Eightfold Founders Secure $35M for Viven, an AI Digital Twin Startup Revolutionizing Workplace Collaboration
Employees spend a large part of their day coordinating and communicating with teammates, yet productivity often slows when key people are unavailable. Whether a colleague is on vacation, in another time zone, or simply offline, progress can stall without access to their insights.
Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, co-founders of Eightfold, the $2.1 billion AI recruiting platform, believe large language models (LLMs) and privacy-preserving AI can fix this bottleneck. Earlier this year, they launched Viven, a new AI digital twin startup designed to give workers instant access to critical knowledge — even when teammates are unreachable.
On Wednesday, Viven emerged from stealth with $35 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, FPV Ventures, and other investors.
Viven builds a customized LLM for every employee, creating a digital twin by securely connecting to internal data sources such as email, Slack, and Google Docs. Team members can query a colleague’s digital twin to get quick, context-relevant answers about shared projects or company processes.
“When every employee has a digital twin, you can talk to their twin as if you’re talking to that person,” Garg told TechCrunch.
However, privacy is a major challenge. Not all information should be accessible to everyone in an organization. To manage this, Viven uses a system called pairwise context and privacy, which determines what data each employee’s digital twin can share based on relationships and permissions.
According to Garg, this approach allows Viven’s LLMs to maintain context-sensitive privacy, ensuring that confidential or personal information remains protected. Each user can also view the query history of their digital twin — a safeguard that discourages misuse or inappropriate questions.
“It’s a very complex problem, and until recently, it was unsolvable,” said Ashu Garg, general partner at Foundation Capital, one of Viven’s backers.
Viven’s technology is already being deployed by enterprise clients, including Genpact and Eightfold itself. Garg and Kacholia continue to lead both companies, dividing their time between talent intelligence and digital twin innovation.
Currently, Garg believes Viven faces little direct competition in enterprise-grade digital twin software. When he first conceived the idea, he reached out to Vinod Khosla, who confirmed the market gap and promptly invested.
Foundation Capital’s Garg echoed that enthusiasm: “When Ashutosh explained the product, the aha moment for me was realizing that coordination and communication — universal challenges across all jobs — still aren’t automated.”
While major AI players such as Anthropic, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and OpenAI are experimenting with personalization features, Viven hopes its pairwise privacy model will give it a defensible edge as the digital twin category evolves.
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