Viven Launches with $35M Seed Funding, Leveraging LLMs for Enterprise Digital Twins

Article Summary

Viven, founded by Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia (of Eightfold), is tackling a persistent challenge in modern workplaces: the difficulty of accessing information when key team members are unavailable. The startup’s solution centers around creating ‘digital twins’ of employees, powered by tailored LLMs, that provide immediate answers to queries related to shared projects and knowledge. By accessing an employee’s internal documents – email, Slack, Google Docs – the LLM generates a near-instantaneous response, bypassing the traditional delays caused by colleagues being offline. The $35 million seed round, led by Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, and FPV Ventures, validates this approach and positions Viven to scale its enterprise offerings. Crucially, Viven emphasizes privacy, employing ‘pairwise context’ technology to determine precisely what information can be shared and with whom, alongside a query history log for each digital twin to deter inappropriate questions. Initial clients include Genpact and Eightfold, indicating a real-world demand for this type of solution.

Key Points

• Viven is creating digital twins of employees using LLMs to provide instant access to shared knowledge.
• The startup’s ‘pairwise context’ technology ensures privacy by controlling information sharing and monitoring query history.
• With $35 million in seed funding, Viven is poised to scale its offerings and gain traction in the enterprise market.