Samaya AI Announces $43.5m in Funding Led by NEA, Launches New AI Agent for Financial Services
Samaya AI, the expert artificial intelligence platform for financial services, has announced $43.5 million in financing, led by NEA (New Enterprise Associates), with participation from leaders in technology and financial services, including Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), Yann LeCun (AI Turing Award winner), David Siegel (Co-founder Two Sigma), and Marty Chavez (Vice Chair Sixth Street), among others. The funds will be used to support Samaya’s product development and market expansion.
About Samaya AI
Samaya develops a suite of expert AI agents designed and trained for complex financial workflows, from investment research to client advisory and deal diligence. For example, Samaya’s agents can autonomously synthesize a sector-wide investment report, create an investment presentation by reasoning over proprietary documents and provide instant answers to complex questions over millions of real-time sources — all while carefully grounding the output with cited evidence. Samaya has seen incredible market momentum with 100% month-over-month growth in usage, and counts premier financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley as customers.
Revolutionizing Decision Making
“With Samaya, customers can create a personalized team of AI knowledge agents that can 1000x the output of a single analyst,” said Maithra Raghu, founder and CEO of Samaya AI. “Our users access agentic experiences that reliably deliver insights with expert level quality and no hallucinations. Samaya’s proprietary AI is designed for factuality over fluency and trained for financial expertise over generic ‘internet user’ responses. Customers can use Samaya for such tasks as distilling precise investment alpha from huge volumes of real-time information, getting instantaneous portfolio-specific insights, or creating investment memos by leveraging internal and external data.”
Introducing Causal World Models
With the funding, Samaya is also launching its latest AI agent, Causal World Models. Previously in research preview, Causal World Models can autonomously model the entire economy and use this to carry out multi-stage grounded reasoning and provide quantitative predictions for economy-wide questions. For example, the question, “What is the impact of the tariffs on US GDP and the economy?” generates an interactive diagram, with the AI agent providing qualitative factors and citing predictions and quantitative projections.
Partnership and Recognition
“Samaya is revolutionizing decision making for financial institutions with an AI platform that transforms how work gets done and supercharges research and analysis,” said Tiffany Luck, Partner at NEA. “We are thrilled to partner with Samaya as they build the leading AI for financial services, and we believe that Samaya has the potential to radically disrupt how all companies approach knowledge work.”
About NEA
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. Founded in 1977, NEA has more than $27 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, and invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO.
The firm’s long track record of investing includes more than 280 portfolio company IPOs and more than 470 mergers and acquisitions. For more information, please visit www.nea.com.
For more information about Samaya AI, visit https://samaya.ai/
