Niteshift Raises $7 Million Seed to Build AI Coding Infrastructure as Lock-In Fears Grow
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 10
Niteshift Raises $7 Million Seed to Build AI Coding Infrastructure as Lock-In Fears Grow
1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 10
Summary
$7 million in seed funding will help Niteshift build an AI coding cloud that routes work across Claude Code, Codex and open-source models instead of tying customers to one vendor.
Greylock’s Jerry Chen led the round, backing Niteshift’s pitch that frontier labs are moving up the software stack and creating demand for infrastructure that separates coding agents from the models underneath.
Founded by former early Datadog engineers Sajid Mehmood and Conor Branagan, the startup says companies fear handing sensitive code to model makers that could later compete in legal, healthcare, finance and other verticals.
Niteshift plans to sell cloud-style infrastructure on per-minute usage rates rather than tokens, entering a crowded market that already includes Cursor, Cognition, Amazon Bedrock and OpenRouter.