Deeptech startup Kluisz.ai secured $9.6 million in seed funding to develop a generative AI (GenAI)-powered private cloud platform. The funding round was led by early-stage venture capital firm RTP Global, while Unicorn India Ventures, Blume Founders Fund, Climber Capital, and several angel investors also participated.
The deeptech startup was founded by Abhinav Sinha, former Chief Operating Officer (COO) at OYO; Vamshidhar Reddy, former Partner at McKinsey; and Abhijeet Singh, former Vice President of Cloud at Jio. Furthermore, Kluisz.ai aims to create private cloud infrastructure for enterprises by delivering a secure, scalable stack orchestrated by AI.
“Private cloud today transfers the ownership of managing infrastructure to the customer. It is complex, needs large teams, and brings in heavy operational overheads. We are building a stack that removes the pain from design, setup, and day-zero to day-two operations.” Sinha, the COO, said.
With Gartner projecting that 90% of enterprises will operate workloads on hybrid cloud setups by 2027, Kluisz.ai aims to address key challenges related to automation, security, and compliance, while also enabling automatic workload management. Moreover, the platform will empower teams to define performance, cost, and policy objectives, and subsequently automate the infrastructure orchestration to achieve those goals.
Kluisz.ai will use the newly raised funds to expand its engineering team in Bengaluru, accelerate product development, and support early customer deployments in India and the Middle East. Kluisz.ai noted that it is already in discussions with several potential clients, focusing on sectors such as banking and finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and government organizations.
“Abhinav, Vamshi, and Abhijeet bring world-class experience and vision to this space. This is a team with deep technical experience and the product and market instinct to reimagine the private cloud in the AI era. We’re excited to back them,” said Madhur Makkar, principal at RTP Global.
Furthermore, Unicorn India Ventures stated that Kluisz’s AI-powered cloud management, which enables large teams to maintain security and compliance, is indeed a game-changing solution.
