Samaya AI
Category: AI in Fintech
An advanced AI platform for the financial sector that utilizes an 'Agent Control Plane' (ACP) to enable expert-level reasoning, knowledge discovery, and automated complex workflows. Samaya AI was founded in 2022. The company is led by Maithra Raghu. Based in London, United Kingdom. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $43.5M. Latest round: Strategic Investment. Key investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVentures (NVIDIA), Databricks Ventures, Air Street Capital, Eric Schmidt, Yann LeCun.
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $43.5M
Value proposition
Transforms fragmented financial data into actionable intelligence through trustable, agentic reasoning that goes beyond simple search to solve complex, multi-step analytical problems.
Products and solutions
Agent Control Plane (ACP), Knowledge Discovery Engine, Agentic Reasoning Workflows, Financial Intelligence & Research Platform
Unique value
Founded by world-leading AI researchers from Google Brain and Meta FAIR; the platform is built on foundational research regarding how LLMs handle long contexts ('Lost in the Middle') and complex reasoning.
Target customer
Institutional investors, investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and private equity firms.
Industries served
Financial Services, Investment Management, Fintech, Banking
Technology advantage
Proprietary 'Agent Control Plane' architecture that manages multi-agent orchestration, ensuring high-fidelity reasoning and reducing hallucinations in high-stakes financial environments.
How they differentiate
Focuses on 'Agentic Reasoning' via its proprietary Agent Control Plane (ACP), which orchestrates multi-step analytical workflows rather than just providing semantic search. It leverages foundational research by its founders (ex-Google Brain/Meta) on how LLMs process long contexts to minimize hallucinations in complex financial tasks.
Main competitors
Hebbia, AlphaSense, Kensho (S&P Global)
Key partnerships
NVentures (NVIDIA), Databricks Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Air Street Capital
Notable customers
Institutional Investors, Investment Banks, Private Equity Firms, Hedge Funds
Major milestones
Founded in 2022 by AI researchers from Google Brain and Meta FAIR, Closed $43.5M Series A led by NEA in May 2024, Launched the 'Agent Control Plane' (ACP) in February 2025, Secured strategic backing from NVIDIA and Databricks in February 2025
Growth metrics
Expanded from stealth to a team of 11-50 employees; recently launched the Agent Control Plane (ACP) to scale enterprise adoption.
Market positioning
Premium AI-native intelligence platform for high-stakes institutional finance and investment research.
Geographic focus
United Kingdom and North America (primarily London and New York financial hubs).
Patents and IP
Proprietary IP related to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic reasoning; specific public patent filings not disclosed.
About Maithra Raghu
Maithra Raghu is a distinguished AI researcher who previously served as a Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain (2015-2022) and was a Research Intern at OpenAI. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University and a BA/MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She has been recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 (Science) and the TIME100 AI 2025 list for her contributions to AI reasoning and interpretability.
Official website: https://samaya.ai