Maestro AI, a vertical artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform built for mortgage origination, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by New Stack Ventures, with participation from Family VC, ZFO, Roark’s Drift, and a group of local angel investors. The capital will accelerate go-to-market efforts, expand platform capabilities, and scale adoption across the mortgage industry.
Maestro AI was founded and led by mortgage industry veteran David Rogove, who previously built and sold mortgage fintech company Wemlo to RE/MAX Holdings. The leadership team includes CTO Sugi Venugeethan, COO Chelsea Balak, who previously worked alongside Rogove at Wemlo, and Joe Roos, a local angel investor and family office CIO at ZFO, who provides strategic finance support.
The company delivers an agentic AI operating system that orchestrates mortgage workflows across teams and systems, enabling lenders to automate critical processes without replacing their existing loan origination technology stack. The solution addresses an industry that remains highly manual and fragmented, where disconnected systems and human-intensive workflows drive cost and slow loan production.
“Mortgage origination is one of the last major financial workflows still dependent on manual labor,” said Nick Moran, founder and general partner at New Stack Ventures. “We believe agentic AI will fundamentally change how these processes operate, and Maestro AI is building the infrastructure to lead that shift. Founders with this level of domain expertise and execution history are rare, which is why we were excited to lead the round.”
Maestro AI is currently integrating with ICE Mortgage Technology’s Encompass, a U.S. loan origination system, and has launched early integrations and pilot programs with lenders. The new funding will accelerate these deployments as the company targets a total addressable market exceeding $100 billion.
“I built and sold my first mortgage fintech company because I lived inside this broken process every day,” said Rogove. “Agentic AI finally makes true end-to-end automation possible, and Maestro is purpose-built to deliver the infrastructure that lenders have been missing.”