Iluma

Based in San Francisco, Iluma AI was established in 2022 by the team of Ricardo Garcia Amaya, Yvette Chaskel, Oscar Daniel Olarte Fuentes, and Jessica Taggart. The company has positioned itself as a provider of an AI-powered co-pilot designed to assist C-level executives and team leaders within medium to large-sized companies. CEO Ricardo Garcia-Amaya is a Y Combinator alumnus with over two decades of experience in building communities and previously founded a conversational AI software company. His experience as a governance member of Orange DAO highlighted the challenge of synthesizing vast amounts of communication within decentralized organizations, a key problem Iluma aims to solve.

Iluma's core offering functions as an 'AI Chief of Staff' that integrates with a company's internal communication platforms, including Slack, Gmail, Zoom, and Discord. By sitting across these channels, the technology proactively identifies and provides critical information to leadership. The platform is designed to help prevent and resolve significant operational bottlenecks by connecting data points from conversations and tasks to flag potential misalignments and important action items in real-time. This allows leaders to maintain a clear overview of team discussions and decisions, access information swiftly, and monitor team intelligence and sentiment. The business model appears to be subscription-based.

The company's product suite includes several modules. An AI Bot can answer questions by drawing from the conversational data within the communication stack. It also provides call and conversation summaries, data management tools, and an enterprise search engine for knowledge management. The primary clients are midsize companies, typically with 500 or more employees, where information flow becomes increasingly complex. Since its inception, Iluma has secured $2.52 million in funding over two rounds. A notable pre-seed round of $1.5 million was led by Acrew Capital, with subsequent investment from Techstars in September 2023.

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