Israeli Startup Impala AI Raises $11 Million to Scale Enterprise AI

Jerusalem, 29 October, 2025 (TPS-IL) — Israeli Startup Impala AI has emerged from stealth with an $11 million seed round led by Viola Ventures and NFX, aiming to help enterprises scale large language model (LLM) applications efficiently and securely.

Founded by Noam Salinger, a former executive at Granulate, Impala’s proprietary inference platform allows organizations to run AI within their own virtual private cloud while cutting operational costs by up to 13-fold. The funding will support team expansion and global growth as Impala works with Fortune 500 companies.