Hebbia
Founded 2020 by George Sivulka (ex-Stanford); Matrix is its enterprise research agent — multi-step research across documents. $130M Series B Jul-2024 ($700M val; Andreessen Horowitz + Index + Google Ventures + Peter Thiel). Used heavily at Tier-1 investment banks + hedge funds.
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At a glance
- Type
- Enterprise research agent (Matrix) vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2020 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- $130M Series B Jul-2024 ($700M val; a16z + Index + GV) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Compliance
- ccpa, gdpr, iso27001, iso42001, soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: enterprise document research (IB / PE / consulting)
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
$700M val; a16z + Index + GV-backed; Matrix differentiates from query-response agents (spreadsheet-style cell-by-cell agent); heavy IB / hedge-fund adoption.
Cons
Enterprise sales-cycle complexity; pricing reserved for top-tier financials.
Claims & capabilities
$130M Series B Jul-2024 ($700M val; a16z + Index + GV + Peter Thiel); used at Tiger Global, Charlesbank + Tier-1 IB
Technical surface
- API surface
- Headless Hebbia API + MCP server (launched 2026-10-01)
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- yes — Headless Hebbia MCP server lets assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT call Hebbia retrieval and analysis
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (19 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Enterprise research agent (Matrix) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Founded 2020 by George Sivulka (ex-Stanford); Matrix is its enterprise research agent — … vendor
- Claims / benefits $130M Series B Jul-2024 ($700M val; a16z + Index + GV + Peter Thiel); used at Tiger Glob… vendor
- Created 2020 (founded) vendor
- Funding $130M Series B Jul-2024 ($700M val; a16z + Index + GV) vendor
- Customers / scale Tiger Global, Charlesbank, Centerview Partners + Tier-1 IB vendor
- HQ New York vendor
- Founders / pedigree George Sivulka (CEO; Stanford PhD dropout) vendor
- API surface Headless Hebbia API + MCP server (launched 2026-10-01) vendor
- MCP support yes — Headless Hebbia MCP server lets assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT call Hebbia … vendor
- Optimised for enterprise document research (IB / PE / consulting) vendor
- Pros $700M val; a16z + Index + GV-backed; Matrix differentiates from query-response agents (s… vendor
- Cons Enterprise sales-cycle complexity; pricing reserved for top-tier financials. vendor
- Project & sources www.hebbia.com/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications ccpa,gdpr,iso27001,iso42001,soc2-type2 vendor
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