LlamaIndex
Category: AI Agents
An AI platform that enables enterprises to build and deploy custom AI agents by integrating and automating their unstructured data workflows. LlamaIndex was founded in 2023. The company is led by Jerry Liu. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team size: Growing team, with recent hiring following new funding rounds. Total funding raised: $27.5 million. Latest round: Series A. Key investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Greylock, Databricks Ventures, KPMG Ventures.
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Team size
- Growing team, with recent hiring following new funding rounds
- Total funding
- $27.5 million
Value proposition
Delivers secure, scalable, and production-grade AI agents by seamlessly connecting proprietary data sources to large language models, enhancing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) performance.
Products and solutions
LlamaCloud, LlamaParse (agentic OCR), LiteParse (open-source local document parsing), open-source LlamaIndex framework (data connectors, indices, workflows)
Unique value
Provides a flexible framework that uniquely integrates unstructured enterprise data with large language models, enabling robust and scalable AI solutions.
Target customer
Large enterprises including Fortune 500 companies looking to automate and scale data-driven insights
Industries served
General Enterprise, Retail, Finance, Technology
Technology advantage
Optimized parsing and indexing technology for complex data, improving the accuracy and efficiency of AI agent performance in production environments.
How they differentiate
Specializes in enterprise-grade solutions that address the complexities of integrating unstructured data with LLMs, offering a secure and production-ready platform for critical business applications.
Main competitors
LangChain, Unstructured, Haystack
Key partnerships
Databricks (strategic equity + platform integration), KPMG (strategic equity + applied AI collaboration), AWS Generative AI Accelerator
Notable customers
Rakuten, Carlyle, Salesforce, KPMG, Cemex
Major milestones
Launch of LlamaCloud GA (Mar 2025), $19M Series A (Norwest/Greylock) + strategic investments from Databricks and KPMG (May 2025), LiteParse open-source local parser launch (Mar 2026) and LiteParse v2.0 Rust rewrite (May 2026), Scaled to 25M+ monthly package downloads and 1B+ documents processed
Growth metrics
Official site metrics: 25M+ package downloads/month, 1B+ documents processed, 300k+ LlamaParse users; GitHub run-llama/llama_index ~51k stars (as of mid-2026).
Market positioning
Positioned as a leading provider in enterprise AI agent development, particularly for complex data workflows.
Geographic focus
Global enterprise market, with a strong base in Silicon Valley
About Jerry Liu
Jerry Liu is the co-founder and CEO of LlamaIndex. Before founding LlamaIndex, he gained significant experience in the AI and machine learning field. He was a Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Robust Intelligence, a Research Scientist at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group working on self-driving technology, and a Software Engineer Intern at Quora focusing on recommendation systems. This background in AI research and practical application at leading tech companies provided him with the expertise to create LlamaIndex.
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Official website: https://www.llamaindex.ai
