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Mar 19, 2026 12:20 PM

Hamilton AI Raises $7.5M Seed Round to Build the Execution Layer for Private Aviation

NEW YORK, March 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hamilton AI, an AI workflow and execution platform for private aviation, today announced a $7.5 million seed round led by TTV Capital with participation from Bling Capital, Cambrian Ventures, FJ Labs, Weekend Fund, Mintaka Ventures, Correlation VC, and HF0. The company was founded by Wouter Witvoet, who previously built Secfi into the largest lending platform against private company stock (raising over $1 billion) and took DeFi Technologies public, where it reached a market capitalization of approximately $1.2 billion.

The funding reflects the growing demand for Hamilton's approach: as commercial operators across the U.S. seek smarter scheduling and optimization tools, the company has scaled rapidly, and will use the investment to accelerate that momentum through expanded data pipelines, enhanced engineering capabilities and continued product development.

"For decades, private aviation has run on fragmented, manual systems," said Gardiner Garrard, co-founder and managing partner at TTV Capital. "Hamilton is applying AI to ...