# Exla

> Exla (YC W25) is a San Francisco startup building Libra, an AI site-reliability engineer that watches production logs, traces and deploys around the clock. When something breaks, Libra detects the failure, finds the deploy that caused it, opens a fix pull request with a regression test, and verifies recovery in production - so engineers do not have to wake up at 3am. The company began as an SDK for running large transformer models on edge devices and pivoted to autonomous incident response.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Viraat Das (Cofounder & CEO), Pranav Nair (Cofounder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 2
- **Products:** Libra, Exla SDK (edge model optimization)
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch., Shipped Libra, an end-to-end AI SRE that goes from detection to a verified fix pull request., Pivoted from edge model optimization to autonomous incident response, reusing deep systems and ML expertise.

## Products & services

- **Libra** — An AI site-reliability engineer that continuously analyzes logs, traces, deployments, pull requests, cloud metrics and past incidents. It learns each business's normal behavior, detects regressions, identifies the responsible commit, opens a fix pull request with a regression test, and verifies recovery in production. Lives in Slack and is queryable over MCP.
- **Exla SDK (edge model optimization)** — The company's original product: an SDK to run large transformer models - LLMs, vision-language models and computer vision models - on resource-constrained edge devices such as NVIDIA Jetson, using aggressive quantization for up to ~80% smaller memory footprint and 3-20x faster inference.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.
- Shipped Libra, an end-to-end AI SRE that goes from detection to a verified fix pull request.
- Pivoted from edge model optimization to autonomous incident response, reusing deep systems and ML expertise.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Exla joins Y Combinator's W25 batch and reports a seed raise.
- **2025** — Launches Libra, an AI site-reliability engineer, pivoting from the edge-model SDK.

## Links

- Website: https://exla.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/exla-corp
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/exla_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/exla-ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-31