Salt AI raises $3M for mobile AI team

Skip the AIAI music company for businesses, raised $3 million in seed funding and appointed Aber Whitcomb as CEO.

Salt AI provides a unified AI environment, called Salt, where organizations can securely connect their fire data to create AI automations, agetic workflows and bespoke AI solutions. It’s a
visual drag and drop interface, with the full potential, each member of the organization can collaborate in real time to build a powerful AI on the Salt platform. Organizations can make a one-time deployment to Salt cloud products that are customized to meet the specific needs of each use case.

“We’re at a point where AI can change the way companies work, but only if we make it easier and more actionable,” Whitcomb said in a statement. “Salt’s platform enables teams to create powerful AI assistants and workflows that manage complex tasks and drive real business. I’m excited to lead Salt as we help organizations build and grow their AI capabilities.”

The investment will accelerate the development of Salt’s AI-based calling platform and expand its presence in the market.

“We are delighted to support the Salt AI team. Aber Whitcomb’s impressive track record of success in starting and growing businesses, combined with a significant market opportunity make this an exciting investment for us,” said Kristian Blaszczynski, a partner at Morpheus, in a statement. “Soon, AI will rule almost every industry and Salt will be the engine that businesses create.”

Salt integrates with all major closed and open LLMs and supports similar types of technical skills. Users can connect to 30+ sources of business information by reading and writing, new links are released every week.

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

The company now has 16 people. Whitcomb got into this business from PlaiDay, a modern AI software that targeted consumers for the first time. Chris DeWolfe, the former CEO, retained the Web3 gaming division of the company and called it Hard House Games. Benedetto, Whitcomb and Charlie Basil went with Salt.

“We built the Salt platform as a backend to support PlaiDay’s rapid development, and ultimately we realized that we had overcome all the pain of developing and deploying AI, and that taking our back to market as a B2B SaaS solution was a better opportunity than a consumer app,” said Whitcomb. in an email to VentureBeat.

When asked about the competition, he said the place is very noisy, with many devices using similar language to describe their features.

“It feels very embarrassing at first,” Whitcomb said. “However, there are few competitors. Salt differentiates itself by supporting team collaboration in AI processes. It does this by providing intuitive and powerful tools that help non-technical people (managers, product managers, developers, marketers, etc.) to create AI; with all the tools that help engineers get down to the bare bones and have the power to control their solutions.