Hatz AI Raises $24M Series A to Solidify Position as the AI Platform for Managed Service Providers and Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

With rapid team expansion and partner growth, Hatz signals clear category leadership as the primary AI engine powering managed service providers

NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hatz AI, the essential AI operating system for small and medium-sized businesses delivered through Managed Service Providers (MSPs), today announced it has raised $24 million in Series A funding, backed by Nadia Partners, Vestigo Ventures, and The Private Shares Fund. Josh Schertzer, partner at Nadia Partners and former CTO at Blackstone, led the deal. The investment will help Hatz scale a partner network that already spans thousands of MSPs in all 50 U.S. states, nine Canadian provinces, and nine countries — reaching millions of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) globally.

Hatz provides an essential AI control plane designed specifically for the MSP channel. By equipping managed service providers with multi-tenant AI governance, custom workflows, and automated routing across leading foundation models, Hatz allows MSPs to package and deliver AI-as-a-Service seamlessly under their own brand. With no competing direct-to-enterprise motion, Hatz has become the platform of record for MSPs building AI practices: issuing over 15,000 AI certifications to builders globally.

The company's growth trajectory reflects its commanding lead in the market. Year over year, Hatz's active MSP partner count has tripled, while revenue has grown even faster. To support this momentum, Hatz expanded its workforce from 14 to nearly 60 employees, and is expanding its footprint in Flatiron NYC, aggressively scaling its Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) team to work side-by-side with partners and expanding its AI Research and AI Optimization teams to continuously elevate platform performance and self-improvement.

"AI transformation is existential for small and medium-sized businesses, but technology alone won't make a business AI native — SMBs need help from people they trust," said Jimmy Hatzell, CEO and co-founder of Hatz AI. "Small businesses represent the backbone of the global economy, and the managed service providers they already rely on are exactly the people to lead this transformation. By giving MSPs full control over governance, spend, and deployment, we're making it possible for every small business to become AI native. This capital accelerates our mission to put practical, secure AI within reach of every SMB in the world."

"Hatz has unlocked the exact mechanism required to drive AI adoption across Main Street," said Schertzer. "By focusing exclusively on powering MSPs rather than trying to sell directly to end-users, Hatz has built a true dominance in channel-delivered AI. They are setting the standard for how small businesses will adopt agentic workflows and next-generation AI tools securely."

The new capital will be used to deepen platform capabilities, including its proprietary auto-model routing engine, benchmarks, and internal software factory infrastructure, while continuing to recruit world-class engineering talent across its specialized FDE and AI research units.

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About Hatz AI
Hatz AI is the essential AI operating system for small and medium-sized businesses, delivered exclusively through Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Founded by technology and security veterans, Hatz provides an MSP-grade control plane, auto-model routing, collaborative workspaces, and custom AI agents—enabling IT service providers to build, deploy, and scale profitable AI practices with complete control over data, security, and spend. Learn more at hatz.ai. Website | LinkedIn

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