Investors back Decidr’s $20m raise to fast-track the ‘Agentic Economy’

• Decidr lands $20m to speed up its agentic AI rollout
• Institutional backers pile in as DecidrOS gears up for lift-off
• From restaurants to recruiters, Decidr turns AI theory into traction 

ASX-listed Decidr AI Industries (ASX:DAI) has recently raised $20 million to accelerate its expansion in agentic AI and roll out its DecidrOS platform – the next step in building what it calls the Agentic Economy.

The placement drew solid institutional support, with Decidr issuing 22.2 million new shares at $0.90 each, representing 9.7% dilution post-raise.

The offer came at a 27.6% premium to the 30-day VWAP, a strong sign that investors are buying into the company’s longer-term play.

Funds will be used to expand Decidr’s customer base, scale existing deployments, advance DecidrOS and drive international growth.

Executive chairman David Brudenell said the raise marks a key milestone as the company gears up for its next phase of growth.

“This raise reflects the strong momentum Decidr is building through our global partnerships, growing customer base, and expanding agentic ecosystem,” he said.

Brudenell added that the investor support gives Decidr the resources to quicken the pace of its global rollout and strengthen the backbone of its technology.

“The support from institutional investors allows us to accelerate global growth and fast-track the creation of the Agentic Graph – the foundation of AI-native organisations.

“It’s a major step in delivering on our vision to power the Agentic Economy.”

Moving beyond generative AI

If generative AI was the warm-up act, agentic AI is the main event.

While most of the world is still focused on AI that responds to prompts (writing copy, drafting code, or creating images), Decidr is already building systems that can plan, act, and learn on their own.

In simple terms, agentic AI doesn’t wait for instructions.

Give it a goal, say, to hire a new manager or restock a venue , and it sets a team of intelligent agents in motion to get the job done from start to finish.

That’s the role of DecidrOS, the company’s core platform.

It plugs into existing tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Xero, cleans up scattered data, and deploys autonomous agents that can complete entire workflows without human handoffs.

The goal isn’t to replace people.

It’s to strip away repetitive admin so humans can focus on the work that actually needs them.

Turning partnerships into traction

Over the past year, Decidr has turned that theory into traction.

In hospitality, it signed a deal with Now Book It, Australia’s biggest restaurant reservation platform with more than 11,000 venues across Australia and New Zealand.

The partnership will use Decidr’s AI to connect bookings with procurement, staffing, and marketing systems –  letting venues forecast demand and run smarter upsell campaigns.

It builds on Decidr’s earlier work with eBev, where the companies launched an Agentic Procurement app, now being piloted across the Castello’s Group of pubs.

The app delivered an 88% perfect match rate across 10,000 beverage products, showing how AI can lift accuracy and cut wasted time.

Meanwhile, in HR and learning, Decidr is embedding agentic AI into the corporate toolkit.

With ELMO Software, it’s about to launch AI-powered Screening, a tool that  automatically ranks candidates against key job criteria – cutting hiring times and improving quality of hire.

With The Growth Faculty, Decidr’s AI Mentors have more than doubled their subscriber base since July, providing digital coaching programs for executives and teams.

And through a partnership with Go1, Decidr is co-developing SkillStarter, an AI assistant that builds customised training playlists for new employees across a client network of more than 100,000 organisations.

Together, these projects make up the foundation of what Decidr calls its Agentic Graph – a growing network of interconnected AI systems that share data across industries, learning and improving as they scale.

A clearer path

This placement caps off a year of consolidation and growth for Decidr.

As at 30 June 2025, the company’s net assets climbed to nearly $100 million, up from $2.6 million the previous year, helped by its move to acquire the remaining 49% of Decidr.ai.

That deal brought the AI platform fully under Decidr’s control, streamlining leadership and unifying product development under one roof.

Cash reserves also rose to $7.75 million, boosted by an earlier $11 million raise and $9.5 million from exercised options.

The latest $20m capital injection adds even more flexibility, giving Decidr room to push its platform into new markets and strengthen its partnerships.

The bigger picture

Agentic AI, admittedly, is still early in its commercial rollout, but it’s widely seen as the next big productivity leap for enterprise software.

McKinsey estimates the global impact could be worth between US$2.6–4.4 trillion annually across HR, finance, logistics and customer service.

For investors, Decidr stands out as one of the only ASX-listed companies building real, deployable agentic AI systems, not just proofs of concept.

And that’s a story starting to be taken seriously.

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