TechCrunch reported on October 27, 2026, that NVIDIA participated in a $14 million all-primary Series B for Bengaluru-based AI inference startup Simplismart. Dallas Venture Capital led the round, joined by Accel, Shastra VC, Micromax and angel investors. The report put Simplismart’s valuation at about $100 million, including the new funding.
What Simplismart’s software does
Simplismart says its software tunes AI model deployment and management to a customer’s needs, including response speed, request volume and computing-resource use. Customers can deploy through Simplismart’s platform, on their own cloud infrastructure or on-premises, meaning on computing systems they operate themselves. The reported tools also include model fine-tuning, automatic resource scaling and performance monitoring.
That focus is on matching inference, the process of running a trained AI model, to a particular workload. A service with strict response-time requirements may need a different setup from one handling a different volume of requests. Simplismart’s description centers on adjusting deployment to those requirements and the available computing resources.
NVIDIA’s reported technical work with Simplismart
Amritanshu Jain, Simplismart’s co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that the companies were working on technical integrations including NVIDIA Dynamo, with Simplismart engineers and NVIDIA solutions architects involved. Jain also said NVIDIA introduced Simplismart to potential customers and partners.
In a profile published on October 2, 2026, NVIDIA described Simplismart’s participation in its Inception program and listed NVIDIA GPUs, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT-LLM and NVIDIA NIM microservices as platform components.
What the customer and business figures describe
Simplismart said it helped InVideo reduce GPU serving costs by 56%. The claim concerns serving costs for that customer. Jain also reported a 14-fold increase over six months in the company’s annualized revenue run rate, to an undisclosed eight-figure amount. The estimate was based on recent customer usage, rather than contracted recurring revenue, and excluded revenue passed through to infrastructure providers.
Jain said the U.S. generated more than half of Simplismart’s revenue, although the company had more customers in India. TechCrunch reported that Simplismart had 58 employees and planned to use the funding to expand in the U.S., grow its team and develop its inference software.
Simplismart’s earlier funding
On October 17, 2024, SiliconANGLE reported that Simplismart had closed a $7 million Series A led by Accel. At that time, the company reported about 30 customers and a $1 million annualized revenue run rate. Those figures describe the company in 2024, before the Series B reported in October 2026.
