Thoras AI

Post-pitch story

Thoras AI pitched a solution to a problem every engineering team knows: cloud infrastructure that's over-provisioned, expensive, and fragile. Founded by twin sisters Nilo Rahmani (CEO) and Jennifer Rahmani (COO), the company builds tools that automate resource allocation and reliability for Kubernetes environments. The fundraising has been steady and impressive. In March 2024, Thoras closed a $1.5 million pre-seed round, covered by TechCrunch. In January 2025, the company announced a $5 million seed round led by Wellington Management — a notable lead investor for such an early-stage company. The product has evolved into what the company calls "Adaptive Reliability," which it claims can cut cloud costs by 50–60% and reduce incident response times by 70%. Those performance claims come from the company's own announcements, so take them as marketing figures rather than audited results — but the venture backing from a firm like Wellington is its own signal. Thoras AI is one of the more technically ambitious companies to come through the show, and its post-pitch fundraising suggests the market for automated cloud reliability is only getting bigger.