Former Google Research and DeepMind engineers just launched SRE.ai from stealth with $7.2 million in seed funding to automate complex enterprise DevOps workflows through natural language AI agents. The Y Combinator alum's oversubscribed round, led by Salesforce Ventures and Crane Venture Partners, signals growing investor appetite for AI-powered infrastructure automation as enterprises struggle with increasingly complex multi-cloud environments.
SRE.ai just pulled back the curtain on what could reshape how enterprises handle their most tedious infrastructure tasks. The company emerged from stealth today with a $7.2 million seed round that was so oversubscribed, co-founder and CEO Raj Kadiyala describes the fundraising process as "high conviction."
The timing couldn't be better. As enterprises juggle increasingly complex multi-cloud environments, SRE.ai promises to replace the patchwork of low-code tools that currently plague DevOps teams with natural language AI agents that work seamlessly across platforms from AWS to ServiceNow.
"Instead of stitching together different low-code tools for enterprise applications like Salesforce, compared to products built on AWS, GCP, or Azure, teams can now move faster with context-driven, chat-like experiences that work across all of them," Kadiyala told TechCrunch.
The genesis story reads like a classic Silicon Valley frustration-turned-opportunity. Co-founders Kadiyala and Edward Aryee, who serves as CTO, witnessed firsthand the infrastructure divide while working at Google Research and DeepMind. "It wasn't one big lightbulb; it was death by a thousand cuts," Aryee explained, describing how engineer friends outside Google constantly complained about metadata conflicts and other tedious tasks.
That insider perspective at Google revealed just how primitive most enterprise DevOps tooling remains. "It gnawed at us," Aryee said, watching teams struggle with problems that Google's internal infrastructure had solved years ago. The realization crystallized: "The next generation of DevOps experiences needed to be created."
Salesforce Ventures and led the seed round, betting that can differentiate itself in a crowded field that includes , Gersetm, and Flosum. The key differentiator, according to Kadiyala, is platform agnosticism - while competitors focus on specific ecosystems, works across the entire enterprise stack.
