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About Vectara
Vectara’s mission is to help the world find meaning through search. The company uses the latest innovations in artificial intelligence and neural network technologies for natural language processing to deliver
The Future of Search
The way people search is changing. We believe that search in every application - SaaS app, mobile app, ecommerce site, media property, website, enterprise data-lake and beyond - will be powered by semantic search within the next five years. As AI powers search, search itself will provide the primary response for almost every question, by both human and application requests, for information retrieval, related content, recommendations, and user intent across document, image, video and voice.
What Problem Do We Solve?
Until recently, search technologies have been keyword based. With advances in the use of AI and natural language processing, Vectara is expanding the role and application of search. Vectara’s semantic search platform delivers dramatic improvement in understanding questions and answering with more relevant information. Vectara is different from any search you have used prior:
- Vectara provides developers a pure neural search platform with production-ready natural language processing.
- Vectara empowers developers to embed search within their applications using a fully API-addressable platform with a complete, composable search pipeline.
- Vectara enables support and marketing solutions that allow you to respond faster and more accurately by understanding the true meaning of your user's words and questions.
About Vectara
Vectara is a semantic search software company that enables customers to understand exactly what their users are asking - no matter how they ask - to provide
Our Founders
Dr. Amr Awadallah
Co-Founder & CEO
Prior to founding Vectara, Amr served as the VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Amr co-founded Cloudera where he led the development of enterprise tools to ingest and extract value from big data. Before Cloudera, Amr served as VP of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo after Yahoo acquired his first startup Aptiva, a search engine company. Amr holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a MA from Cairo University.
Amin Ahmad
Co-Founder & CTO
Prior to founding Vectara, Amin served as a senior engineer at Google Research for 10 years. Amin led the development of question answering and neural information retrieval systems that have been launched into several Google products. His 20 years of search industry experience include working with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and state and federal governments. Amin holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Tallat Shafaat
Co-Founder & Chief Architect
Prior to founding Vectara, Tallat served as a Senior Software Engineer for Google Search and Google Ads. He was a core member of the Google Knowledge Graph indexing team, where he designed and implemented systems that processed petabytes of data and serviced up to 200,000 queries per second. Tallat holds a PhD in Distributed Systems from KTH Sweden.
Our Investors
Additionally, many technology pioneers have invested in Vectara, including founders of WhatsApp, Slack, and Palantir.
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