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AI Infrastructure Startup 'Pipeshift' raises $2.5 million in a Seed Round

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AI infrastructure startup Pipeshift has secured $2.5 million in seed funding, led by Y Combinator and SenseAI Ventures. The round also included investments from Arka Venture Labs, Good News Ventures, Nivesha Ventures, Astir VC, GradCapital, and MyAsiaVC.

Prominent Silicon Valley investors, such as Kulveer Taggar (CEO of Zuess), Umur Cubukcu (CEO of Ubicloud and former Head of PostgreSQL at Azure), and Krishna Mehra (former Head of Engineering at Meta and Co-Founder of Capillary Technologies), also participated in the funding round.

Pipeshift is launching a next-generation Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) designed to help engineering teams manage AI workloads across any infrastructure, whether cloud or on-premises, offering exceptional speed and control. Unlike other providers that function as GPU brokers with one-size-fits-all solutions, Pipeshift focuses on providing enterprises with the control and flexibility they need over their infrastructure.

The company offers a comprehensive MLOps stack that allows enterprises to train, deploy, and scale open-source GenAI models such as LLMs, vision models, audio models, and image models—across any cloud or on-premises GPUs.

Pipeshift, established in 2024 by Arko Chattopadhyay, Pranav Reddy, and Enrique Ferrao, is a modular platform designed to assist enterprises in training, deploying, and scaling open-source GenAI models.

Pipeshift has already worked with over 30 companies, including NetApp, and aims to be the trusted partner for organizations that want to unlock AI's potential while maintaining control over their data and infrastructure.

“Enterprises prefer open-source GenAI for its privacy benefits, model ownership, and lower costs. However, deploying GenAI into production is complex and costly, requiring the integration of several components. Pipeshift’s enterprise-grade orchestration platform simplifies deployment and maximizes production throughput, eliminating the need for extensive engineering efforts,” said Rahul Agarwalla, Managing Partner at SenseAI Ventures.