Tanka AI workspace showing projects, memory-powered chat, and connected tools. (Credit: Tanka AI)
Startup operating platform Tanka has introduced a new AI-powered Fundraising Agent, aiming to ease one of the most persistent challenges faced by early-stage entrepreneurs: securing capital.
Surveys highlight just how widespread the problem is. According to Mercury’s 2025 U.S. founder survey, nearly one in four entrepreneurs cite limited access to funding as their biggest barrier to growth. In Europe, Slush’s Startup Struggle Survey found that nearly six in ten founders placed fundraising at the top of their concerns.
Tanka’s newly released agent is designed to streamline this process by drawing on the company’s long-term memory system, EverMemOS. By connecting with tools such as Slack, Gmail, and Notion, the system creates a knowledge base that adapts to a founder’s journey over time. With this context, founders can prepare business plans, refine investor decks, run mock interviews with AI, and even request introductions to close to 100 venture capital firms through a partnership with GRAB Ventures.
“Fundraising is the single hardest and most time-consuming job for founders, especially today,” said Kisson Lin, CEO of Tanka. “With the Fundraising Agent, we’re not just automating tasks, we’re giving founders the co-founder they’ve always wanted—one that never forgets, never sleeps, and is laser-focused on helping them succeed.”
The Fundraising Agent is the first in a series of specialized tools Tanka plans to roll out. Upcoming vertical agents are set to target functions such as go-to-market, hiring, and product management, all accessible through the company’s forthcoming Agent Store.
Unlike many AI products that operate within short-term memory limits, Tanka’s engine combines retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, and advanced language models with persistent, evolving memory. The company says this allows teams to transfer knowledge more effectively, iterate project plans with greater context, and ensure critical information is never lost.
With data privacy concerns also top of mind for many founders, Tanka reassures that all data processed by the platform is encrypted, not shared between organizations, and never used for model training.
Founded with the aim of creating AI-native agents equipped with long-term memory, Tanka positions itself as a platform built for the pace and pressure of startup life. The Fundraising Agent represents its first step toward building a broader ecosystem of AI tools designed to act as embedded partners for growing companies.
