VianAI
Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka. Its hila platform answers business questions in natural language, and it has raised at least $190 million.
Industry: Enterprise AI and conversational analytics | Location: Palo Alto, United States | Founded: 2019 | Total Funding: USD 190M
About VianAI
Vianai Systems, Inc. is an enterprise artificial intelligence platform and products company based in Silicon Valley. Its hila platform lets business users ask questions of their data in natural language, and its flagship application, Conversational Finance, is built for finance teams. TechScoop refers to the company as VianAI.
Vishal Sikka, a former chief executive of Infosys and former SAP executive board member, founded Vianai Systems. The company launched on 12 September 2019 in Palo Alto, California, announcing $50 million in funding. Its website lists Sikka as founder and chief executive, Navin Budhiraja as chief technology officer, Sanjay Rajagopalan as chief design and strategy officer and Sameer Patel as chief partner officer, among others.
The company's products include the hila platform, hila Enterprise Analytics, described as an AI data analyst, and Boomi FinTalk, a conversational finance product built through an OEM partnership with Boomi. Its website shows case studies for unnamed customers in financial services, energy, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and health care, including a home goods distributor in the Middle East. TechCrunch reported in 2021 that the company counted insurer Munich Re among its customers.
On 16 June 2021 Vianai announced a $140 million round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which Calcalist described as a Series B. TechCrunch reported that Jim Davidson, Henry Kravis, George Roberts and Jerry Yang were existing investors, that total funding was at least $190 million and that Stanford's Fei-Fei Li had joined the advisory board. Calcalist reported 40 employees at that time, 10 of them at an R&D centre in Herzliya, Israel.
Vianai announced a collaboration with SAP on 21 May 2025, combining SAP Joule and SAP Analytics Cloud with hila. On 9 October 2025 it announced that hila is available in Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise. Its website also lists a partnership with Tata Consultancy Services on conversational decision intelligence.
No funding after 2021 and no revenue figure were found. TechScoop's 26 June 2026 article on Hang Ten, a company founded by Sikka, describes VianAI as the enterprise AI startup he later founded after his time at SAP, Infosys and Oracle's board.
Leadership
- Vishal Sikka, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Navin Budhiraja, Chief Technology Officer and Head of hila Enterprise Platform
- Sanjay Rajagopalan, Chief Design and Strategy Officer and Head of Professional Services
- Sameer Patel, Chief Partner Officer
- Tao Liu, Head of Operations
- Frank Yu, Head of Business Operations
- Yusuf Safdari, General Counsel
- Pradeep Panicker, Vice President and Head of Finance