Silicon Valley’s cloud computing scene is creating a Pakistani-andagen business waves.
Ovovis Tariq, once leading the cloud infrastructure in Uber, has collected 25 million in series A funds for his US -based startup -tigers data.
According to the Tech Crunch report, on the combined basis of Owais Tariq, Hemank Chaudhary (CTO), and Yigin Farsov (Chief Architect), Tigers is a company that aims to disrupt players like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Aizor.
The period was led by Spark Capital, which was attended by existing investors, including Anderson H.According to the Tech Crunch and Votes.
Talking to Tech Crunch, Tariq said that modern AI demands distributed workloads – and data storage should be prepared to meet it.
“Modern AI workloads and AI infrastructure are choosing a distributed computing of large clouds instead, or,” he said. “We want to provide the same option for storage, because without storage, the computer is nothing.”
Tigers was built by the same engineering team that formed Uber’s internal storage platform. Startup’s AI-local data storage system allows the information to be transmitted automatically where the GPUS is located, supports billions of small files, and ensures low delays for AI training and diagnosis.
Tariq believes that the traditional cloud model, central and expensive, is old. He told the Tech Crunch that the major cloud providers receive a high “agriculture festival” when users transmit data between the platform, which is often called “cloud tax”.
“The address festival was just a sign of a deep hassle, the central storage that could not live with a विकेंद्रीकृत, high -speed AI ecosystem,” he said.
The Dajla now serves more than 4,000 users, most of them create models for image, video and sound production.
Tariq explained, “Imagine talking to a local audio -performing AI agent.” You want the least delay – both computers and storage need to be closer. “
Tigers are currently running three data centers in Virginia, Chicago and San Jose, and plans to expand London, Frankfurt and Singapore. Tariq said that since its establishment in November 2021, the company develops 8X every year.
People close to Tariq have described it as a self -styled founder of a humble beginning, who “always dreamed of making something globally.”
Tariq grew up in Karachi and studied computer science at Karachi University. Before working for a far -flung database company in Singapore, he began his career as a software engineer at a local IT firm.
He later joined the Uber’s Head Office in the United States, where he led the cloud infrastructure before leaving in 2021, the price of Uber dropped from $ 45 to $ 20.
His journey, from coding in the IT sector of Karachi to one of the most popular challenges for the world’s largest cloud companies, reflects the fact that when Pakistan’s full potential is given the right environmental system, innovation here is in any world.