Announced March 2026, from Greensboro, Georgia. BankSouth, a $1.6 billion-asset community bank, announced a strategic partnership with Sequence Holdings, a permanent holding company that improves the operations of established businesses through technology. Under the partnership, a team of Sequence engineers — with backgrounds at Palantir, Scale AI, and Apple — works alongside BankSouth's staff to build and deploy AI-powered tools, framed around a human-first approach to community banking and BankSouth's roughly 80-year history. Sequence chief executive Michael Lee, a financial services and technology investor, joined BankSouth's board of directors. Sequence took a minority position in the bank. The partnership followed Sequence's emergence from stealth with a $75 million seed round led by Conviction and 8VC and a Series A led by Lux Capital, joined by Definition, Avenir, Chris Ré, and other institutional investors. Sequence is based in New York and deploys engineers alongside a proprietary technology platform. Latham & Watkins represented Sequence on both the partnership and the financings.
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| Statement | Evidence | As of | Sources |
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| BankSouth announced a minority financial investment from Sequence. BankSouth | Company reported | 1 | |
| BankSouth announced Michael Lee joining its board. BankSouth | Company reported | 1 |
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