Animbus brings AI to the forefront by removing the technical, operational, and economic barriers that prevent enterprises from scaling it. While organizations see AI’s promise, they often struggle to realize it in production. Built by experts in global-scale infrastructure, Animbus understands why AI fails—it is often running on systems never designed for it. As AI becomes mission-critical, infrastructure must evolve. Animbus delivers a new foundation for AI and HPC—enabling faster, more reliable, and cost-controlled production at scale.
infrastructure for the ai era
Why AI? Why not??
Enterprises see AI’s promise—but struggle to scale it. Most initiatives stall before reaching production, not because of models, but because the underlying infrastructure was never designed for AI workloads.
Traditional environments:
GPU-intensive compute requirements or real-time inference at scale. The issue is also with integrated tooling across the AI lifecycle.
The result is a growing gap between experimentation and real business impact.
AI Reimagined
Animbus reimagines infrastructure for the AI era—bringing together global-scale systems expertise with a deep understanding of modern AI workloads.
We enable enterprises to move from isolated pilots to production-ready, enterprise-wide deployment.
value proposition
Built by pioneers. Designed for production-scale AI.
With decades of experience scaling internet and cloud platforms—and eight successful exits—our team brings proven execution to enterprise HPC. Animbus is built on a simple belief: AI should be production-ready from day one, with infrastructure that delivers performance at scale, predictable costs, built-in security and compliance, and expert operation
Proven Execution
Decades of experience building and scaling core internet and cloud platforms. Backed by eight successful exits across the founding team.
Production-First AI
Infrastructure designed for real-world deployment from day one. Delivers scale, cost predictability, security, and expert-led operations.
Leadership & Advisors
The Animbus leadership team has a long track record of creating and advancing category-defining platforms across networking, cloud, and security. Their experience includes early pioneers in content delivery, cloud computing, SD-WAN, and CASB, with eight successful exits across the founding team.
Gopa Sheppillayar
Co-Founder & CEO
Serial entrepreneur with 30+ years in leading technology platforms. Played pivotal platform leadership roles at Speedera (Akamai CDN), Aryaka (SD-WAN), and Skyhigh (McAfee CASB). Multiple companies later acquired by Salesforce, Brocade, and AT&T.
Michel Maeso
Co-Founder & CCO
30+ years leading global sales and marketing organizations, generating over $1.5B in shareholder value. Deep experience across PaaS, cloud, IoT, AI/ML, and security. Startups include Speedera, Cotendo, and VitalStream; acquisitions by Akamai, Cisco, Internap, and Citrix.
Naveen Maveli
VP, Software Engineering
Seasoned engineering leader and software architect with over 30 years of experience building large-scale cloud and networking platforms at Aryaka Networks, Meta, Riverbed, Brocade, and Veritas. His expertise spans operating systems, storage, networking, SD-WAN, CDN, and security.
Jan-Michael Santos
VP, Network Architecture & Operations
25+ years of experience as a network platform lead architect at Speedera, CDNetworks and Aryaka. Specialized in building reliable, agile, and scalable global network deployments.
Keshav Kamble
Technology Advisor
20+ years creating advanced connectivity and cybersecurity solutions. Holds 200+ patents across networking, security, and virtualization. Former Cloud Technology Leader at IBM and Chairman of the IP Panel at the IBM CTO Office.
