Aarna.ml raises $6.7 Mn in Series A round

Aarna.ml, an open-source GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) AI Cloud software, has raised $1.25 million in Series A funding round from Exfinity Venture Partners.

The company had previously raised $5.5 million co-led by NVIDIA, LDV Partners, 3Lines, CARAT Venture Partners, and others back in October 2023.

The proceeds will be used to  extend its platform to the GPU reference architectures that include high-speed networks and storage, Aarna said in a press release.

Co-founded in 2018 by Amar  Kapadia and Sriram Rupanagunta, Aarna.ml enables GPU-as-a-service providers and NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCP) to offer hyper scaler-grade multi-tenant GPU instances with full isolation while leveraging a common underlying GPU pool. It aims to empower the AI Cloud landscape.

Aarna claims to have served companies like Tigo, LGE, Equinix, Keysight, CableLabs, and CapGemini Engineering.

Exfinity Venture Partners focuses on early-stage B2B investments in deep tech and SaaS.  It has backed startups like Autoverse, CloudSek, Cult.fit, Kinara.ai, Locus, Log9, MoEngage, Pixis, Skit.Ai, among others.