Humata AI
Humata is an AI tool that lets people ask natural-language questions of their own documents and get answers grounded in the files, with citations back to the source.
- Category
- AI and B2B SaaS
- Fund
- NZVC I
- Website
- www.humata.ai
What Humata AI does
Researchers, analysts, students, and legal and compliance teams use it to summarize, compare, and search across long PDFs and large document sets. It works as a question and answer layer over a user's own knowledge base.
The secret
Citations are the product, not a feature. Grounding every answer in the source document is what makes a professional willing to act on it, which is the difference between a demo people enjoy and a tool people put inside their workflow.
Why NZVC invested in Humata AI
NZVC invested in Humata AI from NZVC Fund I. We file the company under AI and B2B SaaS on the portfolio wall.
We backed Humata because the volume of dense documents people are expected to read keeps growing while the time to read them does not. Grounding every answer in the source with citations addresses the trust problem that holds back document AI in professional settings. The product found real pull across research, legal, and technical users early, which pointed to a broad and lasting need rather than a single narrow vertical.
Humata AI in the press
- Humata raised $3.5 million led by Google's Gradient VenturesDecrypt, Humata AI · 2 October 2023
- Humata answers questions about a user's own documentsTechCrunch · 2 October 2023