Andreessen Horowitz leads Netris' $15M Series A for GPU network automation
What's the deal? Netris, a network automation provider for AI infrastructure, has raised a $15M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.
The funding follows 800% annual recurring revenue growth and more than 35 live deployments over the past 12 months.
Andreessen Horowitz partner Guido Appenzeller led the round and is joining Netris' board.
Why now? AI cloud operators worldwide are scrambling to turn idle GPUs into revenue, and network automation is where many get stuck.
A single GPU server carries dozens of connections that must reconfigure across every layer each time a tenant is added or removed — sometimes across thousands of switches at once.
Netris' NAAM platform automates that process and enforces hard multi-tenancy, letting operators securely share GPUs across customers.
What could go wrong? The stakes are high: one misconfiguration can take down a cluster or leak one tenant's data to another.
Netris also operates in a crowded market, competing against other network automation vendors as the space heats up.
The signal: For Andreessen Horowitz, the bet on an early-stage startup automating the network layer beneath GPU clouds is a play on the picks-and-shovels of the AI boom — IDCDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → projects the AI infrastructure market will reach $758 billion by 2029. With 800% ARR growth and an ecosystem anchored by NVIDIA, Netris is positioning itself as critical plumbing for the operators racing to monetise idle GPUs.
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