Vectara
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Total raised
$53.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$25M
Series A · 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
3
BECO Capital, Fusion Fund
The money's age
Long since its last round
27 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
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Sep 10, 2025
Launched Vectara Launches Conversational AI Solution for Enterprises · PRNewswire
May 16, 2025
Won a customer Vectara Selected by Anywhere Real Estate to Revolutionize Title Creation Workflow with Enterprise AI, Tackling RAG Sprawl · PRNewswire
Apr 8, 2025
Launched Vectara launches open-source framework to evaluate enterprise RAG systems · SiliconANGLE
Jul 2, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News · 211 points
Mar 26, 2024
Launched Vectara Launches Factual Consistency Score Powered by Upgraded Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model to Enhance Transparency in GenAI Responses · businesswire.com
Jan 17, 2024
Partnership Airbyte and Vectara Partner to Simplify Data Access for Generative AI Applications · businesswire.com
2024
Raised a round Series A $25M
Sep 26, 2023
Launched Vectara Launches Boomerang: The Next-Gen Large Language Model Redefining GenAI Accuracy · globenewswire
May 30, 2023
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: AskNews – ask questions about recent news
May 2, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications · 145 points
2023
Raised a round Seed $28.5M
2020
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | 2024 | $25M | — | businesswire.com |
| Seed | 2023 | $28.5M | — | techcrunch.com |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Tallat ShafaatCo-founder & CEO
Amr AwadallahCo-founder, former CEO
Amin AhmadCo-founder
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
BECO Capital 
Fusion Fund 
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Overview
Vectara offers a retrieval-augmented generation and AI agent platform for enterprises, focused on regulated industries that need grounded answers from their own data. The service manages ingestion, semantic retrieval, reranking and generation, and adds its Mockingbird model tuned for RAG, guardian agents that mitigate hallucinations and the open-source Open RAG Eval framework built with the University of Waterloo. Founded in 2020 in Palo Alto by former Googlers Amr Awadallah, Amin Ahmad and Tallat Shafaat, it raised a $28.5 million seed led by Race Capital in 2023 and a $25 million Series A in 2024.
News
Vectara Launches Conversational AI Solution for Enterprises
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Vectara over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
40
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
70/100
Languages
Java
Python
Go
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Databases
Aerospike
ClickHouse
MariaDB
OpenSearch
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
AWS
Amazon EKS
Apache Kafka
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Products
Guardian agents
Agents that detect and correct hallucinations in agent output. They are part of Vectara's agentic offering from 2025.
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Mockingbird and hallucination models
Mockingbird is Vectara's generation model tuned for RAG, launched with the 2024 Series A. Open RAG Eval, released in 2025, is its open-source RAG evaluation framework.
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Vectara RAG platform
A managed RAG service with ingestion, semantic search, reranking and grounded generation. It can run as SaaS or in a customer's environment.
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People
Tallat Shafaat
Co-founder & CEO
Former Google engineer who co-founded Vectara and took over as chief executive from Amr Awadallah.
Amr Awadallah
Co-founder, former CEO
Co-founder of Cloudera who co-founded Vectara and served as its founding CEO for four years before handing the role to Tallat Shafaat.
Amin Ahmad
Co-founder
Former Google researcher who co-authored its zero-shot dual-encoder retrieval model and helped launch Talk to Books before co-founding Vectara.
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Hiring Momentum
41/100
Stable
Open positions
4
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
180 days
faster than 9% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
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50% ▲
Solutions
50% ▲
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Where the company hires and what each office is for
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Hiring now
2
Countries
1
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≈ $63k – $149k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp
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≈ $149k – $292k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
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≈ $152k – $278k per year (Estimated) • In office • 7+ years exp • Palo Alto
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