Iranian‑Israeli Founder Daniel Zahavi Raises $6 Million Seed for AI Finance Platform Arito

Context: Zahavi, born in Iran in 1985, moved to Israel at age 15 and later sold his first company, Levl, to Comcast for $60 million. He co‑founded Arito with Michael Estrin, a former Unit 8200 veteran, in 2025. The duo previously built privacy‑focused Wi‑Fi technology that attracted Comcast’s acquisition. Arito operates offices in Tel Aviv and Palo Alto and already serves customers such as Percepto and Zesty.

Key Facts: The $6 million seed round was led by Amplify Partners, with participation from senior finance executives including Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert. Zahavi said Arito aims to give business teams real‑time intelligence without waiting on analysts or outdated dashboards. The platform autonomously ingests data from common financial systems, communicates via natural language, generates alerts, and provides AI‑driven insights while maintaining data lineage and organizational permissions.

What It Means: The funding will let Arito expand its engineering team and deepen integrations with Excel and other spreadsheet tools, areas where it claims to outperform larger competitors in benchmark tests. By targeting finance and revenue teams that need rapid, self‑serve analysis, Arito enters a crowded AI‑for‑finance market but differentiates itself through its defense‑grade data handling and natural‑language interface.

Watch for Arito’s upcoming product updates and any pilot results from early adopters as the company seeks to prove its platform can replace traditional reporting workflows.