Currently in stealth

We make the compute you've already paid for do more.

Asterope is building foundational performance and efficiency software for the way modern hardware actually runs. We're early, we're quiet, and we're working with a small number of partners.

What we believe

The next gains come from using what's deployed — not deploying more.

01

The hardware is already here

Capital and chips are no longer the constraint. The pressing question is how much useful work the infrastructure on the floor can actually deliver.

02

Software is the lever

The biggest near-term efficiency wins live in how software meets the machine — not in waiting years for more capacity to come online.

03

Built for many kinds of silicon

Modern infrastructure is no longer one kind of processor. We design for a world where workloads span very different hardware.

A glimpse

What we can say so far.

We're not ready to show the engine yet. But here's the shape of how we think about the problem.

Continuous

Optimized while it runs

Most efficiency is decided once, before the first request arrives. We keep deciding as the workload moves.

Drop-in

No restart, no rewrite

It works with what you've already deployed. Nothing to re-architect, nothing new to integrate.

Measurable

Counted in work per watt

Efficiency you can put a number on — and the same number you can expand against across a fleet.

Safe by default

It never makes things worse

A guaranteed floor: improvements are measured and kept, regressions are rolled back automatically.

The interesting part is how. That part stays behind the curtain for now.

Founders

A pairing built for the full distance.

Co-founder

George Neville-Neil

Co-author of The Design & Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System and the long-running "Kode Vicious" columnist for ACM Queue / CACM. Two decades of authority in low-level systems and performance.

FreeBSD Foundation board member and former Core Team. PhD candidate at Yale (systems & databases); Industrial Visitor at the University of Cambridge. Has built trading systems at Hudson River Trading and shipped code on NASA missions.

Co-founder

Prithvi Rai

Repeat founder with a completed exit — founder & CEO of Borneo, a data-security platform acquired by Atlassian in 2025.

Two decades of senior engineering leadership at Uber, Meta and Yahoo, building infrastructure and data platforms at hyperscaler scale. Delivered engineering and security for the Facebook and Uber IPOs. Board member, HTX (Singapore).

The founding team
Founding engineer
Mathematician and computer scientist (ex-NYU) working at the boundary of math, systems and hardware.
On board
Compiler & Runtime
Low-level code generation and runtime systems. Strong C/C++ and compiler internals.
Hiring
Systems & Performance
Performance tooling, schedulers and operating-system internals at production scale.
Hiring
Accelerators
GPU and hardware-acceleration engineering across a range of architectures.
Hiring

We're building quietly. If this is your world, let's talk.

We'd like to hear from teams that run large compute fleets, people who optimize infrastructure for a living, and engineers who want to build foundational systems software from the ground up.

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