Martian
To understand machine intelligence by developing rigorous measurement and interpretability tools, enabling trustworthy, autonomous AI systems.
Founding Story
Founded by University of Pennsylvania AI researchers Etan Ginsberg and Shriyash Upadhyay to solve the 'model routing' problem using a breakthrough interpretability technique called 'Model Mapping'.
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Leadership
Founders
Etan Ginsberg
Co-CEO. Previously founded and sold NLP companies. AI researcher at University of Pennsylvania. Focuses on machine intelligence theory.
Shriyash Upadhyay
Co-CEO. Previously founded and sold NLP companies. AI researcher at University of Pennsylvania. Worked on early scientific research at Google DeepMind.
Executive Team
Etan Ginsberg
Co-CEO
AI researcher from UPenn, previous entrepreneur in NLP.
Shriyash Upadhyay
Co-CEO
AI researcher from UPenn, previously at DeepMind and entrepreneur in NLP.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Commercializes research via API and product subscriptions (SaaS/Usage-based).
Pricing Tiers
Charges based on tokens/requests routed through the Model Router.
Target Markets
- Enterprise Software
- AI Safety/Compliance
- Developer Tools
- Enterprise LLM cost management
- AI compliance and policy enforcement
- Coding agent optimization
- Model performance benchmarking
- Accenture
History & Milestones
Raised $23M funding round led by NEA.
Partnered with Accenture to launch 'Airlock Compliance' for AI policy adherence.
Raised $9M Seed round led by NEA and Prosus Ventures.
Martian Learning, Inc. founded by Etan Ginsberg and Shriyash Upadhyay.
1 AI Tool by Martian
Martian
8moLLM model router and unified API that selects the best model per request to improve performance and reduce cost.
