Nomic AI Raised $17M in Seed Round Funding

In the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence, small teams with big ideas continue to capture the attention of venture capitalists. A prime example is the recent funding round for Nomic AI, a team of just four individuals.

The investment, which valued the company at $100 million, not only showcases the  potential of Nomic AI's innovative products but also demonstrates the unwavering interest of VCs in supporting and betting on small yet promising teams.

Here's the details:

"We want to allow people to have access to the most powerful models that are specialized for the use cases they care about, and to build those systems themselves. They need to be able to understand what data goes into those systems," said Andriy Mulyar, co-founder at Nomic AI,

Funding led by: Coatue (also invested in Stability AI, Hugging Face and Replit.)

Participation from: Contrary Capital, Betaworks Ventures, SV Angel, Story Ventures, and Factorial Capital.

Total Funding Amount: $17M

Valuation: $100M

Funds Use: For hiring and product development.

About:

Nomic AI is an Open-source AI model. They have 2 main products:

• Atlas, which let’s anyone interact with multi-million point unstructured datasets of text and embeddings, and
• GPT4All, which lets anyone run large language models on resource constrained devices.