Nava co-founders (left to right): Abhijeet Singh, Vamshidhar Reddy, and Abhinav Sinha
Nava, a cloud infrastructure company formerly known as Kluisz, has raised US$22 million in a Series A funding round led by Greenoaks, with participation from RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures.
The Singapore-headquartered firm is building GPU compute and AI data centre capacity across Asia-Pacific, and the latest raise signals growing investor appetite for purpose-built AI infrastructure in the region.
Alongside the fundraise, the company announced its rebrand from Kluisz to Nava and confirmed that Singapore will serve as its regional headquarters, positioning the firm closer to key Asia-Pacific markets and a wider pool of global talent.
The raise comes against a backdrop of surging demand for AI compute capacity. According to KPMG, data centre capacity across Southeast Asia will need to triple by 2030 to meet projected requirements, with India facing a comparable shortfall. Yet the bulk of existing capacity remains legacy cloud infrastructure, not architected for the intensive demands of modern AI workloads.
Nava is seeking to fill that gap with a vertically integrated, full-stack approach that combines AI-optimised data centres, high-performance GPU compute, AI-native orchestration and inferencing layers, and developer-friendly tooling. The company says this architecture will allow enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI applications with greater efficiency, reliability, and control.
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Nava was founded in 2025 by Abhinav Sinha, formerly global chief operating officer and chief product officer at OYO and previously with BCG; Vamshidhar Reddy, a former partner at McKinsey and ex-AMD executive; and Abhijeet Singh, former vice-president of cloud at Jio and an AT&T alumnus. The trio brings a combination of enterprise operations, semiconductor expertise, and large-scale cloud delivery experience to the venture.
Proceeds from the Series A will be deployed across three priorities: building out Nava’s full-stack AI compute platform; expanding and scaling operations across Asia-Pacific; and hiring senior leadership and specialist talent in AI data centre design, GPU engineering, go-to-market functions, and operations.
“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,” said Abhinav Sinha, co-founder and chief executive of Nava.
Madhur Makkar, principal at RTP Global, which led Nava’s previous funding round, described the founding team as having demonstrated “exceptional execution” in a highly complex space in under a year. Bhaskar Majumdar, managing partner at Unicorn India Ventures, pointed to a structural shift under way in which AI is driving demand for compute infrastructure and GPUs, calling Nava a natural fit for the firm’s deep tech investment strategy.
The Series A follows a US$9.6 million seed round that Nava closed under its former Kluisz branding, led by RTP Global with participation from Unicorn India Ventures, Blume Founders Fund, and Climber Capital. The company’s total funding now stands at approximately $31.6 million.
The company says it intends to become the foundational cloud infrastructure layer for AI across the wider Asia-Pacific region.
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