Tara AI

Tara AI

Company type	Private
Founders	Iba Masood Syed Ahmed
Headquarters	San Jose, California
Website	tara.ai

Tara AI is a platform designed to help modern software teams manage and deliver across their product development lifecycle. ^[1]

Founded by Iba Masood and Syed Ahmed, Tara AI is based in San Jose, California. It was originally Gradberry, a recruiting platform that connected technical workers to employers, and was part of Y Combinator Winter 2015 class. ^[2] In 2016, the company evolved into Tara AI, a product management platform that uses machine learning to predict the technical tasks, engineering resources and timelines needed for new software projects.

Tara AI has raised $13 million in investment from a number of notable venture capital firms and angel investors including Aspect Ventures, Y Combinator, Slack Fund, Jaan Tallinn of Skype and Di-Ann Eisnor of Waze. ^{[3] [4]}

In October 2017, Tara AI won a $500,000 prize at the fourth annual 43North business plan competition. ^[5]

References

1. "Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M". TechCrunch. July 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Morris, Regan (2017-01-09). "Beyond 'Brogrammers': Can AI create a meritocracy". BBC. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
3. "Tara AI Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding to Help Companies Build Better Software Faster". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
4. "Tara AI Raises $10M in Series A Funding". FinSMEs. 2019-07-02. Archived from the original on 2019-07-07. Retrieved 2026-01-02.
5. Speier, Kim (2019-07-02). "Two 43North-Winning Companies Raise a Total of $18 Million in Series A Investment". 43North. Retrieved 2019-07-05.