Hebbia, a startup utilizing generative AI to go looking giant paperwork and return solutions, has raised an almost $100 million Sequence B led by Andreessen Horowitz, in accordance 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 potential situation 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 associates working within the monetary trade who instructed him that a part of their lengthy work weeks was spent looking for info in SEC filings and different dense paperwork. Sivulka thought that AI might 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 without delay, together with PDFs, PowerPoints, spreadsheets and transcripts and return particular solutions, the corporate says.
The startup sells primarily to monetary service corporations, together with hedge funds and funding banks. However its product may be utilized by legislation corporations and different skilled domains.
The most recent funding brings Hebbia’s whole capital to over $120 million. The corporate raised its $30 million Sequence 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 info in plain English from varied enterprise purposes. In February, Glean raised a $200 million Sequence D at a valuation of $2.2 billion, led by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.