Datawizz Raises $12.5M Seed Round to Make AI Efficient, Economical, and Sustainable

Founded by serial entrepreneur Iddo Gino, Datawizz is disrupting the broken LLM paradigm with Specialized Language Models that deliver >85% cost savings and faster, more accurate AI.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Datawizz , the company pioneering Specialized Language Models (SLMs) as an alternative to large general-purpose LLMs, announces a $12.5M seed funding round led by Human Capital, with participation from BGV, 91VC, and others. The new capital will accelerate product development, expand the team, and fuel market entry across the U.S. and Europe.

Founded in 2025 by Iddo Gino, the entrepreneur who previously built RapidAPI into the world's largest API marketplace, Datawizz addresses two critical challenges threatening the future of AI: unsustainable costs and inconsistent results.

"Companies spent $8.4B on API calls to LLMs in just the first half of 2025 - more than double the figure for all of 2024," said Gino, Founder and CEO of Datawizz. "The pace of adoption is incredible. The challenge is that many applications have upside-down unit economics and deliver inconsistent results. Datawizz fixes this by replacing the massive generic models with smaller, Specialized Language Models that deliver faster, cheaper, and more accurate results.""Token costs for monolithic models break unit economics for many workloads" said Brian Blond, Investment Partner at Human Capital who will be joining Datawizz's board. "Datawizz provides an elegant and essential solution that will become a core component of the AI stack, and we are thrilled to partner with them to build the next generation of AI".

A New Paradigm: Specialized Language Models

While the AI industry has leaned heavily on increasingly large, general-purpose models, Datawizz is charting a different path. Its fully managed, end-to-end platform automatically profiles the organization's AI requests, trains specialized expert models and automatically routes requests to them.

A company might have dozens of specialized models, each about 1,000 times smaller than a regular LLM, and trained to handle very specific requests. Datawizz routes every query to a specialized model best suited for the task, only defaulting to a general-purpose model when specialization isn't available.

The results are transformative :

• >85% Reduction in AI Costs: Drastically cutting expenditures on API calls.
• 5-15x Improvement in Speed: Delivering faster, more responsive user experiences.
• Enhanced Precision: Achieving more accurate and predictable results, especially when fine-tuned with human feedback.

Unlike today's reliance on Big Tech providers, Datawizz builds models that are completely owned by the customer, running on-premises, on-device, or in private clouds—ensuring no data is shared externally and eliminating dependency on external APIs.

By 2030, Datawizz predicts that ~70% of AI traffic will be served by sub-5B parameter Specialized Models, with more than 50% of that traffic managed through its platform.

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Datawizz was founded in 2025 by Iddo Gino, founder of RapidAPI. Based in San Francisco, the company is building the infrastructure for a sustainable AI future. Datawizz's platform delivers efficient, economical, and reliable AI by replacing generic large models with Specialized Language Models that companies own and control. For more information, visit: https://datawizz.ai/

SOURCE Datawizz