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3Pillar Global
AI modernisation, digital products and AI operations, delivered by its own engineering pods
3Pillar describes itself as an AI transformation partner that modernises legacy systems, builds digital products and runs AI operations for its clients. Its engineers work in Helix Pods, which the firm calls AI-native delivery teams and it uses its own platform, HelixAI, which bundles a code knowledge graph, a governance model and an agent runtime. The home page logo wall shows Fortune, CARFAX, The Telegraph, Comscore, NielsenIQ, PBS, ID.me and Informa Markets, though the case study detail on the site is thin.
- Type of firm
- Forward-deployed engineering
- Known for
- AI-native product engineering and modernisation
- Based in
- Fairfax, United States
- Employees
- 1,001 to 5,000
- Origin
- Pivoted to AI
- Funding
- Strategic investor (Strategic growth investment)
- Total raised
- $12M+
- Ownership
- PE-owned · CIP Capital
- Status
- Active
- Generalist or specialist
- Generalist
- Built on
- AWS, Microsoft, UiPath
- Own product
- Yes: HelixAI
- Delivery model
- Runs it after launch
- Website
- 3pillar.ai
Funding and deals
- 2021-10: Strategic growth investment, not disclosed, led by H.I.G. Capital
- 2013-06: Series A, $12M, led by NewSpring Growth Capital III
Investors
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