AI infrastructure startup Pipeshift has secured $2.5 million in seed funding, with the round led by Y Combinator and SenseAI Ventures. Additional investors include Arka Venture Labs, Good News Ventures, Nivesha Ventures, Astir VC, GradCapital, and MyAsiaVC.

The funding round also featured contributions from experienced Silicon Valley angels, such as Kulveer Taggar (CEO of Zuess), Umur Cubukcu (CEO of Ubicloud and former PostgreSQL lead at Azure), and Krishna Mehra (ex-Head of Engineering at Meta and co-founder of Capillary Technologies).

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Pipeshift is set to launch an advanced Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that empowers engineering teams to seamlessly manage AI workloads across any infrastructure—whether cloud-based or on-premises—offering unmatched speed and control.

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With partnerships with more than 30 businesses, including NetApp, Pipeshift hopes to establish itself as a reliable partner for businesses seeking to harness AI’s promise while preserving control over their data and infrastructure.

About Pipeshift

Founded in 2024 by Arko C, Enrique Ferrao, and Pranav Reddy, Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components — embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models and audio models — across any cloud or on-prem.