Klu secures $1.7m in pre-seed funding from Firstminute Capital and others to scale its artificial intelligence platform.
The pre-seed round was led by Firstminute Capital with backing from a16z, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, and Atomico.
≈ £1.4M at $1 = £0.8222 on 24 Oct 2023
Klu provides a large language model platform that allows organisations to rapidly build, deploy, and optimise artificial intelligence applications.
London-based large language model platform Klu has secured $1.7m in pre-seed funding to support the development of internal artificial intelligence engineering teams.
The investment round was led by Firstminute Capital, with additional participation from venture firms including a16z, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, and Atomico, alongside several angel investors from prominent technology companies.
The company offers a suite of integrated tools, including Klu Studio and Klu Engine, which allow businesses to prototype and deploy custom artificial intelligence features in a matter of minutes rather than months.
From the founder
"The layoffs of late 2022 shifted modeling work from data scientists to product teams consuming AI APIs. These new AI Teams use Klu to launch LLM-powered features in days that outperform old models built over months,"
Stephen Walker II
CEO and co-founder at Klu
Investor perspective
"We are thrilled to back Klu as they enable the next generation of AI-powered software. With Klu, knowledge workers can spin up AI-based internal workflows to automate repetitive tasks and embed AI workflows into their products for customers to experience. This is a major product challenge which is why Stephen and Stefan with their prior roles at Productboard and Skyscanner are the right duo to solve this problem,"
Sam Endacott
firstminute
