Humata is an Austin-based AI company that lets people upload files and ask questions about them in plain English, returning answers with clickable citations that point back to the exact passage in the source document. Often described as 'ChatGPT for your files,' it targets professionals in legal, finance, healthcare, and research who need to extract insight from dense, unstructured documents without reading every page. Founded in 2022 by Cyrus Khajvandi and Dan Rasmuson, the company raised a $3.5M seed round in October 2023 led by Google's Gradient Ventures with participation from Cathie Wood's ARK Invest and M13.
Cyrus Khajvandi is the co-founder and CEO of Humata, an Austin-based AI startup often described as 'ChatGPT for all your files.' A Stanford biology graduate and serial entrepreneur, he built Humata after struggling to keep up with scientific papers, turning that personal frustration into a tool that lets people ask questions of their documents and get cited, fact-checkable answers. The company launched in early 2023, grew to millions of users processing tens of millions of pages, and raised $3.5M led by Google's Gradient Ventures with ARK Invest and M13.