Graft offers a production-grade AI development platform designed to make AI accessible to companies beyond the largest engineering organizations. The platform launched in beta last year and provides templatized "apps"—predefined templates such as visual search and finding customer champions—that customers can instantiate and point to their data. Graft handles the infrastructure required to run those applications, aiming to simplify the path to production amid complexity around large models, compliance, privacy, and AI ethics. The company is beginning a controlled expansion by inviting companies to request access as it opens the offering to more customers. Graft was co-founded by CEO Adam Oliner, who conceived the idea while running AI at Slack. Financially, the company has announced new seed funding and has prior pre-seed capital supporting its growth. Graft is building an out-of-the-box AI platform that enables smaller companies to use pre-trained "foundation" models for tasks like semantic search and recommendations. Founder Adam Oliner, formerly head of machine learning at Slack, says the product grew out of a "mini Graft" his team built at Slack. The company is working with beta customers to refine the solution and expects to launch a product later this year. Graft's team consists of 11 people and includes co-founder Maria Kazandjieva, the former head of engineering at Netflix. The startup emphasizes building a diverse founding team and is actively recruiting through communities focused on women and people of color. Financially, Graft announced a $4.5 million pre-seed investment to support development and growth.

Total raised

$15M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jul 2023