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Audrey AI Raises $1.8M Pre-seed Funding To Automate Financial Auditing

Apr 16, 2026 | By Team SR

Audrey AI a Dublin-based startup building AI solutions for financial auditors, has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding.

SUMMARY

  • Audrey AI a Dublin-based startup building AI solutions for financial auditors, has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding.

The round was led by Sure Valley Ventures and Delta Partners, with support from Enterprise Ireland and several industry investors.

Founded in 2025 by Ryan Loughran and David Burke the company is developing an agentic AI platform tailored for audit workflows. It automates tasks such as data requests evidence collection, transaction testing and reviews.

By streamlining these processes, Audrey AI enables auditors to focus on higher-value work like analysis and client relationships, while improving efficiency and accuracy over time.

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The platform has already been piloted with top-10 and top-20 audit firms, showing strong efficiency gains, including over 85% time savings in data collection, validation, and detailed testing, along with improved audit quality.

The new funding will support team expansion and help scale deployments across Ireland, the UK, and other international markets.

Ryan Loughran, co-founder of Audrey AI, commented: We’re building AI that understands auditing deeply enough to raise the bar on quality, not just speed, freeing auditors to focus on the judgment and oversight that matters most.

About Audrey AI

Audrey AI is a platform built for audit teams that helps automate time consuming tasks in financial audits. It makes processes like data collection and testing easier and faster, improving overall efficiency and quality while helping teams reduce manual work and stay compliant.

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