Archil Raises $6.7M to Reinvent Cloud Storage for Data Teams

San Francisco–based Archil, a shareable, instant volume storage startup, just raised $6.7M in seed funding to scale its development and operations.

Led by Felicis, the round drew backing from Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, General Catalyst, Wayfinding Partners, and others — plus top angels like:

Theo Browne (T3)

Wayne Duso (ex-Amazon)

Erik Bernhardsson (Modal Labs)

Ryan Worl (Warpstream)

Amit Gupta (ex-Benchling)

Co-founded by Hunter Leath and Reagan Matthews, Archil helps data teams turn S3 buckets into high-performance, local-like file systems, enabling:

Faster AI model training

Real-time data analytics

Genomics & scientific computing

Financial modeling — without data movement overhead

In a world flooded with unstructured data, Archil is becoming the default storage layer for modern, high-throughput workloads.