Cascade AI, a US-based startup co-founded by Romanian Ana-Maria Constantin and partner Pulak Goyal that provides a powerful AI assistant built to respond to human resources (HR) inquiries at an individual employee level, recently secured a USD 3.75 million seed investment led by Gradient, Google\u2019s early-stage AI fund. Myriad Venture Partners and Success Venture Partners also participated.<\/p>\n
The investment will enable Cascade AI to continue to build out customer-requested features and expand its platform to support increased demand driven by early customer successes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This includes initiatives such as building AI agents that can help employees update personal information, enroll in benefits and perform other tasks; accelerating development of new reporting capabilities like office-level utilization; and enhancing the platform\u2019s support of companies with global workforces, the company said<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cFast uptake from employees has proven that personalized HR support can be scaled in a way that both frees up HR and improves the employee experience,\u201d said Ana-Maria Constantin, CEO of Cascade AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n Eylul Kayin, Partner at Gradient, commented: \u201cWe see Cascade AI as a game-changer for both daily operations and complex initiatives like mergers and acquisitions, global growth, and other business transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n Ana-Maria Constantin, who has degrees in astrophysics and computer science, is 31 years old and founded the Cascade AI startup with her co-founder Pulak Goyal in the US two years ago, according to Startupcafe.ro<\/a>. She left Romania after high school to continue her studies in the United States, at Harvard, and now has both Romanian and American citizenship.<\/p>\n irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n (Photo source:\u00a0Kiattisak Lamchan<\/a>\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cascade AI, a US-based startup co-founded by Romanian Ana-Maria Constantin and partner Pulak Goyal that provides a powerful AI assistant built to respond to human resources (HR) inquiries at an individual employee level, recently secured a USD 3.75 million seed investment led by Gradient, Google\u2019s early-stage AI fund. Myriad Venture Partners and Success Venture Partners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}