About | Aryn

About Us

Aryn (pronounced "air-in") means "high mountain." Over 90% of data today is unstructured, leaving enterprises with mountains of data that are difficult to conquer. Our goal is to help you summit that peak.

Our Story

Aryn's mission is to answer questions from all of your data. Our passion is data and AI in the cloud. With the recent flurry of advances in AI, we believe that seamlessly processing and querying unstructured data is within reach. Towards this, we founded Aryn to empower developers to build applications with these data assets.

Our vision

Up to 90% of enterprise data generated is unstructured, and requires complex processing to be useful. Today's options require significant tuning, data preparation, and rummaging through result sets. What if it was easy to prepare your data for RAG and unstructured analytics, and easily get accurate and crisp answers?

Our approach

We use LLMs as assistants to enhance and simplify the data pipelines that comprise search stacks. Also, we provide a data preparation and enrichment system for getting quality answers from LLMs and RAG pipelines. We handle the complexity of scaling, security, and manageability. And, it's all 100% open source.

Leadership Team

Aryn's team includes leaders with decades of big data, AI, and cloud experience from AWS, Google Cloud, Stripe, Dremio, HP, IBM, Yahoo!, and Meta.

Mehul Shah

CEO, Co-founder

Mehul is the CEO and co-founder of Aryn. Most recently, he was an executive at AWS and Google Cloud. At AWS, he helped create and launch OpenSearch as well as found and grow AWS Glue and Lake Formation. Prior to that, he was founder and CEO of Amiato, a cloud ETL service (acquired). He was also a scientist at HP Labs where he published in top-tier database and systems conferences and won several awards. He earned his PhD in databases from U.C. Berkeley, and degrees in CS and Physics from MIT.

Ben Sowell

CTO, Co-founder

Ben is the CTO and co-founder of Aryn. He has worked with data for his entire career and was most recently a principal engineer at AWS, where he spent time working on critical components of Amazon Redshift and helped found and scale AWS Glue and Lake Formation. Before that he was an early employee at Amiato, a cloud ETL service (acquired). He earned his PhD from Cornell University in the database group, and holds a computer science degree from Carleton College.

Jon Fritz

CPO, Founding team

Jon is the founding Chief Product Officer at Aryn. Prior to that, he was the SVP of Product Management at Dremio, a data lake company. Earlier, Jon was a Director at AWS, and led product management for in-memory database services (ElastiCache and MemoryDB for Redis), Amazon EMR (Apache Spark and Hadoop), and founded and was GM of the blockchain division. Jon has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis.

Our Investors

Aryn is backed by amazing VCs including Factory, 8VC, Lip-Bu Tan, Amarjit Gill, and other notable angels and advisors. Read 8VC's investment announcement.