$100,000 investment to support acceleration of AI-powered infrastructure management
COLUMBIA, Md., (February 12, 2026) — TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent $100,000 Pre-Seed Builder Fund investment in Sirsi. Operating within TEDCO’s Social Impact Funds, the Pre-Seed Builder Fund focuses on investing in Maryland-based technology companies while expanding access to capital and support.
“Sirsi was created to bridge the cloud expertise gap by letting organizations build, host, optimize, and scale infrastructure through a natural conversation,” said Cylton Collymore, CEO of Sirsi. “Our platform seamlessly harmonizes complex resources across major CSPs and on-prem datacenters. By leveraging our patented knowledge-graph technology, we improve LLM memory resilience to prevent the context-drift common in standard AI, ensuring 100% accuracy in mission-critical infrastructure deployments.”
Sirsi, located in Bethesda, Md., is the architect of Sirsi Nexus, an agent-embedded platform that aims to automate the lifecycle of cloud and on-premises environments. The platform is designed to dynamically orchestrate high-performance hardware, including NVIDIA graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units, while grounding its AI in a proprietary IP framework that eliminates operational waste and technical debt. This approach typically reduces enterprise infrastructure spending by 20% to 40% through intelligent resource reclamation.
“Innovative solutions like Sirsi reflect the kind of businesses and founders that TEDCO’s Social Impact Funds were created to support,” said Jean-Luc Park, deputy chief investment officer & senior director of TEDCO’s Social Impact Funds. “Their idea demonstrates how AI and cloud infrastructure can be utilized, creating a possible solution for operational and environmental challenges. We hope this investment supports their continued growth.”
The Pre-Seed Builder Fund not only provides early-stage companies with convertible note financing but also offers practical resources, including mentorship, business guidance and access to TEDCO’s network of experts and investors. These assets were created to empower founders to refine strategies, build teams and position companies for future growth.
“AI’s rapid expansion impacts the very fabric of innovation ecosystems worldwide, but Maryland is equipped not only to embrace the change but also to shift accordingly for success,” said TEDCO CEO Troy LeMaile-Stovall. “With access to a large, top-rated cyber talent pool, more than 20 NSA/DHS-certified Centers of Academic Excellence and supportive organizations and top universities, the state is adapting to the change, creating continued economic development and innovation ecosystem growth.”
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