Douwe Kiela, Founder of Contextual AI

About Douwe Kiela

Douwe Kiela is the CEO and co-founder of Contextual AI, a San Francisco-based startup developing an enterprise AI platform that uses RAG 2.0 technology to scale production-grade LLMs for businesses. The company raised $80M in Series A funding in August 2024. Kiela previously led research at Hugging Face and Meta AI Research, where he pioneered RAG.

Douwe Kiela at a glance

• Company: Contextual AI
• Total raised: $80M
• Latest round: Series A
• Investors: Greycroft, Bain Capital Ventures, Bezos Expeditions, NVentures (Nvidia), HSBC Ventures, Snowflake Ventures
• Location: San Francisco, California

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