Over the past decade, Eightfold AI has pioneered AI-native innovation across every stage of the talent life cycle, earning more than a dozen patents designed to help organizations identify, develop, and empower their people. Our mission has always been to create a better future of work, using AI to make every career path visible and every employee’s potential realized.
In 2024, while enhancing our Agentic Talent Platform for Talent Management, our engineering team developed a digital twin — an intelligent replica that could streamline HR workflows by surfacing context, decisions, and expertise across systems. As we expanded the concept, it became clear that this technology could transform not just HR, but the way every department in an enterprise works and collaborates.
Today, we’re thrilled to introduce Viven, an independent company born from our innovation. Founded by Eightfold Co-founders Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, Viven builds on our AI-native foundation to bring digital twin technology to every employee, every team, and every enterprise. Backed by $35 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital, as reported by TechCrunch, Viven represents the next evolution of AI at work — one where knowledge endures, collaboration is effortless, and organizations move with clarity and speed.
“Viven offers a new way to run the enterprise where knowledge doesn’t vanish, collaboration is instant, and leaders operate with clarity at every level,” said Ashutosh Garg, Co-founder and CEO of Viven and Eightfold. “Digital Twins give executives immediate access to the thinking, context, and decisions of their entire organization so they can move faster, see across silos, and stay ahead of the curve.”
Since early 2025, teams across Eightfold — in engineering, marketing, finance, customer support, and operations — have been using Viven digital twins in their daily work. More than an assistant, each twin is a living extension of its user — recalling decisions, surfacing context across tools, and connecting people to the knowledge that matters most. Employees describe it as having a trusted counterpart that keeps work moving, even when they’re not in the room.
Beyond measurable gains in productivity and efficiency, they report deeper, human benefits: less time spent searching, more time thinking; smoother collaboration across time zones and functions; and a renewed focus on the high-impact work that advances both innovation and customers’ success.
Viven will also integrate with Eightfold Talent Management Agents, extending our shared mission to help people grow, thrive, and lead within their organizations. Together, these systems will amplify support for employees and managers alike — scaling insights, accelerating decisions, and offering personalized guidance in the moment of need — so organizations can act faster and with greater confidence, powered by real-time talent intelligence.
Early customer success
Viven debuts with notable traction, already garnering support from enterprises like Genpact, a 140,000-employee organization, and several Fortune 500 companies poised to announce partnerships soon.
“The strength of Genpact is our people, and Viven gives every employee a digital twin,” said Balkrishan “BK” Kalra, CEO of Genpact. “It is a partner that keeps context alive and decisions sharp.”
We’re staying true to our HR tech roots and commitment to responsible AI
While Viven tackles the broader enterprise landscape, we remain steadfast in our commitment to revolutionizing HR with responsible AI-native technology. We strongly believe that AI agents and digital twins will accelerate the results that talent teams seek today. We continue to define ourselves as the premier AI-native Talent Intelligence offering, driven by technologies that provide personalized career and skills paths for employees, as well as bias mitigation in hiring practices.
At Eightfold, we harness AI-native talent intelligence to empower organizations to identify best-fit talent and support each employee in realizing their potential. We pair this intelligence with the ability to act on it autonomously or human-assisted, responsibly, and explainably across the talent life cycle with our Agentic Talent Platform, powered by Talent Intelligence.
For more on Viven’s digital twin technology, please visit viven.ai.
