Y Combinator Alum Sre.ai Raises $7.2m For Devops Ai Agents

“It wasn’t 1 large lightbulb; it was decease by a 1000 cuts,” Edward Aryee said erstwhile asked what led him and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, to motorboat SRE.ai. 

The institution is offering earthy connection AI agents that tin execute analyzable endeavor DevOps workflows for illustration continuous integration and testing. 

“Instead of stitching together different low-code devices for endeavor applications for illustration Salesforce, compared to products built connected AWS, GCP, aliases Azure, teams tin now move faster pinch context-driven, chat-like experiences that activity crossed each of them,” Kadiyala, who is nan company’s CEO, told TechCrunch. 

The duo thought of nan merchandise while moving astatine Google Research and DeepMind. Aryee, SRE.ai’s CTO, said they noticed nan disagreement betwixt nan infrastructure tooling they had entree to versus what others who didn’t activity astatine Google had to use. Their technologist friends lamented astir tedious tasks, for illustration untangling metadata conflicts. “It gnawed astatine us,” Aryee said. 

He and Kadiyala realized: “The adjacent procreation of DevOps experiences needed to beryllium created.” 

So they founded SRE.ai successful 2024 to connection much modern devices to enterprises truthful they tin debar issues for illustration metadata merge conflicts. 

Other competing players see Copado, Gersetm, and Flosum. But Kadiyala said SRE.ai is different successful that it useful crossed aggregate platforms spanning from AWS to ServiceNow.

The institution officially came retired of stealth connected Wednesday and announced a $7.2 cardinal seed information led by Salesforce Ventures and Crane Venture Partners. 

Aryee said nan SRE.ai onboarding process involves a setup wherever SRE.ai devices automatically link pinch nan user’s integrations. The instrumentality tin past beryllium customized for a user’s needs for illustration merchandise pipelines, penetration dashboards, and information monitoring. Meanwhile, SRE.ai has agents monitoring successful nan inheritance to emblem issues that request attention, specified arsenic information risks. The instrumentality past offers recommendations connected really to lick nan problems. This leaves quality IT teams free to tackle bigger, much meaningful projects, alternatively than being focused connected tiresome tasks.

Kadiyala described nan fundraising process arsenic “high conviction,” and noted nan information was oversubscribed. 

The institution partook successful YC’s Fall ’24 cohort, which helped Ayree and Kadiyala meet their lead investors. They will usage nan caller superior to prosecute AI engineers and Salesforce experts. 

“We’re seeing a batch of early traction, we’re excited astir building retired our squad to support caller customers and widen nan level pinch caller features,” he said.