Catch Raises $5 Million for AI Executive Assistant With Guardrails

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Catch, an agentic admin assistant for leaders, has raised $5 million to accelerate its purpose to solve executives’ daily pain points.

The funding was co-led by Entrée Capital and Pitango, with participation from Seedcamp and Factorial Capital.

Catch, an AI startup co-founded by Nir Sabato (CEO) and Yoav Ramon (CTO), develops an AI admin assistant – also called Catch – that the developers claim demonstrates AI agents can safely move beyond analysis and reporting toward active decision-making. It is designed to behave like a human executive assistant, and handles sensitive communications, scheduling, and personal data with the same level of care expected from a trusted executive assistant.

The executive user explicitly defines, during the onboarding process, which personal and workspace assets Catch can access. So, for example, if it is granted access to the executive’s inbox, calendar and travel accounts, it will monitor just these. But if it detects...

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