Funding
Hatz AI Secures $24M Series A to Grow Its Engineering Teams
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Hatz AI announced on November 12, 2026 that it had raised $24 million in Series A funding to expand its AI platform for managed service providers (MSPs) and recruit engineers. Nadia Partners, Vestigo Ventures and The Private Shares Fund backed the round.
Josh Schertzer, a Nadia Partners partner and former Blackstone chief technology officer, led the investment. Hatz delivers its system exclusively through MSPs rather than selling directly to enterprises, making those providers its route to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
The MSP Distribution Model
Hatz reports a partner network covering thousands of MSPs in all 50 U.S. states, nine Canadian provinces and nine countries, reaching millions of SMBs globally. Its active MSP partner count tripled year over year, while revenue grew even faster. The company has also issued more than 15,000 AI certifications to builders.
Chief executive and co-founder Jimmy Hatzell linked that approach to the support small businesses need alongside new software. “AI transformation is existential for small and medium-sized businesses, but technology alone won’t make a business AI native — SMBs need help from people they trust,” he said.
The product supplies a multi-tenant control plane with AI governance, custom workflows and automated routing across foundation models. MSPs can package those capabilities as AI-as-a-Service under their own brands and manage multiple client environments through the shared platform.
The current platform provides access to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other models in one place. An Auto option routes requests among models, while automatic tool selection can draw on web search, document analysis, data connectors and integrations.
Administrative controls include role-based access, spending limits, usage visibility and audit logs. Hatz says that customer data is never used to train outside models and that its SOC 2 Type 2 controls are independently audited.
Engineering and Partner Expansion
Hatz plans to spend the new capital on its auto-model routing engine, benchmarks and internal software factory infrastructure. Hiring covers Forward Deployed Engineers who work alongside partners, as well as AI Research and AI Optimization teams focused on platform performance and self-improvement.
The company has grown from 14 to nearly 60 employees and is expanding its footprint in New York City’s Flatiron district.
The Series A follows Hatz’s public launch on January 4, 2024, when it announced a $2.5 million seed round led by Vestigo Ventures. Co-founders Hatzell and Aidan Kehoe introduced the same distribution model: a multi-tenant platform through which MSPs could build AI-as-a-Service businesses using AI applications, agents, vector storage and custom large language models.
The funding puts more engineering resources behind an intermediary model: small businesses receive AI through their IT provider, while Hatz supplies the routing, governance and deployment support behind it. The company’s expansion depends on making that layer manageable for a growing base of MSPs and the business customers those providers serve.
