Refiant Raises $5M to Refine AI Models with 'Nature-Inspired' Energy Efficiency

Refiant AI Raises $5m to Cut AI Energy Use

By Adedapo Adesanya South African-founded Refiant AI has raised $5 million to slash the energy footprint of artificial intelligence (AI) in a seed round led by VoLo Earth Ventures, a top climate technology fund. The startup uses nature-inspired algorithms to radically compress AI models, slashing the hardware and energy required to run them. The new […]

Refiant Raises $5m to Cut AI Energy Use as Data Centre Demand Surges - Tech

South African-founded startup, Refiant AI, has raised $5 million in seed funding to reduce the energy needed to run artificial intelligence systems, as global demand for data centres surges. The funding round was led by VoLo Earth Ventures, which focuses on climate-related technologies. The company said the investment will help it grow its team, build its platform and strengthen talks with large technology firms. Spending on data centres is expe…

Refiant AI raises $5 million to build leaner AI models

Refiant AI, a South Africa-founded startup that uses algorithms to compress artificial intelligence (AI) models, has closed a $5 million seed round to build its platform, grow its team and support enterprise partnerships.  VoLo Earth Ventures, a California climate technology fund, led the round, backing what it considers a more efficient approach to developing smarter and leaner AI models. Founded in 2025 by Viroshan Naicker, Siddharth Gutta, an…

Refiant raises $5M to refine AI models with 'nature-inspired' energy efficiency

Artificial intelligence model compression startup Refiant AI said today it has raised $5 million in seed funding from VoLo Earth Ventures to try to put an end to the “arms race” that has ignited a multibillion-dollar data center boom. Refiant’s goal is simple, yet extremely ambitious: it wants to convince the AI industry to stop […] The post Refiant raises $5M to refine AI models with ‘nature-inspired’ energy efficiency appeared first on Silicon…