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Trainy

trainy.ai

Trainy provides AI teams with GPU-cluster management and experiment-tracking software for faster model training.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 3d ago
Specialization
Distributed Computing
Business
Software Applicationsand 1 more business values
  • Compute Hosting
Market
Software Development
Ecosystem
Not classified
Customers
Developersand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
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Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Not classified
Business
Software Applications, Compute Hosting
Specialization
Distributed Computing
Market
Software Development
Customers
Developers, Enterprises
Delivery models
Managed Compute, On Premise Software, Open Source
Revenue models
Usage Based
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
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About

Trainy builds infrastructure software for AI teams managing GPU clusters for training and serving, including Konduktor for workload scheduling, resource allocation, and GPU reliability. It also offers Pluto, an open-source experiment tracker designed as a scalable W&B/Neptune replacement, differentiating through performance-focused GPU operations and support for teams migrating from incumbent tooling.

Market

Trainy competes in AI infrastructure software, spanning GPU cluster orchestration, distributed training, inference serving, and experiment tracking. It positions Konduktor as a simpler, multi-cloud and bare-metal alternative to traditional schedulers and GPU orchestration platforms, differentiated by YAML-based deployment, automated hardware-failure recovery, integrated observability, and support for customers’ own infrastructure; Pluto adds an open-source, self-hostable alternative to commercial experiment trackers.

Target Customers

AI/ML teams—especially startups and enterprise research or engineering organizations—running multi-node GPU clusters across hyperscalers, neoclouds, or bare-metal infrastructure. The primary users and buyers are ML engineers, platform/infrastructure leaders, and technical decision-makers who need reliable scheduling, GPU utilization, workload recovery, and cost visibility.

At a Glance

Problem

Trainy addresses the operational and economic pain of running GPU infrastructure for AI training and inference. GPU clusters are expensive assets, and idle capacity, poor workload scheduling, and hardware failures can waste substantial compute spend or force engineers into manual restarts. The primary use case is an AI team operating a reserved or multi-node GPU cluster that needs to keep GPUs busy around the clock while allocating scarce capacity across competing jobs by priority.

Product / Service

Trainy provides a GPU workflow platform spanning cluster management and scheduling, experiment tracking, and inference serving. Its Konduktor product lets teams submit jobs to a healthy GPU pool, apply priority scheduling and preemption, run multi-node workloads, monitor GPU and networking health, and observe usage through metrics, logs, and dashboards. The platform can be deployed in a customer’s own AWS, GCP, Azure, bare-metal, or other environment, with pricing sized to the cluster through a custom quote; its broader workflow also supports deploying trained models as autoscaling, load-balanced endpoints and tracking compute usage by team or engineer.

Market

Trainy competes in AI infrastructure and ML platform operations, particularly GPU cluster scheduling, utilization management, experiment operations, and model serving. Its clearest named competitor is Slurm: Trainy positions Konduktor as delivering Slurm-like resource sharing and scheduling while adding containerized workload isolation, integrated observability, and more comprehensive health monitoring. It also sits adjacent to cloud GPU infrastructure providers because it helps teams select providers, validate hardware, and operate clusters across cloud and bare-metal environments.

Trainy appears to have commercial usage rather than being merely pre-product. Its website reports more than 5 million GPU hours managed, claims that customers have scaled to hundreds of GPUs on demand while reducing infrastructure costs by 50%, and lists organizations including Causal Labs, The Forecasting Company, DigitalOcean, Diffuse Bio, Paperspace, and Whitefiber as trusted by or associated with the platform. It is backed by Y Combinator, but the available public materials do not disclose revenue, so the company’s exact revenue stage cannot be established from the evidence.

Founders & Leadership

Andrew AikawaFounder
Co-founder, CTO
Roanak BaviskarFounder
Co-Founder & CEO

Funding History

2023-09
Seed (Tracxn); Pre-Seed (Crunchbase)$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-07-17product_launch
Konduktor: GPU cluster scheduling for distributed training

Trainy highlighted Konduktor's distributed-training capabilities, including priority queuing, health checks, automatic rescheduling, GPU diagnostics, and multi-node training across clouds. The update also introduced an MCP integration allowing Claude to launch and restart jobs, read logs, and retrieve GPU metrics.

2026-02-08product_launch
Pluto: Experiment tracking that stays fast at thousands of runs

Trainy presented Pluto as open-source, Neptune- and Weights & Biases-compatible experiment tracking designed to remain responsive at large scale. The product supports dual logging, migration validation, and self-hosting.

2026-02-04partnership
Pluto listed in Neptune's official transition hub

Trainy's Launch YC announcement said Pluto was listed in Neptune's official transition hub, providing an integration path for users moving away from Neptune. Pluto's migration approach preserves existing logging workflows through dual logging and history export.

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Business Model

Trainy monetizes GPU infrastructure through usage-based on-demand access, listed at $3.60 per GPU-hour, with customers paying only while their code is running. It also offers dedicated GPUs and enterprise-grade infrastructure, while product-specific software pricing is not disclosed in the available evidence.

Products

Konduktor: GPU cluster scheduling and management for distributed trainingKonduktor inference serving: deployment of autoscaling, load-balanced production endpoints on customers’ own clustersPluto: open-source, high-scale experiment tracking with W&B- and Neptune-compatible APIs

Customers

The Forecasting CompanyDigitalOceanDiffuse BioPaperspaceWhitefiber

Tech Stack

KubernetesYAML-based job configurationPyTorch/torchrunNVIDIA GPU infrastructure, including H100sInfiniBand and RoCE networkingModel Context Protocol (MCP) with ClaudeContainerization, health monitoring, and observability tooling

Competitors

NVIDIA Run:ai
KAI Scheduler
SkyPilot
Slurm
Determined AI
Weights & Biases
MLflow
ClearML