NYC-based Solid Secures $20M in Seed Funding

Solid just locked in $20M in seed capital, and if you listen closely, you can hear the quiet part out loud. Enterprise AI has been loud for 3 years. Demos everywhere. Pilots stacked like unread emails. But production? That is where the music usually cuts out. Solid is here to make sure the beat actually drops.

Congratulations to Yoni Leitersdorf, CEO and Co-Founder, and Tal Segalov, CTO and Co-Founder, for building a company that understands the difference between hype and infrastructure. Team8 and SignalFire led the round, and when firms like that lean in, it is not for vibes. It is for architecture. It is for conviction. It is because they see the missing layer.

Here is the tension. Enterprises have data. They have dashboards. They have AI tools promising brilliance. What they do not have is shared understanding. Metrics shift. Definitions drift. Context gets tribal. AI steps into that mess and suddenly “intelligent” becomes “interesting but wrong.” Solid steps in and says let us get the semantics straight before we let the machines speak.

Solid automatically generates, tests, and maintains semantic models. It builds a context graph so AI systems and analytics tools actually understand the business they are serving. Not just tables and columns, but meaning. And meaning is everything. According to company-reported outcomes, customers see accuracy move from roughly 20%–30% to above 85%. Manual work on maintaining and testing models drops by 50%–70%. Timelines that used to crawl for 1–2 years compress into 3–6 months. That is not incremental. That is operational oxygen.

SurveyMonkey’s VP of Data, Meenal Iyer, put it plainly in the launch coverage. A reliable semantic foundation means AI outputs can be trusted. Trusted is the word executives care about. Because nobody gets promoted for shipping a clever hallucination.

The team behind this is not learning on the job. Yoni Leitersdorf built and sold Indeni to BlueCat. Tal Segalov co-founded Mintigo and saw it through to acquisition by Anaplan, later serving as Chief Data Scientist. Around them: Tali Hirsh driving product strategy, Alon Ashkenazi leading engineering, Maya Bercovitch steering research. 25 people across New York and Kfar Saba, building a layer that does not scream for attention but quietly makes everything else work.

Solid integrates with Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery. It does not rip and replace. It reinforces. It turns enterprise AI from a science project into a system. That is the real flex. Not louder models. Clearer meaning.