Lyzr

Lyzr is an agentic AI infrastructure company that sells a platform for building, deploying and governing AI agents inside enterprises. Lyzr describes the platform as a full-stack enterprise AI platform that combines modular AI infrastructure with enterprise governance, observability and deployment capabilities, and that can run within customer-controlled environments.^[1]

Lyzr's starting point for developers is Agent Studio, a no-code tool that SiliconANGLE says lets users create agents with natural-language prompts and choose the large language model behind each agent. The platform ships with guardrails that scan user requests for personally identifiable information and malicious code, and it checks each agent response for accuracy. Lyzr offers its development tools alongside more than 100 prepackaged agent templates for tasks such as organizing lead data and onboarding suppliers.^[2]

Lyzr's Architect is an agentic application builder that SiliconANGLE reported Lyzr would launch the week after its February 6, 2026 article. Architect is aimed at nontechnical users, who can use it to create multi-agent systems for complex business processes. Siva Surendira, Lyzr's co-founder and chief executive, told SiliconANGLE that the tool can review more than 1,000 prebuilt production-grade blueprints, select a starting point and generate a multi-agent workflow.^[3]

Lyzr's simulation engine runs up to 10,000 automated tests against an agent to identify failure modes and improve reliability, according to Surendira in the same SiliconANGLE report. Surendira presented the engine as the platform's key differentiator.^[3]

Lyzr's website lists Agent Studio, Open Finetuning, Open Cowork, Architect, Optimus and OpenController as products. The site describes Optimus as Lyzr's own hardware for running agents, models and governance on an air-gapped appliance in a customer's data center, and says it ships in Q4 2026.^[4]

Lyzr announced OpenController on September 17, 2026. In the release, Lyzr describes OpenController as a platform that gives enterprise leaders a consolidated view of AI agent usage, model and infrastructure costs, and spend across developers, projects and agents.^[1]

Lyzr says it built OpenController first to address problems in its own engineering and AI operations. In the release, Lyzr states that Anthropic usage accounted for approximately $36,000 of the company's $50,000 monthly AI tools budget.^[1]

Lyzr's own timeline dates its first enterprise agents to 2023, which it says automated research, support and internal knowledge flows. Lyzr's About page does not state an incorporation or founding year, and no other source opened for this profile gives one.^[5]

Lyzr's timeline says that in the first quarter of 2024 it turned learnings from dozens of projects into a full-stack platform covering private cloud, observability, guardrails and governance.^[5]

SiliconANGLE described Lyzr as a two-year-old company, while TechCrunch called Lyzr a three-year-old startup in a separate report. The two descriptions differ by a year, and neither source gives a founding date.^[2],[6]

Lyzr's chief executive, Siva Surendira, told SiliconANGLE in February 2026 that revenue had grown tenfold since the October funding, without giving figures, and that headcount had doubled to 120 people. Surendira said he plans to grow the company to more than 1,000 people within a year, and that Lyzr expects the business to break even in April. These are management statements to a reporter, not audited figures.^[3]

Lyzr's sources disagree on where the company is headquartered. Lyzr's homepage footer lists a Jersey City, New Jersey address, the OpenController release is datelined Jersey City, and SiliconANGLE describes a Jersey City-based company with development in Bangalore, India. The boilerplate of that same release says Lyzr is headquartered in New York with an engineering hub in Bengaluru, India.^[4],[1],[3]

Lyzr raised an $8 million Series A in October, according to PYMNTS, whose article on the company is dated March 9, 2026. At the time, Lyzr said it had run more than 1 billion agent simulations, had over 1 million agents live in production and had more than 30,000 developers building on its platform.^[7],[3]

SiliconANGLE reported on February 6, 2026 that Accenture was an investor in Lyzr's $8 million round, and that the round brought Lyzr's total funding to $10.5 million.^[3],[7]

Lyzr said in a March 3 LinkedIn post that it was valued at $250 million in a Series A+ round, according to PYMNTS. The Series A+ round raised Lyzr's valuation fivefold from a previous valuation of $50 million, per the same post. PYMNTS added that Bloomberg News reported the company raised $14.5 million in the round, led by Accenture.^[7]

Lyzr's About page states that Lyzr has raised a total of $14.5 Mn with the last valuation at $250 Mn. That total matches the amount Bloomberg reportedly gave for the Series A+ round alone, while SiliconANGLE put Lyzr's total at $10.5 million before that round, so the published figures do not reconcile. This profile does not add them together, and no confirmed total funding figure for Lyzr is available.^[5],[3],[7]

SiliconANGLE reported on July 9, 2026 that Lyzr was reportedly raising a funding round worth about $100 million, citing Bloomberg. The report said the round had drawn $400 million of interest from prospective investors and was expected to value Lyzr at $500 million, double its March valuation.^[2],[6]

TechCrunch, also citing Bloomberg, called the round a $100 million Series B at a roughly $500 million valuation. The sources reviewed describe the round as being raised, do not confirm that it has closed, and name no lead or other investor, so this profile treats the Series B as reported and not completed.^[6],[2]

Lyzr used its own agent, called SivaClaw, to run investor outreach for the round. TechCrunch reported that SivaClaw fielded questions from more than 130 investors, and that Lyzr told Bloomberg it pulled in $400 million in interest from Silicon Valley, the Middle East and financial-sector investors.^[6],[2]

The sources reviewed do not state whether the $250 million valuation is pre-money or post-money, and none gives a revenue figure for Lyzr.^[7],[2]

Siva Surendira is Lyzr's co-founder and chief executive. SiliconANGLE identifies him as Lyzr co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, and the OpenController release quotes him as Founder and CEO of Lyzr.^[3],[1]

The sources reviewed for this profile name no other Lyzr co-founder or executive.^[5]

Lyzr's homepage says the company is trusted by Accenture, Crown Castle, WTW, Verifone, KPMG, AWS, Hitachi, Movate, Firstsource, MSP Corp, Persistent and AirAsia Move. The homepage does not state contract scope or dates for these relationships.^[4]

Accenture is both an investor in Lyzr and a customer. Accenture participated in the Series A and, according to Bloomberg as relayed by PYMNTS, led the Series A+. Surendira told SiliconANGLE that Lyzr has deployments at Accenture and KPMG, including a system built by Accenture that uses more than 200 agents to collect and analyze data on startups worldwide.^[3],[7]

Lyzr publishes customer results on its own homepage. The homepage says Verifone cut support escalations by 58%, WTW added 3.1x more broker throughput in submission triage, Crown Castle cut tower permitting by 72%, and Accenture took a client's finance close from pilot to production in nine weeks. These are Lyzr's own claims.^[4]

Lyzr said OpenController has been piloted with enterprise organizations including Anaplan and Pepsi, according to the September 2026 release.^[1]

Lyzr's website lists Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure as technology partners, along with global system integrator and reseller partner programs.^[5]