AI startup Katalist has successfully raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round to advance its platform for AI workflow and data pipeline management. AI infrastructure startup Katalist has announced the successful closure of a $1.5 million seed funding round. The capital will be used to accelerate development of its platform designed to streamline and manage complex AI workflow and data pipelines for enterprise teams. This early-stage investment highlights continued investor appetite for startups tackling the foundational operational challenges of scaling artificial intelligence from experimentation to production, a critical bottleneck in the current market. The funding round attracted a mix of venture capital firms and angel investors specializing in enterprise software and data science tooling. This seed funding matters because it validates a clear market need for tools that bring order and efficiency to the often chaotic process of building, testing, and deploying AI models. For the startup ecosystem, it demonstrates that investor focus extends beyond AI model developers to the essential "picks and shovels" companies that...