Announcing our investment in Articul8: Industrial domain-specific enterprise GenAI

We are pleased to announce our investment in Articul8, a global enterprise Generative AI software company delivering secure, domain-specific GenAI solutions for complex, regulated environments. 

Adara Ventures led the oversubscribed first tranche of the Series B round, alongside other strategic investors, with continued support from Intel and DigitalBridge, which recently announced a pending acquisition by SoftBank. 

The challenge: From GenAI experimentation to operational impact

Enterprises are under growing pressure to move beyond GenAI pilots and deliver real business outcomes. Yet, most solutions on the market remain generic chatbots or model wrappers, which are ill-suited for environments with fragmented data, complex workflows, and strict security requirements. 

In mission-critical industries, enterprises also need GenAI systems that can reason over proprietary data, operate within existing security perimeters, and deliver auditable, explainable, and deterministic outcomes. 

This gap between experimentation and production has become one of the biggest blockers to enterprise GenAI adoption.

Introducing Articul8: A full-stack, domain-specific GenAI platform

Launched as an Intel spin-off in early 2024, Articul8 was purpose-built to address this challenge. 

Its full-stack, vertically optimized GenAI platform enables enterprises to build, deploy, and manage secure GenAI applications entirely within their own environments, whether on-prem, air-gapped, hybrid, or cloud. 

At the core of the platform is ModelMesh™, Articul8’s proprietary reasoning engine. ModelMesh™ acts as an agent-of-agents, dynamically orchestrating data, models, and tools (domain-specific, general-purpose, and non-LLMs alike) to deliver contextualized, high-precision outcomes without relying on static rules. 

This architecture allows enterprises to optimize across multiple KPIs while maintaining full observability, governance, and control. 

Domain-specific models that outperform at scale

A key differentiator for Articul8 is its growing library of domain-specific models (DSMs), developed in collaboration with industry leaders such as the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and others. These models embed deep domain knowledge and proprietary workflows, consistently outperforming general-purpose LLMs in both accuracy and cost.

For instance, its A8-Energy model achieved 96.9% accuracy across specialized regulatory and infrastructure topics (compared to 71.3% for general-purpose alternatives) and outperformed them on critical energy consumption benchmarks. 

The company has already secured multiple Fortune 100 customers across financial services, energy, manufacturing, and semiconductors and earned widespread endorsement from industry leaders, including NVIDIA, AWS, and Accenture. 

Additional milestones include being named the foundational GenAI provider for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), selection as a launch partner for Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interoperability protocol, and recognition in the exclusive AWS Startups: Building with Llama program.

A seasoned team with deep enterprise AI heritage

Articul8 is led by Arun Subramaniyan (Founder & CEO), who brings nearly two decades of experience building and scaling HPC, AI, and data platforms at Intel, AWS, and GE. Arun previously helped build AWS’s first GPU clusters and led initiatives that scaled to over $1B in revenue.

He is joined by a leadership team with deep expertise across AI research, enterprise software, and industrial systems, including veterans from Intel, Amazon, NASA, Baker Hughes, and GE, bringing rare founder-market fit for complex enterprise GenAI deployments.

What’s next for Articul8

Articul8’s mission is clear: to help enterprises move from GenAI experimentation to trusted, production-grade deployment at scale. The new funding will support Articul8’s global expansion and further strengthen the platform’s capabilities across autonomous reasoning, agent interoperability, and domain-specific model development. 

The Adara view: Scaling GenAI to enterprise-grade reality

We believe the future of enterprise GenAI will be defined not by generic models but by deep, vertically optimized platforms that combine proprietary data, domain expertise, and autonomous reasoning.

Articul8 stands out for its full-stack architecture, its emphasis on domain-specific intelligence, and its ability to deliver measurable outcomes in environments where accuracy, accountability, and security are critical. The company is building what we see as a secure intelligence layer for enterprise systems, enabling GenAI to operate reliably inside the world’s most complex organizations.

With strong customer traction, exceptional technical foundations, and a leadership team that has repeatedly delivered AI at scale, we believe Articul8 is uniquely positioned to define the next generation of enterprise GenAI.

We are excited to partner with Arun and the entire Articul8 team as they continue to scale globally and help enterprises realize the full potential of Generative AI.

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Learn more about Articul8: www.articul8.ai