CloudNine Augmented Intelligence
Techstars '24Santa Monica, US · 3 known investors
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CloudNine AI provides an associative enterprise context infrastructure that unifies and governs complex data across legacy systems without modifying source data. It serves organizations with data privacy, risk, and governance needs across healthcare, fintech, AI/ML, manufacturing, and other industries.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026CloudNine Augmented Intelligence (CloudNine AI) develops a software-defined associative context architecture for enterprise data. The platform ingests complex legacy data sources, virtualizes and unifies them without modifying the underlying source data, resolves data quality problems, and surfaces the context and patterns inherent in the combined data set. The company positions the result as a single point of truth that is fully explainable and that allows users to obtain insights without writing complex queries or relying on technical specialists.
The product is described as source agnostic, able to serve as either a lightweight addition to or a replacement for existing data systems, and designed to operate at scale. Compliance and privacy features are central to the offering: privacy by design, an anonymized token system, transparent data lineage, privacy management and access control, and point-in-time auditing. The company also describes the architecture as energy efficient by design.
The company identifies application areas including healthcare (data discovery, privacy and compliance, PII access and management, data locality and transparency), financial and insurance technology (risk and anomaly detection, explainable data lineage and auditing, reconciliation, KYC and AML, data security), AI and machine learning (data preparation, LLM and LAM training acceleration, associative-powered AI models), research and development (secret access management, pattern and point-of-interest recognition, analytics and model building), manufacturing and production, and green technology.
Business model
CloudNine AI supplies data infrastructure software to enterprises, offered as an addition to or replacement for existing data systems and engaged through direct contact for partnerships, learning materials, and advanced R&D collaboration.
Traction
Listed at 11 employees and a pre-seed funding stage as of June 2026.
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Market position
An early-stage company at the pre-seed stage with roughly 11 employees, positioning its associative approach as faster, lighter, and more capable than leading competing data systems.
Technology
The core technology is an associative architecture that ingests complex legacy data sources and virtualizes and unifies them without altering source data. It exposes and resolves data quality issues, reveals inherent context and patterns, and provides explainable outputs and transparent data lineage. Privacy and governance capabilities include an anonymized token system, access control and privacy management, and point-in-time audit. The company describes the system as source agnostic, operable at scale, and energy efficient by design.
Go-to-market
Organizations with data privacy, risk, and governance needs, spanning healthcare, financial services and insurtech, AI and machine learning teams, research and development groups, manufacturing and production, and green technology.
Geography
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with website-listed presence in the USA, Canada, and Switzerland.
History
The company was founded in 2020 and is led by founder and CEO Michael Brown from Santa Monica, California. It took part in the Techstars Equitech accelerator in 2024.
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsCompany profile lists participation in the Techstars: Equitech accelerator program in 2024.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does CloudNine Augmented Intelligence do?
- CloudNine AI builds a software-defined associative context architecture that unifies and governs data across legacy systems.
- Who founded CloudNine Augmented Intelligence?
- CloudNine Augmented Intelligence was founded by Michael Brown.
- Who are CloudNine Augmented Intelligence's investors?
- CloudNine Augmented Intelligence's investors include Expert DOJO, Techstars, Backstage Capital.
- Where is CloudNine Augmented Intelligence headquartered?
- CloudNine Augmented Intelligence is headquartered in Santa Monica, US.




