Seed · AI & Machine Learning · Berlin, Germany · Founded 2024 · 5–20 employees
Needle is a Berlin and San Francisco-based AI-powered knowledge threading and workflow automation platform that enables organizations to instantly search, discover, and act on information locked across disparate systems like Gmail, Confluence, Slack, and Dropbox. Its RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) API allows developers to build context-aware AI agents without deep technical expertise, while its visual no-code workflow builder lets non-technical users automate complex processes. Founded in 2024 by CEO Jan Heimes and CTO Onur Eken, both with experience from Silicon Valley and European scale-ups, the company has rapidly onboarded thousands of users and built a growing developer community across frameworks like Anthropic's Claude MCP, LangChain, and Haystack. In March 2025, Needle raised $2.2M in seed funding led by 468 Capital and Presight Capital to expand its engineering team and accelerate go-to-market efforts.