Tile.ai
formerly TileDB
Tile.ai is the Enterprise AI Data Substrate — a governed layer that sits alongside the data and applications you already use, activating them in place for your AI.
Enterprise AI isn’t stalling for lack of models or ambition. It stalls because the data layer underneath is fragmented — spread across files, databases, software systems, instruments, and cloud services, hard to govern and hard for AI to reach. Tile.ai solves this where the data already lives: rather than consolidating everything into a new system, it makes that data discoverable, governed, and usable, so AI agents and applications can find it, access it, and use it responsibly.
Our missionWe help enterprises activate all of their data, wherever it lives — and surface the insights they’d otherwise miss.
Built by the team behind the open-source TileDB universal array storage engine, Tile.ai is in production at leading life sciences and healthcare organizations.
The team behind Tile.ai.
Engineers, researchers, and operators with decades of combined experience across data infrastructure, scientific computing, and enterprise technology.
George leverages 35+ years of expertise in cloud-native platforms, cybersecurity, and sophisticated data analytics to scale high-growth enterprise solutions. Former CIO of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, with a proven track record of leading digital transformation at Merck and Citibank, championing inclusive leadership and strategic investments that improved patient outcomes. A Forbes-recognized CIO and 2023 NSBE Boston Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, he serves on several boards, including NCWIT and Charles River Laboratories.
Stavros founded TileDB, Inc. in 2017. Before that, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs and MIT, and spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he also earned his PhD in Computer Science. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Paul works across all areas of the company, unifying individuals and departments behind one collective vision. Before TileDB, he provided accounting and finance services to more than 20 startups — from pre-revenue to $20 million in ARR — at Kruze Consulting, and served as Financial Controller at blooom.com, where assets under management grew from $1B to $3B in under two years.
Guiding the evolution.
Operators, investors, technologists and scientists with deep experience in enterprise data, scientific computing, and building category-defining companies.
Backed by leading investors.
Each investor on this list has been a true partner in the journey from TileDB to Tile.ai — funding the science, opening doors with customers, and sharpening the strategy across a decade of building. We're grateful for their conviction and counsel, and for the trust they continue to place in the team.
