San Francisco-based startup Yutori has raised US$15 million in funding to develop AI-powered personal assistants.

The funding round, announced on Mar. 27, 2025, was led by Rob Toews from Radical Ventures and included participation from Felicis, AI expert Fei-Fei Li, and Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean.

Yutori was co-founded by former Meta executives Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra. Parikh previously led multimodal AI research at Meta, while Batra headed Meta’s embodied AI research team.

The startup’s team also includes experts involved in the development of Meta’s open-source Llama 3 and Llama 4 models.

The company focuses on refining AI models through post-training, which improves pre-trained models for specific tasks.