Krithik Puthalath, Founder of Zyphra

About Krithik Puthalath

Krithik Puthalath is the Chairman and CEO of Zyphra, an AI company founded in 2020 that develops open-weight models trained on AMD hardware. He co-founded Zyphra to advance open intelligence with reasoning models like ZAYA1-8B and Zamba. Puthalath led the company through its $100M Series A round in June 2025 at a $1B valuation.

Krithik Puthalath at a glance

• Company: Zyphra
• Total raised: $100M
• Latest round: Series A
• Investors: Jaan Tallinn, AMD, Gaia, AlphaJWC Ventures, Intel Capital, Future Ventures
• Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

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