Seattle entrepreneur Connor Folley has teamed up along with his brother Maxwell Folley to construct out Alkemi, an AI platform that goals to let staff question their group’s knowledge in plain English — with out technical abilities or threat to proprietary data.
Folley beforehand co-founded Downstream, an Amazon promoting analytics startup acquired by Jungle Scout in 2021.
He spent two years at Jungle Scout, which provides instruments for Amazon sellers, and mentioned he noticed “how the world’s most beneficial data remained trapped, out of attain for the frontline employees who wanted it most.”
Alkemi’s know-how is designed to assist non-technical staff make selections immediately from firm knowledge. The corporate’s product, DataLab, connects on to platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, and Looker, and will also be built-in into AI brokers and apps via MCP-compatible endpoints.
The corporate mentioned it goals to supply the velocity and usefulness of instruments like ChatGPT with out the privateness tradeoffs that come from importing proprietary information to public fashions.
DataLab doesn’t add or practice on buyer knowledge, and its solutions embrace traceable logic and sources.
Alkemi enters a crowded and fast-moving market. A rising wave of startups and enterprise distributors are pitching “AI copilots for knowledge,” promising to democratize analytics whereas maintaining data safe.
The 7-person firm has raised $1.65 million in pre-seed funding, led by Tuesday Capital with participation from DNX, MGV, and different angel traders — all of whom beforehand backed Folley at Downstream.
Earlier than launching Downstream in 2018, Folley was a advertising and marketing supervisor at Amazon. Maxwell Folley offered his final startup Caravel, a conversational intelligence platform, to Commsor.
