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Contextual AI

Mountain View, California Software Acquired

Contextual AI is an enterprise generative AI platform company specializing in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and specialized language models. Founded by Douwe Kiela and Amanpreet Singh (both former Hugging Face and Meta AI researchers), the company develops production-grade LLMs designed for enterprise deployment with focus on data privacy, safety, customizability, and efficiency. The platform enables Fortune 500 companies to build specialized AI agents tailored to their specific business needs.

Acquired

Contextual AI has been acquired

Acquired by Redo Mar 2026

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2023

Employees

51–200

Total Funding

$100M

2 rounds

Latest Valuation

$0.61B

Aug 21, 2024

Funding

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Total raised $100M across 2 rounds

Last updated 06-25-2026

DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
Aug 21, 2024 Series A $80M $0.61B Greycroft
Jun 7, 2023 Seed $20M Bain Capital Ventures

Prominent Investors

Greycroft Bain Capital Ventures Lightspeed Lip-Bu Tan Conviction/Sarah Guo Recall Capital Bezos Expeditions NVentures (Nvidia) HSBC Ventures Snowflake Ventures

Leadership

  • Douwe Kiela

    CEO and Co-Founder

    LinkedIn
  • Amanpreet Singh

    CTO and Co-Founder

    LinkedIn

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

  • Anyscale

    Ray-based distributed computing platform for machine learning

  • Hugging Face

    Open source ML platform with foundation models and inference solutions

  • LlamaIndex

    Data framework for LLM applications and RAG workflows

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