Enterprises desire access to brand-new software application and AI tools but cant risk sending their sensitive information out to a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.
Tensor9 aims to assist software application business land more business clients by helping them release their software straight into a customers tech stack.Tensor9 transforms a software vendors code into the format required to release into their customers tech environment.
Tensor9 then makes a digital twin of the released software, or a miniaturized design of the released softwares infrastructure, so Tensor9s customers can keep track of how the software application is working in their clients environment.
Tensor9 can help companies deploy into any premise varying from cloud to bare metal servers.Michael Ten-Pow, Tensor9s co-founder and CEO, informed A Technology NewsRoom that Tensor9s capability to transfer software application to any facility, and its usage of digital twin technology to aid with remote monitoring, helps Tensor9 stand apart from other companies, like Octopus Deploy or Nuon, that also help business release software into a clients environment.You cant simply throw a piece of software over the wall, or its really hard to throw a piece of software application over the wall, and know whats going on, have the ability to discover concerns, debug them, fix them, Ten-Pow (visualized above, left) stated.
They see it running, they can debug it, they can log in and understand what the problems are and fix them.He said the timing is ideal for Tensor9s tech due to tailwinds from the increase of AI.
Enterprises and financial institutions wish to adopt AI tech, however cant risk sending their information to a third-party.
A business search vendor might go to, lets say, J.P.
Morgan and say, hey, I require access to all your six petabytes of data to construct an intelligent search layer on top of it so that your internal staff members can have a conversation with their business information, theres no other way thats going to work, Ten-Pow said.Ten-Pow, an ex-engineer at AWS, said he had a long, relatively winding course to the launch of Tensor9.
He got the idea for the company while working on another possible concept that didnt work out.
He invested a long time figuring out if he might discover a method to make it much easier for software application suppliers to get SOC 2 accredited, a cybersecurity compliance framework, to help them open customers that needed their suppliers to have it.While that didnt exercise, he discovered from customer calls that what enterprises truly wanted was the software application to just run in their own tech environment.
Numerous software business, especially start-ups, do not have the resources to use a custom on-premise alternative for each business consumer.
That sentiment ended up being the basis for Tensor9 which Ten-Pow released in 2024.
Later on in the year, he induced 2 of his ex-AWS colleagues, Matthew Michie and Matthew Shanker, as co-founders.
The company found early traction with voice AI business.
Since then, theyve began to expand to work in other verticals consisting of: enterprise search, business databases and data management.
The company currently works with AI business consisting of: 11x, Retell AI and Dyna AI, amongst others.Tensor9 bootstrapped for its very first year and just recently raised a $4 million seed round led by Wing VC with involvement from Level Up Ventures, Devang Sachdev of Model Ventures, NVAngels, an angel group of ex-Nvidia employees, and other angel financiers.
Getting financiers on board with the idea wasnt too difficult, Ten-Pow said, since the VCs they talked to had seen their portfolio companies have problem with this specific problem.
Tensor9 just had to encourage financiers that they were the right group for the job.We have an easy model but underneath the covers theres a lot of intricacy that makes that happen, difficult technical challenges that weve fixed to make that happen, Ten-Pow said.
I think that was one of the important things that helped us persuade the financiers to buy us.The business prepares to utilize the financing for working with and for constructing out the next generation of its technology so that it can deal with consumers in more verticals.Theres been an evolution from [on facility] to the cloud and we think that this idea of software lives where it needs to, and runs where it needs to, is that next action thats a sort of synthesis of the previous on-premise and cloud concepts, Ten-Pow stated.