The pre-seed funds led by Antler VC as part of the first AI disruption portfolio accelerate the development of AI technologies located in groundbreaking domains
Mumbai, India & San Francisco – (Business Wire) –#ai-Nugen has announced a pre-seed round to advance its mission to make AI trustworthy for businesses. Nugen, a Mumbai and San Francisco-based AI research startup, is developing groundbreaking technologies that enable organizations to confidently deploy AI in a high-stakes business environment. Antler, a well-known global VC company known for supporting exceptional founders, led the round by combining more than $1 million in capital and GPU perks through the AI Surpt program, adding support from well-known Silicon Valley investors. The funding will accelerate Nugen's research initiative and strengthen its market commitment.
The Frontier AI model shows outstanding capabilities, but Fortune 500 executives cannot trust these generative models because of critical business workflows. To address this challenge, Nugen pioneered domain-located AI™ technology through interpretability research that enables alignment and steering of domain-specific inference and model behavior, reducing costly training and rapid engineering repetition while organizations deploy AI with confidence for business-centric results.
“What excites us most about Nugen is their fundamental approach to reliability issues,” said Winnie Khoo, partner at Antler. “Instead of treating AI reliability as an afterthought, they have built a measure of reliability in the deep learning architecture itself, which creates a defensible technology moat and serves as a critical infrastructure that enables businesses to deploy AI at scale.”
Nugen attracts world-class research talent and pursues interdisciplinary research on the challenges of AI reliability and integrity. Co-founder Aakash Patil brings deep learning expertise from previous research at Stanford University and earns a PhD. From France's top-level computational mathematics program. “There is an important gap between AI capabilities and organizational trust. Nagen fills the gap with architectural level reliability through interpretability and generates basic research that affects any domain,” Patil said. Co-founder Mrunmayee Shende brings market expertise heading for a wide range of deep technology across the EMEA and APJ markets. “We are building an AI infrastructure that allows organizations to own competitive advantages and become smarter over time,” Shende added. “AI-first companies in other sectors where legal, corporate finance, and trust cannot be negotiated would like to work with Nugen.”
Nugen actively employs outstanding global talent to join the Indian research team, providing the opportunity to tackle the challenges of basic AI reliability and integrity while building trustworthy AI for the future of an AI-Native society.
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