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New York, NY, USAFounded 201823+ employeesPrivate
$16.1M raisedSeries A· last: series a (Jul 2022)· 5 rounds

Arist is a tool that helps enterprise L&D and HR teams rapidly create, deliver, and analyze message-based courses, which are bite-size learning experiences delivered in the flow of SMS, Slack, and MS Teams. Along with saving over $200/employee/year with more efficient training, Arist helps companies create and track clear behavior change and performance improvement outcomes while delivering learning with an NPS of >90 and adoption rates that are 5x higher than traditional learning tools.

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YC S20

Hiring Pitch

Backed by Y Combinator, Acadian Ventures, and Soma Capital, Arist automates the learning and enablement process end-to-end — giving every leader an AI-powered enablement team in their pocket.

Arist’s platform turns what used to take dozens of tools and hundreds of hours into instant, personalized workflows that are 90% cheaper. From onboarding to sales enablement and compliance training, Arist delivers, tracks, and optimizes every interaction directly in the messaging tools employees already use — SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

Under the hood, Arist combines:

  • A powerful core infrastructure for content creation, delivery, data integrations, routing, and compliance
  • Agent-driven automation, including Needs Analysis, content creation, referencing, analytics, and team orchestration
  • Seamless messaging-based engagement, making complex enablement and training feel as easy as texting

Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and large organizations — including Microsoft, HP, Novartis, and the Department of Education — Arist helps teams learn, align, and act faster than ever before.

Our long-term vision: to deliver the right knowledge, to the right person, at the right moment — automatically, through the tools they already use.

Tech Stack

Arist runs scalable agentic AI services that integrate both private (Bedrock-hosted Claude, Mistral, Llama) and public (OpenAI, Perplexity) LLMs that drive workflows in a core Ruby on Rails/Vue.js product with real-time messaging and event-driven processing on cloud-native AWS infrastructure.

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