Eightfold Co-Founders Raise $35M for AI Digital Twin Startup That Creates Employee Clones from Internal Communications

Eightfold co-founders secure $35 million in seed funding for Viven, a groundbreaking AI startup that creates digital employee clones by analyzing internal communications like emails and Slack messages, enabling colleagues to query these virtual twins when team members are unavailable.

• Eightfold co-founders launch Viven, an AI digital twin startup that raises $35 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, and other investors
• Viven creates specialized LLMs for each employee by accessing their internal documents like email and Slack, allowing colleagues to query digital twins when team members are unavailable
• The company uses 'pairwise context and privacy' technology to determine what information can be shared with whom, while maintaining query history visibility as a safeguard against inappropriate requests