
Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future. The company’s technology, talent, and research have driven outcomes for the world’s greatest companies, including leaders in telecommunications, healthcare, and financial services. Their proprietary platform, Distillery, curates context from across the enterprise and adapts to each customer’s needs, prioritizing the outcomes customers need to show impact in months, not years. Headquartered in San Francisco, Distyl has reached more than 120 million end users and delivered hundreds of millions in operating impact across industries. Distyl is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue, and Dell Technologies Capital.

Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future. The company’s technology, talent, and research have driven outcomes for the world’s greatest companies, including leaders in telecommunications, healthcare, and financial services. Their proprietary platform, Distillery, curates context from across the enterprise and adapts to each customer’s needs, prioritizing the outcomes customers need to show impact in months, not years. Headquartered in San Francisco, Distyl has reached more than 120 million end users and delivered hundreds of millions in operating impact across industries. Distyl is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue, and Dell Technologies Capital.
Headquarters: San Francisco (also lists New York presence)
Product: Distillery — proprietary platform to generate, evaluate, and deploy AI-native workflows
Founders / Leadership: Arjun Prakash (Co‑Founder & CEO) and Derek Ho (Co‑Founder & COO)
Funding: Reported total funding ~ $202M; Series B reported $175M
Customers / Impact: Works with large enterprises across telecom, healthcare, financial services; reported >120M end users reached
Enterprise operations and AI systems integration across industries (telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, retail, financial services).
2022
Enterprise AI / AI systems
175000000
Reported post‑money valuation $1.8B in coverage
“Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue, and Dell Technologies Capital”
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Distyl AI develops AI native technologies for humans & AI to collaborate to power the operations of the Global Fortune 1000.
In just 24 months, we’ve rapidly grown to partner with some of the world’s largest enterprises—including F100 telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and retail companies—delivering multiple AI deployments with $100M+ impact. Our platform, Distillery, along with our team of AI Engineers, Researchers, and Strategists, is pioneering AI-native systems of work, solving the most complex, high-stakes challenges at scale.
Distyl is founded and led by proven leaders from companies like Palantir, Apple, and top national laboratories. We work in deep partnership with OpenAI, jointly going-to-market at the largest enterprises and collaborating evaluating and testing the latest models. Backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, Coatue, industry leaders like Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO), as well as board members of over 20+ F500s, Distyl is building the future of AI-powered enterprise operations.
At Distyl we’re pushing the envelope of AI utilization in enterprise. This requires creative researchers who don’t just want to drive incremental improvements on benchmarks or optimize an existing process but instead are looking to creatively redefine how software is used.
Our researchers come from many academic backgrounds but have strong research track records, operate in an AI-native way, and would be bored staying on the rails of a traditional research org.
Key Responsibilities
What We Require
What We Offer
If you are an innovative, ambitious, and driven individual looking to make a difference in the world of AI, we want to hear from you. Apply now to join our team as an Applied AI Researcher and help us shape the future of AI-driven solutions for enterprises across the globe.
Note: Distyl is a hybrid working environment and requires in office collaboration 3 days a week. We have offices in SF and NYC