# Shelf

> Shelf is an AI-driven knowledge and data quality platform that cleans, enriches, and governs the unstructured content enterprises feed into generative AI. By diagnosing and fixing the messy documents, duplicates, and outdated answers buried across corporate systems, Shelf aims to make GenAI and RAG applications accurate and trustworthy. Founded in 2017 and based in New York and Stamford, Connecticut, it serves enterprises like John Deere, HelloFresh, DSW, and Glovo.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States (with offices in Stamford, Connecticut)
- **Founders:** Sedarius Tekara Perrotta (Co-founder & CEO), Colin Kennedy (Co-founder), Tobias Jaeckel (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~240 employees
- **Products:** Content Intelligence / Data Quality, RAG Solution, Knowledge Management Platform, MerlinAI, Semantic Layer / Context Engine
- **Notable:** Raised $60.7M total funding across three rounds from 11 investors, $52.5M Series B led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners (2021), Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the 2025 Digital Workplace Cool Vendors report

## Products & services

- **Content Intelligence / Data Quality** — An AI engine using 23 proprietary diagnostics to analyze content section by section, detecting duplications, contradictions, similarities, and out-of-date information across unstructured data sources.
- **RAG Solution** — Cleans and enriches unstructured data to deliver accurate GenAI answers, with 20+ prebuilt and custom enrichment capabilities and quality algorithms to detect and resolve issues that degrade RAG performance.
- **Knowledge Management Platform** — A centralized, AI-powered knowledge base that helps remote workers and customer-service agents instantly find vetted answers inside the tools they already use.
- **MerlinAI** — Shelf's AI assistant that surfaces answers directly within everyday workflows and channels.
- **Semantic Layer / Context Engine** — Generates a graph of relationships between data entities to give large language models richer, interconnected context and better comprehension.

## Achievements

- Raised $60.7M total funding across three rounds from 11 investors
- $52.5M Series B led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners (2021)
- Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the 2025 Digital Workplace Cool Vendors report
- Named an IDC Innovator for Data Intelligence Platform Software, 2025
- Ranked #1 in Knowledge Management by Gartner Digital Markets (2021)
- Reported zero customer churn over three consecutive years
- Reached ~$32.5M revenue and ~8,000 customers

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Named an IDC Innovator in the IDC Innovators: Data Intelligence Platform Software, 2025 report.
- **2025-01** — Recognized as a Cool Vendor in the Gartner 2025 Digital Workplace Cool Vendors report.
- **2024-01** — Reported ~$32.5M revenue and approximately 8,000 customers.
- **2021-08** — Closed $52.5M Series B led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners to accelerate the AI-driven answers automation platform.

## Links

- Website: https://shelf.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf.io
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/shelf_io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Shelfio
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelf.io/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Shelfio-487695634763247/

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Last updated: 2026-06-06