Audrey AI, a Dublin-based startup developing AI solutions purpose-built for financial auditors, has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) and Delta Partners, with participation from Enterprise Ireland, Donnchadh Casey (former CEO of Calypso), Conor Jones (former Chief Business Officer at Wayflyer), and several former Big Four auditors.
Financial auditing remains highly manual, with auditors spending much of their time on spreadsheets and evidence collection, areas where general-purpose AI tools have struggled to provide effective solutions.
Founded in 2025 by Ryan Loughran and David Burke, Audrey AI addresses this gap by developing an agentic AI platform designed specifically for the audit process, automating key workflows such as intelligent data requests, evidence gathering, transaction testing, and automated review.
By orchestrating these tasks end-to-end, the platform enables auditors to focus on professional judgment and client relationships rather than administrative processes. The solution adapts to each firm’s methodology, increasing its effectiveness over time as it learns from continued use.
Ryan Loughran, co-founder of Audrey AI, commented:
We’re building AI that understands auditing deeply enough to raise the bar on quality, not just speed, freeing auditors to focus on the judgment and oversight that matters most.
The platform has already been piloted with top-10 and top-20 audit firms, demonstrating significant efficiency gains, including more than 85 per cent time savings in client data collection, validation, and tests of detail, alongside measurable improvements in audit quality.
The newly secured funding will be used to expand Audrey AI’s engineering and audit specialist teams and to support the company’s growth as it scales deployments with audit firms across Ireland, the UK, and additional international markets.
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