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Nava Raises $22M Series A Led by Greenoaks to Build AI Cloud
AI infrastructure startup Nava has secured $22 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks Capital. The company, formerly known as Kluisz, is now building GPU-powered AI data centres across Asia-Pacific and rebranding marks just the beginning of its larger ambition.
AI infrastructure startup Nava has secured $22 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks Capital. The company, formerly known as Kluisz, is now building GPU-powered AI data centres across Asia-Pacific and rebranding marks just the beginning of its larger ambition.
In a significant development for Asia’s artificial intelligence ecosystem, Nava formerly known as Kluisz has successfully closed a $22 million Series A funding round, led by San Francisco-based Greenoaks Capital. Additionally, the round saw renewed participation from existing backers RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures, further reinforcing investor confidence in the company’s vision.
Moreover, the announcement, made on April 9, 2026, also marks the company’s official rebrand from Kluisz to Nava a name change that signals a far deeper strategic pivot than branding alone.
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What started as an AI-native software platform has, therefore, evolved into something considerably more ambitious. Nava is now building a vertically integrated, full-stack AI compute platform that brings together AI-optimised data centres, high-performance GPU compute clusters, AI-native orchestration and inferencing layers, and developer-friendly access and tooling.
In other words, Nava is no longer just offering GPU-as-a-service. Instead, the company is constructing the entire infrastructure backbone that enterprises need to build, deploy, and scale AI applications reliably and efficiently.
What started as an AI-native cloud platform has now evolved into something much larger, where we are building the foundational cloud platform layer for AI in Asia.
Abhinav Sinha, Co-founder and CEO of Nava
Nava was founded by three Indian technology veterans: Abhinav Sinha, former COO and Chief Product Officer of OYO; Vamshidhar Reddy, a former McKinsey partner with experience at AMD; and Abhijeet Singh, ex-Vice President of Cloud at Reliance Jio.
Consequently, this combination of hyper-growth operational experience, strategic consulting rigour, and deep cloud infrastructure expertise gives Nava a founding team that is uniquely suited to execute on such a capital-intensive vision.
Rather than spreading resources thin, Nava has outlined a focused deployment strategy for the fresh capital. Specifically, the funds will be directed toward:
- Expanding GPU computing capacity to serve enterprise AI workloads at scale
- Building AI-focused data centre infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region
- Hiring senior talent in data centre design, GPU engineering, and go-to-market functions particularly across India and Southeast Asia, with Singapore as the regional headquarters
The platform is designed to let enterprises specify constraints such as budget, compliance, and performance, after which the system automatically schedules and runs AI workloads in the optimal environment. This level of automation, furthermore, is precisely what differentiates Nava from conventional cloud providers.
The company has set up its regional headquarters in Singapore while continuing to operate strongly from India. Singapore, notably, offers a more mature data centre development ecosystem and proximity to key APAC enterprise markets.
The demand for AI computing capacity in Asia-Pacific is rapidly increasing, with estimates suggesting data centre capacity in Southeast Asia alone will need to triple by 2030. As a result, Nava’s timing is strategically deliberate establishing capacity and compliance-ready infrastructure ahead of the demand curve.
This Series A does not exist in isolation. The round closed in early April 2026 and comes on the heels of a $9.6 million seed round raised in 2025, bringing the startup’s total funding to approximately $31.6 million.This latest funding comes less than a year after the seed round led by RTP Global in July 2025, reflecting the rapid momentum the startup has gained in a short span.
The participation of Greenoaks Capital as lead investor is, in itself, a notable vote of confidence. Greenoaks is a San Francisco-based firm known for backing category-defining technology companies, with investments in Stripe, Brex, and other global leaders.
Their involvement, therefore, signals that global institutional capital is increasingly willing to back capital-intensive AI infrastructure plays originating from India and Southeast Asia not merely asset-light software businesses.
Beyond Nava’s individual story, this funding round reflects a broader and equally important industry shift. It signals that Indian startups are not just building applications on top of AI models they are building the infrastructure that powers those models.
In that sense, Nava’s Series A is not just a funding milestone. Rather, it is an indicator that the next chapter of Asia’s AI story will be written at the infrastructure level and that Indian founders intend to lead it.
Disclaimer: This article is based on information sourced from publicly available reports and have not been independently verified by NervNow.
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