Sedai Inc. has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Atlantic Vantage Point, with participation from Norwest, Sierra Ventures, and Uncorrelated Ventures.
The startup has experienced a sevenfold revenue growth, offering a platform that uses AI agents to optimize cloud environments, reducing costs by up to 65% for Kubernetes clusters.
Sedai's software minimizes hardware underutilization by selecting the most efficient instance types.
The platform highlights discounts for long-term instance rentals to help lower cloud expenses and prevent budget overruns from hardware spikes.
Sedai's AI models anticipate traffic spikes to ensure application availability, while also identifying risks in new software updates.
The platform functions as an analytics tool, allowing finance teams to track cloud spending by team, project, and service.
Sedai manages over $1.2 billion in cloud spend, performing 25 million autonomous actions in customers' production environments.
The company plans to invest the funding in product development, focusing on optimizing graphics card clusters and large language model applications.
An AI tool for managing deployments of cloud data platforms like Snowflake is also in the works, with an expansion of the go-to-market team.
Sedai's customer base includes Palo Alto Networks Inc., HP Inc., and other major tech firms.
The platform aims to make cloud environments more cost-efficient and reliable, with plans for enhancing AI capabilities in cloud management.
Sedai has a strong focus on improving cloud optimization and cost-efficiency for enterprises.
The funding will drive innovation in product features for optimizing various cloud applications and platforms.
The company emphasizes the importance of AI-driven solutions for managing cloud environments effectively and economically.
Sedai's growth strategy includes expanding its product offerings and enhancing its market presence.
The company's aim is to continue developing AI tools that provide value to customers and improve cloud operations.
The newly raised funding will be directed towards expanding product capabilities and investing in AI technologies.