Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs led Taktile’s $110M Series C in June 2026 as coverage shifted from its Apple Card exit toward AI investing, enterprise deployment and IPO work.

Who they are

Goldman Sachs appears in this coverage as a Wall Street firm operating across consumer-finance partnerships, investment banking and growth investing. Its earlier prominence was tied to Apple Card and Apple’s installment and savings products; more recent stories place it alongside private-equity firms, AI companies and fintech startups, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Hightouch and Taktile.

The recent arc

Recent coverage has accelerated into 2026Q2, led by Goldman’s involvement in AI-linked finance and enterprise adoption. Anthropic announced a joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman to sell AI tools to companies, while sources said Goldman Sachs and Citigroup were among banks testing Anthropic’s Mythos internally. Separate reports said Goldman had restricted Hong Kong bankers’ access to Anthropic models, underscoring that adoption coverage has also included governance concerns.

Goldman has also surfaced as a capital provider and prospective IPO adviser: it led Taktile’s $110M Series C and co-led Hightouch’s $150M round with Bain, while reports linked it and Morgan Stanley to OpenAI’s potential IPO preparations. This marks a clear change from the major prior storyline, the unraveling of its consumer relationship with Apple: Apple said in January 2026 that JPMorgan would issue Apple Card in a planned transition, replacing Goldman.

The tension

The central tension is between Goldman’s retreat from the high-profile Apple consumer-credit partnership and its expanding role in financing, commercializing and intermediating the AI economy. It is competing and coexisting with peers including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup: JPMorgan is taking over Apple Card and was separately named in AI-bank deployment reporting, while Morgan Stanley is reportedly working with Goldman on OpenAI’s IPO plans and Citigroup is reportedly testing Anthropic’s Mythos alongside Goldman.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, Goldman’s technology-facing profile may become less dependent on owning a consumer financial product and more tied to the capital markets, private funding and enterprise channels through which AI companies scale. The Anthropic venture, startup rounds and reported OpenAI mandate point in that direction, but the reported restrictions on AI-model access show that bank adoption will be shaped by internal-control and regulatory considerations as well as demand.

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