Bengaluru-based deeptech startup Kluisz AI has raised $9.6 million in seed funding, aiming to build an AI-native, developer-first private cloud platform that promises to eliminate the complexity of managing enterprise workloads in hybrid and edge environments.
The round was led by global early-stage venture capital firm RTP Global, with participation from Unicorn India Ventures, Blume Founders Fund, Climber Capital, and several prominent angel investors including Ritesh Agarwal of OYO, Dr. Ritesh Malik of Innov8, and Aditya Virwani of Embassy Group.
Founded just three months ago, Kluisz.ai is the brainchild of Abhinav Sinha, Vamshidhar Reddy, and Abhijeet Singh, all veterans of global tech and operations roles. Sinha previously served as Global COO and CPO at OYO; Reddy was a Partner at McKinsey and has worked with AMD; Singh was VP of Cloud at Jio after a stint at AT&T.
Kluisz AI: Building an AI-Native Cloud for Enterprise Workloads
Kluisz.ai is positioning itself to address a pressing gap in enterprise cloud infrastructure. As businesses increasingly adopt hybrid cloud environments, a trend Gartner predicts will cover 90% of enterprises by 2027, CIOs continue to struggle with cumbersome, manual processes and lack of automation in private cloud deployments.
The startup claims its platform will allow enterprises to set intent-driven goals, such as performance, compliance, and cost, and let the system intelligently orchestrate the underlying infrastructure. Designed to be secure from the ground up, the platform embeds intelligence into security, observability, and workload management, aiming to reduce operational overhead significantly.
The initial focus of Kluisz.ai’s product rollout is targeted at sectors with heavy compliance and distributed edge operations such as banking and financial services, manufacturing, and edge-heavy enterprises.
Investors Back Experienced Team and Bold Vision
The capital will be utilized mainly to grow the engineering team at Kluisz.ai in Bengaluru, currently around 15 people, and to ramp up product development and early customer adoption. Interestingly, some 80% of the money is targeted towards growing the engineering and systems software team, an area that the founders feel is key to creating a really differentiated product.
Investors expressed strong confidence in the team and its mission. Madhur Makkar, Principal at RTP Global, lauded the founding trio for their deep technical expertise and instinct to reimagine private cloud for the AI era, saying their vision of an intent-driven, AI-orchestrated platform is well-timed and impactful.
Bhaskar Majumdar, Managing Partner at Unicorn India Ventures, called Kluisz.ai a game-changing offering for enterprises seeking secure, compliant, and high-performance cloud operations. He added that Indian deeptech startups like Kluisz.ai are well-positioned to put the country on the global deeptech map.
Looking Ahead
Kluisz.ai aims to deliver a developer-first, open, zero-trust private cloud, offering full control across hybrid, on-premises, edge, and sovereign deployments, addressing growing enterprise needs for sovereignty, security, and efficiency.
With an intuitive user interface coupled with extensive automation, the startup hopes to render cloud workload management less hands-on and more automated, as desired by an enterprise future enabled by GenAI.
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