Valkyrie Announces New AI Company, Andromeda, Raises $4.5M In Austin's Largest Pre-Seed Round

Valkyrie, a leading provider of innovative applied sciences solutions, has announced the launch of its newest venture, Andromeda. This decision intelligence platform aims to enhance high-stakes decision-making. Andromeda, a subsidiary of Valkyrie, has raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round, marking the largest pre-seed round in Austin, Texas, in 2024.

This investment will support Andromeda's mission to provide warfighters and other critical decision-makers with unbiased, fact-based insights. "Valkyrie has continually developed critical capabilities for industry and defense. Andromeda is a testament to our innovation-driven approach," said Charlie Burgoyne, CEO of Valkyrie. "The science behind Andromeda has supported our nation's security for years, and with its expansion, we'll tackle the largest challenges across industry as well."

Andromeda integrates transformers (LLMs) and knowledge graphs through a proprietary approach to enable complex workflows. Its unique architecture eliminates the risk of AI hallucinations, ensuring reliable and actionable insights. This feature positions Andromeda as a trusted partner for warfighters and other high-stakes decision-makers.

A Battalion Commander in the United States Special Operations Command shared their experience: "I've seen many mission planning tools, but Andromeda is a game-changer. This platform is integral to deliberate influence planning through the creation of psychological operations' courses of action (COAs), empowering us to make faster, more informed decisions and increase mission success."

"In today's complex operational environments, accurate and trustworthy information is paramount," said Liz Coufal, co-founder of Valkyrie. "Our platform empowers users to make informed decisions with confidence, enabling them to achieve mission success and safeguard critical interests."

The pre-seed funding round was led by a consortium of prominent investors, including Trust Ventures. This investment will enable Andromeda to accelerate product development, expand its engineering team, and drive market adoption among key target segments such as the defense and intelligence communities.

"Decision-makers in the defense community face complex decisions daily. Filtering through piles of information can cost critical time and resources," said Salen Churi, General Partner at Trust Ventures. "We support Andromeda's work to empower these decision-makers with fast-moving, fact-based insights for successful operations."

Andromeda will be available for deployment in private or government cloud environments, on-premise, and offline settings. The platform's intuitive interface allows users to create prompts easily, leverage internal and external data sources, and customize output formats like reports and dashboards.

Established in 2024, Andromeda offers a decision intelligence platform that delivers unbiased strategic plans for critical scenarios from a prompt. By integrating custom language models and a proprietary knowledge graph, Andromeda provides hallucination-free insights and interactive knowledge graph visualizations. Trusted by the national security community and high-accountability enterprises, Andromeda empowers high-stakes decision-makers with fact-based intelligence for mission success.

Valkyrie is an applied science firm that builds AI and ML models through its services, product, impact, and investment arms. Specializing in applying the latest advancements in AI research to solve clients' challenges through model development or product deployment, Valkyrie's work spans various industries including SiriusXM, Activision, Chubb Insurance, and the Department of Defense.