Counterpart raises $50m Series C to tackle AI-era business risks - FinTech Global

AI is creating new business risks faster than most owners even realize they exist. And nobody's talking about the quiet ones. You're not alone if you've paid for an AI tool your team never opened. T

AI is creating new business risks faster than most owners even realize they exist.

And nobody's talking about the quiet ones.

You're not alone if you've paid for an AI tool your team never opened. That's not a failure of your business — that's what happens when vendors sell features instead of solving actual problems.

Here's the real insight from this week: investors just put $50 million into a company helping small businesses manage the risks that come with AI adoption. Not the tools themselves. The risks around them. That's a signal worth paying attention to.

AI isn't just changing how you work. It's changing what can go wrong — contracts, liability, decisions made by software you don't fully understand. Smart business owners are starting to ask "what's our exposure here?" before they ask "what tool should we buy?"

That's actually the right order.

Before your next AI purchase, spend 30 minutes listing the three manual tasks that cost your team the most time each week. That's your shortlist. Match tools to problems you already know exist — not problems vendors convince you that you have.

What's the one area of your business where AI feels most confusing or risky right now?

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The business reported premium growth of nearly 175% in 2025. Counterpart CEO and founder Tanner Hackett said, “We are witnessing a generation of small ...