Zipline AI closed a $7 million seed round led by Wing VC, with participation from Stripe, Box Group, and Exceptional Capital, to commercialize the open-source Chronon data engine that already powers AI infrastructure at OpenAI, Netflix, Uber, and Roku. The funding addresses enterprise teams’ biggest AI deployment blocker: building reliable data pipelines typically requires months of complex engineering work that Zipline’s platform reduces to days.

The startup tackles the foundational infrastructure gap between AI model capabilities and enterprise deployment reality. While models can handle sophisticated reasoning, enterprises struggle with the unglamorous but critical work of collecting, cleaning, and serving the massive datasets that production AI systems require.