Montreal-based AI startup Deck has secured $12 million in Series A funding to supercharge its mission of turning the entire internet into a developer-friendly, API-accessible platform. This fresh injection of capital, led by Infinity Ventures, follows its seed round just nine months ago and brings Deck’s total funding to $16.5 million since launching in January 2024.
Founded by a trio of repeat entrepreneurs—Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf (CEO), Frederick Lavoie (President), and Bruno Lambert (CTO)—Deck aims to solve a growing problem: users have valuable data locked away in countless online accounts with no easy way to access or share it.
Deck’s solution? AI-powered data agents that act like human users. These agents log in, navigate, and extract structured data from any website, even those without APIs. Once connected, the system keeps the data flowing seamlessly—no AI intervention required after the initial setup.
The company is positioning itself as the “Plaid for everything else”—an all-in-one infrastructure for user-permissioned data access across non-financial platforms like utility portals, government services, payroll dashboards, and e-commerce backends.
AI-Powered Access to User-Permissioned Data Across the Web
Leboeuf explains that most of the web—about 95%—doesn’t offer usable APIs, leaving developers stuck with manual workarounds. Deck eliminates that friction by automating the entire process, enabling businesses to build features like identity verification, KYC compliance, reporting automation, and even royalty tracking within minutes.
The idea stems from the team’s previous success with Flinks, a company dubbed the “Plaid for Canada,” which was acquired by National Bank of Canada in 2021 for approximately $140 million. After the sale, the founders heard a recurring complaint from startups across sectors: their data access was a mess. Fragmented systems, outdated portals, and missing APIs made it nearly impossible to retrieve customer data efficiently.
With Deck, they’re building a future where accessing user-consented data doesn’t require months of engineering. And the approach is already gaining traction.
In just a few months, the number of developers building on Deck’s platform has surged. In February alone, usage spiked over 120%. Its performance-based pricing model means clients only pay for successful data retrievals—a structure designed to reward reliability.
Although some target websites may not love the idea of automated scraping, Deck maintains that it operates with full user permission and adheres to the growing global momentum toward open data. Its technology avoids bot detection with advanced features like vision computing and human-like interaction patterns, which are particularly helpful in sectors with tight security like telecoms and HR.
Scaling AI Infrastructure for Global User-Permissioned Data Needs
For now, Deck is focused purely on providing the infrastructure—not building its own AI models or products from the collected data. However, it’s gearing up to launch a vertical-specific data creator that will allow developers to configure integrations for any industry, in a matter of minutes.
While the initial push has been in the utility space—with over 100,000 providers connected across 40 countries—Deck’s client base now includes customers from multiple sectors such as EnergyCAP, Quadient, Greenly, Notes.fm, Glowtify, and Evive Smoothies. Each uses Deck to unlock operational efficiency by accessing data from hard-to-reach places.
Backers from the Series A round include Intact Ventures, Golden Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, and Luge Capital. Jeremy Jonker from Infinity Ventures has also joined Deck’s board, emphasizing the startup’s potential to redefine user-permissioned data access—just as open banking transformed financial services.
With a team of 30 and growing, Deck is betting big on one core belief: your data shouldn’t be stuck just because someone didn’t build an API.
