Not Diamond is a technology company.
Not Diamond has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round.
Not Diamond has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Not Diamond has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Not Diamond's investors include ARCH Venture Partners, Costanoa Ventures, Curious Capital, Felicis Ventures, F-Prime Capital Partners, FTX Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Mubadala, Next Play Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Preston-Werner Ventures.
Not Diamond is a San Francisco-based technology company building an intelligent AI optimization platform that automatically adapts prompts across models and routes queries to the best-suited AI models, enabling a multi-model future for enterprises and developers.[1][2][3][6] It serves Fortune 100 companies like IBM and SAP, as well as leading startups, solving the challenges of model selection, prompt engineering, and integration in diverse AI ecosystems by improving accuracy up to 60%, reducing manual engineering time, and cutting compute costs without lock-in.[2][4][5] The platform is SOC-2 compliant, supports zero data retention and VPC deployments, and has achieved #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, with strong growth evidenced by investments from top AI leaders and enterprise adoption.[3][5][6]
Not Diamond was founded by a team of experienced AI researchers and entrepreneurs, including CEO Tomás Hernando Kofman, CTO Tze-Yang Tung, COO Jeffrey Akiki, and several founding engineers like Alejandro Companioni and Huiru Jiang, all with prior experience building companies from the ground up and publishing AI research for over a decade.[3] The idea emerged from the conviction that AI's future lies in a networked ecosystem of thousands of foundation models, millions of fine-tunes, and billions of custom engines—rather than a single monolithic model—making AI more efficient, practical, and safer.[2][3][4] Early traction came quickly: launched as the world's most powerful AI model router, it gained backing from prominent investors like Jeff Dean (Google), Julien Chaumond (Hugging Face), Ion Stoica (Anyscale, Databricks), and others, while securing enterprise customers like SAP for both internal use and integration into their Prompt Optimization Service.[3][5]
Not Diamond rides the shift from monolithic "bigger-is-better" AI models to a multi-model era, where open-source options like LLaMA and Mistral proliferate alongside proprietary ones, driven by diverging needs for cost, speed, domain expertise, and regulation.[3][4][5] Timing is ideal as enterprises struggle with model sprawl and prompt optimization, creating demand for orchestration layers akin to Kubernetes for cloud—Not Diamond provides this "backbone" for AI-native systems, fostering modular, efficient ecosystems.[4] Market forces like commoditizing model layers, rising fine-tune variants, and production-scale AI amplify its relevance, while its influence extends through partnerships (e.g., SAP, IBM Ventures) and open-source contributions, accelerating developer productivity and safer AI deployment across industries.[2][4][5]
Not Diamond is positioned as essential infrastructure for enterprise AI, with expanding adoption by giants like SAP and IBM signaling product-market fit in a market where model choice explodes.[5] Next steps likely include scaling prompt adaptation tech, deepening integrations, and growing its small SF/NY team via hires emphasizing technical excellence and emotional intelligence.[2][3] Trends like proliferating fine-tunes, regulatory demands for model agility, and cost pressures will propel it, potentially evolving into the de facto routing standard as AI shifts to networked intelligence—echoing its origins in enabling a multi-model world that's not just better, but safer.[3][4]
Not Diamond has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $2.0M Seed in July 2024.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2024 | $2.0M Seed | ARCH Venture Partners, Costanoa Ventures, Curious Capital, Felicis Ventures, F-Prime Capital Partners, FTX Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Mubadala, Next Play Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Preston-Werner Ventures, Y Combinator, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Eoghan McCabe, Grant Miller, Karim Atiyeh, Preetha Parthasarathy, Scott Belsky, Wayne Crosby |