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Percepta

Backed byADT Commercial

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Total raised$1.0M
Hiring pace268 roles / 90d
Founded2025
Team size11-50
HQAllen Park, Michigan
Industries
AI/MLSaaSEnterprise SoftwareTechnologyHealthcare TechManufacturing Tech

About Percepta

Percepta is dedicated to transforming critical institutions through applied AI. The company achieves this by embedding its quickly growing team of Applied AI Engineers, Embedded Product Managers, and Researchers directly with industry-leading customers. This team provides forward-deployed expertise across engineering, product, and research to drive comprehensive AI transformation. Operating as a direct partnership with General Catalyst, a global transformation and investment company, Percepta also maintains strategic alliances with industry leaders such as Anthropic, McKinsey, and AWS.

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Company at a glance

Location
Allen Park, Michigan
Websitepercepta.ai
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Founders & Leadership

CD

Constantinos Daskalakis

Professor @ MIT | Co-founder & Chief Scientist @ Percepta

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HJ

Hirsh Jain

CEO & Co-founder @ Percepta

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Thomas Mathew

CTO & Co-founder @ Percepta

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AJ

Athul Paul Jacob

Co-founder & Chief AI Officer @ Percepta | General Catalyst

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RJ

Radha Jain

Co-founder @ Percepta

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering38%
  • Product & Research15%
  • Leadership15%
  • Operations13%
  • Specialized13%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Stanford University
  2. 2.University of California, Berkeley
  3. 3.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  4. 4.Harvard University
  5. 5.Carnegie Mellon University

Team Worked At

  • Palantir Technologies
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Meta
  • Jane Street

Team Composition

32 people
  • Engineering10
  • Research4
  • Product Management3
  • Community and Social Services2
  • Education2
  • Entrepreneurship2 senior2
  • Leadership2 senior2
  • Administrative1

Culture & values

The team cares that industries that power the world, such as healthcare, manufacturing, and energy, benefit from frontier technology.

The team is motivated by diffusing the promise of AI into improvements felt in day-to-day lives.

Funding History

EquitySep 2020

$1M

raised

Percepta Labs, an ethical shoplifting-detection AI startup, raised a $1M investment from ADT Commercial.

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