Summary: Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers Crunch
1. Startup Viven, led by Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia of Eightfold, has emerged from stealth mode with $35 million in seed funding. They developed an AI-powered digital twin technology to provide employees access to crucial information from teammates even when they're unavailable.
2. Viven's LLMs create a specialized digital twin for each employee by accessing their internal electronic documents, allowing other colleagues to query them and receive immediate answers related to common projects and shared knowledge.
3. To maintain privacy and avoid sharing sensitive information, Viven uses pairwise context and privacy technology, which determines what information can be shared and with whom across the organization, while also allowing everyone to see their digital twin's query history as a deterrent against inappropriate questions.
2. Viven's LLMs create a specialized digital twin for each employee by accessing their internal electronic documents, allowing other colleagues to query them and receive immediate answers related to common projects and shared knowledge.
3. To maintain privacy and avoid sharing sensitive information, Viven uses pairwise context and privacy technology, which determines what information can be shared and with whom across the organization, while also allowing everyone to see their digital twin's query history as a deterrent against inappropriate questions.
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Startup Viven, led by Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia of Eightfold, unveiled after stealth mode with $35 million seed funding. Viven's AI-powered digital twin technology enables employees to access crucial teammate info via LLMs (Language Learning Models). Each employee has a custom digital twin,
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Date: Oct. 16, 2025
Notes: 2025-10-16
Created: 2025/10/16 04:12
Updated: 2025/12/08 00:18
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