By Orbifold AI
3/14/2025
Orbifold AI, the pioneer in enterprise-grade multimodal data curation, today announced $5M in seed funding led by Bonfire Ventures and Fusion Fund. The investment will accelerate the company's mission to help enterprises build production-ready AI systems faster and more efficiently through automated data curation across video, audio, image, text and other modalities.
While foundation model companies such as Open AI, xAI, Anthropic have driven remarkable AI advances, the industry faces an imminent challenge: we're running out of high-quality, publicly available training data. More recently, while models like DeepSeek show you can do more with less compute, data quality is increasingly becoming the key differentiator. This "data wall" is pushing companies to look inward at their vast repositories of untapped, unstructured data across multiple modalities - a goldmine that could give the business application a decisive competitive advantage. However, these data remain largely unusable for AI application development due to poor data quality, inconsistent formats, redundancies, and the sheer complexity of curating multiple data modalities. Most critically, companies also struggle to evaluate how data quality affects their models' real-world performance and business outcomes.
Orbifold AI was founded by AI and data infrastructure leaders from Google, Meta, and Alibaba Group, with deep expertise in building Gemini, LLaMA, and Qwen from their early days. Our mission is simple: Build great data to empower great enterprise AI.
"What sets Orbifold apart is our ability to truly automate multimodal enterprise data curation at terabyte scale and beyond," says Enoch Zhu, co-founder and CEO of Orbifold AI. "By using Orbifold’s data curation platform, our customers are achieving 3x improvement in model accuracy compared to models built on their raw, uncurated data, while reducing training time by 65% and development costs by 77%. These efficiencies translate to millions in cost savings, cutting expenses in model development, infrastructure, and operational inefficiencies."
"In today's business landscape, the question isn't whether to adopt AI, but how effectively you implement it,” said Brett Queener, General Partner, Bonfire Ventures. “As inference costs plummet and performance gaps between models narrow, competitive advantage will come from how well organizations leverage their proprietary data—especially complex, multi-modal information. Most companies struggle to optimize AI with their unique data at the necessary speed and scale. That's why we invested in Enoch & Orbifold.ai - their innovative data distillation platform simplifies what was once an insurmountable challenge, enabling organizations to rapidly customize AI solutions with their own data for maximum business impact."
Orbifold AI partners with Fortune 500 enterprises and AI innovators to transform unstructured, multimodal data into high-quality, AI-ready datasets. Our growing customer base spans multiple industries, including enterprise software, financial services, robotics and automation, logistics, and many more. “We work with forward-thinking companies that have both a technical and data advantage in their business model,” says Lu Zhang, Founder & Managing Partner at Fusion Fund, “We have strong conviction in Orbifold AI’s ability to redefine how organizations leverage data at scale, and we are confident that they will set a new industry standard.”
You can explore the following case studies from some of our customers who have benefited from Orbifold AI’s platform:
"In today's fast-paced digital landscape, seamless integration is crucial for maximizing efficiency, and that’s exactly what our platform delivers," says CEO Enoch. "With a lightweight setup and intuitive design, we can eliminate the need for complex configurations or extensive coding. It’s incredibly simple—just a couple of lines of code, and you’re up and running."
"Having led data & AI infrastructure teams at Google, Meta, and Alibaba, our founding team deeply understands that data security isn’t just a feature — it’s the foundation of enterprise AI development,” says Mike, CTO of Orbifold AI. “Enterprises in regulated industries need secure, compliant AI solutions. Our platform ensures enterprise-grade privacy, keeping proprietary data protected while meeting GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 standards. With built-in security, businesses can innovate confidently without compromising trust.”
With this new funding, we are expanding our Orbifold Data Distillation Platform, providing enterprises with scalable, multimodal data curation for AI-powered messaging applications and beyond.
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This funding marks the beginning of an exciting journey, and we look forward to working with our investors, partners, and customers to build the future of enterprise AI - powered by data-first intelligence.
Orbifold AI is redefining enterprise AI by solving one of the biggest challenges in the industry—data quality. While foundation models have made AI more accessible, enterprises still struggle with messy, unstructured, and multimodal data that hinders AI performance.
Orbifold AI’s Data Distillation Platform transforms raw business data—including text, images, videos, and structured records—into high-quality, AI-ready datasets, enabling enterprises to build more accurate, efficient, and cost-effective AI models. Backed by top-tier VCs and trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises and AI innovators, Orbifold AI is pioneering the future of data-first AI solutions.
For more information, visit: www.orbifold.ai
Bonfire Ventures is a leading B2B-focused venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups that are transforming enterprise software and AI applications. With a strong emphasis on go-to-market strategy and scalable growth, Bonfire has backed industry-defining companies that are reshaping the future of B2B technology.
Bonfire’s deep expertise in B2B SaaS, AI infrastructure, and data-driven innovation makes them a key partner in Orbifold AI’s mission to revolutionize multimodal data curation. Their portfolio includes some of the most successful enterprise software companies, and their hands-on approach ensures that founders receive the strategic guidance they need to scale efficiently.
For more information, visit: www.bonfirevc.com
Based in Palo Alto, California, Fusion Fund is a venture capital firm focused on backing early-stage entrepreneurs who are building forward-thinking companies with technical and data-driven advantages. Since 2015, Fusion Fund has invested in over 90 portfolio companies across the US and Canada, particularly in enterprise AI, healthcare, and industrial automation.
For more information, visit: www.fusionfund.com
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