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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Vena: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena.md",
  "title": "Vena: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Vena is on the AI workforce planning software map. We record 6 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 6, 2026.",
  "period": "May 16, 2025 to Oct. 6, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "vena",
    "name": "Vena",
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    "site": "https://www.venasolutions.com/",
    "summary": "\"The #1 Microsoft-Native Financial and Operational Planning Platform.\" Vena sells Workforce Planning: \"Model workforce costs, optimize headcount and connect people planning to your bottom line\", with employee-level salary, benefit and tax plans and an HRIS feed, all in Excel. Finance and HR teams buy it. Vena AI agents work inside the planning model.",
    "founded": null,
    "categories": [
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    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Business planning platforms"
    ]
  },
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  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"The #1 Microsoft-Native Financial and Operational Planning Platform.\" Vena sells Workforce Planning: \"Model workforce costs, optimize headcount and connect people planning to your bottom line\", with employee-level salary, benefit and tax plans and an HRIS feed, all in Excel. Finance and HR teams buy it. Vena AI agents work inside the planning model.",
    "source": {
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      "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/"
    },
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      "map": "workforce-planning-software",
      "title": "The AI workforce planning software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-vena",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Vena",
      "site": "https://www.venasolutions.com/",
      "category": "Business planning platforms",
      "what": "\"The #1 Microsoft-Native Financial and Operational Planning Platform.\" Vena sells Workforce Planning: \"Model workforce costs, optimize headcount and connect people planning to your bottom line\", with employee-level salary, benefit and tax plans and an HRIS feed, all in Excel. Finance and HR teams buy it. Vena AI agents work inside the planning model.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "venasolutions.com",
        "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agent",
          "Assistant",
          "Headcount and hiring plans",
          "MCP or agent API",
          "Scenario modeling",
          "Workforce cost"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Press release boilerplate: \"Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on Vena\".)",
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        {
          "name": "venasolutions.com",
          "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/solutions/workforce-planning"
        },
        {
          "name": "venasolutions.com",
          "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom"
        },
        {
          "name": "venasolutions.com",
          "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-copilot-for-microsoft-teams-is-here-bringing-fpa-expertise-and-agentic-ai-where-work-happens"
        },
        {
          "name": "venasolutions.com",
          "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-launches-award-winning-planning-agent-to-redefine-finance-workflows-as-fpa-market-surges-toward-16.9b-by-2030"
        },
        {
          "name": "venasolutions.com",
          "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-completes-acterys-acquisition"
        }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vena launches the Analytics Agent in open beta and expands MCP",
      "summary": "Vena's new Analytics Agent does multi-step financial analysis on the live Vena model and builds context over time. It is in open beta, with general availability expected later in October 2026. Vena MCP gains scheduled automations and desktop AI workflows.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-vena"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-advances-finance-ai-with-new-analytics-agent-and-expanded-mcp-capabilities"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-08-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vena completes its Morpheo AI acquisition",
      "summary": "Vena completed its acquisition of Morpheo AI, an enterprise agentic data platform, for its Vena Omega context engine. The definitive agreement was announced in July 2026.",
      "kind": "Acquisition",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-vena"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-completes-acquisition-of-morpheo-ai"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-05-13",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vena makes the Planning Agent and MCP Server generally available",
      "summary": "At Excelerate 2026 Vena made the Planning Agent (forecasts, plan updates, scenario logic in natural language) and the Vena MCP Server for Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot generally available.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-vena"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-announces-financial-consolidation-and-ai-innovations-at-excelerate-2026"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena/#event-4",
      "on": "2026-03-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vena completes its Acterys acquisition",
      "summary": "Vena completed its acquisition of Acterys, which \"provides enterprise-grade planning, analytics and application development solutions\", to extend Orchestrated Planning.",
      "kind": "Acquisition",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-vena"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-completes-acterys-acquisition"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-5",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena/#event-5",
      "on": "2025-09-15",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vena launches the Planning Agent in open beta",
      "summary": "Vena launched the Vena Planning Agent in open beta with select customers. Business users run driver-based planning in natural language across Excel, Power BI, Azure and Teams.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-vena"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-launches-award-winning-planning-agent-to-redefine-finance-workflows-as-fpa-market-surges-toward-16.9b-by-2030"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-6",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vena/#event-6",
      "on": "2025-05-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vena Copilot for Microsoft Teams becomes generally available",
      "summary": "Vena announced general availability of Vena Copilot for Microsoft Teams at its Excelerate Summit, bringing FP&A insights into Teams.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-vena"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.venasolutions.com/newsroom/vena-copilot-for-microsoft-teams-is-here-bringing-fpa-expertise-and-agentic-ai-where-work-happens"
      }
    }
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}