AI-based operations company Ciroos announced it has raised $21 million, led by Energy Impact Partners LP (EIP), to deliver the industry’s first extensible, multi-domain AI SRE Teammate for modern enterprise operations. And the company’s SRE Teammate enables site reliability engineers, DevOps, and operations teams to automate, augment, and drive autonomous operations to slash incident response time by 90%.
Problem being addressed: Enterprise applications are increasingly dynamic and span multiple domains. So many operations teams struggle to identify the root cause of incidents and anomalies, even when engaging hundreds of expert responders. This challenge is largely due to an overreliance on static runbooks, dashboard-based “click operations,” and siloed tooling.
As teams integrate AI into their applications, operational practices require modernization. Compounding these issues, while new AI tooling causes developer productivity to skyrocket, the resulting increased operational load often overwhelms already stretched SRE teams. With these challenges in mind, Ciroos has transformed observability operations with an AI SRE Teammate that empowers companies to initiate investigations into anomalies proactively, often before any expert is paged.
SRE Teammate: The SRE Teammate utilizes a multi-agent system incorporating human expert-like reasoning to understand and correlate vast amounts of cross-domain interactions to identify what is and what is not a problem. Built on the recently announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent 2 Agent (A2A) architectures, the SRE Teammate is extensible by allowing easy integration with third-party AI agents deployed in the enterprise. By seamlessly integrating with existing observability tools, ticketing systems, collaboration software, code repositories and incident response tools, the SRE Teammate becomes an integral part of the operations team. At all times, humans are in control, choosing their desired level of augmentation and autonomous operations on their AI journeys.
Founders: Launched in February 2025 by Ronak Desai, Amit Patel, and Ananda Rajagopal, Ciroos brings together executives with proven track records of scaling businesses from zero to over $5 billion. And with leadership experience in roles at Cisco, AWS, and Gigamon, the founding team holds 84 patents across AI, observability, distributed systems, cloud, cybersecurity, and networking.
How the funding will be used: The investment will build go-to-market operations and accelerate the rollout of SRE Teammate across enterprises.
KEY QUOTES:
“SREs carry a heavy burden — from middle-of-the-night incidents to hours of repetitive analysis and postmortems. We built our AI SRE Teammate to end that toil, fully embracing our mission to provide an AI SRE Teammate that empowers SREs to be superheroes. It achieves this by accelerating root cause identification, automating or augmenting actions, and ultimately giving them back the time, clarity and control so they can do what they do best: build, safeguard and evolve reliable systems at scale.”
Ronak Desai, co-founder and CEO of Ciroos
“Ciroos represents a transformative approach that delivers immediate and measurable impact. The team’s deep domain expertise — both on the ground working with the SREs and in leadership at global enterprises — and their vision to automate, augment and drive autonomous operations make them uniquely qualified to address challenges in this emerging space.”
Shawn Cherian, partner at EIP
