# Refuel.ai

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

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: San Francisco, US
- Website: www.refuel.ai
- Total disclosed funding: $5.3M
- Latest round: Seed (Jun 14, 2022)
- Investors on record: 2

## About

Based in California, US, and founded in 2021, Refuel.ai, Inc. operates as a software development firm that offers a platform for LLMs and generates, annotates, and cleans the database and business and every use case. The company was Co-founded by Rishabh Bhargava (CEO) and Nihit Desai (CTO). In May 2025, Together AI, a portfolio company of Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, General Catalyst Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, Greycroft Partners, First Round Capital, Lux Capital, Coatue Management, A Capital, SV Angel, Aramco Ventures, 137 ventures, Susa Ventures, March Capital Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Robot Ventures, SE Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Cadenza Capital Management, FactoryHQ, Definition Capital, Common Metal, Prosperity7, and Brave Capital, acquired Refuel.ai, Inc. from General Catalyst Partners, and XYZ Ventures. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The platform offered by the firm help businesses manages their data through cleaning and labeling. It helps clients to generate, annotate, and clean data sets for their artificial intelligence needs. It minimizes hallucination and balance automation. The acquisition aims to support Together AI's platform improvement by integrate Refuel LLM-2 capabilities.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Jun 14, 2022, $5.3M — General Catalyst Partners, XYZ Ventures

## Investors

- General Catalyst Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/general-catalyst-partners) — Seed
- XYZ Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/xyz-ventures) — Seed