About Kolena
Kolena is an AI-powered platform that automates document-intensive workflows, enabling businesses to extract, classify, validate, and route information from complex unstructured documents such as PDFs, scanned images, and emails. It serves enterprise customers in sectors like real estate, financial services, and insurance, offering tools for lease abstraction, due diligence, and banking compliance. The platform is built with enterprise-grade security, including reasoning logs, audit trails, and governance architecture.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$21M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
Andrew Shi
Co-founded Kolena in 2021; extensive background in AI/ML from prior roles alongside Elgendy and Hart.
Gordon Hart
Co-founded Kolena in 2021; extensive background in AI/ML from prior roles alongside Elgendy and Shi.
Mohamed Elgendy
Co-founded Kolena in 2021 with Andrew Shi and Gordon Hart, after working together for ~6 years at AI divisions within Amazon, Palantir, Rakuten, and Synapse.
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