Contextual AI
Contextual AI is an Enterprise AI Agents company founded in 2023 and based in Mountain View, United States. It has raised $100M in total funding, most recently a Series A in 2024.
Contextual AI builds a turnkey enterprise platform for production-grade retrieval-augmented generation, which it brands RAG 2.0, letting companies build accurate, customizable AI applications grounded in their own data. Founded in 2023 by Douwe Kiela and Amanpreet Singh; Kiela helped pioneer RAG during his time at Facebook AI Research. The company is based in Mountain View with a presence in New York and London. In May 2026, Google DeepMind hired more than 20 of its researchers, including co-founder and CEO Douwe Kiela, and licensed its technology in a deal reported to be worth around $100M, while Contextual AI continued to operate.
Contextual AI pushed retrieval-augmented generation toward enterprise production use, and the May 2026 Google DeepMind talent-and-licensing deal that took its CEO and 20-plus researchers underscored how aggressively large labs are absorbing specialized AI teams.
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