O'Shaughnessy Ventures invests in Hegel, an open source AI startup
O'Shaughnessy Ventures (OSV), a family office that invests in ambitious seed and pre-seed startups, announced it has invested in Hegel AI (Hegel). Founded in 2023 by Steve Krawczyk and Kevin Tse, Hegel is building a developer platform for generative AI applications. It aims to simplify the end-to-end development lifecycle for the next generation of AI applications.
Hegel's first platform launch, PromptTools, enables experimentation with prompts, fine-tuned models, and retrieval-augmented generation systems. Its next products will aim to improve prompts and models automatically using online monitoring and evaluation.
Jim O'Shaughnessy, Founder, OSV: "The future of AI is open source. Hegel provides developers with the tools they need to build industry-changing applications across all models and vector databases."
Steve Krawczyk, Founder, Hegel: "It's an honor to welcome OSV, whose investments in Prefect and Stability AI demonstrate a consistent focus on open source, developer-friendly products."
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