• Kudwa raised USD 1.1M from investors including 1818 Venture Capital, F6 Ventures, Sparked VC, IM Fndg, and IVP.
• Founded in 2023 by Karl Nasr and Sam Arif, Kudwa develops an AI finance manager that automates reporting, analysis, forecasting, and financial insights for businesses.
• The new funding will support product development, expand integrations, and scale go-to-market efforts as Kudwa grows across multiple markets.

Kudwa

Kudwa, an AI-powered finance intelligence platform, closed a USD 1.1M funding round. The round saw participation from UK-based 1818 Venture Capital, F6 Ventures, US-based Sparked VC, IM Fndg, and IVP. 

Looking ahead, with the capital, it aims to accelerate product development, and expand strategic integrations. It also aims to scale its go‑to‑market efforts across multiple geographies.

“We closed the round ahead of schedule in late 2025 and went heads-down right away. Our focus has been simple: obsess over customers, ship what they ask for, and build a world-class team that can deliver the AI-powered financial brain businesses rely on.” said the founders of Kudwa. 

Founded in 2023 by Karl Nasr and Sam Arif, Kudwa is an AI finance manager platform. generates financial insights and automates manual analysis and reporting workflows. 

Financial Brain

The team deems the platform as the ‘financial brain’ for modern finance teams. The platform connects to ERP, accounting and operational systems and delivers real‑time financial planning & analysis. Additionally, the technology combines data pipelines, forecasting models, intelligent dashboards and scenario planning. This allows finance teams to focus on tasks other than manual spreadsheet work.

With the newly acquired capital, it seeks to focus on deepening its platform across multi-entity consolidation, consistent reporting, AI analysis and forecasting, cash visibility, and AI-driven insights – while expanding integrations and scaling go-to-market efforts.