# Kolena

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/kolena

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: San Francisco, US
- Website: www.kolena.io
- Total disclosed funding: $24M
- Latest round: Series A (Jul 7, 2023)
- Investors on record: 7

## About

Based in California, US, and founded in 2021, Kolena, Inc. provides machine learning testing, analytics, and debugging solutions. The company was co-founded by Mohamed Elgendy (CEO), Andrew Shi, and Gordon Hart. In July 2023, the firm raised USD 18.13 million in Series A funding led by investor Lobby Capital, with participation from investors 11.2 Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Octave, Palumni VC, Scale Asia Ventures, SignalFire, and Zero Prime Ventures. The Series A funding values Kolena at USD 30 million pre-money.

The company offers testing and model validation platforms for quality assurance of machine learning and related software. This platform is customizable for any workflow, data types, evaluation logic, metrics, plots, and reports. The firm solution range includes computer vision, natural language processing, audio, multimodal, and many more.

The company plans to use the July 2023 funding to grow its research team and accelerate the development of AI testing and validation solutions.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Jul 7, 2023, $18M — Bloomberg Beta, 11.2 Capital, SignalFire, Scale Asia Ventures, Lobby Capital, Palumni VC, Octave
- Seed, Jun 1, 2022, $6M — Bloomberg Beta, SignalFire, Scale Asia Ventures

## Investors

- Bloomberg Beta (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bloomberg-beta) — Seed, Series A
- SignalFire (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/signalfire) — Seed, Series A
- Scale Asia Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/scale-asia-ventures) — Seed, Series A
- 11.2 Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/11-2-capital) — Series A
- Lobby Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/lobby-capital) — Series A
- Palumni VC (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/palumni-vc) — Series A
- Octave (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/octave) — Series A