Vianai Systems builds human-centered AI platforms and products that aim to amplify human judgment and empower domain experts with AI tools. The company emphasizes a human-centered approach to deliver operational and customer intelligence for enterprises. Vianai says it has delivered successful business outcomes to numerous world‑leading enterprises, citing a collaboration with Munich Re on an advanced early warning system that extracts actionable insights from non-traditional data. The company launched in 2019 and began with a $50 million seed investment. In June 2021 it raised an additional $140 million in a Series B equity round from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and other industry luminaries to accelerate global delivery of its platform and products. The firm reports strong customer adoption and has added Dr. Fei‑Fei Li to its advisory board as it scales. Vianai was launched by Vishal Sikka and is developing a highly visual data science platform that shifts model-building emphasis from dense code to the underlying mathematics. The product is built around two core principles—explorability and explainability—to let users interact with data and models iteratively. It is designed for joint use by business users and data scientists to solve concrete business problems such as reducing churn or detecting fraud. Sikka demonstrated the product at Oracle Open World after iterating on the solution for about a year. Vianai positions itself against AutoML, saying the goal is to augment human data scientists rather than automate their jobs. The company has a new product and says it has enough funding to pursue profitability as its ultimate goal.

Total raised

$190M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jun 2021