NYC Startup Ande Emerges From Stealth With $52M for AI Corporate-Entertainment Agents

Ande, a New York-based agentic-workflow platform for corporate entertainment booking, exited stealth with a combined $52M seed and Series A led by Lightspeed and Redpoint, with Duration, Sierra and Bain Capital Ventures participating. It says 60+ enterprises including Cloudflare, Salesforce and McGraw Hill run more than $400M/year through its network of 93,000 venues in 90+ cities, reporting 12-15% cost savings.