Cleric – a company that automates infrastructure management with AI-led solutions – announced it raised $4.3 million in a seed round of funding led by Zetta Venture Partners with participation from AI infrastructure angel investors. And the company also announced the first autonomous AI site reliability engineer (SRE) teammate to help free engineering resources in providing on-call support.
Engineering teams managing large-scale and sprawling infrastructure face challenges with on-call support, which detracts from their core tasks and consumes many companies’ resources and budgets. Cleric eliminates these challenges by enabling engineering teams to resolve orders in a fraction of the time.
Cleric’s co-founders, Shahram Anver and Willem Pienaar, noticed these challenges firsthand while managing the infrastructure at Gojek.
Cleric operates 24/7 and autonomously navigates challenging infrastructure and observability systems to identify the root cause of an issue within minutes. And it integrates various data sources like code, documentation, and logs to provide a root cause and resolution suggestions with supporting evidence.
Cleric plans to use the funding to scale R&D efforts in its San Francisco and Singapore offices and focus on expanding its suite of integrations and fostering strategic partnerships.
KEY QUOTES:
“For the first time, AI can use judgment to operate tools on our behalf. We’ve unlocked a new level of automation that frees up engineers to focus on higher-value work.”
– Shahram Anver, CEO and co-founder of Cleric
“The way our AI agent solves problems is fundamentally different from a human. Just as AI transformed strategies in games like Chess and Go, we foresee a similar shift in engineering operations with the introduction of AI teammates.”
– Willem Pienaar, CTO and co-founder of Cleric
“Shahram, Willem, and the Cleric team hold iconoclastic beliefs about how language model agents will reshape engineering tasks like incident response, observability, and infrastructure provisioning. Zetta was immediately attracted to those bold ambitions, and is thrilled to help make them a reality as Cleric’s seed partner.”
– James Alcorn, Partner at Zetta Venture Partners
