Seroda Ventures just acquired a majority stake in Evonence, and if that wasn’t enough of a mic drop, they immediately merged it with their own incubated rocketship, Cloudnyx.ai. The new hybrid doesn’t just wear a new badge, it becomes the brand: Cloudnyx.ai. A clean merger with messy implications for competitors still fumbling with legacy lift-and-shift.
Vijay Shah, the original mind behind Evonence, now steps in as CEO of the merged entity. This guy isn’t some fly-in executive parachuted from a VC boardroom, he built Evonence from Ohio to Mumbai, stitched together 1,500 clients, 150K Google Workspace migrations, and locked in 75+ Google Cloud certifications. There are startups out here faking cloud fluency. Evonence was writing in native GCP while others were still using crayons.
Meanwhile, Cloudnyx.ai’s founders, Scott J. and Alka Lohia, aren’t passengers in this ride. They’re the system-level architects. Scott’s a former Googler who helped SADA move mountains; Alka is the executional glue holding down AI pipelines across continents. The trio of Shah, Scott, and Lohia isn’t a power dynamic, it’s a power equation.
Let’s talk real strategy. This wasn’t a growth round or another SaaS raise with soft metrics. This was Seroda Ventures calling its shot, again. Same group that cashed out Apisero to NTT Data in 2022 and sold Kipi.ai to WNS in March 2025. They’ve seen this movie before, and they just hit “remaster.” Big ups to Vijay Rao, Kranti Ponnam, Jeremy Stensland, and Michael Gibson, the Seroda table doesn’t gamble, they calculate.
Now, the newly minted Cloudnyx.ai is armed with end-to-end capability across BigQuery, Vertex AI, Google Workspace with Gemini, and Apigee orchestration. This isn’t just cloud consulting, it’s digital-native transformation for companies that already know what cloud-native means.
Lesson in this? Execution beats narrative. Evonence didn’t shout. They shipped. They earned Google Cloud Premier Partner status, three straight Inc. 5000 appearances, and cracked 499% growth without a single NFT drop or Metaverse keynote.
This merger didn’t just create a bigger services firm. It created a sharper one. Cloudnyx.ai now stands at the intersection of AI modernization, secure infrastructure, and enterprise transformation. And it didn’t come from Silicon Valley. It came from Lewis Center, Ohio, with the code, the clients, and the credibility.
