San Francisco-based SRE.ai, a Y Combinator alum, has emerged from stealth with a $7.2M seed round to bring natural language AI agents into enterprise DevOps.
The round was led by Salesforce Ventures and Crane Venture Partners, with participation from other investors.
Automating DevOps with AI agents
Founded in 2024 by Edward Aryee (CTO) and Raj Kadiyala (CEO), SRE.ai is building AI-powered agents capable of handling complex DevOps workflows such as continuous integration, testing, and release management.
Instead of stitching together low-code tools across enterprise stacks like Salesforce, AWS, GCP, and Azure, the platform enables context-driven, chat-like interactions that unify workflows.
The founders, both formerly at Google Research and DeepMind, started SRE.ai after noticing the stark gap between Google’s internal infrastructure tools and what most enterprises had access to.
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Differentiation from competitors
While companies like Copado, Gearset, and Flosum already serve the DevOps automation market, SRE.ai sets itself apart with its cross-platform approach.
The onboarding process automatically connects with existing integrations and allows customization for release pipelines, dashboards, and monitoring. Background AI agents then flag issues, such as security risks, and recommend fixes—freeing IT teams to focus on higher-value projects.
Capital plans
The fresh funds will be used to hire AI engineers and Salesforce specialists, as well as expand the platform’s capabilities.
“We’re seeing strong early traction and are excited to extend the platform with new features,” Kadiyala said, adding that the oversubscribed round reflected investor confidence.
SRE.ai graduated from YC’s Fall ’24 cohort, which helped the team secure its lead investors.
