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By now we know how crucial it is to have quality data for use by turgid language model ( LLMs ) , but get data ready for the models has been an early challenge for companies , an scuttle that present an opportunity for an enterprising entrepreneur .
EnterIllumex , a two - year - old Israeli startup from the former VP of AI at Sisense . The startup is using GenAI to put the data into a quick state for LLMs . Today the companionship announced a $ 13 million investment .
Inna Tokarev - Sela , founder and CEO of Illumex , says she recognize this data readiness problem geezerhood ago , and she begin Illumex with the goal of have it sluttish for organizations to organize data in an automated way .
“ We automatically associate the business system of logic of an organization , automatically map out it to information , and we work the relevant data to the question which business users have , ” Tokarev - Sela told TechCrunch .
The company is combining a bit of engineering to achieve this , including generative AI , graph database and relational databases , pulling all this information together into what Tokarev - Sela calls a data fabric , which companies can access to train LLMs and for other purposes .
She sees the company as part of a continuum of the AI workflow , not just getting data ready for the model , but also work up applications base on this data , and ultimately deploy them with the goal of making it easy for end users to interact with and get what they need from the data Illumex is providing for them .
“ We connect to all the scheme , like different patronage practical software and different stage business data sources , like database , warehouses , data lakes , CRM , support systems , SAP enterprisingness financial systems and so on . So that provides us insurance coverage of all data point verbal description and all system of logic and workflow description tightly coupled automatically in this knowledge graphical record , ” she said .
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She says that this enables customers to get an inventory of their intact data landscape painting . “ We provide an understanding of the semantics of the whole data landscape painting , like semantifying the whole peck , if you will , and then deploy generative AI with a gamy grade of truth and precision and setting knowingness , ” she said .
What ’s more , Illumex integrate with survive enterprise communications pecker like Teams , Slack and Google Meet , so they are not pull substance abuser to figure out a new way to go inside Illumex . The inauguration has customers using the platform , including extremely regulated troupe like financial service and pharmaceuticals .
The company currently has 30 employee and will be hiring with the new influx of chapiter . As a woman founding father , Tokarev - Sela said she is taste to create a parent - well-disposed company , and reports that they are female - bulk . “ When you actually see the demographics of the company , it ’s very unlike from the slogans . At Illumex , we actually take the air the walk , ” she allege .
The $ 13 million investment was extend by Cardumen Capital , Amdocs Ventures and Samsung Ventures , with involution from ICI Fund , Jibe Ventures , Iron Nation Fund , Ginossar Ventures , Icon Fund , Today Ventures and unidentified industry angels .
