Citadel Leads $50 Million Strategic Investment into Rezolve Ai to Accelerate AI-Powered Retail
Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV) has secured a $50 million strategic investment led by Citadel Global Equities, structured as a long-duration investment without warrants or contingent rights. The investment follows significant 2025 milestones, including achieving $70 million in Annual Recurring Revenue and forming strategic alliances with Microsoft and Google.
The company has demonstrated strong growth with a $10 million annual contract with Liverpool, Mexico's third-largest retailer, and successful integration of its brainpowa LLM into Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The funds will be used to accelerate global deployment, double enterprise sales capacity, and enhance product innovation across the Brain Suite platform.
Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV) ha ottenuto un investimento strategico di 50 milioni di dollari guidato da Citadel Global Equities, strutturato come un investimento a lungo termine senza warrant o diritti condizionali. L'investimento arriva dopo importanti traguardi raggiunti nel 2025, tra cui il raggiungimento di 70 milioni di dollari di ricavi ricorrenti annuali e la formazione di alleanze strategiche con Microsoft e Google.
L'azienda ha mostrato una forte crescita con un contratto annuale da 10 milioni di dollari con Liverpool, il terzo più grande rivenditore del Messico, e l'integrazione riuscita del suo brainpowa LLM in Microsoft Azure e Google Cloud. I fondi saranno utilizzati per accelerare la distribuzione globale, raddoppiare la capacità di vendita enterprise e migliorare l'innovazione del prodotto sulla piattaforma Brain Suite.
Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV) ha asegurado una inversión estratégica de 50 millones de dólares liderada por Citadel Global Equities, estructurada como una inversión a largo plazo sin warrants ni derechos contingentes. La inversión sigue a hitos significativos en 2025, incluyendo alcanzar 70 millones de dólares en ingresos recurrentes anuales y establecer alianzas estratégicas con Microsoft y Google.
La compañía ha demostrado un fuerte crecimiento con un contrato anual de 10 millones de dólares con Liverpool, el tercer minorista más grande de México, y la integración exitosa de su brainpowa LLM en Microsoft Azure y Google Cloud. Los fondos se utilizarán para acelerar el despliegue global, duplicar la capacidad de ventas empresariales y mejorar la innovación de productos en la plataforma Brain Suite.
Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV)는 Citadel Global Equities가 주도하는 5천만 달러 규모의 전략적 투자를 확보했으며, 이는 워런트나 조건부 권리 없이 장기 투자로 구조화되었습니다. 이 투자는 2025년 주요 이정표 달성 후 이루어졌으며, 연간 반복 매출 7천만 달러 달성과 Microsoft 및 Google과의 전략적 제휴 형성이 포함됩니다.
회사는 멕시코 3대 소매업체인 Liverpool과의 1천만 달러 연간 계약 체결과 brainpowa LLM의 Microsoft Azure 및 Google Cloud 통합 성공으로 강력한 성장을 보여주었습니다. 자금은 글로벌 배포 가속화, 기업 판매 역량 두 배 확대, Brain Suite 플랫폼 전반의 제품 혁신 강화에 사용될 예정입니다.
Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ : RZLV) a obtenu un investissement stratégique de 50 millions de dollars mené par Citadel Global Equities, structuré comme un investissement à long terme sans bons de souscription ni droits conditionnels. Cet investissement intervient après des jalons importants en 2025, notamment l’atteinte de 70 millions de dollars de revenus récurrents annuels et la formation d’alliances stratégiques avec Microsoft et Google.
L’entreprise a démontré une forte croissance grâce à un contrat annuel de 10 millions de dollars avec Liverpool, le troisième plus grand détaillant du Mexique, et à l’intégration réussie de son brainpowa LLM dans Microsoft Azure et Google Cloud. Les fonds serviront à accélérer le déploiement mondial, doubler la capacité commerciale entreprise et renforcer l’innovation produit sur la plateforme Brain Suite.
Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV) hat eine strategische Investition in Höhe von 50 Millionen US-Dollar unter der Leitung von Citadel Global Equities gesichert, die als langfristige Investition ohne Optionsscheine oder bedingte Rechte strukturiert ist. Die Investition folgt auf bedeutende Meilensteine im Jahr 2025, darunter die Erreichung von 70 Millionen US-Dollar an wiederkehrenden Jahresumsätzen und die Bildung strategischer Partnerschaften mit Microsoft und Google.
Das Unternehmen hat ein starkes Wachstum mit einem 10-Millionen-Dollar-Jahresvertrag mit Liverpool, dem drittgrößten Einzelhändler Mexikos, sowie der erfolgreichen Integration seines brainpowa LLM in Microsoft Azure und Google Cloud demonstriert. Die Mittel werden genutzt, um die globale Einführung zu beschleunigen, die Vertriebskapazität im Unternehmensbereich zu verdoppeln und die Produktinnovation auf der Brain Suite-Plattform zu verbessern.
- Secured $50 million strategic investment from institutional investors including Citadel
- Achieved $70 million in Annual Recurring Revenue
- Secured $10 million annual contract with major Mexican retailer Liverpool
- Established strategic alliances with Microsoft and Google
- Clean capital structure with no warrants or dilution protection
- Successfully expanded into APAC and LATAM markets
- Will need to significantly increase sales capacity, requiring additional operational costs
- Faces competition in the $30 trillion global retail market transition to AI
Insights
Citadel's $50M investment in Rezolve Ai validates its AI retail platform's commercial traction and growth trajectory without dilutive terms.
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The financial metrics revealed in this announcement paint a compelling growth picture. Rezolve has achieved
Particularly impressive is Rezolve's technical integration with both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, positioning them to scale globally without infrastructure limitations. This dual-cloud strategy gives them maximum flexibility with enterprise customers who may have existing cloud preferences.
The capital allocation strategy focuses on three critical growth levers: geographic expansion, sales capacity, and product development. This balanced approach should help Rezolve convert its current pipeline of pilots into long-term contracts while continuing to innovate on their core technology.
What's most telling is the caliber of investor they've attracted. Citadel, known for its sophisticated investment approach and high standards, wouldn't deploy capital without extensive due diligence on Rezolve's technology, market opportunity, and unit economics. Their participation effectively serves as third-party validation of Rezolve's business fundamentals.
The integration of Rezolve's proprietary brainpowa LLM into both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud platforms represents a strategic technical achievement that fundamentally expands their market potential. Most AI startups struggle to achieve this level of deep platform integration with even one major cloud provider, let alone both industry leaders simultaneously.
Rezolve's Brain Suite platform appears to be gaining significant commercial traction in the retail sector, as evidenced by their
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Their global expansion into APAC and LATAM markets through the pilot-to-deployment model demonstrates a methodical go-to-market approach. By proving value in controlled deployments before scaling to full implementation, they're building a replicable customer acquisition framework that should accelerate growth.
The doubling of sales capacity signals confidence in their pipeline conversion metrics. Enterprise software companies typically only expand sales teams at this pace when they have strong evidence that additional sales resources will yield proportional revenue growth based on existing conversion data.
The emphasis on their proprietary LLM technology suggests Rezolve has built genuine technical differentiation rather than simply applying general-purpose AI models to retail use cases - a key factor for long-term defensibility in the increasingly competitive AI market.
Institutional Conviction Capital with No Warrants or Protections Signals
Long-Term Bet on Rezolve’s High-ROI Growth Path
Fresh Funding Follows Major 2025 Milestones Including
Tier-1 Retail Wins, and Microsoft & Google Alliances
NEW YORK, July 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV), the company reinventing retail through real-time AI-driven consumer engagement, today announced a
Structured as a long-duration investment with no warrants, no contingent rights, and no side arrangements, this transaction reflects deep institutional confidence in Rezolve Ai’s execution, platform leadership, and long-term commercial potential.
2025: A Breakout Year for Rezolve Ai
The investment follows a series of significant milestones achieved by Rezolve Ai in the first half of 2025, including:
- Exceeding
$70 million in Annual Recurring Revenue, driven by rapid enterprise adoption of the Brain Suite - Launch of strategic go-to-market alliances with Microsoft and Google
- Signing of a
$10 million annual contract with Liverpool, Mexico’s third-largest retailer - Successful integration of Rezolve’s proprietary brainpowa LLM into Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, enhancing scalability for global retail deployments
- Expansion into APAC and LATAM markets with multiple Tier-1 pilot programs now converting to full rollouts.
High-Impact Use of Funds
The proceeds of this investment will be deployed with a laser focus on high-return growth initiatives, including:
- Accelerating global deployment of the Brain Suite platform across priority geographies
- Doubling enterprise sales capacity to support conversion of active pilots into long-term commercial contracts
- Enhancing product innovation across the Brain Suite and brainpowa to stay ahead of evolving enterprise needs
- Scaling strategic alliances and reseller channels to deepen reach and drive revenue expansion
“We’re building the infrastructure for AI-powered commerce globally, and this capital allows us to move faster, more aggressively, and with greater confidence,” said Daniel M. Wagner, Founder & CEO of Rezolve Ai. “This is not just capital, it’s conviction capital. Our investors are backing our roadmap because they see the structural transformation we are driving in retail, and they understand the ROI profile of our deployments.”
Strategic Significance
- Adds two world-class institutional investors to Rezolve Ai’s shareholder base
- Maintains a clean capital structure with long-only equity, no dilution protection or debt-like features
- Validates Rezolve Ai’s business model, customer traction, and go-to-market strategy
- Positions Rezolve to capture a disproportionate share of the
$30 trillion global retail market as it transitions to AI-first infrastructure
A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is acting as lead agent and H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as co-lead agent in connection with the offering.
About Rezolve Ai
Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV) is an industry leader in AI-powered solutions, specializing in enhancing customer engagement, operational efficiency, and revenue growth. The Brain Suite delivers advanced tools that harness artificial intelligence to optimize processes, improve decision-making, and enable seamless digital experiences. For more information, visit www.rezolve.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1996. The actual results of Rezolve AI plc (“Rezolve”) may differ from their expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as “expect”, “estimate”, “project”, “budget”, “forecast”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “plan”, “may”, “will”, “could”, “should”, “believes”, “predicts”, “potential”, “continue”, and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, Rezolve’s expectations with respect to the success of its professional services division and the services Rezolve’s professional services division is expected to provide. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of Rezolve’s Annual Report on Form 20-F and its subsequent filings made with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Most of these factors are outside Rezolve’s control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) competition, the ability of Rezolve to grow and manage growth profitably, and retain its management and key employees; (2) changes in applicable laws or regulations; and (3) weakness in the economy, market trends, uncertainty and other conditions in the markets in which Rezolve operates, and other factors beyond its control, such as inflation or rising interest rates. Rezolve cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive and not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, including projections, which speak only as of the date made. Except as required by applicable law, Rezolve does not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of any new information, future events, changed circumstances, or otherwise.
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