Cloud automation platform Cast AI has reached a valuation exceeding one billion dollars after securing a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Korean conglomerate Shinsegae Group. The investment marks a major milestone for the company, officially making Cast AI Lithuania’s fifth unicorn and reinforcing its position as a global leader in automated cloud optimisation.
Automation at the Core of Cloud Efficiency
Cast AI has built its reputation on a platform that uses advanced machine learning to automatically manage, optimise and scale cloud infrastructure in real time. While many cloud tools simply analyse usage and provide recommendations, Cast AI goes further by executing changes autonomously. This includes resizing nodes, shifting workloads and reducing over provisioning without manual intervention.
The result is significant savings on cloud costs, improved application performance and fewer operational burdens for DevOps teams. In an era where enterprises rely heavily on compute power, the value of real time optimisation has become increasingly clear.
CEO and co founder Yuri Frayman says the company’s new unicorn status reflects the strength of its long term vision. He notes that companies need more than cost reduction. They need infrastructure that adapts as workloads and conditions shift. Cast AI’s agents do precisely that, continuously tuning systems based on live behaviour.
OMNI Compute Expands Cast AI’s Reach
Alongside its new valuation milestone, Cast AI has introduced a major platform addition called OMNI Compute. This system allows organisations to connect external compute capacity, including GPUs, and use it as if it were native cloud infrastructure.
By enabling workloads to run across multiple environments without code changes or reconfiguration, OMNI Compute tackles one of the biggest challenges in AI and high performance computing: cloud lock in and resource scarcity.
The module applies Cast AI’s existing optimisation capabilities to external resources, offering GPU sharing, monitoring and intelligent rightsizing. This ensures that AI inference workloads can scale efficiently even when cloud regions face GPU shortages. According to company president and co founder Laurent Gil, OMNI Compute makes GPUs more accessible by treating capacity across clouds as a unified pool.
Backing from Asia’s Retail and Technology Giants
Shinsegae Group, a multinational conglomerate with more than 50 billion dollars in diversified business lines, invested through Pacific Alliance Ventures. Managing partner Hyuk Jin Chung says Cast AI is building a category defining automation platform that matches the needs of modern enterprises transitioning to cloud based operations.
The partnership will support Cast AI’s expansion across Asia as part of its broader global growth plan. The company has rapidly expanded its footprint following its Series C funding round, establishing offices in Bangalore, London, New York and Tel Aviv and launching subsidiaries in North America, Europe and Asia.
Strong Validation from Enterprise Users
Cast AI’s technology is already used by major enterprises seeking to reduce cloud spend while improving performance. Among them is Samsung Electronics, where Cast AI’s automation is being applied to optimise workloads running on Amazon EKS. According to Kyotack Tylor Kim, Head of Next Gen Cloud Group at Samsung Electronics, the platform has significantly reduced operational overhead while enhancing efficiency.
Samsung sees potential in OMNI Compute’s unified control plane as a transformative tool for managing global AI infrastructure.
Scaling a Global Automation Vision
With demand for cloud optimisation accelerating, Cast AI aims to scale its infrastructure automation tools globally. The company’s technology already spans multi cloud environments and is increasingly used by organisations looking to balance cost, performance and regulatory requirements.
The investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures will enable Cast AI to advance its Application Performance Automation platform vision, expand its sales and engineering teams and deepen partnerships in Asia and other high growth regions.
As cloud workloads surge and AI adoption accelerates, Cast AI’s autonomous optimisation capabilities position the company at the forefront of next generation cloud infrastructure technology.
