Samaya AI Raises $43.5m in Funding
Summary
Samaya AI, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of an artificial intelligence platform for financial services, raised $43.5M in funding. The round was led by NEA (New Enterprise Associates), with participation from Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), Yann LeCun (AI Turing Award winner), David Siegel (Co-founder Two Sigma), and Marty Chavez (Vice Chair Sixth Street), among others. Led by CEO and Founder Maithra Raghu, Samaya develops a suite of AI agents designed and trained for complex financial workflows, from investment research to client advisory and deal diligence. The company intends to use the funds to launch its latest AI agent, Causal World Models, which can autonomously model the entire economy and use this to carry out multi-stage grounded reasoning and provide quantitative predictions for economy-wide questions.