Leena AI
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial Intelligence |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Founder | Adit Jain (CEO), Anand Prajapati (CTO), Mayank Goyal (Head of AI) |
| Headquarters | New York, United States[citation needed] |
Number of employees | 250 |
| Website | leena |
Leena AI Inc. is an American SaaS company providing autonomous conversational AI for companies' internal employees.[1]
History
[edit]Leena AI was founded in 2018 by IIT Delhi engineering graduates[2] Adit Jain, Mayank Goyal, and Anand Prajapati.[3] Initially, the company focused on building virtual assistant chatbots to help process employees' human resources needs,[4] and later expanded into a broader HR service delivery platform, built and trained using the information in policy documents and by pulling data from back-end systems.[5]
In 2018, following a round at Y Combinator, Leena AI raised $2 million in a seed funding from several Silicon Valley angel investors.[2][6] In November 2020, in raised $8 million in Series A round, led by Greycroft.[7] [8][9] In September 2021, the company raised $30 million in a Series B funding round,[10] with investments from Bessemer Venture Partners, B Capital and Greycroft.[11][12][13]
Leena AI is reportedly used by over 3 million employees across 60 countries from 300+ enterprises, including Nestle, Puma, Coca-Cola, Sony, Vodafone, and Puma[14][15] In March 2025, Leena AI was named a Leader in the Gartner Emerging Market Quadrant.
The company is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in New Delhi, Bangalore, and Palo Alto.
Service and market
[edit]Initially known as "Chatteron",[2] Leena AI's proprietary large language model WorkLM's conversational AI platform helps enterprises' employees improve productivity and efficiency, by resolving employees' queries, such as policy questions, knowledge management, generating employee documents on demand, and managing employee tickets with human-like responses and real-time information.[16][17]
Leena AI integrates with platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, Oracle, Workday, and Microsoft Office 365, and Slack, and supports more than 100 languages globally.[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "Leena AI introduces Covid-19 Workplace Response Suite". Business Standard. Jan 12, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ a b c Sil, Debarghya (Nov 7, 2020). "'Our Platform Is Siri For Employees': Leena AI CEO". Entrepreneur. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Sil, Debarghya (Jan 22, 2021). "Leena.ai: Employees' Siri". Entrepreneur. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Miller, Ron (Jun 29, 2018). "Leena AI builds HR chatbots to answer policy questions automatically". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Mundhra, Laxitha (Sep 28, 2021). "HRTech Leena AI Raises $30 Mn From Bessemer, B Capital To Expand "Siri For Employees" Application". Inc42 Media. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Khatri, Bhumika (Sep 20, 2018). "Y Combinator Graduate HRTech Startup Leena AI Raises $2 Mn Seed Fund". Inc42 Media. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Sachin murdeshwar (Nov 3, 2020). "Leena AI raises $8M in series A funding to revolutionize employee experience". APN News. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ "Leena AI raised $8 mn in Series A funding led by Greycroft". InfotechLead. Nov 4, 2020. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Miller, Ron (Nov 2, 2020). "Leena AI nabs $8M Series A as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Smith, William (Sep 29, 2021). "Leena AI Raises $30mn for Employee Experience Platform". CX Today. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ "Citer". Citer. Jan 1, 2020. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ "Leena AI Raises $30M in Series B Funding". FinSMEs. Sep 29, 2021. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Shah, Sneha (Sep 28, 2021). "Leena AI gets $30 million funding from Bessemer, B Capital". The Economic Times. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Kamath, Hazel (Apr 21, 2022). "Leena AI Bags 300+ Customers by Leveraging a Content-Focused Demand Gen Strategy". Growfusely. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Upadhyay, Harsh (Sep 28, 2021). "Leena AI bags $30 Mn Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners". Entrackr. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Robinson, Bryan (Jun 9, 2023). "Will ChatGPT Lead To Extinction Or Elevation Of Humanity? A Chilling Answer". Forbes. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ Bordoloi, Pritam (May 26, 2023). "Leena AI Unveils WorkLM, it's Proprietary Large Language Model". Analytics India Magazine. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
- ^ "Leena AI: We at Leena AI build a virtual assistant that answers employee's..." Y Combinator. Oct 6, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2025.