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FirstHive

Sunnyvale, US · Founded 2019 · Delaware corporation · 99 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors

FirstHive is an AI-powered customer data platform that unifies fragmented customer data from multiple sources and enables real-time, autonomous decision-making and personalized customer experiences across channels. The platform serves enterprise marketing, data, and IT teams across retail, financial services, hospitality, and other industries.

Also known as FirstHive Tech Corp

Founders & leadership

FirstHive was founded in 2019 by Aditya Bhamidipaty.

ABAditya Bhamidipaty
Aditya BhamidipatyCEO

Board

HAHemant Asher
Hemant AsherinBoard directorPartner at Saama Capital
KNKrishnakumar Natarajan
Krishnakumar Natarajanin𝕏Board directorManaging Partner at Mela Ventures
SV
Sunder VelamuriBoard director
AM
Amit MidhaBoard director

Investors · 6

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$6.8M disclosed across 4 rounds · 2024–2025

$1.5MraisedOct 2025 · 5 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Aditya BhamidipatyExecutive Officer, Director
  • Hemant AsherDirector
  • Krishnakumar NatarajanDirector
  • Amit MidhaDirector
  • Sunder VelamuriDirector
Offering amount
$1.7M
Amount sold
$1.5M
Minimum investment
$100K
First sale
Oct 2025
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$5.1MraisedFeb 2024 · 6 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Hemant AsherDirector
  • Amit MidhaDirector
  • Sunder VelamuriDirector
  • Krishnakumar NatarajanDirector
  • Aditya BhamidipatyExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$5.6M
Amount sold
$5.1M
Minimum investment
$250K
First sale
Feb 2024
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2019
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$46.1KraisedFeb 2024 · 1 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Hemant AsherDirector
  • Sunder VelamuriDirector
  • Amit MidhaDirector
  • Aditya BhamidipatyExecutive Officer, Director
  • Krishnakumar NatarajanDirector
Offering amount
$46.1K
Amount sold
$46.1K
Minimum investment
$46.1K
First sale
Feb 2024
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2019
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$162.7KraisedFeb 2024 · 1 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Sunder VelamuriDirector
  • Aditya BhamidipatyExecutive Officer, Director
  • Hemant AsherDirector
  • Amit MidhaDirector
  • Krishnakumar NatarajanDirector
Offering amount
$162.7K
Amount sold
$162.7K
Minimum investment
$162.7K
First sale
Feb 2024
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2019
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

FirstHive is a full-stack AI Customer Data Platform (CDP) that ingests, unifies, analyzes and activates customer data across enterprise touchpoints. Its architecture is organized in layers: a data foundation that ingests structured, semi-structured and unstructured data and resolves identity across devices, channels and time; an intelligence layer with real-time machine learning, predictive scoring and generative AI; an activation engine for omnichannel journeys across email, SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, web, mobile app, call centre and paid media; and a trust and compliance layer covering consent management and data governance.

The company positions the product around a "decisioning gap" — the argument that unifying customer data is insufficient without a layer that converts unified profiles into real-time, autonomous decisions and actions. Its agentic AI component, Eddie, is described as an AI agent orchestrator and decisioning engine that coordinates specialized agents (segment, content, channel and insight agents) and exposes CDP capabilities through natural language. A FirstHive mobile app provides live dashboards, campaign performance reports and AI-driven alerts, with an Eddie chat feature listed as coming soon.

Beyond the core CDP, FirstHive offers a Model Marketplace of pre-built models and agents (churn prediction, customer lifetime value, propensity, next-best-action, basket analysis, sentiment analysis, content generation and optimization, translation and NLP insights), ML Canvas for custom model development, Data Canvas for visual reporting, and an Apps Marketplace (Beta) with quizzes, surveys and loyalty management applications used to capture zero- and first-party data.

Business model

FirstHive sells an enterprise software platform to businesses, layered with add-on applications distributed through an Apps Marketplace (Beta) and pre-built models and agents through a Model Marketplace. The platform is composable, running alongside customers' existing hyperscaler, data warehouse, CRM and delivery-channel systems rather than replacing them.

Traction

Public materials cite enterprise use across financial services, retail and CPG, travel and hospitality, manufacturing and real estate. Third-party records show $6.8M raised across three disclosed rounds between February 2024 and October 2025, with the most recent raise reported in October 2025 under a Rule 506(b) Reg D exemption involving five investors.

Latest developments

A funding filing with a first sale date of 2025-10-13 records $1.5M raised. Product materials describe the Eddie agent orchestrator, a Model Marketplace of pre-built models and agents, an Apps Marketplace in beta, and a mobile app with an Eddie chat capability listed as coming soon.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography

Market position

FirstHive competes in the customer data platform category, positioning itself as a composable, full-stack CDP with an agentic decisioning layer rather than a profile-collection and audience-push tool. A third-party company profile ranks it mid-pack by capital raised among software and technology companies tracked in Sunnyvale.

FirstHive describes itself as the first CDP globally to apply machine learning — including probabilistic and biometric matching — to unify and structure customer data into holistic profiles. Other stated differentiators are built-in AI/ML across ingestion, processing, enrichment and activation; ingestion from over 750 real-time sources; direct audience activation on paid media platforms alongside owned channels; privacy certifications (ISO 27001, ISO 27018, SOC 2 Type II) supporting DPDPA, GDPR and CCPA compliant campaign orchestration; and add-on marketplace apps intended to shorten time to value.

Technology

The platform combines universal data ingestion from websites, mobile apps, CRMs, ERPs, point-of-sale, customer care systems and 750+ other real-time sources via pre-built connectors, SDKs, APIs and ETL/ELT. Identity resolution uses a four-tier identity structure (Interaction ID, Channel ID, FHID and an optional Entity Identity ID) with five configurable unification models ranging from deterministic matching to a fully custom framework, and applies machine learning including probabilistic and biometric matching. Analytics capabilities include real-time dashboards, cohort analysis, rule-based and AI-driven predictive segmentation, first-party lookalike modeling, and BI extensions via API and raw data access to tools such as Power BI. Activation covers cross-channel campaign orchestration and Audience Bridge, which syncs segments to Meta, Google Ads, X Ads, Criteo and Klaviyo using PII or non-PII matching, or exports to Amazon S3, Azure Blob, MFT and SFTP. The stack is composable across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure; Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift and BigQuery; Salesforce and Adobe; and supports MCP servers, the A2A protocol and agent tools.

Go-to-market

Enterprises in financial services (banking, insurance, asset management), retail and CPG, automotive, building materials, QSR and consumer durables, travel and hospitality (airlines, cruise lines, hotels, OTAs), real estate and manufacturing. Within those accounts the platform targets marketing teams, data and analytics teams, IT and engineering teams, CX and support teams, and data compliance teams.", "go_to_market">

Geography

The company is recorded in public filings under a US jurisdiction with a Sunnyvale location; compliance coverage spans GDPR, DPDPA, CCPA and other regional privacy regimes.

Compiled by commissioned research from 4 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Pre-built data source connectorsJan 2025750 connectors

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 9

by search overlap
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BlueConic25 shared keywordsBlueConic is a customer growth platform for e-commerce brands that combines real-time customer profiles with AI agents that run growth programs—cart recovery, replenishment, acquisition, and retention—across a brand's existing marketing channels. It works from a company's existing data warehouse or CDP and executes through integrations like Klaviyo, Meta, Shopify, and Braze.

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Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
FirstHiveDelaware

Research sources · 4

primary sources listed

4 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does FirstHive do?
FirstHive is an AI customer data platform that unifies enterprise customer data and drives real-time, agent-led decisioning and activation.
Who founded FirstHive?
FirstHive was founded by Aditya Bhamidipaty in 2019.
Who are FirstHive's investors?
FirstHive's investors include Arka Venture Labs, Info Edge Ventures, Mela Ventures, Saama Capital, SUVAN VENTURES, Benhamou Global Ventures.
How much funding has FirstHive raised?
FirstHive has disclosed $6.8M raised across 4 rounds.
Where is FirstHive headquartered?
FirstHive is headquartered in Sunnyvale, US.