(Updated 11:03 am PT) Vectara has secured $25 million in Series A funding, bringing our total funding to $53.5 million! This incredible milestone was made possible thanks to the support of our lead investors FPV Ventures and Race Capital, along with Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital, GTM Capital, Samsung Next, Fusion Fund, Green Sands Equity, and Jason Mack. We'd also like to thank our returning investors: Top Harvest Capital, GTM Capital, Feld Ventures, TRANSFORM VC, BECO Capital, and Fusion Fund. As well as our past investors: Vertex Ventures, Databricks, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Essence Venture Capital, NKM Capital, and RAED Ventures. With this funding, we're launching Mockingbird, a groundbreaking large language model (#LLM) designed specifically for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (#RAG) applications. Mockingbird delivers unparalleled accuracy and performance, making it ideal for regulated sectors like healthcare, law, and banking. We're also excited to welcome Pegah Ebrahimi, co-founder and managing partner of FPV Ventures, to our board of directors. Her expertise will be invaluable as we expand our go-to-market strategy and continue to innovate in the AI space. Join us on this journey as we revolutionize the way #AI serves regulated industries! 🌟 Read more about our exciting news in VentureBeat by Sean M. Kerner https://lnkd.in/g3a_piH5
Vectara
Software Development
Palo Alto, CA 10,867 followers
Vectara is The Trusted GenAI Platform for All Builders - Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service (RAGaaS).
About us
Vectara is The Trusted GenAI Platform for All Builders - Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service (RAGaaS) to Power Your Business - Put GenAI into Action. Vectara is an end-to-end platform for product builders to embed powerful generative AI features into their applications with extraordinary results. Built on a solid hybrid-search core, Vectara delivers the shortest path to a correct answer/action through a safe, secure, and trusted entry point. Vectara is a platform for companies with moderate to no AI experience that solves use cases, including conversational AI, question/answering, semantic app search, and research & analysis. Vectara provides an end-to-end SaaS solution abstracting the complex ML Operations pipeline (Extract, Encode, Index, Retrieve, Re-Rank, Summarize). Vectara is built for product managers and developers with an easily leveraged API that gives full access to the platform's powerful features. Vectara’s “Grounded Generation” allows businesses to quickly, safely, and affordably integrate best-in-class conversational AI and question-answering into their application with zero-shot precision. Vectara never trains on your data, allowing businesses to embed generative AI capabilities without the risk of data or privacy violations.
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External link for Vectara
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
- Specialties
- Neural Search, Search as a Service, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Understanding, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Neural Information Retrieval, Deep Neural Networks, Neural Networks, LLM, NLU, NLP, Answer as a Service, NN, DNN, RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, semantic search, generative AI, GenAI, Grounded Generation, hybrid search, SaaS, Foundation Model, RAGaaS, and Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service
Products
GenAI Conversational Search & Discovery Platform
Enterprise Search Software
Vectara is a GenAI conversational search and discovery platform that allows businesses to have intelligent conversations utilizing their own data (think ChatGPT but for your data). Developer-first, the platform provides an easy-to-use API and gives developers access to cutting-edge NLU (Natural Language Understanding) technology with industry-leading relevance. The platform ensures data security and privacy with strong encryption while ensuring no customer data is used for training models. With Vectara’s Grounded Generation, businesses can quickly and affordably integrate best-in-class search and question answering into their application, knowledge base, website, chatbot, or support helpdesk. Visit Vectara.com for more information.
Locations
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395 Page Mill Road Ste 275
Palo Alto, CA 94306, US
Employees at Vectara
Updates
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Vectara reposted this
Why I Joined Vectara: Catching the Generative AI Rocket Ship After two decades in technology leadership roles at Capital One, ING, and UBS, I've now taken on an exciting role as Field CTO at Vectara. With startup DNA from my early coding career, I couldn’t resist fully immersing myself in the power of GenAI. AI is changing the world faster than any technology before it, embedding itself across all industries. Rather than continue solely in banking, Vectara offers me the chance to directly participate in this revolution wherever it creates the most value. Drawing on years of experience in global banks, I aim to be a trusted advisor for tech leaders introducing these latest innovations. So, why Vectara? The Technology: Long before ChatGPT, Vectara developed an AI Assistant/Agent solution that focused on enterprise readiness: accuracy (eliminating “hallucinations”), explainability of results/actions, and secure access control. More technically, under the hood, Vectara offers a serverless, end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform: https://lnkd.in/g5HXUJ8K . It combines multilingual semantic information retrieval with AI-generated responses and actions, allowing developers to fine-tune its behavior without the need for deep modifications. Enterprise customers and technology partners can easily embed GenAI into their applications with plug-and-play API integrations, avoiding the complexities of building and maintaining custom solutions as models evolve rapidly. To top it off, there is a strong focus on solution testability, scalability, reliability, availability, resilience to prompt attacks, copyright protection, and bias mitigation, ensuring that applications built on top of Vectara are trustworthy for the enterprise. The People: Our CEO, Amr Awadallah, leads our world-class team with vision, fostering a culture of transparency and execution. Previously, Amr was a co-founder of Cloudera where he revolutionized Big Data adoption, and I fondly recall Capital One selecting Cloudera over a decade ago. The Business Model: Customers can avoid significant R&D costs while delivering GenAI-powered applications, even without a dedicated ML team. Vectara's platform runs as a managed service, within customer cloud environments, or on-premise, offering scalability on constrained budgets. My goal is to help CTOs, CIOs, architects, and developers identify use cases and quickly deliver solutions. For those experimenting with GenAI, Vectara offers a clear path to production while ensuring future-proofing. This only scratches the surface, but you get the idea. Reach out anytime at jeff@vectara.com – thank you!
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📢 DC Area Enterprise Developers, it's your turn! 📢 We're hitting the road and bringing our RAG on the Road event to Carahsoft Conference & Collaboration Center on November 15, 2024, at 9 AM ET. This FREE event is your chance to learn how to implement advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and strategies from the experts at Vectara. This event is designed for decision-makers, product owners, and AI developers looking to design enterprise-grade AI solutions in hours. 📍 Sign up for FREE here: https://bit.ly/4gMiEqP Seats are limited—reserve your spot today! 🚀
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WVV Capital (a joint venture between Advocate Health Atrium Health, Foxconn, Johnson Controls, and Northwestern Mutual recently invested in Vectara. Danielle D'Agostaro interviewed the Co-Founder of Vectara and fmr Founder of Cloudera, Amr Awadallah. Here is the big question and the 3 key takeaway's, I hope you enjoy: ➡ What would you say is unique about Vectara? 1️⃣ "..our differentiation is simple: we have features required for regulated industries such as healthcare, law, and banking, through our RAG-as-a-service (RAGaaS) platform." "There are specific challenges enterprises face when implementing LLMs, such as data privacy, accuracy, and operational complexity. Unlike many other solutions, Vectara is built from the ground up with a focus on data security and compliance. We never train our models on customer data, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected." 2️⃣ "Accuracy is another critical concern for highly-regulated industries, and because of this, GenAI can be met with skepticism due to the persistent appearance of hallucinations. As a pioneer in the early development of RAG, Vectara is grounded in a business’ own data to generate highly-relevant and contextually-accurate responses, mitigating the risk of AI hallucinations." 3️⃣ "And lastly, we package all of this up in an integrated pipeline, simplifying the development process through a unified platform that encompasses vector databases, retrieval and generation models, and LLMs. By eliminating the need to assemble all these different components, we are able to help businesses accelerate time-to-market by reducing operational overhead." https://lnkd.in/gsD_H8PB Craig Schedler Ofer Mendelevitch Justin Hayes
WVV Capital’s Investment in Vectara
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Excited for the upcoming #TEDAI conference in SF in 2 weeks, and the hackathon (https://bit.ly/4ey0mbb) right before. I can't wait to see all the cool projects folks will create using @vectara RAG.
AI Hackathon | TEDAI San Francisco
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Developers, are you also struggling with deploying #RAG to production? We've just launched our ‘Untangle your RAG!’ page to guide you through addressing the complexity. Get customized insights directly from our AI expert, Ofer Mendelevitch, to help you transition your RAG application to production. You may even qualify for a one-on-one troubleshooting session with him to discuss your specific enterprise RAG pain!
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The AI revolution is here in Financial Services, with 99% of leaders already using AI and all planning for GenAI adoption. Are you ready? Our Executive Brief shares critical strategies to harness GenAI while staying secure and competitive. Check out the Executive Brief today! https://lnkd.in/gz7qn5mJ
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When building AI assistants and agents with Vectara's vectara-agentic, you can now use Arize AI Phoenix's open-source observability. Check out the blog post about this with John Gilhuly blog: https://lnkd.in/gViZwAD5 vectara-agentic: https://lnkd.in/dcPQGvjU
Building AI Assistants with Vectara-agentic and Arize
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Vectara reposted this
Join us for a webinar to learn how Vectara's platform reduces hallucinations—providing more accurate and reliable AI responses—while Groq accelerates execution speed, making AI assistants faster, easier to use, and highly scalable. https://hubs.la/Q02R8YQw0
Building AI Assistants and Agents with Vectara and Groq
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👀 Check out this latest tutorial to see how you can build an 🤖 Agentic RAG 📄application, powered by Vectara and Arize Phoenix! https://lnkd.in/gGPerarE Vectara's new agent package, vectara-agentic, allows you easily build custom agents connected to a Vectara database, and automatically capture traces on your application in Phoenix. Big thanks to Ofer Mendelevitch and the Vectara team for their work on this integration.
Building AI Assistants with Vectara-agentic and Arize
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