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Respan raises $5M

Respan announced a Seed round of $5M on 18 March 2026. The company operates in AI & Machine Learning and is based in United States. It was founded by Andy Li, Co-Founder & CEO.

Raised
$5M
Stage
Seed
Industry
AI & Machine Learning
Country
United States

Founder

Andy Li
Co-Founder & CEO, Respan
LinkedIn profilerespan.ai

Outreach angles

  • -Previously did Product Design at Apple before co-founding Keywords AI (now Respan) through Y Combinator's W24 batch, pivoting from design to AI developer infrastructure.
  • -Built Keywords AI to over 100 startups and enterprise teams within a year before rebranding to Respan as the product matured beyond LLM monitoring into proactive agentic observability.
  • -Just raised $5M seed led by Gradient Ventures with Y Combinator backing to launch an automated evaluation agent that proactively recommends prompt fixes and sends performance alerts.

Signals

SeedAI-NativeB2BAPI-FirstVertical SaaSYC BatchEx-YCHiringFast GrowthVC-Backed

Round details

Company: Respan
Domain: respan.ai
Amount: $5M
Stage: Seed
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Country: United States
Announced: 18 March 2026
Source: announcement

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