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Riplo provides AI-focused due diligence and advisory for private equity firms, assessing how AI affects a company's value ahead of buying or selling. It combines AI agents for first-pass analysis with expert consultants to produce a single view in time for investment committee decisions.
Also known as Riplo limited · Riplo Ltd
Investors · 12
How we know: Cherry Ventures's portfolio page · funding news · tech.eu · research · theaiworld.org · Not right? Tell us
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$2.9M disclosed across 1 of 4 rounds · 2026
- Undisclosed amountpre-SeedApr 2026
Cherry Ventures (lead), Blue Lion Capital
Source ↗ - $2.9Mpre-seedMar 2026 · 2 sources
Cherry Ventures (lead), Blue Lion Capital
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Riplo is a London-based software company developing what it describes as an agentic operating system for consulting. The platform provides a tooling layer spanning infrastructure to interface, intended to let human consultants and AI agents work together natively inside consulting workflows rather than treating AI as an external assistant. In place of slide decks assembled box by box and models built cell by cell, Riplo offers a unified, live environment in which agents can draft, structure and stress-test workstreams alongside the consultant, shifting practitioners from building artefacts to curating them and speeding up storylining and client-facing output creation.
The product is positioned as a single workspace that centralises project knowledge and automates assembly work such as slide and report generation, drawing on firm-specific knowledge, templates and data. Coverage describes agents that ingest firm knowledge and execute consulting deliverables directly, with tailored canvases for human-AI collaboration, so consultants can spend more time on judgment, client communication and relationship management. Riplo's own site frames the offering as "deal advisory, engineered" and "the agentic advisory for investors," with work at the intersection of AI and private markets, including forward-deployed consultant roles focused on private equity.
The company is registered in England and Wales as Riplo Limited (company number 16902933), with an address at 167-169 Great Portland Street, London.
Founding story
Riplo was founded in 2025 by Tobias Haefele, Oliver Scott and Zack Zornitta. Haefele and Scott first met at QuantumBlack, McKinsey's AI arm, where they built AI-native products, and later reconnected at Hg Capital while advising on AI due diligence and value creation. There they met Zornitta, an engineering lead with experience building and scaling AI-native software. The founders' direct exposure to manual consulting workflows and legacy tooling shaped the company's focus on integrating AI agents into consulting work; reporting also links the founding team's background to QuantumBlack, BCG and Hg Capital.
Business model
Riplo sells a vertical software platform to consulting and advisory organisations, deploying agentic workflows into firms' existing processes and knowledge bases; its site also describes advisory engagements delivered alongside the product for investor clients.
Traction
Reporting at the time of the pre-seed announcement cited early paying customers and ongoing collaborations with design partners. One aggregator profile lists the company at six employees.
Latest developments
In March 2026 Riplo emerged from stealth with its £2.3 million pre-seed round led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Blue Lion Capital, the founders of QuantumBlack, McKinsey and BCG partners, and angel investors from organisations including OpenAI, Apple, Goldman Sachs and Hg Capital. Proceeds are earmarked for product development, engineering hiring and early customer deployments.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Riplo positions itself as a consulting-specific, vertical AI platform focused on executing deliverables, distinguishing itself from broader enterprise search and knowledge tools; reporting frames it against companies such as Glean and Hebbia, which serve professional services with more general enterprise AI products. It targets what its founders and investors describe as a $1 trillion consulting industry that remains reliant on manual tooling.
Unlike legacy software that treats AI as an external assistant or general enterprise search tools that coordinate work, Riplo focuses on outcome execution: agents that produce consulting artefacts directly within a purpose-built interface, using each firm's proprietary knowledge and templates.
Technology
An agent-first interface and infrastructure layer that ingests firm knowledge, proprietary templates and data to generate slides, analyses and reports automatically, enabling agentic execution in which AI coordinates with humans on consulting tasks in a live, shared environment rather than in static documents stored on individual file systems.
Go-to-market
Early traction has been built through design partners and direct engagement with consulting firms; the company has said it is expanding engineering and customer-facing teams, and its careers page advertises forward-deployed consultant, founding engineer and growth roles based in London.
Consulting and advisory firms, including mid-market consultancies and elite professional services firms, as well as investors in private markets such as private equity clients.
Geography
Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with all currently advertised roles based in London.
History
Founded in 2025, Riplo emerged from stealth on 31 March 2026 alongside the announcement of a pre-seed round of £2.3 million (€2.6 million, reported as approximately $3 million to $3.1 million) led by Cherry Ventures. The company said it would use the capital to expand its engineering team, deepen work with design partners and continue building the platform.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsRiplo announced £2.3 million (€2.6 million; reported as roughly $3-3.1 million) in pre-seed funding led by Cherry Ventures, with Blue Lion Capital, the founders of QuantumBlack, McKinsey and BCG partners, and angels from OpenAI, Apple, Goldman Sachs and Hg Capital participating. Capital earmarked for engineering hiring, design-partner work and product development.
$3M source ↗
The company came out of stealth as a London-based developer of an agentic operating system for consulting, publicly presenting its platform and founding team for the first time.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Riplo Raises £2.3M for AI Consulting OStheaiworld.org · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Riplo do?
- London-based Riplo builds an agentic AI operating system for consulting and advisory workflows.
- Who are Riplo's investors?
- Riplo's investors include Blue Lion Global, Cherry Ventures.
- How much funding has Riplo raised?
- Riplo has disclosed $2.9M raised across 1 of its 4 known rounds.