The round was led by Madrona, with participation from FUSE and a group of prominent global advisors and CIOs. Apptio co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer are reuniting as part of the founding team behind Thira. Together, with a broader founding and early team including Mudit Goel, former SVP of Engineering at Atlassian; Grant Neuman, former AI Engineer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; Tarek Madkour, former Director of Product Management at Databricks; and Shashwat Srivastav, former founder and lead AI engineer at AIVOT, they are pursuing a simple vision: creating the back-office that runs itself, initially focused on enterprise IT processes. Matt McIlwain, Managing Director at Madrona, who previously partnered with Gupta at both iConclude and Apptio, will join Thira's board of directors. Kellan Carter from FUSE will also be joining Thira as a board observer.

Thira is the creator of secure, self-learning, agentic execution for complex workflows that power the back-office. Designed to work across disparate systems organizations already rely on, Thira combines self-learning agents, world class security and governance, system connectivity and an enterprise knowledge graph to automate complex back-office work with enterprise-grade visibility and control.