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Relationalai

Berkeley, US · Founded 2017 · Delaware corporation · 139 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors

RelationalAI builds a Snowflake-native platform that combines large language models with semantic models, relational knowledge graphs, and rule-based reasoning to enable organizations to create AI-powered decision engines for business operations. The system fine-tunes LLMs securely within data clouds and applies business logic across applications without requiring data movement or retraining.

Also known as Rel · RelationalAI · RelationalAI, Inc.

Founders & leadership

Relationalai was founded in 2017 by Molham Aref.

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Molham ArefinFounder · CEO
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Robert MugliaExecutive
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Rafael Gonzalez CaloniExecutive
NVNikolaos Vasiloglou
Nikolaos VasiloglouinVice President of Research ML

Board

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Soma SomasegarBoard director
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Ennis RimawiBoard director
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Margaret HolenBoard director

Investors · 4

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$74M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2021–2025

$74MraisedAug 2022 · 14 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Robert MugliaDirector
  • Rafael Gonzalez CaloniExecutive Officer
  • Soma SomasegarDirector
  • Ennis RimawiDirector
  • Margaret HolenDirector
  • Molham ArefExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
Offering amount
$74M
Amount sold
$74M
First sale
Mar 2022
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2017
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

RelationalAI is a Berkeley, California-based software company that develops a decision intelligence platform delivered as a Snowflake-native application. Its central product, an agent called Rel, analyzes tables and documents already held in a customer's Snowflake account, constructs a semantic model of the business, and answers operational questions grounded in that model. The platform exposes four categories of reasoning: graph reasoning for discovering groups, clusters and connections (with pathfinding in preview), rule-based reasoning for business qualification rules and decision trees, predictive reasoning for demand forecasts, churn likelihood and risk or anomaly alerts (early access), and prescriptive reasoning for pricing, inventory management and staffing optimization (early access).

The company describes its system as learning business logic once and applying it across use cases, fine-tuning large language models inside the customer's data cloud and enriching them with semantic models and relational knowledge graphs. Because it runs on a single relational foundation inside Snowflake, it supports zero-copy cloning, versioning, time travel and consumption pricing without data syncs. Corrections made by users are said to update the system's understanding permanently, a behavior the company labels "superalignment." Developers interact through PyRel, a Python API that sends queries to the RelationalAI Native App to execute within the Snowflake security perimeter; administrators manage app access and monitor usage.

Earlier company materials from 2022 positioned RelationalAI as the creator of a "relational knowledge graph" system for building intelligent data apps, aimed at eliminating the "knowledge silos" created when application logic remains locked in source applications. At that stage the system was offered as a fully hosted cloud service in early access preview, with early enterprise use cases including data fabric, fraud detection, securities analysis, structural search and contextual recommendation applications.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
EmployeesJan 2026140 people
Phd employeesJan 202650 people
Total funding raisedJan 2026$137.5M
University research collaborationsJan 202620 universities

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

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by search overlap
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Truera53 shared keywordsSnowflake is a fully managed cloud data platform that integrates data ingestion, processing, analysis, and AI application development across multiple cloud providers. It serves enterprise customers with unified security, governance, and infrastructure for building data and AI workloads.
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Timeline · 5

launches, deals, and filings
Aug 2026
PyRel 1.27.1 release

Release speeds up undirected-graph queries and deployments; requires DuckDB 1.5.0 or newer.

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Aug 2026
RAI Native App release 2026.8.17

Introduces a SQL procedure for cleaning up stale data streams and fixes several query correctness issues.

source ↗

Dec 2025
Other equity funding round

Aggregator profile lists an 'Other Equity' funding event for RelationalAI.

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Apr 2022
RelationalAI closes $75M Series B led by Tiger Global

RelationalAI announced the close of a $75 million Series B round led by Tiger Global with participation from existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Addition and Menlo Ventures, bringing total funding to $122M. Funds earmarked for product development and go-to-market for its relational knowledge graph system.

$75M source ↗

Apr 2022
Bob Muglia joins board of directors

Investor and former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia joined the RelationalAI Board of Directors, announced alongside the Series B.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
RelationalaiDelaware

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

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

Frequently asked questions

What does Relationalai do?
RelationalAI builds a Snowflake-native decision intelligence platform combining semantic models, knowledge graphs and reasoning.
Who founded Relationalai?
Relationalai was founded by Molham Aref in 2017.
Who are Relationalai's investors?
Relationalai's investors include Menlo Ventures, Addition, Tiger Global Management, Madrona Venture Group.
How much funding has Relationalai raised?
Relationalai has disclosed $74M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
Where is Relationalai headquartered?
Relationalai is headquartered in Berkeley, US.