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LlamaIndex

LlamaIndex sells enterprise developers a data ingestion and agent-building platform that turns unstructured documents into production-grade AI agent workflows.

llamaindex.ai · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·LLAMAINDEX·26
StageSeries AMarch 2025 · led by Norwest Venture Partners[2][4][5][6]
Raised$28Mdisclosed rounds[2][5][6]
Headcount45as of May 2026[10][11]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2023[2][5]
Money

Raised $28M across disclosed rounds.[2][5][6]

Series A closed March 2025, led by Norwest Venture Partners.[2][4][5][6]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Greylock, Databricks Ventures, KPMG Ventures, Amazon Web Services.[2][4][5][10]

People

Jerry Liu, Co-Founder & CEO[2][5][10][12]

Simon Suo, Co-Founder & CTO[2][5][10][12]

Jerry Liu, CEO & Co-Founder[5][10][13][11][12]

Simon Suo, CTO & Co-Founder[5][10][13][11][12]

Zhaoqi Li, Founding AI Engineer, Customer Facing[5][10][13][11][12]

Signals
May 20 2026newsRevolutionizing RAG for Enterprises: The Impact of LlamaIndex[17]
May 16 2026newsLlamaIndex Expands Team Across AI, Engineering, and Go-To-Market Roles - TipRanks.com[15]
May 4 2026newsLlamaIndex CEO Says AI Scaffolding Layer Collapse Is the Point, Not the Problem - The SaaS Sent.[3]
Apr 24 2026newsLlamaIndex company claim, not independently confirmed[16]
Apr 21 2026newsLlamaIndex Newsletter 2026-04-21 company claim, not independently confirmed[14]
Comps

LangChain · langchain.com · Directly named head-to-head competitor in the same RAG framework and agent-orchestration category, targeting the same enterprise AI engineering buyer; Respan market map lists it as a primary LlamaIndex alternative and Ranksquire published a 2026 production...[18][19]

Cohere · cohere.com · Competes on the same enterprise RAG-as-a-service budget; named in the Porter's Five Forces and competitive landscape analyses as a rival for enterprise AI infrastructure spend targeting the same Fortune 500 document-intelligence buyer.[20]

Unstructured · unstructured.io · Directly overlaps with LlamaIndex's LlamaParse/document-processing layer—same workflow step (parsing and chunking complex documents before retrieval), same enterprise AI engineering buyer; cited in the Respan market map as an integration and alternative in...[18][22]

Haystack (deepset) · deepset.ai · Listed as a LlamaIndex alternative in the Respan RAG-frameworks market map; same buyer (enterprise AI engineers), same workflow (document ingestion → retrieval → LLM response), same open-source-to-cloud commercial model.[18]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[16]

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LlamaIndex

CALL NO.CS·LLAMAINDEX·26

LlamaIndex sells enterprise developers a data ingestion and agent-building platform that turns unstructured documents into production-grade AI agent workflows.

llamaindex.ai · San Francisco

StageSeries A
Raised$28M
Headcount45
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2023
CompsLangChain +3

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