Amex Ventures

We’re proud to be a strategic investor in Decagon and congratulate Jesse Zhang, Ashwin Sreenivas, and the entire team for their debut on the CNBC #Disruptor50 list! Decagon is seeking to build a conversational AI platform that intends to enable enterprises to deploy agents across voice, chat, email and SMS - delivering personalized AI concierge experiences at scale. By seeking to integrate AI agents directly into enterprise systems and operations, Decagon intends to help businesses modernize how they engage and support customers.  Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eK5D3uYt  

What does the future of AI, commerce, and investing actually look like? In his interview with Crunchbase News, Kevin Tsang, Managing Director at Amex Ventures, shares how our investment thesis is evolving in the agentic AI era—and some of the key elements we look for in founders. A few highlights: • What we generally look for in founders building in the agentic era • What we believe it takes to go from pilot to scaled partnership • How we think about long-term value creation across the portfolio Worth a read if you’re building or investing in this space: https://lnkd.in/g_c_KQH5

Congrats to Wonder, an Amex Ventures portfolio company, on becoming a dining partner for the American Express® Gold Card. Card Members enjoy up to $10 in statement credits each month when they pay at participating partners, like Wonder. Terms apply. This milestone highlights the kind of collaboration we aim to build with the companies we invest in. Since our initial investment in 2022, we’ve been proud to play a key role in connecting Wonder across the American Express organization and drove meaningful connections to help bring this partnership to life. Today, nearly two-thirds of our portfolio companies have had a commercial relationship with American Express, and it’s great to see that momentum continue with Wonder. Learn more below: https://lnkd.in/ea8Cjjna #AmexVentures #Partnerships #FoodTech

We invest in founders seeking to build transformative companies, and we drive meaningful partnerships across American Express’s global business.     Get to know Amex Ventures, with a special appearance from our portfolio company, Palm.

Amex Ventures is excited for Galileo to enter its next chapter with Cisco’s announcement of its intent to acquire  company. Galileo has built a leading platform focused on AI observability—helping enterprises evaluate, monitor, and improve the performance of AI systems across the development lifecycle. We’re proud to be an investor in Galileo and look forward to seeing the company continue scaling its impact as part of Cisco’s broader AI and observability strategy. See more here: https://lnkd.in/gze6JusU

Amex Ventures is proud to be an investor in Bluefish. Bluefish is building an Agentic Marketing Platform (AMP) for enterprise brands, helping them understand, influence, and measure how they show up across AI-powered channels. As AI reshapes how customers discover and engage, Bluefish enables companies to take a more unified, data-driven approach. By combining monitoring, activation, and measurement into a single platform, Bluefish helps brands improve visibility, strengthen consideration, and drive measurable business outcomes. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eM-szVFH

Amex Ventures is proud to be an investor in Palm. Palm is building a business identity infrastructure platform that enables companies to create and maintain a portable, verified identity across financial institutions, platforms, and partners. By helping businesses keep their identity current and consistent, Palm reduces friction and improves data accuracy. As financial services continue to evolve, we believe solutions like Palm can help simplify how businesses establish and maintain trusted identities at scale. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e3KRbjFK

Amex Ventures is proud to be an investor in Worth AI. Worth is building an AI-powered platform that helps financial institutions modernize onboarding and underwriting for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) through faster, more accurate, real-time decisioning. By unifying business identity, risk, and financial data into a single infrastructure layer, Worth helps enterprises reduce friction, accelerate time-to-revenue, and expand access to capital for small businesses. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e4-Xe7x7

At Amex Ventures, we’re always looking to connect best-in-class startup innovation with the scale of American Express’s platform and ecosystem.   We recently brought together the American Express Global Decision Science team, led by Amber Gupta, and our AI Labs team, led by Di Xu, with a select group of early-stage startups for a day of conversation and insight sharing. We explored how emerging technologies can help Amex deliver even better experiences for our colleagues and Card Members – including conversations with a range of innovative startups including our portfolio companies Reflection AI and Galileo. We wrapped the day with a cozy happy hour in downtown Manhattan, continuing to expand the connection between startups and the enterprise.   If you’re building at the frontier of AI, ML, and data science, reach out!

Excited to see Replit, an Amex Ventures portfolio company, launch Agent 4—its latest AI coding agent designed to keep builders in the creative flow while it manages coordination and development work in the background.   Agent 4 seeks to help developers iterate faster and run tasks in parallel, advancing Replit’s vision for a more collaborative, creativity-first approach to building software.   Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eCgX8CcF