Network automation startup Netris has secured a $15 million Series A investment led by Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate the deployment of artificial intelligence neoclouds. The funding underscores growing industry demand for solutions that streamline the complex, capital-intensive process of configuring and launching GPU-heavy data centers. Traditionally, bringing a new cloud infrastructure online requires months of manual configuration, during which expensive hardware remains idle. Netris addresses this bottleneck by deploying a hardware-accelerated network automation platform that replaces conventional software-defined networking, which struggles to handle the massive throughput required for modern AI training and inference workloads. The Netris platform operates directly on network switches, automating setup, configuration, and ongoing operations while providing network abstraction and hardware-layer resource isolation to support secure multi-tenant environments. The system is vendor-agnostic, maintaining compatibility with both Nvidia and AMD server ecosystems. According to CEO Alex Saroyan, the company deliberately avoids machine learning for its core routing and switching algorithms, relying instead on deterministic, highly repeatable logic that ensures precise configuration changes across thousands of network links without the unpredictability inherent in AI-driven systems. Netris has already achieved significant market traction, with its infrastructure live across more than 35 GPU clusters globally, encompassing approximately one million chips. Early validation from Nvidia two years ago helped establish the company credibility, leading to deployments with major operators including Lightning AI, Foxconn, Visionbay, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Tensorwave, and Telus. The startup effectively democratizes infrastructure management, allowing smaller neocloud providers to leverage the same advanced network orchestration capabilities historically reserved for hyperscale cloud operators. Andreessen Horowitz partner Guido Appenzeller will join Netris board of directors as part of the financing round. The company intends to allocate the capital toward expanding its engineering and sales teams, broadening support for additional hardware vendors, and enhancing its underlying algorithmic capabilities. As AI demand continues to outpace traditional cloud infrastructure development, Netris hardware-first automation strategy positions it to play a critical role in reducing deployment timelines and operational friction across the emerging neocloud sector.