Salt AI raises $3 million for AI workflow orchestration

Skip AIan AI workflow orchestration company for enterprises, raised $3 million in seed funding and named Aber Whitcomb as CEO.

Salt AI offers a unified AI collaboration environment, called Salt, where organizations can securely connect their firewall-protected data to create AI automations, agent workflows, and custom AI solutions. with a
Thanks to its visual drag-and-drop interface and full-code capabilities, every member of an organization can collaborate in real time to create powerful AI on the Salt platform. Teams can deploy Salt’s cloud infrastructure with a single click, which automatically scales to meet the real-time needs of any use case.

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

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

“We are delighted to support the Salt AI team. “Aber Whitcomb’s impressive track record of success in launching and scaling businesses, coupled with the immense market opportunity, makes this an exciting investment for us.” Morpheus partner Kristian Blaszczynski said in a statement. “Very soon, AI will power almost every industry and Salt will be the engine on which businesses will run.”

Salt integrates with leading closed and open source LLMs and supports diffusion models for generative art. Users can connect to more than 30 enterprise data sources for reading and writing, and new connections are released weekly.

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

The company now has 16 people. Whitcomb entered this business from PlaiDay, the generative AI social mobile app that first targeted consumers. Chris DeWolfe, who was the previous CEO, stayed on with the Web3 gaming side of the company and renamed it Rough House Games. Benedetto, Whitcomb and Charlie Basil chose Salt.

“We built the Salt platform as a backend to enable rapid feature development for PlaiDay and eventually realized that we had solved all the major problems for developing and deploying AI, and that bringing our backend to market as a B2B SaaS solution was a bigger, better opportunity than the consumer app,” Whitcomb said in an email to VentureBeat.

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

“At first glance, it feels crowded,” Whitcomb said. “However, there are only a small number of major competitors. Salt differentiates itself by enabling team collaboration in AI workflows. It does this by providing a visually robust and powerful toolset that allows non-technical stakeholders (executives, product managers, designers, marketers, etc.) to create AI; along with a complete code toolset that allows engineers to get to the point and have full control over their solutions. “Salt is the only platform that has complete solutions for both types of users.”