AI company Lassie completes $35 million Series A financing, led by a16z

According to TechFundingNews, AI company Lassie, founded by former Robinhood and Superhuman employees Steijn Pelle and Frédéric Renken, has completed a $35 million Series A funding round, led by a16z, with participation from Night Capital, the founder of Superhuman, the co-founder of Plaid, the co-founder of Wise, among others, bringing the total funding amount to $47 million.

The two co-founders worked manually for months at a dental clinic before writing code, handling insurance claims and reconciling payments. Currently, Lassie operates in over 700 clinics across 49 states in the U.S., saving owners more than 250,000 hours of administrative work each year. a16z general partner Alex Rampell has joined the board of Lassie. Lassie's AI agent directly accesses the clinic's insurance portal to pull reimbursement data, reconcile accounts, update system records, and verify bank funds, completely replacing human labor rather than adding a software layer.