Hewlett Packard Enterprise Invests in AI Quality Leader TruEra, With Plans to Jointly Help HPE Clients Build and Deploy AI Models at Scale

Multi-million dollar strategic investment brings TruEra’s total funding to date to over $45 million

TruEra, which provides the first suite of AI Quality management solutions for managing model performance, explainability, and societal impact, announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has invested in TruEra via its venture capital program, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder. This extends the $25M Series B round TruEra announced in March 2022.

Hewlett Packard Pathfinder invests in category-leading start-ups, creates solutions combining portfolio companies’ technology with Hewlett Packard Enterprise products, and architects joint go-to-market programs. In addition, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder closely monitors longer-horizon disruptive innovation, helping encourage technological advancements that keep HPE on the leading edge.

“We’re excited to become an investor and to partner with TruEra in developing comprehensive solutions for our enterprise customers in conjunction with our High-Performance Computing offering,” said Paul Glaser, Vice President and Head of Hewlett Packard Pathfinder.

“AI model quality and ML Ops have emerged as considerable challenges for enterprises deploying and scaling machine learning models,” said Ali Wasti, Managing Director, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder. “Solving these challenges is imperative for AI success, and TruEra stands out for its deep expertise, differentiated technology and practical experience helping companies deliver and monitor AI applications.”

TruEra addresses the next big challenge of AI – the quality challenge. TruEra’s solutions help ML teams explain, evaluate and test the performance, risk and responsible AI characteristics of models in the development phase, and then monitor their live use to ensure rapid debugging and optimal ongoing performance. Due to this unique, full lifecycle approach to model quality, TruEra has been selected as the preferred vendor by multiple Fortune 1000 companies. In March 2022, the company was named to the Fast Company World Changing Ideas list for the second year in a row. In June 2021, TruEra was named a “Cool Vendor” by expert analysts at Gartner, Inc in the report, “Cool Vendors in AI Governance and Responsible AI.”  Members of the company also serve on advisory boards for the Bank of England and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, among other government agencies.

“Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a leading, trusted provider to the enterprise, and is known for its ability to ensure that cutting-edge innovation delivers proven results,” said Will Uppington, CEO and co-founder, TruEra. “We’re looking forward to working closely with the HPE team as partners on customer engagements.”

To date, TruEra has raised over $45 MM from top-tier investors including Menlo Ventures, Greylock Partners, and Wing Venture Capital, among others. The technology foundation for the company originated in academic research conducted by TruEra co-founders Anupam Datta and Shayak Sen at Carnegie Mellon University.

Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise media announcement