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§ Private Profile · New York City, NY, USA
AI + human review to solve data cleaning - accessible via API or Excel
sieve has raised $4.5M across 2 funding rounds.
Key people at sieve.
sieve was founded in 2025 by Nicole Lu (Founder) and Savannah Tynan (Founder).
sieve has raised $4.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
sieve solves data cleaning for hedge funds and investment firms by letting them get clean data in four lines of code. Currently, their data pipelines have conditions that raise for human review, which literally send an email to engineers with data that needs to be reviewed. We provide an API that integrates directly into their existing pipeline - instead of raising for human review, they can send all the same information to our API and get clean, high-quality data back.
By using our AI agents built specifically for financial data collection, along with expert-in-the-loop review, we provide our clients with clean, validated data at a scale and level of quality that wasn't achievable before.
Key people at sieve.
sieve has raised $4.5M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $500K Seed in June 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2025 | $500K Seed | — | Scale Asia Ventures | Announced |
| Nov 1, 2022 | $4M Seed | — | Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, AirAngels, ALT Capital, Alumni Ventures, Backend Capital, Banana Capital, Earl Grey Capital, Founders Fund, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Kearny Jackson, Matrix, Menlo Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Mischief Venture Capital, Offline Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Stripe, Ylem, DAN Wright, David Petersen, Eric Ries, Frederic Kerrest, Gordon Wintrob, Jeremy CAI, JON Runyan, Mathilde Collin, MAX Mullen, Paul Rios, Ryan Carlson, Ryan Chan, Scott Belsky, Siqi Chen, TOM Blomfield, Tony XU, Zack Kanter | Announced |
sieve was founded in 2025 by Nicole Lu (Founder) and Savannah Tynan (Founder).
sieve has raised $4.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
sieve's investors include Scale Asia Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, AirAngels, Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, Backend Capital, Banana Capital, Earl Grey Capital, Founders Fund, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Kearny Jackson.
Sieve is an AI-powered data cleaning and validation platform designed primarily for hedge funds and investment firms. It combines advanced AI extraction with human review to deliver highly accurate financial data, such as earnings dates, which are notoriously difficult to clean and verify. The platform is accessible via API and Excel, enabling seamless integration into existing data workflows. By automating the tedious and error-prone task of data cleaning, Sieve allows financial analysts and engineers to focus on higher-value work, improving efficiency and data reliability in investment decision-making[1][5][6].
For an investment firm, Sieve’s mission is to solve the under-leveraged problem of data cleaning in finance by providing a scalable, accurate, and cost-effective solution. Its investment philosophy centers on leveraging AI-human hybrid workflows to achieve near-perfect data quality. The key sector focus is financial data infrastructure, particularly serving hedge funds and asset managers. Sieve impacts the startup ecosystem by setting a new standard for data quality in finance, enabling more sophisticated quantitative strategies and reducing reliance on manual data labor[1].
Sieve was founded by MIT computer science graduates with experience at top firms like Citadel, McKinsey, and Bain. The founders encountered firsthand the inefficiency and difficulty of cleaning financial data, especially earnings dates, which remain a "known hard problem" in the industry. Frustrated by the lack of effective solutions, they built Sieve to automate this process using AI combined with expert human review to ensure accuracy. Early traction came quickly during their Y Combinator batch, where they demonstrated that Sieve could be better, faster, or cheaper than existing manual approaches[1].
Sieve rides the wave of increasing AI adoption in financial services, where data quality is a major bottleneck for quantitative and fundamental investing. The timing is crucial as hedge funds and asset managers seek to leverage alternative data and complex datasets but struggle with cleaning and validating this data at scale. Market forces such as the explosion of unstructured financial data and the rising cost of manual labor favor automated, hybrid AI-human solutions like Sieve. By improving data reliability, Sieve enables more accurate models and faster decision-making, influencing the broader ecosystem by raising the bar for data infrastructure in finance[1][5].
Sieve is poised to expand its footprint in financial data infrastructure by deepening integrations with hedge funds and potentially broadening into other data-intensive sectors. Future trends shaping its journey include growing demand for explainable AI, increased regulatory scrutiny on data accuracy, and the rise of API-first financial technology platforms. As AI models improve, Sieve’s hybrid approach may evolve to optimize the balance between automation and human oversight, maintaining its competitive edge. Its influence will likely grow as it becomes a foundational tool for data-driven investing, reducing operational risk and enabling more sophisticated analytics.
In summary, Sieve addresses a critical, persistent challenge in finance with a unique AI + human review model accessible via API and Excel, making it a compelling solution for investment firms aiming to enhance data quality and operational efficiency[1][6].