isotope It came out Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round.
It provides an AI agent to solve the problem that data analytics products have been working on for decades: People who know how to run big data infrastructure are not really the ones who need to use data.
Using LLMS, business managers can ask their data questions in natural language. The isotope proxy AIDNN can provide answers and draft complex planning documents and collect data from anywhere stored in financial applications, ERP, CRM and cloud storage.
There are already countless agency business analyses there, but the co-founder of isotopes has a unique lineage. So their product is very complex, and the startup has filed 10 patents, co-founder CEO Arun Murthy told TechCrunch.
Just 20 years ago, Murthy worked at Yahoo in his 20s, and the team built an open source project called Hadoop. Hadoop stimulated the original big data madness of the 2010s.
In 2011, Yahoo sent it to a company called Hortonworks, Murthy is the co-founder and chief product officer. Just four years after its release, Hortonworks was released. However, the rise of new cloud storage technologies has caused huge losses to the Hadoop market, and the Holden factory eventually merged with its biggest competitor, Cloudera. this The merged company was privately held in 2021 Carl Icahn, a well-known radical investor, was involved.
Murthy went to Cloudera for a few years in that turmoil, managing about 200 people. He said even there, he saw ancient data access issues. He remembers a quarterly conference call with Wall Street analyst BBQ executives about operational details.
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They can’t always answer because they can’t access the data. “It’s embarrassing,” he admits now. “We are a big data company that sells this.”
In 2021, he has no real plans for what to do next and introduced him to expand AI’s Alexandr Wang. After several chats and some consulting with Wang, Murthy joined Scale as CTO.
It’s like “a large-scale doctorate” he said. “Learn what drives these models and how to improve them.”
But when his old friend came from Hortonworks, who Prasanth Jayachandra called him, the two decided to do their own AI startup. They convinced their third foundation founder, Gopal Vijayaraghavan, also from the Hortonworks era, to join them and founded the isotope in late 2024. Their seed rounds are led by Vab Goel of NTTVC. (Goel used to be at Norwest Ventures.)
The founders’ background allows them to build a proxy where data can be found (whether it’s Salesforce or Snowflake) but also clean the data. The agent also maintains a large amount of context memory that can be used for complex tasks.
“It’s far beyond a simple chatbot,” Morsi said. For example, if the team asks Aidnn to draft a report on monthly recurring revenue trends: “The data you want to chat with doesn’t actually exist, at least in the form you need to chat with. It’s a very complex plan, a very complex plan: extract metadata, read data, read data, clean and normalize, join data, join data, construct revenue, collections.” ”
The proxy also shows the steps, reasoning, assumptions in the data, and points out the exceptions in the data. It will even make suggestions on how to proceed. The isotope also promises that enterprise customers can deploy without sharing any of their data with AI model manufacturers powering agents.
Despite this, the startup isotopic exquisite, but still faces a lot of competition. The current person likes it Salesforce’s Tableau Agents have been provided ( Salesforce’s main AI agent ) There are many other entrepreneurial founders with impressive pedigrees that are also on the market Wisdomai.
