FluidCloud, a pioneer in portable cloud infrastructure, is emerging from stealth with $8.1 million in seed funding, introducing its platform designed to help enterprises break free from vendor lock-in with infrastructure that’s portable in minutes, fully visible and resilient by design.
The funding round was led by Unusual Ventures with participation from U First Capital.
According to the company, FluidCloud is engineered to solve one of cloud computing’s biggest constraints: infrastructure lock-in. The FluidCloud Platform reverse engineers existing environments into a standard infrastructure definition—enabling seamless cloning, migration, and remapping across heterogeneous cloud ecosystems.
Rooted in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles and backed by multiple patents, FluidCloud transforms infrastructure into a strategic, portable asset—making portability, resiliency, and unified governance the default state.
“We believe that multi-cloud isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Businesses deserve the freedom to choose the best vendor for each workload, tailored to their governance, performance, innovation and cost needs,” said Sharad Kumar, CEO and co-founder, FluidCloud. “We built FluidCloud to help teams move fast, build smart and negotiate from a position of strength. Innovation starts with freeing your infrastructure.”
Key platform features include:
- Lightning-fast portability: Built-in infrastructure mapping and automation enables fast movement of workloads across regions, accounts and cloud providers.
- Resiliency-by-default: Native infrastructure redundancy ensures teams can instantly spin up backup environments when outages strike.
- Unified governance: AI-powered cloud governance provides a real-time view of compliance posture, usage, drift detection, cost efficiency and best practices across cloud environments.
"The world class founders of FluidCloud are bringing AI to a problem engineering leaders have been desperate to solve for years; true infrastructure portability that doesn’t require a year of professional services,” said John Vrionis, co-founder and managing partner, Unusual Ventures. “Their early customers are reaping the cost and performance benefits that are only accessible when developers have the instant flexibility to innovate wherever they want."
FluidCloud is purpose-built for enterprise IT leaders navigating sprawling, hybrid environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and beyond.
By abstracting away the cloud-specific complexity, FluidCloud helps CIOs, heads of infrastructure, and cloud strategy leaders execute with greater agility, while giving ISVs, consulting partners, and service providers new ways to scale and differentiate, the company said.
For more information about this news or to join the early access program, visit www.fluidcloud.com.