After watching brilliant ideas die in inboxes and chat threads at Eightfold.ai, our founders set out to build a better memory for every company. The result is Viven and its Digital Twins: AI models that carry each person’s decisions, context and expertise forward, so work never stalls when people are busy, asleep or have moved on.
A future where knowledge never disappears, and people focus on creativity, leadership and connection while their Twins handle the rest.
To deliver privacy-first Digital Twins that preserve expertise, accelerate decisions and unlock collective intelligence for every enterprise team.
Knowledge leaks cost enterprises $31.5B every year, as context walks out with every handover and exit.
Global teams work across time zones. The context you need is rarely awake when you need it.
Generic copilots treat everyone the same. Intelligence should be as unique as the person it serves.
Digital Twins close those gaps. Each one learns from a person’s real work — email, docs, meetings — and makes it answerable in seconds, with pair-wise privacy on every answer: a Twin only uses what both people are entitled to see.
Ashutosh and Varun have together founded two unicorns. Viven was incubated inside Eightfold, where hundreds of Twins ran in production before we launched.
Third-time founder (BloomReach, Eightfold.ai, now Viven), 50+ patents, ex-Google and IBM researcher. Ashu has spent two decades turning cutting-edge AI into category-defining products, and is obsessed with making that power truly personal for every employee.
Built Facebook’s original News Feed team, ran YouTube Search & Recommendations at Google, then co-founded Eightfold.ai. Varun brings deep expertise in large-scale relevance, privacy and infrastructure, now focused on personal language models that respect individual context.
Viven came out of stealth in October 2025 with a seed round from Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, FPV Ventures, Operator Collective and leading angel investors.
Early adopters include
We’re a small team in Santa Clara and Bangalore, hiring people who want to make expertise available to everyone who needs it.