Funds and Launch for AI Data Firm Sphinx

In New York, a new company called Sphinx has launched with $9.5m in Seed funding, offering an AI copilot to help data professionals turn raw information into actionable insights.

Sphinx says its copilot is unusual in being 'purpose-built for data', with a focus on interpreting tabular and semi-structured information and building rigorous, evidence-based answers and models. The platform uses agentic reasoning to refine forecasts, optimize operations and power a range of business applications. The software integrates with environments including Jupyter notebooks and VSCode, in order 'to meet data teams where they already work.'

Sphinx was founded by Rohan Kodialam, an AI research leader at Citadel, and Jamie Bloxham, an early technology lead at MosaicML. 'AI is driving a paradigm shift for natural language and code, but traditional data has been left behind,' according to co-founder and CEO Kodialam (pictured). 'Our researchers and engineers are aggressively innovating on the interface between AI and data to drive tangible value for our partners across industries including CPG, retail, and financial services.'

The round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Box Group, K5, Impatient VC and others.

The firm's home page is at www.sphinx.ai .