Business Context Builder Delphinia Adds $7.5 Million

San Francisco company Delphinia has raised $7.5 million in funding, doubling its total to date, and will use the money to scale its Context Factory, which helps user companies to ground their AI analytics in constantly updated business context. It will also grow its sales and customer engineering teams.

The Context Factory deploys agents to gather the knowledge base of a business - including its metrics and the knowledge of experienced analysts - and keep it up to date. Building the initial 'working baseline' from a company's existing data and documents takes mere hours, according to Delphinia, and the agents 'find and fix gaps' whenever people within the business ask questions, routing any major changes to domain experts for approval before adding them to the stock.

CEO Jeremy Hermann built and led Uber's Michelangelo machine learning platform and co-founded Tecton, acquired by Databricks; while his co-founder, company President Duncan Gilchrist led global pricing data science at Uber. Delphina was built to meet data teams' standards, but the company says business teams now ask 73% of the questions on the platform, and CEOs at more than half of its customers are active users.

The round was co-led by Radical Ventures and Costanoa, with participation from Tenacity Capital, and angel investors including early employees of Anthropic and OpenAI.

'At Uber, everyone, including the CEO, was hands-on with data,' says Hermann. 'That direct line to the numbers was a real advantage, but it took an army of data engineers to keep it from collapsing into chaos. The Context Factory gives every company that same advantage. Agents do the heavy lifting, and data teams become the knowledge captains who decide how the business sees its numbers.'

Gilchrist adds: 'Most companies are data-obsessed but struggle to become data-driven. When everyone can get trusted answers, everyone suddenly has questions. Ops, sales, marketing and finance teams are now the heaviest users of Delphina, and they keep coming back.'

Web site: www.delphina.ai .