Aviz Networks develops AI-driven, vendor-agnostic networking software, including Community SONiC solutions, network visibility tools, and AI-driven management capabilities. Its Aviz AI Networking Stack offers orchestration, observability, real-time alerts, performance monitoring, RoCE support, packet brokers, service nodes, and a vendor-agnostic data lake powering an LLM-based Network Copilot. The stack integrates with the majority of ASICs, switches, GPUs, DPUs, and servers to provide customers hardware flexibility, operational control, and cost savings. Aviz’s solutions have been deployed by e-commerce platforms, telecommunications providers, retailers, GPU-as-a-service providers, cloud service providers, and diverse enterprise networks. The company plans to increase its workforce in the US and globally, further penetrate key sectors, and scale customer deployments while expanding its partner ecosystem. Aviz recently raised a $17 million Series A to accelerate market expansion and scale deployments. Aviz Networks is an open networking software company providing switch‑platform‑agnostic applications and APIs for network observability, orchestration, and assurance for cloud‑scale telecom and enterprise infrastructures. It offers disaggregated support for multi‑vendor SONiC deployments across data centers and edge networks. The company markets a multi‑vendor, GenAI‑based networking stack and intends to accelerate customer momentum and SONiC adoption. Aviz is led by CEO Vishal Shukla and is based in San Jose, CA. Financially, Aviz extended its funding to $10M with participation from Cisco Investments, Moment Ventures, Accton and Wistron. Over the past 12 months it has rapidly scaled customers, revenue, and operational headcount to meet increasing demand across multiple geographies. Aviz Networks provides software solutions for hybrid cloud and edge networks that leverage Multi‑Vendor SONiC. Its core offerings include the Aviz Certified SONiC program, an application‑driven support model with 24/7 SONiC experts, and cloud‑native applications for orchestration, monitoring, and support. Aviz has signed partnerships with all major switch and ASIC vendors to enable interoperable multi‑vendor networks and is making SONiC application‑aware to bring cloud‑native and AI capabilities to hybrid networks. The company cites deployments by a leading web‑scale enterprise customer that uses tens of thousands of devices and uses Aviz’s SONiC Enterprise Suite to manage their fabric. The founding team has backgrounds at Nvidia (Mellanox), AWS, and F5; Vishal Shukla is CEO, Chidambaram B is CTO, and Gautam Agrawal is CPO. Aviz’s stated vision is to drive open‑source networking via disaggregated cloud‑native applications and accelerate SONiC adoption across data center and edge networks.

Total raised

$31M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Nov 2024