Hebbia, a startup utilizing generative AI to go looking massive paperwork and return solutions, has raised a virtually $100 million Sequence B led by Andreessen Horowitz, in keeping with three individuals with data of the matter.
The spherical valued the corporate between $700 – $800 million, though TechCrunch couldn’t confirm whether or not that valuation is pre- or post-money. (One attainable state of affairs is $700 million pre/$800 million submit.) Hebbia disclosed in an SEC filing in May that it had by then raised $93 million out of a hoped-for $100 million, however we perceive from two of the folks that the spherical hit a close to $100 million mark and has closed.
Hebbia and Andreessen Horowitz didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Hebbia was based in 2020 by George Sivulka, who launched the corporate whereas engaged on his PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford. Sivulka was impressed by his mates working within the monetary business who informed him that a part of their lengthy work weeks was spent looking for data in SEC filings and different dense paperwork. Sivulka thought that AI may assist them save hours on the workplace and provides them extra time for relaxation and sleep.
Hebbia’s AI can look over billions of paperwork directly, together with PDFs, PowerPoints, spreadsheets and transcripts and return particular solutions, the corporate says.
The startup sells primarily to monetary service companies, together with hedge funds and funding banks. However its product may be utilized by regulation companies and different skilled domains.
The most recent funding brings Hebbia’s whole capital to over $120 million. The corporate raised its $30 million Series A in September 2022 led by Index Ventures with participation from Radical Ventures.
The corporate’s product is just like Glean, whose software program can fetch data in plain English from varied enterprise functions. In February, Glean raised a $200 million Series D at a valuation of $2.2 billion, led by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
