Sedai just dropped a 20-million-dollar mic, and the cloud’s never going to sound the same.
Founded in 2018 by Suresh Mathew and Benji Thomas, two ex-PayPal technologists who got tired of watching cloud ops sprint on hamster wheels, Sedai isn’t pitching dashboards, it’s orchestrating an AI-led performance with zero human warmup. These guys built a platform that doesn’t just monitor cloud infrastructure, it learns, scales, heals, and optimizes in real time. While others are busy drawing charts, Sedai’s AI is already rewriting the tempo of compute, storage, and traffic across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This is what self driving looks like when it’s built by people who know exactly where the potholes are.
This $20M Series B round, led by AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners), with returning believers Norwest Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures, and Uncorrelated Ventures, brings Sedai’s total funding to $38.8M. And if you’re wondering why they’re all-in, consider this: sevenfold revenue growth, a 92% POC-to-customer conversion rate, and over 25 million autonomous actions executed in production without a single incident. Read that again. Sedai isn’t just scaling infrastructure, it’s scaling trust.
The company’s currently managing $3B in cloud spend across hundreds of thousands of services and saving Fortune 500 companies more than $5M annually. If you’re Palo Alto Networks, Experian, McGraw Hill, or KnowBe4, you already know what happens when your Kubernetes clusters start running 65% leaner and your ops team suddenly feels six times more productive. This isn’t a plug-and-play solution. It’s an AI ensemble of smart scaling, self-healing, release intelligence, and autonomous GPU tuning that’s making human-in-the-loop feel like a relic.
The mission? Go global. Double down on their R&D engine in Kerala. Expand the platform’s IQ with LLM self-tuning, Databricks and Snowflake orchestration, and enhanced AWS Lambda remediation. Leading the revenue push is Vaneet Bhaskar, the new CRO with a track record of scaling rocketships like Numerify and Harness. Engineering vision is locked in under Nikhil Gopinath, Hari Chandrasekhar, and Aby Jacob. Precision, execution, velocity.
This isn’t cloud management. This is cloud evolution. And Sedai? It’s not just the name on the door, it’s the force under the hood. While the rest of the market watches from the dashboard, Sedai is already in the driver’s seat. Eyes on the road, AI on the wheel, and absolutely no need for training wheels.
