# Vianai Systems, Inc.

> Vianai Systems is a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company founded by Dr. Vishal Sikka - former CEO of Infosys and CTO of SAP - that builds human-centered AI platforms designed to make generative AI genuinely useful at scale. Its flagship product, hila, is a conversational AI analytics platform that lets C-suite executives query enterprise data in plain language, while its broader MLOps platform handles model explainability, drift detection, bias monitoring, and automatic retraining across industries including financial services, manufacturing, aerospace, and defense. Backed by $440 million in funding including investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Vianai partners with TCS, Google Cloud, Cognizant, and Boomi to deploy trusted, responsible AI for the world's largest enterprises.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Vishal Sikka (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~56 employees across North America, Asia, and Oceania
- **Products:** hila Enterprise Platform, Conversational Finance, hila MLOps & Model Monitoring, AI Explainability Tools, veryLLM (Open Source)
- **Notable:** Raised $440 million in total funding, including a $200M round in April 2022, Secured investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in Series B, Launched hila on Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise (2025)

## Products & services

- **hila Enterprise Platform** — A generative AI-based analytics agent that enables C-suite executives and business users to query enterprise data using natural language. Available through Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise. Data-agnostic, model-agnostic, cloud-agnostic.
- **Conversational Finance** — A flagship application purpose-built for finance teams and CFOs, enabling natural language queries against financial data with maximum accuracy, reliability, and anti-hallucination protection.
- **hila MLOps & Model Monitoring** — End-to-end ML lifecycle management platform with real-time monitoring for drift, bias, uncertainty, and explainability. Supports automatic model retraining and central hub management for all enterprise models.
- **AI Explainability Tools** — Advanced explainability features including root-cause analysis, data heatmaps, outlier analysis, and a transparency layer into large language models.
- **veryLLM (Open Source)** — Open-source toolkit (Apache 2.0) to verify accuracy of LLM-generated responses. Evaluates and classifies statements against context pools including Wikipedia and Common Crawl to combat AI hallucination.
- **BoomiFinTalk** — Conversational AI solution for finance built in OEM partnership with Boomi, enabling natural language interaction with financial systems and data.

## Achievements

- Raised $440 million in total funding, including a $200M round in April 2022
- Secured investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in Series B
- Launched hila on Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise (2025)
- Released veryLLM open-source LLM verification toolkit (Apache 2.0)
- Strategic partnerships with TCS, Cognizant, Google Cloud, Boomi, KPMG, and SAP
- Built by Vishal Sikka - architect of SAP HANA and former CEO of Infosys
- Early advisory board included Indra Nooyi, Sebastian Thrun, and Alan Kay
- Expanded to multi-continent operations across North America, Asia, and Oceania

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — hila platform became available through Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise as an advanced GenAI-based analytics agent.
- **2025-04** — Announced strategic partnership with TCS to deploy Gen AI decision intelligence tools for enterprise customers.
- **2023-10** — Announced global strategic partnership with Cognizant, combining hila with Cognizant's Neuro AI platform.
- **2023-09** — Released veryLLM, an open-source toolkit to verify accuracy of LLM-generated responses.
- **2022-04** — Raised $200 million in a new funding round, bringing total funding to $440 million.

## Links

- Website: https://vian.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vianai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/VianaiSystems
- GitHub: https://github.com/vianai-oss
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/vianaisystems/

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Last updated: 2026-05-18