# Across AI

> Across AI is a San Francisco startup building an AI 'operator' for high-stakes enterprise workflows, starting with B2B sales. Founded in 2024 by serial entrepreneur Steven Mih with UC Berkeley researcher Niloufar Salehi and Stanford-trained algorithms specialist Afshin Nikzad, the company pairs next-generation agentic memory with patent-pending multi-layered reasoning graphs so that sales teams get a strategist embedded in every deal - one that remembers every interaction, product nuance, and objection, and acts on it with full lineage tracking.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Steven Mih (Co-founder & CEO), Niloufar Salehi (Co-founder & CPO), Afshin Nikzad (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~18-19 employees
- **Products:** Across - The Operator for Enterprise AI, Agentic memory engine, Enterprise sales AI
- **Notable:** Reported 36% increase in bookings for customers without additional headcount, Reported 26% more deals closed, Reported 2.6x aging-pipeline ACV recovery

## Products & services

- **Across - The Operator for Enterprise AI** — An enterprise AI operator built on three capabilities: Memory (persistent context across systems, unstructured data, and institutional knowledge), Reasoning (patent-pending multi-layered reasoning graphs that encode business processes), and Execution (long-horizon work with permissions and full lineage tracking).
- **Agentic memory engine** — A next-generation memory system that continuously adapts - retaining relevant information, discarding outdated data, and surfacing key insights based on contextual importance, rather than retrieving everything indiscriminately.
- **Enterprise sales AI** — Analyzes CRM and external data, benchmarks against top-performing sales behaviors, conducts account research, generates context-rich outreach with embedded reasoning, automates pipeline updates, and advances deals with verifiable recommendations.

## Achievements

- Reported 36% increase in bookings for customers without additional headcount
- Reported 26% more deals closed
- Reported 2.6x aging-pipeline ACV recovery
- Closed an oversubscribed seed round co-led by Village Global and Cota Capital (Dec 2024)
- SOC2 certified and a Salesforce Partner
- Founding team spanning UC Berkeley, Stanford, and USC research plus an IBM-acquired startup exit

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Announced an oversubscribed seed round co-led by Village Global and Cota Capital to bring its enterprise sales AI with agentic memory to market.
- **2025-01** — UC Berkeley I School highlighted professor Niloufar Salehi's launch of Across AI, centered on agentic AI for complex enterprise workflows.
- **2025-01** — Reported ~$2.1M ARR and roughly 18-19 employees, with active engineering hiring in San Francisco and Vancouver.

## Links

- Website: https://across.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/across-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/across_ai

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