Qovery, a SaaS platform dedicated to automating DevOps and streamlining application deployment across any cloud environment, has completed a Series A funding round, raising $13 million, equivalent to €11.3 million. VC firm IRIS led the Series A round. The funding also saw broad participation from a variety of notable investors, including institutional firms Speedinvest, Crane Venture Partners, Techstars, and Irregular Expressions. The round was supported by the involvement of several angel investors from the technology sector, including Datadog cofounders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc, Docker cofounder Sebastian Pahl, and Ott Kaukver, the Chief Technology Officer of Checkout.com and former CTO of Twilio.
Kaukver will also join Qovery’s board of directors, bringing his extensive industry expertise to the company’s strategic guidance. A key detail of the funding is that all existing investors from Qovery’s prior seed round chose to participate in this Series A, demonstrating continued support for the platform’s vision and execution.
This funding signals strong investor confidence in the company’s approach to simplifying the increasingly complex landscape of cloud infrastructure management and application deployment.
Launched in 2020, Qovery was founded with the core mission of addressing one of the most persistent and costly challenges in modern software development: the shortage of skilled DevOps engineers and the increasing complexity of managing cloud infrastructure. The platform functions as a DevOps automation solution, effectively filling this critical skills gap by providing developers with easy-to-implement tools.
This enables existing engineering teams to redirect their focus from complex “plumbing” and infrastructure maintenance to higher-value actions, such as product innovation and core business logic. The company’s genesis addresses a market need where delays in deployments are a common problem, a situation exacerbated by the sheer number of services and inherent complexity found in major cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, particularly in multi-cloud or migration scenarios. Even the adoption of container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes, while powerful for automation, often presents a steep learning curve and significant management overhead for engineering teams.
Qovery’s platform directly confronts these operational pain points by completely automating the entire lifecycle of application deployment and infrastructure management. This automation spans various environments, including major public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and Scaleway, as well as on-premises Kubernetes environments. A crucial benefit for customers is the platform’s architecture, which allows teams to maintain complete visibility and granular cost control over their cloud resources, all without the risk of vendor lock-in that is frequently associated with traditional Platform-as-a-Service solutions.
The measurable impact of the Qovery platform on developer operations is substantial. The company claims that its approach drastically slashes the typical setup time for a robust cloud environment from several weeks or months down to as little as a single day. The initial installation itself is streamlined, reportedly taking only five minutes and requiring no significant prior DevOps expertise or specialized resources from the customer’s team.
On average, customers using the platform report achieving a threefold increase in DevOps efficiency. This significant acceleration in deployment capability reduces the pressure to hire and retain scarce DevOps talent, allowing development teams to concentrate on strategic coding. The efficiency gains enable Qovery customers to achieve a far greater release velocity, with the ability to deploy applications hundreds or even thousands of times per day, thereby accelerating product cycles without compromising necessary compliance or security standards.
The company is experiencing rapid growth, currently expanding at a rate of 115 percent year-over-year, and now services hundreds of client companies and thousands of individual users worldwide. Notably, the United States market is already a significant revenue driver, accounting for half of Qovery’s current business.
How the funding will be used: The funding will be strategically deployed to accelerate this existing momentum. The key plans include expanding US regional operations, scaling the team across all departments, and further advancing the development of the company’s AI-driven product innovation roadmap, positioning Qovery for continued global leadership in the DevOps automation space.
KEY QUOTES:
“Software companies face a difficult trade-off: either build an expensive and slow-to-scale in-house DevOps team, or depend on external consultants at the cost of autonomy and flexibility. Qovery solves this by enabling organisations to ship products faster, at lower cost, while letting developers spend more time coding and less time managing the cloud infrastructure. Our platform can be installed in just five minutes, delivering the output of four to five DevOps engineers – roles that typically take six to twelve months to hire and onboard. That’s the kind of leverage our customers need in today’s market.”
Romaric Philogène, cofounder and CEO of Qovery
“As software and cloud growth continues to accelerate, the need for simple solutions to manage increasingly complex deployment infrastructures has become prevalent, and is further heightened by a DevOps talent shortage. In addition, as cloud providers continue to differentiate themselves, and migration between cloud providers or between on premise and cloud is increasingly attractive to companies, Qovery’s solution stands out as a platform that can provide simple automation, flexibility and speed at scale to manage such operations, with stellar customer experience. Companies can therefore focus on building products without struggling with architecture. We’re excited to support the team as they expand globally and set a new standard for DevOps automation.”
Anaïs Monlong, Venture Principal at IRIS
“Having built Datadog, I know how challenging it can be to scale software without DevOps becoming a bottleneck. Qovery’s approach resonated with me immediately because it addresses a pain point I’ve personally experienced. I believe it will change how engineering teams everywhere deploy software.”
Alexis Lê-Quôc, cofounder and CTO of Datadog
