Standard Capital · Apr 2026
Investor write-up on the Series A describing Archil’s file-system approach, early customer pull, and use cases such as Clay and faster build workflows.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Archil builds a cloud filesystem for AI-native applications, giving teams a POSIX-compatible, infinitely scalable storage layer that mounts directly on existing object storage and can run workloads close to the data.
Primary product
Cloud filesystem for AI / one file system, mounted everywhere
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Cloud storage / file system infrastructure for AI
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
usage-based storage
enterprise custom pricing
developer infrastructure software
Funding
People & investors
Work & culture
Public hiring and product material suggest a deeply technical, customer-focused, fast-paced environment with substantial ownership, ambiguity tolerance, and on-call/production responsibility.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings show roughly $150k-$250k base salary plus equity for distributed-systems roles; one YC job board posting also listed 0.50%-1.50% equity. Public postings are mixed on visa support: one mentions visa sponsorship available, while another says US citizen/visa only.
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based storage pricing at $0.20/GiB-month, with enterprise custom pricing, volume discounts, committed spend, and net-30 invoicing for enterprise plans.
Differentiators
- —POSIX-compatible filesystem semantics
- —infinitely scalable / no pre-provisioning
- —serverless execution with disk.exec
- —mountable across multiple servers
- —synchronizes with S3, GCS, R2, and Azure Blob
- —pay-as-you-go billing with no egress/API/per-request fees
- —runs bash, Python, and Node directly on the filesystem
- —customer data remains in the user's bucket as source of truth
Technology
PostHog
FUSE
TypeScript
Python
Node.js
Terraform
Amazon S3
Google Cloud Storage
Cloudflare R2
Azure Blob Storage
AWS KMS
TLS 1.3
AES-256-GCM
Customers
Clay
AI teams
researchers
analytics teams
cloud teams
agent/workflow builders
Competitors
Amazon EBS
Amazon EFS
Google Hyperdisk
FSx for Lustre
Alluxio
Mountpoint for S3
JuiceFS
s3fs
goofys
VAST Data
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$550K annual revenue / ARR (GetLatka estimate; 2025-09-14)
Latest news
Menlo Times · Apr 2026
News coverage of the Series A noting participation from Y Combinator, Felicis, Peak XV, Wayfinder Ventures, and angels.
Archil Blog · Apr 2026
Official Series A announcement stating Archil raised $11M led by Standard Capital and bringing total capital raised to $18M.
FinSMEs · Jun 2025
Seed-round announcement reporting $6.7M led by Felicis with participation from Y Combinator, Peak XV, Wayfinder Ventures, General Catalyst, Lombardstreet Ventures, and Twenty Two Ventures.
Felicis · Jun 2025
Felicis announced and explained its seed investment in Archil, framing the company as a foundational cloud-storage layer for AI and high-performance workloads.
Jobs and careers at Archil
2 jobs at Archil
Sr. Distributed Systems Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time
Distributed Systems Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time