We raised a series A in 2019 led by Green Visor (who has been excellent btw, and with us from the start)
> it seems like you've been building for ~5 years ... i'm guessing it cost quite a bit to develop
Yep, you're spot on that it's a complex product. The biggest cost has been making it feel for the user like it's not. What that boils down to is an enormous amount of iterative feedback and development w/ the industry. Between that and the regulatory process, a lot of the "cost" has been more duration than cash burn. We've kept things lean from the start in anticipation of that.
> unless you built out all of the components yourself
We've developed the tech in house, with some hands on help from our friends at Imandra mentioned in the OP. On the research piece: that's been happening in the background for many years, and we're definitely building on the shoulders of giants in the worlds of mechanism design, algorithmic game theory, and deep learning. We're lucky to have some great academic advisors involved (like Kevin Leyton-Brown since the early days) as well.