Startup Ascerta collects $18M in funding to help enterprises understand the value AI provides

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Startup Ascerta collects $18M in funding to help enterprises understand the value AI provides, according to SiliconANGLE. Many businesses are spending enormous sums of money on artificial intelligence, but they don’t have any way to understand how much value those investments are returning — and that’s a challenge that a startup called Ascerta Inc. wants to solve after raising $18 million in an early-stage round of funding today.

Today’s Series A (an early stage of company funding) round […] The post Startup Ascerta collects $18M in funding to help enterprises understand the value AI provides appeared first on SiliconANGLE . Today’s Series A round was led by Dell Technologies Capital and saw participation from Hitachi Ventures, BGV and Wipro Ventures, bringing the startup’s total funding to date to $22.9 million.

Ascerta’s goal is to help businesses maximize their return on investment in AI, which is something that has proved to be a major challenge. With traditional software, most companies were able to answer this question with basic financial operations or FinOps tools that shed light on how much they’re spending on things like cloud infrastructure resources.

However, these tools aren’t very useful when it comes to trying to understand the real-world business outcomes achieved by an AI agent or coding assistant, said Ascerta co-founder and Chief Executive David Tepper. According to Tepper, the only thing that most businesses see is “meaningless vanity metrics,” counting things like token consumption and agent runs.