Idle GPUs, spiralling cloud costs, and mismanaged AI workloads set the stage for ScaleOps, a startup with NVIDIA roots, raising funds to fix inefficiencies.
ScaleOps has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at $800 million, as it seeks to address inefficiencies in cloud and AI infrastructure. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, NFX, Glilot Capital Partners, and Picture Capital.
The US-headquartered startup claims its software can cut infrastructure costs by up to 80% by reallocating computing resources in real time.
Founded in 2022 by Yodar Shafrir, ScaleOps emerged from Shafrir’s experience at Run:ai, a GPU orchestration startup later acquired by NVIDIA. That background gave him direct insight into the challenges enterprises face when managing increasingly complex AI workloads.
While systems such as Kubernetes provide flexibility, they often rely on static configurations that fail to adapt to dynamic demand, leaving GPUs underutilised and driving up costs. Shafrir said existing tools offered visibility but lacked autonomous management, creating a gap in the market.
ScaleOps positions its platform as fully autonomous and context-aware, designed specifically for production environments. Unlike its competitors, the company says its system connects application needs directly with infrastructure decisions, reducing manual intervention and improving efficiency.
Its client base includes Adobe, Wiz, DocuSign, Salesforce and Coupa, with operations spanning Europe and India.
The company intends to use the new capital to develop additional products and extend its platform, aiming to build towards fully autonomous infrastructure as demand for compute continues to rise.
In a LinkedIn post, Ben Larboni, the Global Director of Account Management at ScaleOps mentioned, “The team at ScaleOps moves fast and executes at a level that’s hard to describe. There’s a shared understanding that what we’re building is the future of cloud and AI resource management.”
The latest funding follows a $58 million Series B round in November 2024, bringing total investment to about $210 million. ScaleOps reports more than 450% year-on-year growth and a tripling of its workforce in the past year, with plans to expand headcount further.
