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AI infrastructure startup Pipeshift raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round led by Y Combinator to enhance its product offerings and expand its market presence in the US and India.

PRIVATEJan 23, 2025

Amount Raised

$2.5 Million

Round Type

Seed

San FranciscoSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Investors

Astir VcgradCapitalMyAsiaVCSenseAI VenturesKrishna MehraUmur CubukcuKulveer TaggarNivesha VenturesGood News VenturesArka Venture LabsY Combinator

Description

Pipeshift, an AI infrastructure startup, has successfully raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round. Led by Y Combinator and SenseAI Ventures, the funding will be utilized to improve product offerings and facilitate market expansion in both the US and India.

Quick answer

Pipeshift raised $2.5 Million in a Seed round, dated January 23, 2025. Investors: Astir Vc, gradCapital, MyAsiaVC, SenseAI Ventures, Krishna Mehra, Umur Cubukcu, Kulveer Taggar and Nivesha Ventures. Pipeshift is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

How much did Pipeshift raise?
Pipeshift raised $2.5 Million in a Seed round on January 23, 2025.
Who invested in Pipeshift?
Astir Vc, gradCapital, MyAsiaVC, SenseAI Ventures, Krishna Mehra, Umur Cubukcu, Kulveer Taggar and Nivesha Ventures are named as investors in this round.
What does Pipeshift do?
Pipeshift was formerly known as Xylem AI.
Where is Pipeshift based and how big is it?
Pipeshift is based in San Francisco, California, United States. Fundz records about 10 employees.

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  • Cursor raised $105M (Funding Round) on January 15, 2025.
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  • Conveo raised $5.3M (Seed) on March 6, 2025.
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Company Information

Company

Pipeshift

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Pipeshift was formerly known as Xylem AI. 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. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. Additionally, as we see more model and hardware architectures coming in the market, Pipeshift future-proofs the infrastructure investments by offering flexibility through their modular MLOps stack that allows enterprises to bring down their GPU infrastructure costs without any additional engineering efforts on their end.

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