporate development) that operationalises proprietary institutional knowledge for investment decision-making. The platform connects structured and unstructured firm data—memos, models, email and legacy systems—under a finance-native lens so teams can monitor portfolios, analyse historical deals and optimise credit books with specificity general-purpose AI lacks, while deploying inside customer environments so proprietary data stays under client control and integrating with tools such as Excel and Microsoft Teams. Customers include firms managing assets from hundreds of billions to nearly a trillion dollars, with roughly ten top-tier firms on seven-figure annual contracts. Rowspace launched publicly in February 2026 having raised $50 million across seed and Series A: Sequoia led the seed and co-led Series A with Emergence Capital, with Stripe, Conviction, Basis Set and Twine participating. Sources: Fortune 25 Feb 2026; PR Newswire; rowspace.ai.