# Distyl AI

> Distyl AI is a San Francisco enterprise-AI company that rebuilds Fortune 500 operating models around frontier models. Founded by Palantir alumni Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho, it pairs a proprietary platform called Distillery with embedded forward-deployed teams to put production AI in front of more than 120 million end users. In September 2025 it closed a $175M Series B at a $1.8B valuation.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Arjun Prakash (Co-founder & CEO), Derek Ho (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~200 employees
- **Products:** Distillery, Distyl Scans, Forward-deployed engineering
- **Notable:** $175M Series B at $1.8B valuation (Sept 2025), Stated 100% production deployment record across customer engagements, Over 120M end users reached by deployed AI systems

## Products & services

- **Distillery** — Proprietary platform that curates business context across the enterprise and powers AI-native workflows tailored to each client's data, systems, and operating model.
- **Distyl Scans** — Diagnostic engagement that produces an AI Readiness score and a roadmap to the highest-ROI AI deployments inside a given enterprise.
- **Forward-deployed engineering** — Embedded teams that design, build, and run production AI workflows alongside customer teams.

## Achievements

- $175M Series B at $1.8B valuation (Sept 2025)
- Stated 100% production deployment record across customer engagements
- Over 120M end users reached by deployed AI systems
- $23M+ annual savings delivered to a single Fortune 50 healthcare payor
- 80% reduction in supply-chain root-cause analysis time at a hardware manufacturer

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Closed $175M Series B at $1.8B valuation led by Khosla and Lightspeed, joined by Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, and DST Global.
- **2024-11** — Raised $20M from Lightspeed and Khosla to expand enterprise outcomes work.
- **2023-04** — Formed Services Alliance with OpenAI and raised $7M seed.

## Links

- Website: https://distyl.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/distylai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/DistylAI

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Last updated: 2026-05-19