Daniel Zahavi Raises $6M Seed for AI Finance Startup Arito After Comcast Exit

TL;DR: Serial entrepreneur Daniel Zahavi has raised a $6 million seed round for his AI finance startup Arito, led by Amplify Partners. The round follows his earlier $60 million sale of Levl to Comcast in 2022.

Zahavi, an Iranian‑born Israeli who served in the IDF’s electronic warfare unit and holds a PhD in information theory, co‑founded Arito in 2025 with former Levl teammate Michael Estrin. Comcast (CMCSA) holds a market capitalization of roughly $200 billion and its shares rose 1.2 % over the past five trading days; Cloudflare (NET), where participating investor Thomas Seifert serves as CFO, has a market cap near $30 billion and slipped 0.4 % in the latest session.

The seed round totals $6 million, with Amplify Partners as lead investor and participation from senior finance executives such as Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert. Arito’s platform autonomously ingests data from common financial systems, interprets natural‑language prompts, runs scenario analyses, and pushes personalized alerts through a shared workspace that links human users and AI agents. The startup already counts Percepto and Zesty among its early customers and maintains offices in Tel Aviv and Palo Alto.

By combining Zahavi’s defense‑grade data expertise with Estrin’s software background, Arito aims to reduce the latency between raw financial data and actionable insight, a gap that industry benchmarks show costs mid‑size firms an average of 12 % of potential revenue annually. The funding will be used to expand the engineering team, deepen Excel‑integration capabilities, and pursue patent‑pending methods for training AI agents on real‑world examples.

Investors will watch whether Arito can convert its seed capital into recurring revenue contracts and how its AI‑agent workflow compares to established players like Adaptive Insights (Workday) and Anaplan as they release quarterly earnings.