Salt AI raises $3 million to streamline AI workflows

Salt aian enterprise AI workflow orchestration company, has raised $3 million in seed funding and appointed Aber Whitcomb as CEO.

Salt AI offers a unified AI collaboration environment, called Salt, where organizations can securely connect their firewall-protected data to create AI automations, agent workflows, and custom AI solutions. together
Visual drag-and-drop interface, and full code capabilities, every member of the organization can collaborate in real-time to build powerful AI on the Salt platform. Teams can deploy with one click to Salt’s cloud infrastructure that automatically adjusts to meet the real-time needs of any use case.

“We are at an inflection point where AI can change the way companies operate, but only if we make it truly accessible and actionable,” Whitcomb said in a statement. “The Salt platform enables teams to create powerful AI agents and workflows that automate complex tasks and drive real business impact. I’m excited to lead Salt as we help organizations build and scale their AI capabilities.”

This investment will accelerate the development of Salt’s AI orchestration platform and expand its market presence.

“We are thrilled to support the Salt AI team. Aber Whitcomb’s proven track record of success in launching and scaling businesses, coupled with tremendous market opportunities, makes this an exciting investment for us. Very soon, it will be up and running,” Christian Blaszczyński, partner at Morpheus, said in a statement. “AI powers almost every industry, and will be the engine on which companies implement it.”

Salt integrates with all major closed-source and open-source LLM software and supports diffusion models for generative art. Users can connect to more than 30 enterprise data sources for reading and writing, with new connections released weekly.

Whitcomb and Jim Benedetto started SALT in Los Angeles in 2023.

The company now has 16 people. Whitcomb pivoted into this business with PlaiDay, an innovative AI-driven social mobile app that initially targeted consumers. Chris DeWolf, who was the previous CEO, stayed with the company’s Web3 games division and renamed it Rough House Games. Benedetto, Whitcomb and Charlie Basil went with Salt.

“We built the Salt platform as a backend to enable rapid feature development for PlaiDay, and ultimately realized that we had solved all the major pain points of AI development and deployment, and that taking our backend to market as a B2B SaaS solution was better and easier,” Whitcomb said in an email to VentureBeat: “Bigger opportunity from consumer app.”

When asked about the competition, he said the space is very noisy, with a lot of tools using similar language to describe their feature set.

“It looks crowded at first glance,” Whitcomb said. “However, there are only a few significant competitors. Salt differentiates itself by enabling team collaboration in AI workflows. It does this by providing a powerful and robust visual toolset that empowers non-technical stakeholders (CEOs, product managers, (designers, marketers, etc.) of building AI; combined with a complete code toolkit that enables engineers to get bare metal access and full control of their solutions.

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