Adviser Labs, an emerging deep-tech startup building next-generation cloud computing infrastructure, has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to launch its Adviser platform, a radically simplified way for startups, researchers, and engineering teams to run large-scale, compute-intensive workloads.
Adviser enables organizations to access powerful cloud resources without the complexity of traditional DevOps, manual infrastructure configuration, or cloud cost management. With a single, intuitive command (“adviser run”), teams can seamlessly run simulations, train AI/ML models, and process massive datasets — all without needing to become cloud experts.
“We started Adviser Labs to solve a problem we’ve seen across industries,” said Krish Wadhwani, CEO and co-founder of Adviser Labs. “Companies spend millions of dollars and countless engineering hours managing infrastructure instead of focusing on innovation. Adviser eliminates those bottlenecks and makes high-performance computing accessible and easy for everyone.”
Driving Innovation Across Multiple Industries
Adviser Labs is already working with quantitative trading firms, universities, biotech startups, and energy companies to accelerate critical workloads where compute efficiency can make or break innovation timelines:
- Quantitative Finance: Adviser recently secured a major deal with a leading proprietary trading firm in Chicago and New York, helping quantitative researchers optimize trading simulations and options pricing models. Early results show significant reductions in manual provisioning time. Adviser is also used by independent researchers at top quantitative hedge funds.
- Academia & Research: Adviser is onboarding researchers from R1 universities in the U.S. and Russell Group institutions in the U.K., enabling domain experts to scale advanced HPC workloads for computational fluid dynamics, AI-driven protein folding, and complex simulation pipelines.
- Biotech & AI: Biotech startups are leveraging Adviser’s platform to orchestrate multi-cloud deep learning workloads, accelerating model training, iteration, and deployment.
The company’s $1 million pre-seed round includes strategic investments from Drive Capital, Simplex Ventures, and Unusual Ventures, as well as prominent operators and angel investors from companies like DoorDash. Adviser Labs is using the funding to scale its engineering team, accelerate product development, and expand into additional markets.
Adviser is deploying custom enterprise solutions for trading firms, universities, biotech startups, energy companies, and other organizations where big compute drives innovation. The self-serve version of the platform is also available for public use.
