Hang Ten Reels In $32 Million

<p><strong>PALO ALTO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Hang Ten Systems&comma; an enterprise AI services company&comma; has raised &dollar;32 million in seed funding led by Mayfield&comma; with a strategic investment from Aramco Ventures and participation from a group of angel investors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hang Ten is led by Dr&period; Vishal Sikka&comma; Co-founder and CEO&comma; formerly CEO of Infosys and Executive Board Member at SAP in charge of all products and technology&period; Hang Ten helps large enterprises adopt AI to produce real results&period; Today&comma; very few enterprises can use AI to significant advantage&semi; most are not&comma; and indeed they take on cost and risk without the benefit&period; Hang Ten exists to close this gap&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company&&num;8217&semi;s focus is on software that runs the business&period; Generative AI is displacing the traditional model of bending commercial off-the-shelf software &lpar;COTS&rpar; to enterprise needs via configuration&comma; customization&comma; integration&comma; and testing&period; AI code generation has materially cut the marginal cost and timeframe for building advanced enterprise capabilities&period; Hang Ten offers a different operating model — software built&comma; changed&comma; and run at a fraction of the cost and time&comma; on a continuous basis — with specialized capabilities in enterprise transformations&comma; finance&comma; HR&comma; and new product development&comma; supported by an expert FDE Bench&comma; re-usable skills library&comma; and agentic code generation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hang Ten is working with marquee customers across several industries&comma; including Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Fresenius on AI-native project delivery&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Every single enterprise will be transformed by AI&period; A few are already reaping massive benefits&comma; building in days what used to take years&period; But most are stuck at the starting line&comma; or worse&comma; and the gap is widening every day&period; We are building Hang Ten to close that gap&comma; and help enterprises ride the AI wave&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Dr&period; Vishal Sikka&comma; CEO and Founder of Hang Ten&period; &&num;8220&semi;We bring together the rarest combination — frontier AI expertise&comma; decades of building the systems that enterprises actually run on&comma; and the judgment to deliver real value when everything is changing at once&period; I am excited to be working closely with Mayfield&comma; Aramco Ventures&comma; and several renowned angel investors to help deliver on this promise at scale&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;At Mayfield&comma; we invest in people first&comma; and Vishal is one of the rare leaders who can make enterprise AI actually work&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Navin Chaddha&comma; Managing Partner at Mayfield&period; &&num;8220&semi;We backed Vishal from inception because he has done this before running products and technology at SAP and leading Infosys as CEO&period; Within a few years&comma; the gap between enterprises that use AI to real advantage and those that don&&num;8217&semi;t will define entire industries&period; Hang Ten is focused on enterprise transformations to put companies on the right side of that line&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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