• Athina AI raised $3M in funding, backed by prominent investors including Y Combinator and Alex Ratner, to accelerate product development.
• The startup’s platform enables teams to build production-ready AI systems and has attracted global clients, with strong traction in the U.S. market.

Singapore-based startup Athina AI has raised $3 million in its latest funding round, bringing its total funding to $4.1 million. The round was backed by notable investors including Alex Ratner (CEO of Snorkel AI), Denis Yarats (CTO of Perplexity), Kleiner Perkins Scout Fund, and Y Combinator.

Previously, the company had raised a pre-seed round led by Flourish Ventures, GSF India, Dinesh Agarwal (IndiaMART), Murugavel Janakiraman (Matrimony.com), Bharat Founders Fund, and Mohit Gupta (former co-founder of Zomato).

Athina AI, co-founded by Himanshu Bamoria and Shiv Sakhuja, offers an end-to-end platform that simplifies the development and deployment of AI applications. The startup aims to empower teams to create production-ready AI systems up to 10 times faster.

“This is a major milestone in our mission to enable teams to build production-ready AI applications and agents,” said Sakhuja in a LinkedIn post.

The company’s platform provides tools for creating complex AI workflows, monitoring AI in production, and facilitating team collaboration for experiments and testing. It also connects with large language models (LLMs), external tools, APIs, and data sources, addressing challenges in AI engineering—a field that requires managing probabilistic outputs and inconsistent responses.

Athina AI has garnered significant traction, with a growing client base that includes prominent companies such as Perplexity, Meesho, Physics Wallah, and Doximity. The startup has observed particularly strong demand from U.S.-based customers, while Indian clients primarily comprise large enterprises.

The fresh funding will accelerate Athina AI’s product development as it focuses on expanding its U.S. market presence. “Athina has been on a phenomenal growth trajectory over the past few months,” noted Bamoria. The platform now processes millions of logs and evaluations weekly, reflecting the company’s rapid scale and robust adoption.