Reka AI
Multimodal Foundation Models
- Valuation
- Undisclosed(prior ~$300M+)
- Total Funding
- $100M+
- Profit Status
- Early revenue
- Employees
- ~80
About Reka AI
Reka AI is a research-driven AI company building efficient multimodal foundation models that understand and reason over text, images, audio, and video. Founded by researchers from DeepMind, Google Brain, and Meta, Reka delivers compact yet capable models (the Reka Core, Flash, and Edge family) designed for enterprise and on-device deployment, with a focus on strong performance at lower compute cost.
Company History
Founded 2022 by Dani Yogatama, Yi Tay, and Che Zheng — researchers from DeepMind, Google Brain, and Meta — Reka AI focuses on efficient multimodal models. It released the Reka Core, Flash, and Edge family in 2024, showing competitive benchmarks against much larger models. A reported ~$1B acquisition by Snowflake fell through in 2024, after which Reka continued independently, later open-sourcing models and shipping agentic research tools.
Company Timeline
3 milestones- 2022Founded by ex-DeepMind, Google Brain, and Meta researchers
- 2024Released Reka Core, Flash, and Edge multimodal model family
- 2025Shipped Reka Research and agentic tooling; open-sourced select models
Funding Rounds
2 rounds| Date | Round | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Seed/Series A | $58M | DST Global, Radical Ventures |
| 2024 | Series B | $50M+ | Snowflake Ventures, NVIDIA |
Products & Services
5- Reka Core
- Reka Flash
- Reka Edge
- Reka Research
- Nexus (agentic platform)
People & ecosystem
Key People
- Dani Yogatama (CEO, co-founder)
- Yi Tay (Chief Scientist, co-founder)
Key Investors
- DST Global
- Radical Ventures
- Snowflake Ventures
- NVIDIA