Kluisz.ai Raises $9.6M to Build Secure Cloud for AI Workloads

Kluisz.ai, a deep tech, GenAI-powered cloud startup, today announced a $9.6 million 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).

Founded in 2025 by Abhinav Sinha (Former Global COO & 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), Kluisz.ai builds 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 shift to hybrid cloud is accelerating. By 2027, Gartner estimates that 90% of enterprises will run workloads across hybrid cloud environments. Yet, most CIOs continue to face challenges with private cloud infrastructure —often due to limited automation, poor visibility, and complex manual processes.  

With Kluisz.ai, teams can set performance, cost and compliance goals - and the platform intelligently deploys and manages the infrastructure. With an intuitive user experience, deep observability, embedded security, and AI-native orchestration, Kluisz.ai removes the manual complexity of managing cloud workloads in real time. Initial focus of this product is across banking and financial services, manufacturing, and organizations with extensive edge use cases. 

The funding will be used to expand the engineering team in Bengaluru, accelerate product development, and support deployments with early customers.

“We’re reimagining the private cloud for the AI era—automated, intelligent and secure from day one. We are building the first intent-driven, AI-orchestrated cloud for the next decade of enterprise workloads where every layer—from silicon to software—is optimized for performance, policy, and security without manual intervention”, said Abhinav Sinha, Co-founder and CEO of Kluisz.ai.  

“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.  

Bhaskar Majumdar, Managing Partner, Unicorn India Ventures, said, “Indian deep tech 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 the 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.”