CLIKA, an innovative AI compression platform, has announced the successful close of its seed funding round, attracting strategic investments from distinguished organizations, including Accenture Ventures, IQT, Milemark Capital, and Golden Gate Ventures. This global backing reflects the growing need for solutions that can address one of AI’s most pressing challenges: deploying increasingly complex models across a fragmented, resource-constrained technology landscape.
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly central to business operations and daily life, the disparity between the massive size of AI models and the limitations of real-world hardware environments continues to grow. CLIKA directly addresses this issue by providing an automated SDK that transforms large models into compact, hardware-optimized versions in just minutes.
This seamless compression and compilation process allows organizations to deploy advanced AI applications effortlessly—whether on the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge—without sacrificing speed, security, or performance.
What sets CLIKA apart is its focus on user autonomy and privacy. Unlike other solutions that rely on pre-processed models accessed via APIs or manual vendor services, CLIKA empowers teams to handle the entire transformation process in-house. There is no need to upload sensitive models to the cloud or share proprietary data externally; every step occurs on-premises or within secure, air-gapped environments.
This is particularly valuable for sectors with heightened privacy needs, such as critical infrastructure, national security, and data-sensitive enterprises.
By bridging the gap between AI innovation and practical, widespread deployment, CLIKA is poised to usher in a new era of Physical AI—real-time intelligence running directly on everyday devices. With strong support from investors across North America, Europe, and Asia, CLIKA is on a mission to make advanced AI accessible, efficient, and secure for organizations everywhere.
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“We built CLIKA to solve the last-mile problem of AI — getting models out of the lab and into production, quickly and securely. This funding accelerates our mission to make AI deployment radically simpler and more accessible, especially where real-world performance and control are critical. CLIKA is the missing infrastructure for Physical AI — real-time intelligence running directly on everyday devices.”
Nayul Kim, Co-founder and CEO of CLIKA
“The rapid growth of AI — and the complexity that comes with it — demands faster, simpler, and smarter deployment. With this investment, we’re providing CLIKA with strategic access to our enterprise clients, helping deploy advanced models at the edge, and putting intelligence where it matters most.”
Tom Lounibos, Global Lead of the corporate venture capital arm of Accenture
“CLIKA’s technology directly addresses one of the most persistent challenges in AI today — deploying performant models in resource constrained, isolated environments. CLIKA’s on-premise compression toolkit enables our partners to advance trustworthy, real-world AI capabilities, where control, performance, and integrity are non-negotiable.”
Justin Wilder, Managing Director, IQT Singapore
