Salt AI raises $3M for AI workflow orchestration

Leap Artificial IntelligenceIt is an artificial intelligence workflow orchestration company for enterprises. It raised US$3 million in seed funding and appointed Aber Whitcomb as CEO.

Salt AI provides a unified AI collaboration environment called Salt where organizations can securely connect their firewall profiles to build AI automation, agent workflows, and customized AI solutions. with a
With the visual drag-and-drop interface and full-code functionality, every member of the organization can collaborate in real time to build powerful AI on the Salt platform. Teams can deploy with one click to Salt’s cloud infrastructure, which automatically scales to meet the immediate needs of any use case.

“We are at an inflection point where artificial intelligence can transform the way companies operate, but only if we make it truly accessible and actionable,” Whitcomb said in a statement. “Salt’s platform empowers teams to create powerful AI agents and workflows that automate complex tasks and drive real business impact. I’m excited to lead Salt and help organizations build and expand their AI capabilities.

The investment will accelerate the development of Salt’s proprietary artificial intelligence orchestration platform and expand its market share.

“We are pleased to support the Salt AI team. Aber Whitcomb has an impressive track record of success in launching and scaling businesses, which coupled with the tremendous market opportunity, makes this an exciting investment for us.” Morpheus Partner Kristian Blaszczynski said in a statement: “Soon, artificial intelligence will power nearly every industry, and Salt will be the engine of enterprise execution. “

Salt integrates with all major closed and open source LLMs and supports diffusion models of generative art. Users can connect to more than 30 enterprise data sources to read and write, and new connections are published every week.

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

The company currently has 16 employees. Whitcomb got his start in the business with PlaiDay, a generative AI social mobile app targeting consumers first. Former CEO Chris DeWolfe retained the Web3 gaming portion of the company and renamed it Rough House Games. Benedetto, Whitcomb, and Charlie Basil went with Salter.

“We built the Salt platform as a backend to enable rapid feature development for PlaiDay and ultimately realized we had solved all the major pain points of developing and deploying AI and bringing our backend to market as a B2B SaaS solution was A better, more feasible solution.

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

“It does feel crowded at first glance,” Whitcomb said. “However, the number of significant competitors is small. Salt differentiates itself by supporting team collaboration for AI workflows. It does this by providing a powerful and powerful vision-first toolkit that enables non-technical stakeholders (high-level executives, product managers, designers, marketers, etc.) with the ability to build artificial intelligence; and a complete coding toolkit that gives engineers deep visibility into bare metal and full control over them. Salt is the only solution that offers functionality for both user types. A complete solution platform.