Centific, a Redmond, Wash.-based startup founded in 2020 that helps organizations manage data pipelines to power advanced AI systems, raised $60 million in a Series A round led by Singaporean venture capitalist Jenny Lee of Granite Asia.
Centific describes itself as the “hidden infrastructure behind world-class AI models,” helping provide the foundational data pipelines for organizations pushing AI into production.
The startup works with global leaders in smartphones, tablets, e-commerce, and software; it also collaborates with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and other giants.
“Enterprises globally are moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, but the journey requires scale, trust, and deep integration with legacy systems,” Lee said in a statement. “Centific is built for this moment.”
Centific is led by CEO and co-founder Venkat Rangapuram, who previously worked at Pactera, HCL America, and Infosys.
“AI is evolving from isolated models to fully agentic systems that perceive, reason, and act at scale,” Rangapuram said in a statement. “Our full-stack Data Foundry meets this moment by combining deep domain expertise, human-in-the-loop assurance, and true multimodal orchestration—all delivered with unmatched speed and scale.”
Centific originally started as the U.S. division of Pactera, a China-based IT consulting company, according to Fortune.
The company has nearly 3,000 employees, with a majority of its workforce in India, according to LinkedIn.
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