Ex-Scale AI CTO’s Startup Raises $20M to Make Big Data Accessible
Isotopes AI , a startup founded by former Hortonworks and Scale AI executives, has raised $20 million in an early-stage funding round led by Vab GoelDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Fay HazavehDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → of NTTVC. The funding will support the launch of Aidnn , the company’s AI agent designed to help businesses generate actionable insights from complex, distributed data.
In stealth mode since the end of 2024 and officially launched in early 2025 by Arun Murthy, Prasanth Jayachandran, and Gopal Vijayaraghavan, Isotopes AI leverages deep expertise in big data—Murthy was a key developer of Hadoop at Yahoo and later CTO of Scale AI. The company has already filed 10 patents, underscoring the sophistication of its technology.
Aidnn allows business users to query data from ERPs, CRMs, cloud storage, and financial applications in natural language , autonomously handling workflows such as data cleaning, transformation, and analysis to produce reports and planning documents. By connecting technical teams and decision-makers, the platform aims to democratize business intelligence and remove analytics bottlenecks.
With the new AI agent, Isotopes AI aims to make big data more accessible and actionable , reducing bottlenecks and helping organizations make smarter, faster decisions.
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