Deeptech startup Kluisz.ai grabs $9.6M seed round led by RTP Global
The funding will be used to expand the engineering team in Bengaluru, accelerate product development, and support deployments with early customers.
Kluisz.ai, a deeptech, GenAI-powered cloud startup, has raised $9.6 million in its seed round led by RTP Global, a global early-stage VC. The round also saw participation from Unicorn India Ventures, Blume Founders Fund, Climber Capital, and angels including Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Dr Ritesh Malik (Innov8), and Aditya Virwani (Embassy Group).
In a statement, Kluisz.ai said it is building a secure, scalable cloud for the AI era—developer-first, open, with zero-trust security, and full control across hybrid, on-prem, edge, and sovereign deployments.
The three-month-old startup is founded by Abhinav Sinha (former Global COO and CPO at OYO, ex BCG), Vamshidhar Reddy (Former Partner at McKinsey, ex-AMD), and Abhijeet Singh (Former VP of Cloud at Jio, ex-AT&T).
"We're building a software company that offers a next-gen private cloud platform for the GenAI era. We’re building a developer-first, zero-trust, AI-native orchestration platform for such environments—be it on-premises, edge, or sovereign deployments. Our system embeds intelligence into security, observability, and workload management, allowing enterprises to operate more autonomously with less manual overhead," said Abhinav Sinha, Co-founder and CEO of Kluisz.ai, in an interaction with YourStory
The startup will use the funding to expand the engineering team in Bengaluru, accelerate product development, and support deployments with early customers.
Currently, the company has a team of 15 members and will utilise around 80% of its funds toward scaling the engineering team, especially in infrastructure and systems software, a niche but growing skill base in India.
“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”, added Madhur Makkar, Principal at RTP Global.
Bhaskar Majumdar, Managing Partner, Unicorn India Ventures, said, “Indian deeptech startups are breaking innovation barriers and with the right capital support, the highly experienced founders that are launching their businesses will put India on the global deep tech map. Kluisz.ai is taking enterprises in the direction of AI-led high-performance businesses. Their AI-deployed cloud management, which helps large teams to stay on top of the game while being secure and compliant, is a game-changing offering. At Unicorn India Ventures, it has been our thesis to back founders with such audacious goals.”