# Arist

> Arist is a New York enterprise software company that combines AI employee interviews, organizational data analysis and targeted learning to identify and address workforce performance gaps. Its message-based courses and interventions reach employees through Teams, Slack and SMS; customers include large enterprises and public institutions.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Michael Ioffe (CEO and co-founder), Maxine Anderson (COO and co-founder), Ryan Laverty (Co-founder; formerly president), Riley Wilson (Co-founder and advisor (listed by Wellfound and Crunchbase))
- **Products:** Message-based learning, Arist Diagnostic, AI enablement and communications builder, AI impact analysis
- **Notable:** Y Combinator Summer 2020 company., Raised a publicly announced $12 million Series A in July 2022., Reports serving more than 50 Fortune 500 companies.

## Products & services

- **Message-based learning** — Short interactive courses and reinforcement delivered through familiar messaging channels including SMS, Teams and Slack.
- **Arist Diagnostic** — AI employee interviews combined with organizational data to surface capability and process gaps and recommend interventions.
- **AI enablement and communications builder** — Creates targeted communications, courses, coaching, practice and reinforcement for identified cohorts.
- **AI impact analysis** — Connects participation, capability, behavior and adoption to business goals and supports reassessment.

## Achievements

- Y Combinator Summer 2020 company.
- Raised a publicly announced $12 million Series A in July 2022.
- Reports serving more than 50 Fortune 500 companies.
- Arist reports Novartis cut program-launch time from more than six weeks to under four hours.
- EY’s published testimonial reports more than 80,000 people reached and over 85% engagement, including optional courses.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — The US Department of Labor launched Make America AI-Ready through a partnership with Arist.
- **2026-07** — Arist announced Arist Diagnostic on July 15, expanding into AI performance consulting.
- **2026-07** — A July 14 notice proposed Anthropic, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Braintrust, Intercom and Tray.ai as new AI sub-processors, subject to contractual notice periods.
- **2026-08** — Dealroom reported a $22.5 million Series B offering; filing-based trackers separately report approximately $14.1 million sold.

## Links

- Website: https://arist.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aristlearning/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/arist
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LearnArist/

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Last updated: 2026-10-04