内容来源：https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/eightfold-co-founders-raise-35m-for-viven-an-ai-digital-twin-startup-for-querying-unavailable-coworkers/

内容总结：

近日，人工智能招聘平台Eightfold联合创始人阿舒托什·加格与瓦伦·卡乔利亚宣布，其新创立的数字分身企业Viven已完成3500万美元种子轮融资，投资方包括科斯拉风投、Foundation Capital等知名机构。

当前企业普遍面临团队协作效率挑战：当掌握关键信息的成员因休假、时差等原因暂时离岗时，整个项目进度常陷入停滞。针对这一痛点，Viven通过构建员工专属大语言模型，打造可实时应答的“数字分身”。该系统通过分析员工内部通信记录（如电子邮件、Slack对话、谷歌文档等），建立专属知识库，使同事在本人不在岗时仍能通过向其数字分身提问获取关键信息。

面对企业敏感信息保护这一核心难题，Viven创新性提出“双向情境隐私”技术。该技术使大语言模型能够精准识别不同层级的信息权限，确保每位员工仅能获取其权限范围内的信息。系统不仅可自动过滤涉及个人隐私的询问，还设置了查询记录透明化机制——所有向数字分身发出的问题都将被记录，这一设计有效遏制了不当询问行为。

据悉，Genpact、Eightfold等企业已成为Viven的首批客户。尽管目前微软Copilot、谷歌Gemini等企业级产品已具备个性化功能，但Viven团队相信其独有的“双向情境”技术将构成核心竞争力。Foundation Capital合伙人阿舒·加格指出：“这是横跨所有职场的协同沟通痛点，此前尚未出现有效的自动化解决方案。”

（注：原文中穿插的会议推广内容与核心新闻关联度较低，已根据新闻报道规范予以省略）

中文翻译：

尽管员工每天花费大量时间就项目进行内部沟通协调，但这种努力常因关键人员缺席而受阻。当掌握重要信息的同事因休假或身处不同时区而无法联络时，整个团队的工作进度就不得不陷入停滞。

人工智能招聘平台Eightfold（最近估值达21亿美元）的联合创始人阿舒托什·加格与瓦伦·卡乔利亚认为，大语言模型和数据隐私技术的进步能缓解这一高昂代价的问题。今年初，他们创立了数字分身初创企业Viven，致力于让员工在同事无法到场时仍能获取关键信息。

本周三，Viven结束隐身模式正式亮相，并获得由Khosla Ventures、Foundation Capital、FPV Ventures等机构投资的3500万美元种子资金。

Viven为每位员工定制专属大语言模型，通过读取其内部电子文档（如电子邮件、Slack聊天记录和谷歌文档）有效创建数字分身。企业内其他员工可随时向该数字分身提问，即时获取涉及共同项目及共享知识领域的解答。

"当每个人都拥有数字分身后，你可以直接与分身对话，就像正与本人交流一样获得回应。"阿舒托什·加格向TechCrunch介绍道。

核心挑战在于员工不可能向任意提问者公开所有信息。他们常需处理敏感资料，或存有不愿对团队公开的个人文件。

据阿舒托什·加格透露，Viven通过"配对情境与隐私"技术破解这一难题。该技术使大语言模型能精准判定哪些信息可与机构内特定对象共享。

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Viven的大语言模型具备智能情境识别能力，可自动过滤涉及员工私人生活等需要保密的信息。而最重要的保障机制在于：每位员工都能查看自己数字分身的被查询记录，这种透明监督能有效阻止不当提问。

"这曾是个无解的难题，直到最近才出现转机。"Foundation Capital普通合伙人阿舒·加格向TechCrunch表示。

Viven目前已获得Genpact和Eightfold等企业客户采用。（两位联合创始人阿舒托什·加格与瓦伦·卡乔利亚在运营Viven的同时，仍继续担任Eightfold的领导职务。）

谈及市场竞争，阿舒托什·加格宣称目前尚无其他企业涉足数字分身领域。他最初构思时也不确定是否存在竞争者，为此特意咨询了传奇投资人维诺德·科斯拉。这位投资巨擘确认无人进军该领域后，当即决定投资。

Foundation Capital的阿舒·加格同样对Viven充满热情："当阿舒托什向我阐述产品理念时，最令我振奋的是——所有岗位都存在的协调沟通痛点，至今仍未被自动化技术解决。"

尽管目前没有直接竞争对手，但未来难免会有企业涉足该领域。阿舒·加格指出Anthropic、谷歌Gemini、微软Copilot和OpenAI的企业搜索产品已包含个性化功能。若这些巨头真的入场，Viven期望其"配对情境"技术能成为护城河。

英文来源：

While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects, this effort is often undermined by the availability of specific individuals. When a colleague with vital information is away — whether on vacation or in a different time zone — the rest of the team must delay progress until that person responds.
Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, the co-founders of Eightfold — an AI recruiting startup last valued at $2.1 billion — believe that advances in LLMs and data privacy technologies can help solve some aspects of this costly problem. Earlier this year, they launched Viven, a digital twin startup with a mission to grant employees access to crucial information from teammates even when those colleagues are unavailable.
On Wednesday, Viven emerged out of stealth mode with $35 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, FPV Ventures, and others.
Viven develops a specialized LLM for each employee, effectively creating a digital twin by accessing their internal electronic documents such as email, Slack, and Google Docs. Other employees in the organization can then query that person’s digital twin to get immediate answers related to common projects and shared knowledge.
“When each and every person has a digital twin, you can just talk to their twin as if you’re talking to that person and get the response,” Ashutosh Garg told TechCrunch.
One major hurdle is that people just can’t share everything with anyone who asks. Employees often handle sensitive information or have personal files they want to keep private from the rest of the team.
According to Ashutosh Garg, Viven’s technology solves that complex problem through a concept known as pairwise context and privacy. This enables the startup’s LLMs to precisely determine what information can be shared and with whom across the organization.
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Viven’s LLMs are smart enough to recognize personal context and know what information needs to stay private — like questions related to an employee’s personal life. But perhaps the most important safeguard is that everyone can see the query history of their digital twin, which acts as a deterrent against people asking inappropriate questions.
“It’s a very hard problem to solve, and until recently, it was unsolvable,” Ashu Garg, a general partner at Foundation Capital told TechCrunch.
Viven is already in use by several enterprise clients, including Genpact and Eightfold. (Co-founders Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia continue to lead Eightfold, splitting their time between that company and running Viven.)
As for competition, Ashutosh Garg claims that no other company is tackling digital twins for the enterprise yet.
He wasn’t sure that there were no competitors when he first started thinking about the idea. So he called Vinod Khosla to ask about it. The legendary investor assured Ashutosh Garg that nobody is doing this and agreed to invest.
Ashu Garg of Foundation Capital was equally excited about Viven.
“When Ashutosh came to me and described the product, the big aha for me was: there’s this horizontal problem across all jobs of coordination and communication, which no one is automating,” Ashu Garg told TechCrunch.
But just because there are no direct competitors now doesn’t mean that other companies won’t build digital twins for companies in the future. Ashu Garg said that Anthropic, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and OpenAI’s enterprise search products have a personalization component. But, if they do enter this market, Viven hopes its “pairwise” context technology will be its moat.