Rockfish Data
Seattle, US · Founded 2016 · Washington corporation · 5 known investors
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Rockfish generates high-coverage, labeled synthetic data—including rare events, edge cases, anomalies, and drifts—from a customer's schema, sample, or production export to build evaluation sets for testing AI models and agents. It preserves temporal structure and statistical patterns without exposing real data, and can be deployed in a customer's own VPC, on-prem, or as a Snowflake Native App.
Founders & leadership
Rockfish Data was founded in 2016 by Vyas Sekar, Dr. MuckAI Girish, Dr. Vyas Sekar, Dr. Giulia Fanti, and Nathan Haugo.
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Vyas SekarinCo-founder & CEOAI/ML software entrepreneur; executive officer and director at Rockfish Data, which generates labeled synthetic data for AI model testing and evaluation.
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Dr. MuckAI GirishCo-founder & CEO
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Dr. Vyas SekarinCo-Founder, Chief TechnologistHe holds the Tan Family Chair Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught since 2014, and serves as Chief Scientist at Conviva. He also advises Scala Computing, Linear (Imparo Technologies) and Armorblox.
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Dr. Giulia FantiCo-founder & Chief Scientist
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Nathan HaugoinCo-founder and VP of Product and EngineeringHe was previously a product manager at Era Software and led engineering organizations at Lilt, InfluxData, SeaChange International and Timeline Labs. Earlier in his career he directed R&D at Attensity and worked as a software engineer and systems administrator at XMission.
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Jeffrey HummelNamed on SEC filing
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William KingNamed on SEC filing
Board
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Rick HansenBoard director
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Andrew HallBoard director
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Investors · 5
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$5.5M disclosed across 1 of 4 rounds · 2017–2025
- Undisclosed amountSeedAug 2025Source ↗
▶$5.5MraisedOct 2024 · 22 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
▶$5.5MraisedOct 2024 · 22 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
- Vyas SekarExecutive Officer, Director
- Giulia Cecilia FantiExecutive Officer, Director
- Anupam RastogiDirector
- Muckai Krishnan GirishExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Offering amount
- $6M
- Amount sold
- $5.5M
- First sale
- Oct 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2022
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$4MofferedOct 2024 · OtherRule 506(b)
▶$4MofferedOct 2024 · Other
Rule 506(b)Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
- Jeffrey HummelExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Rick HansenDirector
- Andrew HallDirector
- Offering amount
- $4M
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Washington
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$1MofferedMay 2017 · Other
▶$1MofferedMay 2017 · Other
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
- Jeffrey HummelExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- William KingExecutive Officer, Director
- Richard HansenDirector
- Offering amount
- $1M
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Washington, 2016
- Federal exemptions
- 04
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Competitors · 5
by search overlap
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Jellyfish7 shared keywordsJellyfish provides software engineering intelligence and team management tools for engineering organizations. The platform helps teams improve productivity, manage workflows, and communicate business impact through data-driven insights.
Bluefish7 shared keywordsBluefish is an enterprise marketing platform that helps large brands monitor, optimize, and measure their visibility and reputation across AI-driven channels such as AI search and agentic commerce. It targets enterprise marketers and Fortune 500 brands with tools for generative engine optimization (GEO), AI performance monitoring, and AI commerce.
Purplefish6 shared keywordsPurplefish builds a takeoff platform for industrial pipe contractors and fabricators to extract material and labor data from isometric drawings, replacing manual Excel-based processes.
Pollfish4 shared keywordsPollfish is an online survey platform that lets businesses run market research and collect first-party data from a large panel of respondents. It offers research management tools such as single sign-on, shared access, organized folders, and survey duplication, and sources respondents through Prodege's consumer loyalty programs.
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Non-dilutive funding · 1 SBIR/STTR award
Federal grants — no equity taken| Agency | Phase | Year | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. ArmyArmy | Phase I | 2023 | $149.9K |
Source: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts — non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Rockfish Data do?
- Rockfish generates high-coverage, labeled synthetic data—including rare events, edge cases, anomalies, and drifts—from a customer's schema, sample, or production export to build evaluation sets for testing AI models and agents. It preserves temporal structure and statistical patterns without exposing real data, and can be deployed in a customer's own VPC, on-prem, or as a Snowflake Native App.
- Who founded Rockfish Data?
- Rockfish Data was founded by Vyas Sekar, Dr. MuckAI Girish, Dr. Vyas Sekar, Dr. Giulia Fanti, Nathan Haugo in 2016.
- Who are Rockfish Data's investors?
- Rockfish Data's investors include EMERGENT VENTURES, Foster Ventures, Milliways Ventures, NewBuild.VC, Ten13.
- How much funding has Rockfish Data raised?
- Rockfish Data has disclosed $5.5M raised across 1 of its 4 known rounds.
- Where is Rockfish Data headquartered?
- Rockfish Data is headquartered in Seattle, US.