Today, the company announces $11M in funding, including a $9M seed round led by First Round Capital with participation from Box Group, Vermilion Cliffs, and Asylum Ventures and a $2M pre-seed round led by Asylum Ventures, with participation from Founder Collective, Parable VC, and Uncommon Ventures. This raise reflects the urgency of Aranya's mission to bridge the gap between what data centers offer and what AI workloads really need.

Founded by Christian Bhatia Ondaatje, Sasivarnan Kanaghasalam Sathyapriya, and Aryamika Bhatia Ondaatje, Aranya converts bare metal into custom, production-ready clusters in under 48 hours for fast-growing inference providers, AI startups, and data centers. Powered by clusterdOS, Aranya's open-source distributed OS engine built on top of Kubernetes, which turns any quantity of raw bare metal servers into a self-healing, enterprise-grade, cohesive whole, reducing average downtime by 90%. Its proprietary technology, the AI-native multicluster operating system, gives teams direct, plain-language control over how inference or training is designed, scaled, and operated. The company is building toward a future where no AI company is limited by the gap between what they need and what their infrastructure can deliver.