Kubiya, a leading Conversational AI solution for DevOps teams, announced it has closed a $12 million seed round with a $6 million extension of equity and debt financing and launched a new platform, AI Teammates. Heavybit led Kubiya’s current financing, with Hyperwise VC participating.
Chef co-founder and Heavybit partner Jesse Robbins will join the Kubiya board. And HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar has joined as a company advisor, and angel investors include Slack co-founder Cal Henderson and other DevOps veterans that grew their startups into multi-billion dollar businesses.
This platform enables the true delegation of complex tasks to digital colleagues through organic human-like conversations. And thousands of developers, including engineering teams from large enterprises to mature startups like A+E Networks and Morse, have been confidently delegating critical tasks in production to Kubiya’s AI Teammates.
Automation often requires extensive planning, coding, and maintenance, challenging the time-to-automation paradox. However, Kubiya’s AI Teammates leverage a full-stack AI, infrastructure as code, and LLMs to offer adaptable and scalable automation. And they seamlessly integrate into current organizational processes and platforms without the need for exhaustive planning, fostering genuine teamwork.
The main value of Kubiya’s AI Teammates is the ability to enable users to delegate tasks, enhancing autonomy, predictability, and efficiency. And their interactive nature enables a bi-directional exchange between operators and users, dynamically adjusting to the evolving needs of the business. This ensures a predictable and scalable automation solution.
By reducing the time-to-automation to a casual English sentence, operations teams could delegate the undifferentiated heavy-lifting roles like solving Jira queues, enabling for self-service infrastructure, managing CICD pipelines, handling elevated permissions, self-healing systems, etc.
KEY QUOTES:
“What Kubiya has done is allow us to really do end-to-end automation by writing code in just simple English language. It has helped us to automate a part of our escalation management system which was not possible before. Kubiya has really helped us to drive a lot of efficiency and reduce the time for us to fix failures. We can’t wait to see how we can expand this in other areas.”
- Neeraj Mendiratta, VP of platform engineering at A+E Networks
“If fully automating a process were as simple as asking a colleague to take on a task, delegating with trust that it would be completed in a predictable, controllable, and auditable manner, then almost anything could be automated. What we have done at Kubiya is change the form factor of automation into delegation.”
- Kubiya co-founder and CEO Amit Eyal Govirin
“Delegation is the new automation. Kubiya’s groundbreaking AI Teammates gives people on overloaded infrastructure and platform teams new superpowers by delegating boring repetitive tasks and nuisances so they can focus on what matters. Amit and Shaked are years ahead of anything else I’ve seen and are already rolling out to enterprise customers in production. We are truly excited to back the team and to help shape the next decade of innovation in infrastructure.”
• ⁃ Jesse Robbins, general partner at Heavybit and DevOps pioneer
