(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 9,690 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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https://vectara.com/
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.
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395 Page Mill Road Ste 275
Palo Alto, CA 94306, US
Employees at Vectara
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🎉 Exciting News! Join us at @AI4 - Artificial Intelligence Conferences 2024! Be sure to attend our insightful panel on Generative AI Data Strategy: Unlocking the Power of Proprietary Data for Advanced Models! 🗓 Date: August 13, 2024 🕒 Time: 3:05 PM – 3:50 PM 📍 Location: Room 123-124 (Level 1) Our distinguished panelists: ▪️ Jodi Blomberg, VP of Data Science, Cox Automotive Inc. ▪️ Soumitri Kolavennu, Head of AI Research, U.S. Bank ▪️ Amr Awadallah, PhD, Co-Founder & CEO, Vectara ▪️ Torsten Steinbach, VP, Chief Architect Analytics & AI, EDB ▪️ Parasvil Patel, Partner, Radical Ventures Gain invaluable insights on how to effectively use proprietary data for generative AI. Don’t miss out! https://ai4.io/vegas
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What an unforgettable experience at the 2024 Vectara Global Summit in Palo Alto! Over the last three days, our entire team came together from across the globe to reflect on our incredible progress, learn from customer feedback, and dive deep into our strategies for the future. We kicked off with a warm welcome and a dynamic customer feedback session that set the tone for two days of collaboration and innovation. Each functional team—R&D, GTM, G&A—shared their milestones and vision, inspiring us all to push the boundaries even further. But it wasn't all work! We bonded over team lunches, explored the vibrant Santana Row, and embarked on a thrilling scavenger hunt in San Francisco. These moments of connection and fun are what make the Vectara team so special. Day three brought the creativity to life with our Killer-App-athon, where cross-functional teams pitched new use case concepts, sparking ideas that could shape our future products. The passion and innovation in every pitch were simply amazing! We'd also like to thank each of our investors, both new, returning, and past! FPV Ventures, Race Capital (We are Hiring Engineers), Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital, GTM Capital, Feld Ventures, Samsung Next, Fusion Fund, Green Sands Equity, Jason Mack, Top Harvest Capital, TRANSFORM VC, BECO Capital, Vertex Ventures, Databricks, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Essence Venture Capital, NKM Capital, and RAED Ventures.
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Came to Palo Alto for Vectara 's annual summit and what a fun filled event it was. Got to meet my colleagues in person, and it was great to connect at a personal level to all these amazing people. Vectara has one of the best people to work with and we are targetting greatness in GenAI. Looking forward to next year with lots of work to do.
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Founders' Creative is hosting our signature Lightning Talks, this time at the Google Huddle in Mountain View! The theme for this session is AI, EdTech, and Bio! Hear from founders and execs in each space or at an intersection! Join us for quality networking and hear from founders pushing the limits of the state of the art! Lightning Talks & Startup Pitches by: Melina Petsolari, Founder @ ACX (YC S24) Emmanouela Petsolari, Founder @ ACX (YC S24) Ofer Mendelevitch, Dev Rel @ Vectara, ex Syntegra, Yahoo! Parnian Lak, Founder & CEO @ Olfera, ex University of California, San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley Kentaro Timothy V., Cofounder @ Carbon Sustain Ashish Garg, ex CISO @ Solidigm, ex PayPal Amulya Vadrevu, ex Product Robinhood, ONDC, Feedzai Mala Ramakrishnan, Founder & Managing Partner Progressive Ventures, CTO & CPO @ Cuvo, Board Member Women Founders Bay Ram Senthamarai, MLE @ Sentry, VP @ Progressive Ventures, ex Amazon Agenda 3:00-3:30 - Opening Social 🤝 3:30 - 4:45 - Lightning Talks ⚡️ 4:45 - 5:30 - Networking 🎉 📈 Register today to secure you spot! https://lnkd.in/g5jXQvuz 📈 #FoundersCreative #LightningTalks #GoogleHuddle #AIEdTechandBio #StartupPitches #NetworkingEvent #TechFounders #AIInnovation #Biotech #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital #MountainView #StartupCommunity #BioTechStartups #AIStartups #WomenInTech #CISO #MLengineering #VentureFund #TechEvent
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Generative AI is transforming industries with its expanding capabilities. As businesses leverage these technologies, demand for domain-specific models has surged, leading to the evolution of fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). 🔍 Why Choose RAG? #RAG dynamically integrates external knowledge, ensuring accurate, contextually relevant outputs. Perfect for organizations without large ML teams, it offers a practical, end-to-end solution that simplifies AI integration. 📈 Key Benefits of End-to-End RAG Solutions: ▪️ Fast Time to Production ▪️ All-in-One Platform Cost ▪️ Low Latency Ingest ▪️ Near Real-Time Data Updates ▪️ Serverless Infrastructure ▪️ Low-Level Dev/Tuning Not Required Explore how RAG can revolutionize your business with precise, up-to-date information retrieval and generation. Vectara’s RAG-as-a-service platform delivers powerful AI features seamlessly into your applications. Learn more about the components and benefits of RAG in Amr Awadallah’s article in AiThority.Com https://lnkd.in/eVBsFbPQ
Core Components When Considering an End-to-End RAG Solution
https://aithority.com
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Our Co-Founders Amr Awadallah and Amin Ahmad recently appeared on The Ravit Show with Ravit Jain! They discussed the crucial role of reliability, transparency, and accountability in creating trustworthy #AI solutions. The Ravit Show is a vibrant community for professionals, practitioners, and enthusiasts in Data Science and AI. It's a space to upskill, grow, share, and learn from each other, offering valuable content and resources for everyone from beginners to industry leaders. Catch the episode to learn more about how we build AI that people can trust! https://gag.gl/CEE9QC
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Discover Mockingbird, Vectara’s advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation #RAG and structured output-focused Language Learning Model #LLM. Suleman Kazi, Vivek Sourabh, Rogger Luo & Abhilasha Lodha take you on a technical deep dive into Mockingbird's impressive performance and capabilities. 1️⃣ Why Another LLM? - Learn why Vectara developed its own LLM focused on tasks that matter to our customers. 2️⃣ Training Mockingbird - Explore the rigorous training process for RAG and structured output tasks. 3️⃣ Evaluation Metrics - See how Mockingbird excels in generation quality, citations, and structured output. 4️⃣ Human Ratings - Understand the human evaluation process and how Mockingbird compares to leading models like GPT-4. Mockingbird is integrated into the Vectara platform, offering unparalleled performance with high-quality, secure outputs. 🌐 Dive into the full blog and see how Mockingbird can transform your data handling and generation processes. https://gag.gl/2WqJGM?
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New week, new and improved hallucination evaluation model and leaderboard from Vectara. Blog: https://lnkd.in/gGXmq_6g Leaderboard: https://lnkd.in/gfbBG3bJ Model (Hugging Face): https://lnkd.in/gkYJ-wNA Model (Kaggle): https://lnkd.in/gF-RSUi3
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Last week we launched the short course Embedding Models: From Architecture to Implementation with Vectara! Join in and gain an in-depth understanding of the architecture behind embedding models; learn how to use different models such as Word2Vec and BERT in various semantic search systems, and build and train a dual encoder models using contrastive loss, enhancing the accuracy of question-answer retrieval applications. Start learning today: https://hubs.la/Q02K7ttb0