ControlMonkey, an end-to-end cloud automation platform offering ‘Total Cloud Control’ with Terraform, announced its launch and the closing of a $7 million seed round, co-led by lool ventures and Joule Ventures. This funding round will accelerate the development of ControlMonkey’s cloud governance tools and expand its global operations, including significant investments in engineering, customer success, and go-to-market initiatives.
Founded by cloud industry veterans Aharon Twizer (co-founder of Spot.io–acquired by NetApp for $450 million in 2020) and Ori Yemini (founding engineer of Spot.io), ControlMonkey transforms how enterprise cloud teams deliver and govern infrastructure at scale. By combining AI tools with enterprise-grade automation, the platform helps customers like Intel, Square, Comcast and NetApp achieve a 30% boost in cloud team productivity, 3x faster deployment times, and 50% fewer production tickets. Through a one-of-a-kind partnership with AWS, ControlMonkey is prepared to scale these results to companies in every industry.
ControlMonkey stands apart from other cloud automation solutions by offering end-to-end control with industry-first technologies, including:
1.) AI-based Code Generation reverse-engineers existing infrastructure into production-grade, validated Terraform code for 100% IaC coverage–with a single click.
2.) Remeditation Engine constantly scans existing code and fixes problems like drift, security vulnerabilities and cost issues–so a company’s cloud is always fully-optimized.
3.) Self-service QualityGate creates a catalog of predefined blueprints that empower teams to launch new cloud environments in minutes–accelerating delivery without sacrificing control.
4.) Infrastructure Disaster Recovery captures a daily snapshot of cloud configurations to quickly restore to any point in time–mitigating the risk of critical failures and deletions.
5.) Cloud vs. Code Integrity Guarantee ensures 100% cloud integrity with asset inventory, verification and deviation alerts–instilling 100% confidence, 100% of the time.
lool ventures and Joule Ventures were joined in the round by Gaia Ventures and its founder, Deepak Krishnamurthy; Vadim Solovey and Yoav Toussia-Cohen, co-founders of DoiT; Asaf Ezra, CEO and co-founder of Granulate; and Ariel Assaraf, CEO and co-founder of Coralogix, among others.
KEY QUOTES:
“Today, we are supercharging the Infrastructure Delivery Revolution. Just like GitHub and Jfrog revolutionized software delivery, ControlMonkey is transforming the cloud industry. By making infrastructure delivery as easy to manage as software, our platform is redefining how cloud teams govern clouds at scale. The close of this round helps us finally deliver the promise of Infrastructure-as-Code, so that every enterprise in every industry can harness its full potential.”
“ControlMonkey is truly revolutionary,” said Maya Azoulay, partner at lool ventures. “In a market that spends more than $140 billion every year trying to tame cloud complexity, ControlMonkey is the only platform harnessing the power of AI to deliver total cloud control–end-to-end, at any scale. Every enterprise and every industry needs their solution, so we’re thrilled to lead this round together with Joule Ventures and help scale ControlMonkey’s impact.”
– Aharon Twizer, CEO and co-founder
