Eightfold Founders Raise $35M for Viven.ai, an AI Workplace Twin

Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, co-founders of the AI talent giant Eightfold, have launched Viven.ai, an AI startup creating digital twins of employees to keep teams moving when key people are unavailable.

With $35 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital, Viven is stepping out of stealth with a bold vision to transform workplace collaboration.

Solving the Invisible Bottleneck in Teamwork

Workplace productivity often stumbles when vital team members are unreachable—whether on vacation, in different time zones, or busy with conflicting priorities.

Viven AI tackles this by building advanced AI models trained on each employee’s emails, chats, documents, and meeting recordings.

These digital twins act as proxies, answering colleagues’ questions instantly.

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A Privacy-First, Practical AI Approach

What makes Viven.ai stand apart is its pairwise privacy technology.

Unlike generic AI tools, Viven carefully controls what data each digital twin shares, tailoring access per individual relationships and protecting sensitive information.

Employees can see every query made to their twins, ensuring transparency and trust.

Founders Garg and Kacholia, veterans from Eightfold’s $2.1 billion success as well as Google, Facebook, and BloomReach, have designed Viven.ai to address a broad coordination problem that no major company has adequately solved yet.

Funding to Scale AI and Enterprise Reach

With strong early enterprise customers like Genpact already onboard, this $35 million investment will beef up Viven’s AI capabilities and expand its team and market reach.

The round, one of the largest enterprise AI seed deals this year, validates the pressing demand for solutions that keep knowledge flowing without interruption.

What Lies Ahead?

Viven AI is poised to grow quickly, moving from pilots to broader enterprise adoption while maintaining its robust privacy protections.

The co-founders remain deeply connected to Eightfold, balancing leadership roles to cross-pollinate insights and customer connections.

Anticipated competition from big tech product expansions won’t deter Viven—they believe their privacy-first, relationship-aware AI model secures a strong competitive edge.

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This funding marks a new chapter in enterprise AI—shifting focus from just automation to intelligent continuity.

Viven’s approach promises to keep teams productive, informed, and connected no matter who’s “in the rom.”