The Specialised Language Fashions firm was based by Iddo Gino, who at 17 based RapidAPI and led it to a valuation of $1 billion earlier than it was acquired.
Israeli Specialised Language Fashions (SLMs) firm Datawizz has introduced completion of a $12.5 million seed financing spherical led by Human Capital, with participation from BGV, 91VC, and others. The brand new capital will speed up product improvement of SLMs, that are an alternative choice to giant general-purpose LLMs, develop the staff, and fund market entry throughout the US and Europe.
Datawizz was based by Iddo Gino, who at 17 based RapidAPI and led it to a valuation of $1 billion earlier than it was acquired. The platform developed by Datawizz acts as an intermediate layer between the group and the mannequin, and mechanically generates small, targeted fashions which can be constructed from solely related data. The system is aware of the best way to route queries to the suitable mannequin and even appropriate errors, thus not solely decreasing prices and power consumption but additionally bettering the accuracy of the outcomes. As well as, the platform permits these diminished fashions to be run on PCs and cell phones, in order that the data stays on the system, decreasing dependence on corporations similar to OpenAI or Anthropic.
Datawizz has simply 4 workers in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, however says it’s already reporting its first clients within the fintech, e-commerce and SaaS sectors. For Gino, now 26, this can be a new chapter after a turbulent interval. In 2023 he stepped down as RapidAPI CEO following disagreements with traders, and a yr later the corporate’s belongings have been offered to Nokia.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on September 30, 2025.
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