Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers

Employees spend most of their day to communicate and adjust to the projects, this effort is often damaged by the availability of certain persons. When a colleague with important information is far away – on vacation or in the other time region – the rest of the team members must delay the progress until that person reacts.

Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia-an AI Recruiting Startup Lastly Worth $ 2.1 billion – Believe that progress in LLM and data privacy technology can help solve some aspects of these expensive problems. Earlier this year, these colleagues were unavailable, but they introduced a digital twins startup with missions to access employees important information from teammates.

Wednesday, Viven Khosla came out of stealth mode with $ 35 million seed funds from Viven Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, FPV Ventures and others.

Viven develops a specialized LLM for each employee, effectively creates a digital twin by accessing their internal electronic documents such as email, slack and Google dox. Other employees of the organization can then ask the person’s digital twin to get immediate answers to the general project and shared knowledge.

“When every person has a digital twin, you can only say to their twins that you are talking to the person and get the response,” Ashutosh Garg told TechCrunch.

A big obstacle is that people cannot share everything with anyone who asks. Employees often handle sensitive information or have personal files that they want to keep private from the rest of the team.

According to Garg, Viven’s technology solves that complex problem through a concept known as the pair’s context and privacy. It enables the startup LLM to determine how to share information and whom it can be shared across the organization.

Viven’s LLMs are smart enough to recognize the personal context and to know what information is needed to be private – such as questions related to an employee’s personal life. But perhaps the most important protection is that everyone will see the history of their digital twin questions, which acts as a resistant against people who ask inappropriate questions.

“This is a very difficult problem to solve, and it was incredible until recently,” Au Garg, a general partner of Foundation Capital, told TechCrunch.

Several enterprise clients, including GenePact and eight times, are already using. (Co-founder Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia are leading eight times, dividing their time within that organization and running Viven.)

As a competition, Ashutosh Garg has claimed that no other company is still dealing with the digital twin for enterprise.

He was not sure that when he first started thinking about the idea was no contestant. So he called Vinod Khosla to ask about it. The legendary investor Ashutosh Garg assured that no one was doing it and agreed to investing.

The Foundation Capital’s Ashu Garg was equally excited about Viven.

“When Ashutosh came to me and described the product, I had a great ah for me: all the work of coordination and communication has this horizontal problem that no one is automatically,” Ashu Garg told TechCrunch.

However, it does not just mean that there is no direct competitor now, other companies will not create digital twins for the future companies. Ashu Garg said that anthropologist, Google’s Jemin, Microsoft Copilot and Opena’s Enterprise Search products have a personalization element. However, if they enter the market, Viven hopes that its “pair” context technology will be his childhood.