Delphina – an LLM-powered copilot for data science – recently announced the closing of a $7.5 million seed round co-led by Costanoa Ventures and Radical Ventures with participation from 20+ prominent angel investors, including Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li. This funding round will be used to expand its team and accelerate product development.
Delphina will do for data science and predictive AI what GitHub Copilot is doing for software engineering. And it uses large language models (LLMs) to accelerate the routine, time-consuming tasks in predictive AI workflows, reducing them from months to days. By identifying and preparing relevant data, training models and deploying pipelines, the Delphina platform makes it dramatically faster and simpler for any enterprise – even those without dedicated AI teams – to productize common AI business use cases, like forecasting, personalization, pricing or fraud detection, to name a few.
The goal is to close the gap preventing businesses from utilizing AI in more core business processes. And according to Deloitte, 94% of business leaders agree that AI is critical to success over the next five years. But 41% of business leaders cite slowdowns due to gaps in technical skills. By automating time-consuming tasks, Delphina will enable data science teams to build and deploy better AI models faster.
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“Today, even the most advanced data science teams are mired in painstaking work that AI is better suited to do. With the recent advancements in large language models, it is only now possible to massively improve data science productivity so the world gets the value it wants out of AI faster.”
- Jeremy Hermann, Co-founder of Delphina
“There’s been a boom in AI tools in recent years, but building valuable models and putting them into production has not gotten easier. Delphina is taking a very different approach to the problem by using LLMs in a way that was not previously possible. Jeremy and Duncan understand the space better than anyone else.”
- Tony Liu of Costanoa Ventures
“Large language models promise to automate and transform broad swaths of traditional data science and predictive AI workflows, just like we are seeing them do with software engineering. Venture capitalists like to talk about ‘founder/market fit.’ I can’t imagine a stronger founding team than Duncan and Jeremy to tackle this problem, as two top data science leaders who have been at the forefront of this field for years.”
- Rob Toews of Radical Ventures
