Scale AI's former CTO just launched Isotopes AI with a $20M seed round.

The problem: People who can run data infrastructure aren't the ones who need the insights.

The solution: AI agent "Aidnn" that handles complex data tasks in natural language.

Why it matters:
• Founded by Arun Murthy (co-creator of Hadoop)
• Connects to any data source (Salesforce, Snowflake, ERP)
• Shows reasoning and flags data anomalies
• Already filed 10 patents
• Addresses $1.8T problem of poor data coordination

Murthy built Hadoop 20+ years ago, took Hortonworks public in 4 years, then learned LLMs at Scale AI. Now applying that knowledge to solve every founder's data access problem.

Seed led by NTTVC.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/scale-ais-former-cto-launches-ai-agent-that-could-solve-big-datas-biggest-problem/