en.Wedoany.com Reported - Netris announced the completion of a $15 million Series A funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with proceeds to be used to expand its network automation platform for AI infrastructure. The round was led by Guido Appenzeller, who also joins the company's board of directors. Andreessen Horowitz partners Martin Casado and Raghu Raghuram also participated in the investment. Netris stated that this funding follows an 800% increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) over the past 12 months and the deployment of its platform across more than 35 production AI clusters globally.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, the company positions its NAAM (Network Automation, Abstraction, and Multi-tenancy) platform as a dedicated control layer for modern GPU infrastructure. Unlike traditional SDN or intent-based networking platforms primarily targeting enterprise or cloud data centers, Netris focuses on orchestrating multiple network architectures from a single operational platform, including Ethernet, NVIDIA Spectrum-X, NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand, NVL72 architecture, NVIDIA BlueField DPU, and virtual networks. The company claims the software automates configuration, lifecycle management, and hardware-enforced tenant isolation, and provides Day-0 design, simulation, deployment, and ongoing operations capabilities, enabling AI cloud operators to provision GPU infrastructure faster while securely sharing GPU resources across multiple customers.
Netris stated that its customer base now includes over 35 production deployments, spanning new cloud providers, sovereign AI operators, AI factories, and enterprise AI infrastructure providers. Named customers include Lightning AI, TensorWave, STN, Boost Run, TELUS, DCAI, YOTTA, Visionbay.ai, Firmus, and HPE. The company also introduced an ecosystem expanded with Mirantis, Rafay Systems, Red Hat, Spectro Cloud, vCluster, and HPE, with NVIDIA at its core. Netris said that as demand for GPU infrastructure continues to accelerate, it will use the new funds to expand its engineering organization, global operations, and partner ecosystem. The company's global presence covers the United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Australia, Armenia, and India, with plans to expand to Singapore.
Andreessen Horowitz partner Guido Appenzeller said: "Every computing era requires a new networking foundation—first virtualized data centers, then the cloud, and now AI. GPU clusters run on multiple architectures simultaneously, and traditional automation was never built for this. Netris is the platform that AI cloud operators are standardizing on to solve this problem, and we are excited to partner with them on this journey."
Network automation has become one of the more operationally challenging issues for AI infrastructure. While industry focus has primarily been on GPUs, interconnect chips, and optical networks, operators increasingly face the complexity of managing heterogeneous network architectures spanning Ethernet, InfiniBand, DPUs, and specialized upgraded networks. Netris positions itself as an orchestration layer that abstracts these diverse architectures into a unified operational model, rather than replacing existing network operating systems or switching hardware.
Beyond the funding amount, Andreessen Horowitz's investment carries strategic significance. Martin Casado, Guido Appenzeller, and Raghu Raghuram previously defined software-defined networking through Nicira, NSX, and VMware, technologies that transformed virtualized data center networking over the past decade. Their backing suggests they view GPU network automation as the next major networking software category as AI cloud operators scale increasingly complex multi-tenant GPU environments.
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