Nava raises $22M, rebrands

Nava, the artificial intelligence cloud startup formerly called Kluisz, has raised $22 million in Series A funding and shifted its headquarters operations to Singapore. (financialexpress.com) The round was led by Greenoaks, with RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures also investing, according to reports published on April 9 and April 10. Nava said it is building a “full-stack” platform that combines graphics processing unit compute, software to manage those chips, and artificial-intelligence-optimized data centers. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) (financialexpress.com) The company was founded in 2025 by Abhinav Sinha, Vamshidhar Reddy, and Abhijeet Singh, whose previous roles included Oyo, Advanced Micro Devices, McKinsey, Jio, and AT&T. Nava told The Financial Express it plans to expand beyond India into Southeast Asia and hire 10 to 15 people in Singapore by the end of 2026. (financialexpress.com) Graphics processing units are the chips that train and run many artificial intelligence systems, and startups in Asia have spent the past year pitching local alternatives to United States cloud providers. Tech in Asia listed Nava among recent regional funding stories on April 8 under the headline that it had raised $22 million to address Asia’s compute gap. (techinasia.com 1) (techinasia.com 2) Nava’s pitch is that companies in India and Southeast Asia need nearby computing capacity for lower delay and fewer cross-border data-transfer issues. Sinha told The Financial Express that India has about one megawatt of compute capacity per million residents, versus more than 100 megawatts in the United States. (financialexpress.com) The rebrand marks a change in strategy as much as a name change. Financial Express reported that Kluisz started as a software-led graphics processing unit cloud platform and is now repositioning itself as a broader infrastructure provider with data-center and chip capacity in the stack. (financialexpress.com) Investors have kept writing larger checks for this part of the market even as broader startup funding has stayed selective. The Financial Express noted that Neysa, another artificial intelligence infrastructure company, raised a $600 million Series B in February 2026. (financialexpress.com) Nava had previously raised a $9.6 million seed round led by RTP Global in 2025, making this its second institutional financing in roughly a year. The next test is whether the new Singapore base and fresh capital can turn a regional compute shortage into a durable cloud business. (entrackr.com) (financialexpress.com)