Vectara
- 17/07/2024
- Series A
- $25,000,000
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.
- Industry Software Development
- Website https://vectara.com/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/vectara/
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Amr AwadallahFounder
With over 25 years of experience in scalable systems, big data, and AI, I am passionate about changing our collective future for the better one startup at a time. As the founder and CEO of Vectara, the trusted GenAI Platform, I lead a team of super talented AI engineers who are building a trusted GenAI platform for business data with the benefits of mitigating hallucinations, bias, copyright infringement and data privacy.
Before founding Vectara, I was the VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud, where I helped developers and businesses leverage the power of cloud computing. I was also the founder and global CTO of Cloudera, a leading platform for big data analytics and machine learning, where we pioneered the use of open source technologies such as Hadoop and Spark. I have a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. I enjoy bridging the gap between technology, product, and business, and I am always eager to learn and share my knowledge and insights with others.