SkyPilot nabs $20M to ease AI infrastructure management
Infrastructure automation startup SkyPilot Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding.
Lux Capital led the raise with participation from several other institutional backers. The funds were joined by Databricks Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ali Ghodsi, Google LLC chief scientist Jeff Dean and other prominent angel investors.
San Francisco-based SkyPilot commercializes an open-source project of the same name. It was developed at UC Berkeley by the company’s founding team, which includes Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica. The software makes it easier for enterprises to manage the infrastructure they use in artificial intelligence projects.
Companies often mix and match different types of AI infrastructure. For example, an enterprise might run inference workloads in the cloud while keeping its training environments and the associated datasets on-premises. In many cases, each infrastructure environment contains different chips and management tools.
