WEKA
Israeli AI storage infrastructure company founded in 2013. Built a software-defined parallel file system optimized for GPU training workloads. $1.6B valuation as of 2024, backed by Nvidia and Valor Equity Partners.
WEKA is an Israeli AI storage infrastructure company founded in 2013 by Liran Zvibel, Maor Ben Dayan, and Omri Palmon. The company built a software-defined parallel file system designed for the bandwidth and IOPS profile of GPU-based AI training workloads.
WEKA sells its data platform to enterprises and AI cloud providers that need to feed data into large GPU clusters without the I/O bottlenecks of traditional NAS or object storage. Customers include major hyperscalers, sovereign-cloud operators, and pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies running large-scale model training and inference.
The company raised a $140 million Series E in 2024 at a reported $1.6 billion valuation led by Valor Equity Partners and Nvidia, formally placing WEKA in the unicorn cohort of the Israeli AI infrastructure layer alongside Run:ai (acquired by Nvidia 2024) and NextSilicon.