About
Caldera builds foundational models and AI systems that help teams turn everyday effort into extraordinary impact.
Our mission
We believe AI’s highest purpose is to enhance human wellbeing. We’re committed to realizing that potential by empowering businesses to scale innovation, raise the quality of everyday work, and keep that progress within reach of every team.
Our story
Caldera was founded in 2018 in Austin with a bold conviction: language models would soon be reliable enough to do real work, and someone needed to build them for the enterprise from the ground up — secure, inspectable, and owned by the customer.
Read our origin storyAcross our first funding rounds we grew from a research group into a product company. We shipped our first hosted models to design partners in finance and healthcare, and crossed one billion API calls served.
See how teams build with CalderaWe opened Caldera Labs, an open research effort tackling the hard problems behind dependable AI — retrieval, evaluation, and model reliability. The lab has since published more than 80 papers and grown past 200 contributors.
Explore Caldera LabsWe launched Atlas, our agent platform for workplace productivity. Caldera's agents read, reason, and act across the systems teams already use — turning operational complexity into finished work.
Meet AtlasDr. Elena Vasquez
AI Research Advisor, Caldera
Professor of Computer Science
“Language models have crossed a real threshold. They finally understand intent well enough to be trusted with serious work, and the team at Caldera is building the systems that will make that shift dependable enough for the enterprise to rely on.”
Founders
Marcus Vela
Co-founder and CEO
Priya Anand
Co-founder
Tomas Eklund
Co-founder
Executive team