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[Funding news] CA-based Vectara Secures $25 Million in Series A Round Funding

Vectara, the trusted Generative AI product platform, secures $25 million in series A round funding led by FPV Ventures and Race Capital. Additional investors include Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital, Samsung Next, Fusion Fund, Green Sands Equity, and Mack Ventures.

Vectara, the trusted Generative AI product platform, secures $25 million in series A round funding led by FPV Ventures and Race Capital. Additional investors include Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital, Samsung Next, Fusion Fund, Green Sands Equity, and Mack Ventures.

This funding round, combined with last yearā€™s $28.5 million seed funding round, brings the total funding to $53.5 million, aimed at advancing the state of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a Service for regulated industries.

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With this funding, it will advance internal innovations, ramp up its go-to-market resources and expand its offering in Australia and EMEA regions. As part of the round, Pegah Ebrahimi, co-founder and managing partner of FPV Ventures, will join Vectaraā€™s board of directors.

Pegah Ebrahimi, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of FPV Ventures said, ā€œAt FPV we want to partner with founders who are building technologies that address the opportunities and risks associated with generative AI,ā€ ā€œThere are specific challenges unique to enterprises when it comes to implementing LLMs that I saw first-hand as a former CIO, from accuracy to safety to cost. Vectaraā€™s RAG-as-a-service is uniquely positioned to solve this, enabling anyone in any size enterprise to ship real value add use cases more efficiently.ā€

As part of its ongoing commitment to innovation, Vectara is excited to unveil Mockingbird, a new, fine-tuned generative Large Language Model (LLM) specifically designed for RAG applications. Mockingbird is engineered to reduce hallucinations and improve structured output, providing reliable performance with low latency and cost efficiency.

Combining Mockingbird with Vectara’s Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model (HHEM) makes it particularly beneficial for regulated industries such as health, legal, finance, and manufacturing, where accuracy, security, and explainability are critical. As the demand grows for AI integration with downstream systems and the use of functional calls for autonomous agents, Mockingbird’s ability to produce structured outputs will be a significant advantage.

Founder of HuckAI Sunir Shah said, ā€œVectaraā€™s new Mockingbird took HuckAI from being an overly polite librarian to giving answers I would expect from a senior coworker, The responses are clearer, easier to follow, and provide direct answers to difficult questions, helping our users get more work done. I switched immediately.ā€

About Vectara

Vectara is an end-to-end platform for embedding powerful generative AI features into applications with extraordinary results. As an end-to-end Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) platform, Vectara delivers the shortest path to a correct answer/action through a safe, secure, and trusted entry point. Vectara never trains on your data, allowing businesses to embed generative AI capabilities without the risk of data or privacy violations.

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