Maxim AI has raised $3 million in a funding round led by Elevation Capital, with participation from notable angel investors. The company also announced the general availability of its enterprise-grade evaluation and observability platform for AI development.

Maxim’s platform addresses challenges in AI development, such as hallucinations, inaccuracies, and safety issues, which traditional software practices can’t manage. These challenges have led to slow and labor-intensive testing processes.

Founded by Vaibhavi Gangwar and Akshay Deo in 2023, Maxim aims to integrate best practices from traditional software development into AI workflows. Their infrastructure supports AI developers by providing end-to-end evaluation from prompt engineering to post-release testing, improving the speed and quality of AI product deployment.

Maxim’s platform, already attracting global customers in private beta, plans to expand its capabilities and team to support more enterprises.

Words from those involved in the funding round:

“Even though we are seeing tremendous value creation in the AI hardware and foundational model stack, for the benefits to be realized meaningfully up the value chain, we need the products built on top of the generative AI stack to be trustworthy and reliable.

However, today there is no standardization in the generative AI testing space unlike traditional software development. That’s where Maxim comes in: with our users, we have become this very core piece of infrastructure that is powering high quality AI development, streamlining team collaboration, and saving development teams hundreds of hours per month.”

— Gangwar and Deo

“Maxim AI is addressing a crucial need in the evolving AI landscape. Their focus on creating a standardized, scalable evaluation infrastructure addresses a deep pain point for AI developers.

As the complexity and diversity of AI use cases continue to rise, Maxim’s platform will play a critical role in ensuring trustworthy and reliable AI systems. We are super excited to partner with Vaibhavi and Akshay as they build Maxim.”

— Akarsh Shrivastava, principal for Elevation Capital

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