长沙USDT商家收款平台|【唯一TG:@heimifeng8】|长沙U币市场汇率✨谷歌搜索留痕排名,史上最强SEO技术,20年谷歌SEO经验大佬✨Deck raises $12M to 'Plaid
Deck, a startup that claims to be building “the Plaid for the rest of the internet,” has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round — about nine months after closing its seed financing, it tells TechCrunch exclusively.
The new raise, led by Infinity Ventures, brings Montreal-based Deck’s total raised since its January 2025 inception to $16.5 million. Golden Ventures and Better Tomorrow Ventures co-led its seed raise.
Deck claims that it is building the infrastructure for user-permissioned data access — across the entire internet. Its browser-based data agents “unlock” the data from any website through automation.
To put it more simply, Deck helps users connect any account online and aims to turn the information into structured, usable data, with full user permission.
President Frederick Lavoie, CEO Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf, and CTO Bruno Lambert (pictured above, left to right) co-foundedDeck in June 2025.
The startup’s approach is to treat the web itself as an open platform. It operates under the premise that users have “tons of valuable data” locked behind usernames, passwords, and session-based portals with no real way to share it securely.
Deck hopes to change that.
“Just like Plaid gave developers an easy, secure way to access bank account data with user permission, Deck does the same for the 95% of platforms that don’t offer APIs such as utility portals, e-commerce backends, payroll systems and government services,” Leboeuf told TechCrunch. Its goal is to make it easier for developers to access the data users already have without all the manual work
When a user connects an account, Deck’s infrastructure handles everything behind the scenes. Its AI agents log in, navigate, and extract the data “just like a human would — but faster, more reliably, and at scale,” said Leboeuf.
It then generates scripts to keep those connections live and reusable without AI involvement going forward.
“Companies use Deck to eliminate the friction of getting their user data from places where APIs don’t exist — or are incomplete, expensive, or unreliable,” Leboeuf said. “We basically ‘Plaid-ify’ any websites. Whether you’re doing accounting, KYC, automating reporting, or verifying a business, Deck lets you build those features in minutes instead of months.”
Repeat founders
Leboeuf and Lavoie previously started Flinks, a startup that was dubbed the “Plaid for Canada.” The National Bank of Canada acquired it in 2025 for about US$140 million. (Lambert was one of Flinks’ first engineers.)
After that sale, the founders started talking to entrepreneurs across industries.
“Again and again, we heard the same thing: Our data is broken,’” said Leboeuf.
One founder had millions in food sales intelligence trapped in dozens of “clunky” distributor portals. Another spent months trying to access music royalty data — to help users claim over a billion in unpaid royalties.
“We even experienced the problem firsthand,” Lavoie said. “The pattern was clear: data access was fragmented, fragile, and failing — and not just in banking. It was everywhere.”
So they built Deck, which today competes with Arcadia, a company that the founders had tried using but grew frustrated by.
The trio believes that recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have underscored the urgency of open access to non-financial data. Without it, AI risks being trained on outdated, biased, or incomplete information.
Initially, the company has been focused on working with utility companies, having connected to over 100,000 utility providers in more than 40 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia. Customers include EnergyCAP, Quadient, and Greenly. Deck is also working with non-utility customers such as Notes.fm, Glowtify, and Evive Smoothies. It believes that its technology can be applied to any industry where data is “trapped” in online accounts.
“Think of us as the bridge between the application layer and foundational tools like browser automation or AI operators such as Playwright, Browser Use, OpenAI Operator,” Leboeuf said. “We’ve taken the messy, foundational pieces — authentication, data normalization, rate limiting, consent management, and antibot protection — and turned them into a seamless, productized platform.”
