General-purpose AI tools have filled some of that gap, but institutional funds operate with proprietary data, house investment styles, and output formats that off-the-shelf chatbots cannot accommodate. Pinegap is an AI-powered equity research platform that automates the daily workflows of institutional buy-side analysts. We work directly with these companies to build end-to-end automation and AI agents tuned to each fund’s investment style, private data, and output formats. It was an insight: the most mundane, repetitive parts of equity research, the very tasks that consume an analyst’s day, could be automated with AI. I envision Pinegap using this funding to build out our go-to-market and sales capabilities, expand our engineering team, and set up an in-house team of former equity research analysts.