– In communcation. When Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah led the modeling and AI/machine learning products group together at Palantir, they had a lot in common. They worked together every day, building Palantir’s first ML product suite—more than $100 million in projects.
Gonimah, originally from Egypt, wasn’t a U.S. citizen at the time. She had previously worked for Goldman Sachs and built the digital subscriptions platform for the New York Times. But when it came time for the products she built at Palantir to be used by the Department of Defense, a client, Gonimah couldn’t get the security clearance to see her work in action. “We were in this space where Maya had built this infrastructure she couldn’t see, she couldn’t access, and had to trust me to communicate back the requirements and the product vision in a very abstract sense,” McNeal remembers.
The experience led them to build a new company called Thread AI. The founders have raised a $20 million Series A round led by Greycroft, Fortune is the first to report.
Mayada Gonimah and Angela McNeal cofounded infrastructure startup Thread AI. Courtesy of Thread AIThread AI aims to build an infrastructure layer for AI, designed for all the complexities of the business world rather than only the tech industry. “We’re seeing a pattern where [workflow builders] are focused primarily for other startups—for Silicon Valley devs,” McNeal says. Its infrastructure layer is intended to communicate between legacy and new systems, across datasets, and across different permissions, roles, and responsibilities.
McNeal thinks that focus on the most complex business problems helps their startup stand out among AI infrastructure startups. “We were fortunate to raise relatively quickly,” she adds. “The problem that we’re trying to solve is top of mind for every company right now—how to securely and safely modernize your business with AI.”
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