Cloud service OrtCloud raised $1.7 M Pre-seed funding to advance AI-focused cloud infrastructure
In a pre-seed funding round headed by Southeast Asia-focused early-stage venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures and involving early-stage investor Antler, OrtCloud, a cloud infrastructure company based in Singapore, raised $1.7 million.
According to a statement released by OrtCloud on Tuesday, the money will help the company develop its deterministic virtual machine infrastructure for fixed workloads and AI-agent environments. The additional funding will be used by OrtCloud to increase product development, scale infrastructure, and strengthen its position in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific markets through hiring and go-to-market initiatives.
OrtCloud focuses on resolving issues with contemporary cloud computing, especially the unpredictability of shared infrastructure costs and performance variability. Instead of depending on shared capacity, OrtCloud’s model offers fixed-resource virtual machine tiers that enable workloads to scale by upgrading to larger tiers. The company stated in the release that this strategy can result in more predictable spending and consistent performance.
OrtCloud provides its services via two deployment options: an on-premises solution and a hosted cloud platform. Targeting businesses with data residency or network isolation requirements, the on-premises offering allows enterprises to implement the same orchestration and policy systems on their own hardware.
OpenAI, Samsung, LG Innotek, Konkuk University, and KAIST University are among the business’s enterprise clients. Teams creating AI systems that need stable, isolated computing environments have taken an early interest in it.
Investors observed that there is a growing need for infrastructure designed for AI workloads, especially since agent-based systems need environments that are isolated and reliable.
The funding is provided at a pivotal moment in the history of infrastructure worldwide. OrtCloud has a $50 billion to over $80 billion infrastructure opportunity in Southeast Asia for on-premises, cloud, and AI workloads. The true change is taking place in AI, even though the traditional cloud market alone is getting close to $50 billion. In keeping with OrtCloud’s advantages, agent-based workloads are generating a new infrastructure category worth more than $20 billion that necessitates completely isolated, sovereign, and always-on compute environments.
