Agents2026-07-09 · source-backed
Enterprise money is concentrating in high-liability vertical agents.
Story
Norm AI raised a $120M Series C at $1.2B for legal and compliance agents that draft documents and run litigation prep under attorney supervision, claiming asset managers overseeing about $30T in AUM already use it. Agave took $15M for construction-finance agents the same week. The pattern is consistent: narrow, workflow-specific agents in unglamorous, high-consequence verticals are where the capital is going, not general assistants.
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