Viven

Viven is an artificial intelligence company that emerged from stealth mode in October 2025 with 35 million dollars in seed funding from Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, FPV Ventures, Operator Collective, and leading angel investors to bring AI-powered Digital Twins to the enterprise. Founded by Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, the co-founders... of Eightfold AI, a unicorn AI recruiting startup last valued at 2.1 billion dollars, Viven was spun off from Eightfold after the engineering team developed digital twin technology in 2024 while enhancing their Agentic Talent Platform for Talent Management. Viven creates personalized digital counterparts for employees by developing specialized large language models trained on each individual's real work data, including internal documents, emails, Slack messages, Google Docs, meeting transcripts, and communications, effectively capturing their knowledge, decisions, thinking patterns, communication style, and institutional context. The platform enables employees to query digital twins of unavailable colleagues to get immediate answers related to common projects and shared knowledge, brief users before meetings, summarize conversations across multiple channels, and provide decision support, ensuring knowledge continuity even when key personnel are unavailable or have left the organization. Beyond individual digital twins, Viven enables organizations to deploy team-level twins representing entire departments or account groups, allowing leadership to access unified views of projects, customers, and strategic initiatives across sales, engineering, product, and support functions. The company is already deployed at global enterprises including Genpact, the Josh Bersin Company, Red Crackle, and Eightfold, with Genpact deploying the system across its 140,000-employee organization in just eight weeks to improve internal collaboration and ensure uninterrupted decision-making. Viven is designed for enterprise-grade security from the ground up, supporting deployments in the ...Read More