StarLifter raises $11.5M seed led by Tola Capital to build the Enterprise Decision Layer
StarLifter today announced $11.5 million in seed funding led by Tola Capital to accelerate its vision for the Enterprise Decision Layer — a new AI-powered system designed to help organizations continuously detect operational change, understand business impact, and orchestrate decisions across the enterprise.
After transforming enterprise workflows with ServiceNow, founder and CEO Fred Luddy is applying AI to what he believes is the next frontier of enterprise software: decision-making.
“Throughout my career, I’ve focused on helping enterprises eliminate complexity and automate work, and I believe the next frontier is decision-making itself. StarLifter’s AI-powered Enterprise Decision Layer is designed to replace much of the arduous work performed by human middleware, continuously understanding what’s changing across the business, determining what matters, and orchestrating decisions and actions at enterprise scale.”
— Fred Luddy, Founder and CEO, StarLifter
Despite decades of investment in ERP, analytics, workflows, and now AI agents, most enterprise decisions still require people to gather information, convene meetings, align teams, and manually drive action across systems. As a result, people have become the middleware between information and execution. The result is slow, reactive decision-making, growing operational surprise, and a widening gap between when signals appear in the business and when the organization can respond.
StarLifter was founded to close that gap. StarLifter is the ontology for the enterprise, closing the loop from signals in data platforms to governed actions in operational systems.
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with an entrepreneur who pioneered enterprise workflows and is now building the next generation of intelligent systems for the enterprise. StarLifter’s Enterprise Decision Layer is a fundamentally new system for how large organizations operate. We believe this category will become foundational to the modern enterprise stack.”
— Sheila Gulati, Managing Director, Tola Capital
StarLifter is working with a select group of early enterprise design partners. Its AI-powered decision layer represents a fundamentally new approach — helping enterprises identify important changes faster and orchestrate responses with a level of speed and scale that were previously unachievable.
Fred Luddy shared more of the story behind StarLifter in a recent conversation with Jon Fortt on CNBC’s Fortt Knox. Watch the interview »
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