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Exclusive: Nine-Person Halluminate Raises $30 Million, Counts Four Top U.S. AI Labs as Customers
Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million.
Halluminate benchmarks AI models on financial tasks to find where they fall short and builds simulated training environments aimed at those gaps. Founded in 2024, Halluminate is betting that the data and environments used to train AI will become increasingly specialized by industry.
Simulating an investment banker’s work is fundamentally different from simulating a software engineer’s work, CEO Jerry Wu tellsFortune.
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