Nava raises $22M to build enterprise AI infrastructure across Asia-Pacific
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Incremental funding for a new entrant in the AI infrastructure segment; round size is modest and the company's differentiation is still unproven against hyperscaler alternatives.
Nava raises $22M to build enterprise AI infrastructure across Asia-Pacific
Nava, an enterprise AI infrastructure startup founded in 2024 by former Oyo COO Abhinav Sinha, ex-McKinsey partner Vamshidhar Reddy, and cloud infrastructure veteran Abhijeet Singh, has raised $22 million in a funding round led by Greenoaks Capital, with participation from RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures. The company, originally known as Kluisz, is building what it describes as a developer-first, AI-native private cloud that orchestrates workloads across hybrid, on-premise, edge, and sovereign cloud environments. The round follows a $9.6 million seed raise in mid-2025.
Why it matters: Nava represents a growing category of infrastructure startups positioned between hyperscalers and enterprise AI deployments — the "middle layer" that handles orchestration, compliance, and workload management across fragmented environments. As enterprises in Asia-Pacific grapple with data localization requirements and hybrid infrastructure realities, the ability to abstract away infrastructure decisions (performance vs. cost vs. compliance) becomes a genuine product moat. This mirrors the pattern of companies like CoreWeave and Lambda in the West, but tailored for the sovereign and regulatory complexity of Asian markets.
Our take: Nava's thesis — that the bottleneck for enterprise AI is no longer model access but deployment orchestration — aligns with a broader structural shift in the market. As foundation models commoditize, value is migrating to the infrastructure layer that makes them operable in regulated, multi-environment settings. The $22M round is modest relative to Western infra peers but signals that Asia-Pacific's enterprise AI infrastructure market is attracting serious institutional capital. The key risk: competing with hyperscaler-native offerings (AWS Outposts, Azure Arc, Google Distributed Cloud) that increasingly bundle similar orchestration capabilities. Nava's differentiation hinges on depth of integration with local compliance regimes and edge environments.
