Support from Shinsegae Group and users like Samsung underscores the growing demand for automated, compliant, and cost-efficient AI infrastructure at a global scale.
Automation platform creator Cast AI has announced an investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures (PAV), the US-based corporate venture arm of Shinsegae Group, an over $50 billion Korean conglomerate with leading businesses across retail, consumer, and digital platforms.
With this round of funding, Cast AI’s valuation exceeds $1 billion, marking the company as Lithuania’s 5th unicorn. Unlike traditional solutions that merely monitor clusters and provide recommendations, Cast AI leverages advanced machine learning algorithms to continuously analyse and automatically optimise clusters in real-time, cutting cloud costs, improving application performance, and boosting DevOps efficiency.
“Shinsegae Group’s investment, and our over one billion dollar valuation, underscore the market’s confidence in our platform vision and our ability to execute it globally,” said Cast AI Co-Founder and CEO Yuri Frayman.
“Enterprises don’t just need cheaper infrastructure – they need infrastructure that adapts automatically as workloads and constraints change. That is what our automation agents were built to do, and this investment helps us scale that globally.”
Cast AI also expands its platform with the introduction of OMNI Compute, which connects external capacity, including GPUs, as native compute, allowing workloads to run on the most appropriate resources, locally or across clouds, without code changes, reconfiguration, or operational changes. It enables organisations to run any workloads, starting with AI inference, without cloud lock-in, while maintaining control over where they execute, to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
Teams can scale services without pinning workloads to a single region or provider, while keeping infrastructure behaviour automated, governed, and predictable as demand increases.
It applies the same optimisation used across the Cast AI platform to this external capacity, including GPU sharing, monitoring, and rightsizing, ensuring AI workloads remain efficient and consistent at scale.
“OMNI Compute makes GPUs fungible at the infrastructure layer so capacity isn’t trapped inside a single cloud or region,” said Cast AI President and Co-Founder Laurent Gil.
“Teams can move, allocate, and run production workloads wherever compute is actually available, with control over cost and performance.”
Global expansion has been a core pillar of Cast AI’s growth strategy following its Series C funding round. Since then, the company has significantly expanded its regional footprint by opening new offices in Bangalore, London, New York, and Tel Aviv, as well as subsidiaries in Canada, France, India, Korea, Lithuania, Singapore, and the UK.
“Cast AI has built a category-defining automation platform that aligns with the needs of modern, cloud-first enterprises,” said Hyuk Jin Chung, Managing Partner at PAV.
“We see strong demand for the company’s platform globally, and we’re excited to support the company’s continued expansion in Asia and help it realise its long-term Application Performance Automation platform vision.”
“With Cast AI, we’ve automated continuous infrastructure optimisation on Amazon EKS – reducing operational overhead while improving application efficiency and cost control in real time,” said Kyotack Tylor Kim, Head of Next Gen Cloud Group at Samsung Electronics.
“OMNI Compute’s unified control plane has the potential to change how enterprises like Samsung run AI infrastructure globally.”