Vishal Sikka’s Vianai raises $140 million in funding from SoftBank

Vianai, which Sikka based after his
acrimonious exit from IT services giant Infosys in 2017, will utilise the capital to speed up the supply of its AI platform and merchandise to enterprise prospects.

“We have now been working laborious to construct a greater AI platform, one which places human judgment on the heart of techniques that convey huge AI capabilities to amplify human potential,” stated Sikka, who’s the founder and CEO at Vianai. “I’m grateful for the belief and the arrogance that our prospects and our traders have put in us…”

The corporate says it’s constructing a human-centred AI platform, an method that it says amplifies human judgement, thereby empowering area specialists with AI instruments to ship enterprise worth. It added that it has already delivered profitable enterprise outcomes for quite a few ‘world-leading’ enterprises.

Vianai additionally introduced that Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI might be becoming a member of its advisory board.

“With the AI revolution underway, we consider Vianai’s human-centered AI platform and merchandise present world enterprises with operational and buyer intelligence to make higher enterprise selections,” stated Deep Nishar, Senior Managing Associate at SoftBank Funding Advisers.

Aside from Softbank, Vianai stated its traders embrace Silver Lake co-founder Jim Davidson, KKR co-founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. The corporate had beforehand raised $50 million in its Collection A spherical in 2019.