Jumping AIan AI workflow organization firm for enterprises, has raised $3 million in seed funding and appointed Aber Whitcomb as CEO.

Salt AI offers a unified AI collaboration environment, called Salt, where organizations can securely connect firewalled data to build AI automations, agent workflows, and custom AI solutions. and a
with a visual drag-and-drop interface and full coding capabilities, everyone in an organization can collaborate in real-time to build powerful AI on the Salt platform. Teams can deploy to Salt's cloud infrastructure with a single click to automatically meet the real-time needs of any use case.

"We are at an inflection point where AI can transform how companies operate, but only if we make it truly accessible and actionable," Whitcomb said in a statement. "The Salt platform enables teams to build powerful AI agents and workflows that automate complex tasks and impact real businesses. I'm excited to lead Salt as we help organizations build and expand their AI capabilities.

The investment will accelerate the development of Salt's AI orchestration platform and expand its market presence.

“We are happy to support the Salt AI team. Aber Whitcomb's impressive track record of success in launching and scaling businesses, combined with the enormous market opportunity, makes this an exciting investment for us. Christian Blaszczynski, a partner at Morpheus, said in a statement. "In the near future, AI will power almost every industry and Salt will be the engine of enterprises."

Salt integrates with all major closed-source and open-source LLMs and supports generative art diffusion models. Users can connect to 30+ enterprise data sources for reading and writing, with new connections released weekly.

Whitcomb and Jim Benedetto started Salt in 2023 in Los Angeles.

Now there are 16 people in the company. Whitcomb initially spun off the business from PlaiDay, a consumer-focused AI social mobile app. Chris DeWolf, the former CEO, stayed on with the company's Web3 gaming division, renaming it Rough House Games. Benedetto, Whitcomb and Charlie went with Basil Salt.

"We built the Salt platform as a backend to quickly develop opportunities for PlaiDay, and ultimately realized that we had solved all the major challenges for AI development and deployment, and that marketing our platform as a B2B SaaS solution was a bigger opportunity than a consumer app," Whitcomb said in an email to VentureBeat.

Asked about the competition, he said the space is very crowded, with many tools using similar language to describe their feature sets.

"At first blush, it feels crowded," Whitcomb said. "However, the number of serious competitors is small. Salt differentiates itself by enabling team collaboration across AI workflows. It does this with a full-code toolkit that allows non-technical stakeholders (executives, product managers, designers, marketers, etc.) to get down to the bare metal and take full control of their solutions. Salt is the only platform with fully customizable solutions for both types of users.”

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