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Contextual AI

Application

AI company building RAG systems for enterprise document understanding.

Total funding$100M

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2023

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Contextual AI Platform Platform Sold on its own

  Builds and serves retrieval-augmented agents over an organisation's own documents.

• Contextual AI RAG Component APIs API service Sold on its own

  Parsing, reranking and grounded-generation endpoints sold individually for teams building their own retrieval stack.

Inside Contextual AI Platform

• Agent Composer Agent platform Included with the parent

  Orchestration layer inside the Contextual AI Platform providing an enterprise-scale agent runtime, no-code agent/workflow builder and AI toolkit for multi-step reasoning and multi-tool orchestration over enterprise data.

Closest alternatives 1

VVectaraPrivateVectara's own 'versus' page frames itself as a replacement for Contextual AI's RAG APIs on enterprise knowledge search and retrieval.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorAsk questions of my own dataSearch our internal documentsCompare

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similar scale (public).3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLegoraPrivate · $5.6BContextual AI Platform and Legora Portal do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private); ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.3 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLlamaIndexPrivateContextual AI RAG Component APIs and LlamaParse do comparable work on document extraction; LlamaIndex's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAutomation AnywherePrivateContextual AI Platform and Context Intelligence Graph do comparable work on document extraction; Automation Anywhere's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatabricksPrivate · $190BContextual AI RAG Component APIs and Databricks AI Search do comparable work on vector search; similar scale (private).5 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoherePrivate · $7BOverlaps on agent orchestration, document extraction, knowledge retrieval and 2 more; similar scale (private).5 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQdrantPrivateContextual AI RAG Component APIs and Qdrant Cloud Inference do comparable work on vector search; 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Kakao Healthcare's scale not recorded; ships application and data service rather than the same layer.1 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAirtableAcquired ($2.3B deal)Contextual AI Platform and Omni do comparable work on document extraction; Airtable is acquired, with no independent scale; ships application rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIIntuitPublic · $97.9BContextual AI Platform and Project Management Agent do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (public); ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.3 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BContextual AI RAG Component APIs and Tencent Cloud VectorDB do comparable work on vector search; similar scale (public).5 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAbridgePrivate · $5.3BContextual AI Platform and Abridge for Revenue Cycle do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private); ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRilletPrivate · $1BContextual AI Platform and Rillet ERP do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private); ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBByteDancePrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; ByteDance's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEEvenUpPrivate · $2BContextual AI Platform and EvenUp AI Drafts do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private); ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNotionPrivate · $11BOverlaps on agent orchestration, knowledge retrieval and workflow automation; similar scale (private); ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.3 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVSVerint SystemsAcquiredOverlaps on agent orchestration, knowledge retrieval and workflow automation; Verint Systems is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRedisPrivateContextual AI RAG Component APIs and Redis Query Engine do comparable work on vector search; Redis's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareALAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BContextual AI Platform and AI21 Maestro do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private).3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAleph AlphaPrivate · $500M raisedContextual AI Platform and PhariaAI do comparable work on document extraction; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareTTypefacePrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; Typeface's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSierraPrivate · $15.8BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; similar scale (private); ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSASarvam AIPrivate · $275M raisedContextual AI RAG Component APIs and Sarvam Document Digitisation do comparable work on document extraction; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BContextual AI RAG Component APIs and Mistral OCR do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private).1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrestaPrivate · $1.6BOverlaps on agent orchestration, knowledge retrieval and workflow automation; similar scale (private); ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.3 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHCHuawei CloudPrivateContextual AI RAG Component APIs and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) do comparable work on document extraction; Huawei Cloud's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BContextual AI RAG Component APIs and Baidu OCR (General Text Recognition) do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (public).2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Press release · Aug 2024

Contextual AI's own Series A announcement ($80M); combined with its disclosed $20M seed round, the cumulative total is $100M.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

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