# Percepta

> Percepta is a New York-based AI transformation company, wholly owned and incubated by venture firm General Catalyst, that embeds teams of researchers, engineers, and product managers directly inside large enterprises to move them past AI pilots and into AI-native operations. Founded in 2025 by CEO Hirsh Jain (a former Palantir SVP) and General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja, the company pairs applied engineering with a frontier research lab to rebuild core workflows in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and government - working closely with founding partners Anthropic and AWS.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Hirsh Jain (Co-Founder & CEO), Hemant Taneja (Co-Founder (CEO of General Catalyst)), Thomas Mathew (Co-Founder & CTO), Athul Paul Jacob (Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer / Research Lab Lead), Costis Daskalakis (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist / Research Lab Lead), Radha Jain (Co-Founder), Michael Rochlin (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 20+ engineers, researchers, and product leaders at launch (October 2025), growing quickly; some third-party trackers list a headcount around 60 in 2026.
- **Products:** Embedded AI Transformation Teams, Frontier Research Lab, PRISM (Janus Henderson), LIBROS (Janus Henderson), Healthcare workflow systems
- **Notable:** Launched October 2025 as a General Catalyst Transformation Company with founding partnerships from Anthropic and AWS., Assembled a founding team from Palantir, MIT, Meta FAIR, Google, Jane Street, Citadel, Scale AI, and Apple., Announced a flagship partnership with Janus Henderson (~$500B AUM) in June 2026, shipping the PRISM and LIBROS platforms on Claude.

## Products & services

- **Embedded AI Transformation Teams** — Percepta deploys cross-functional squads of researchers, engineers, and product managers directly inside an enterprise to architect and ship AI transformation across three pillars: advancing intelligence/foundation models, building data infrastructure, and enabling workforce adoption.
- **Frontier Research Lab** — An in-house research group led by Athul Paul Jacob and Costis Daskalakis working on reinforcement learning, foundation models, optimization, and operations research to feed applied deployments.
- **PRISM (Janus Henderson)** — A client intelligence platform built for asset manager Janus Henderson that helps distribution teams personalize outreach and understand client needs across regions, powered by Anthropic's Claude.
- **LIBROS (Janus Henderson)** — An AI-native research tool that synthesizes internal and external research so investment analysts can surface market signals faster.
- **Healthcare workflow systems** — Clinical workflow automation, intelligent member engagement, revenue cycle and utilization management, call-center transformation, and agentic operational command centers for payers and providers.

## Achievements

- Launched October 2025 as a General Catalyst Transformation Company with founding partnerships from Anthropic and AWS.
- Assembled a founding team from Palantir, MIT, Meta FAIR, Google, Jane Street, Citadel, Scale AI, and Apple.
- Announced a flagship partnership with Janus Henderson (~$500B AUM) in June 2026, shipping the PRISM and LIBROS platforms on Claude.
- Reported early enterprise wins including modernized banking fraud detection, optimized manufacturing supply chains, streamlined government licensing/permitting, and automated clinical workflows.
- Became prominent enough within months of launch to draw a high-profile lawsuit from Palantir over recruiting.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Percepta launches publicly as a General Catalyst Transformation Company, co-founded by Hirsh Jain and Hemant Taneja, with Anthropic and AWS as founding partners.
- **2025-12** — Palantir sues former employees, alleging Percepta ran an 'aggressive campaign' to recruit its developers.
- **2026-01** — Percepta executives push back in court filings, calling the Palantir suit a 'scare tactic' intended to slow the startup down.
- **2026-06** — Janus Henderson, Percepta, and Anthropic announce AI-native investment and client tools (PRISM and LIBROS) built on Claude.

## Links

- Website: https://percepta.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/percepta-gc

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Last updated: 2026-07-03