GenAI-powered cloud startup Kluisz.ai raises $9.6 million led by RTP Global, others

GenAI-powered cloud startup Kluisz.ai today said it has raised $9.6 million in a seed funding 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. Gartner estimates that by 2027, 90% of enterprises will run workloads across hybrid cloud environments. Yet many chief information officers continue to struggle with private cloud infrastructure, often because of limited automation, poor visibility and complex manual processes.

Kluisz.ai’s platform allows enterprise teams to set performance, cost and compliance targets, with the system automatically deploying and managing infrastructure to meet those goals.

The startup is initially targeting sectors such as banking and financial services, manufacturing and industries with extensive edge‑computing needs. It plans to use the raised capital 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,” 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.”