Yuki Raises $6 Million Seed Round to Tackle AI-Driven Data Infrastructure Costs

New updates have been reported about Yuki.

Yuki, an Israel-founded data cost optimization startup, has emerged from stealth with a $6 million seed round to scale its AI-driven control layer for enterprise data infrastructure, positioning itself as a cost and governance tool for large-scale data and AI workloads. The seed financing is led by Hyperwise Ventures, with participation from VelocitX, Tal Ventures, Fresh.fund and Yakir Daniel, founder of Spot.io, and will be used to expand Yuki’s R&D center in Israel, broaden support for additional data platforms, and build out its U.S. sales presence. At the core of Yuki’s offering is Yuki Fabric, an optimization AI model that sits above platforms such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Iceberg-based data lakes, learning workload behavior, SLAs and cost-performance tradeoffs in real time to route queries to the most efficient compute resources and eliminate infrastructure duplication. According to CEO and co-founder Ido Arieli Noga, Yuki is designed as the control plane that data infrastructures currently lack, making workloads “aware and governed in real time” so that cost savings become a byproduct of continuous optimization rather than manual efforts.

Yuki reports that customers using its platform in 2025 achieved average data cost reductions of roughly 42.6%, with potential savings in large enterprises reaching millions of dollars, and its usage model is success-based, charging only a percentage of actual savings delivered. The company’s metadata-only architecture aims to meet enterprise governance and security requirements while enabling rapid implementation without changes to existing code or queries, which is particularly relevant as organizations accelerate AI initiatives and adopt Iceberg to separate storage and compute. Current customers include cybersecurity and media companies with high data intensity, such as Tenable and Angel Studios, that are seeking tighter control over data spend and performance amid volatile workloads and rising compute consumption. Operating in a cloud management tools market estimated at about $9.8 billion and comprising more than 200 vendors, Yuki is attempting to differentiate itself as the AI control layer for next-generation, unified data platforms. Founded in 2025 by Noga and CTO Amir Peres, the 15-person company is targeting enterprises that view data and AI infrastructure as a board-level cost and risk issue, with this seed funding intended to accelerate product depth, geographic expansion and enterprise go-to-market execution.