These 10 startup providers of DevOps tools, who in the last year or three introduced their first tools, are actively looking to help businesses improve their software development capabilities by helping speed up the development process and adding such capabilities as security and migration to software deployment.
DevOps, a way to approach software development via automation, collaboration, and communication between development and operations teams, offers the promise of bringing software to market in a fast and more efficient way.
That promise has led DevOps to become a major part of the IT industry. Analyst firm MarketsandMarkets Research recently forecast the global market for DevOps to reach $25.5 billion by 2028, up from an estimated $10.4 billion in 2023.
While many of the largest names in IT have DevOps teams providing tools and services to both internal and external clients, smaller companies often must decide between investing in their own DevOps teams or working with third-party providers.
[Related: SAP Partner Lemongrass Improves Platform For DevOps Users]
The importance of DevOps tool capabilities continues to grow as seen by the acquisition by solution providers of several companies with a big DevOps focus.
Toronto-based Simnet, for instance acquired Scaleforce, a U.K.-based hosting technology developer with a strong DevOps team. Chicago-based MSP Netrix in 2022 acquired Edrans, a Buenos Aires, Argentina cloud-focused solution provider primarily for its DevOps capabilities.
CRN presents a list of some of the hottest Dev/Ops startups so far in 2025.
A bit of trivia: For anyone concerned about the future of San Franciso as a center of technology innovation, six of the ten companies profiled here are based in the City by the Bay.
AllSpice
CEO, Co-Founder: Valentina Ratner
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: https://allspice.io/
AllSpice builds a collaboration platform built specifically to support electrical engineering collaboration. The company, which this summer closed its Series A funding round worth $15 million, has developed a platform giving electrical engineering teams a shared workspace to catch errors early and develop new products. The platform, powered by the open-source Git version control system, lets engineers collaborate during the design process from idea to production.
Blacksmith Software
Founding Engineers: Aditya Maru, Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash, Aayush Shah
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: https://www.blacksmith.sh/
Blacksmith builds a high-performance CI (continuous integration) cloud for GitHub that the company claims is half the cost and twice as fast compared to competitive offerings. The company, which in May raised $3.5 million let by Google Ventures and Y Combinator, says it gets that performance by building a cloud on bare metal hardware running high-performance consumer gaming CPUs because of their high single-core performance.
Dagger
CEO, Co-Founder: Solomon Hykes
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: https://dagger.io/
Dagger is a workflow engine and automation tool for software teams looking to more efficiently and quickly deliver new software. It turns software flows, which are typically semi-automated, into robust modular workflows running in containers. The Dagger Cloud provides a unique view across both pre-push and post-push pipelines, giving holistic visibility across all pipelines. Prior to Dagger, Hykes co-founded Docker.
Faros AI
CEO, Founder: Vitaly Gordon
Headquarters: San Mateo, Calif.
Website: https://www.faros.ai/
Faros AI develops AI technology to give software engineering teams and leaders visibility into every aspect of the software development process, from velocity and quality, to cost, team health, organizational goals, and more. By making that data readily available and actionable, Faros AI helps transform how engineering organizations operate to help build a future where every business becomes what the company calls a world-class software company.
Massdriver
CEO, Co-Founder: Cory O’Daniel
Headquarters: “The Clouds” (no physical location)
Website: https://www.massdriver.cloud/
Massdriver packages a developer’s infrastructure-as-code, compliance rules, and operational workflows into reusable, visual components to cut the red tape out of DevOps. It provides the security and auditability of existing compliance and infrastructure-as-code tooling while giving developers an easy and safe way to ship infrastructure. Massdriver runs self-hosted, on-prem, or in the cloud to give developers full control over how and where it’s deployed.
NeuBird
CEO, Co-Founder: Goutham Rao
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: https://neubird.ai/
NeuBird is the developer of the Hawkeye AI teammate for ITOps engineers. This GenAI-powered SRE (site reliability engineer) technology interprets IT telemetry from observability and incident management tools to identify and analyze issues and provide actionable resolutions. NeuBird in December raised $22.5 million in funding, with Microsoft’s M12 venture fund leading the round.
Pipeshift
CEO, Co-Founder: Arko Chattopadhyay
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: https://pipeshift.com/
AI infrastructure startup Pipeshift develops a new-age Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that lets engineering teams orchestrate AI workloads across any infrastructure, whether cloud or on-premises. The company, which in January closed a $2.5-million seed round let by Y Combinator and SenseAI Ventures, provides its platform for training and deploying open-source AI models and vector databases to scale AI apps, copilots, and agents, and then migrate them to production with full security and governance.
Seemplicity
CEO: Yoran Sirkis
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel
Website: https://seemplicity.io/
Seemplicity develops a platform for automating vulnerability triage and route fixes to the right people in their preferred tools to help eliminate manual effort and delays. Developers can use pre-built workflows or build their own without the need for coding. The platform uses AI-powered workflows to identify the most likely remediation owner and route tasks with the context needed to take action.
Thoras
CEO, Co-Founder: Nilo Rahmani
Headquarters: Reston, Va.
Website: https://www.thoras.ai/
Thoras provided predictive autoscaling for Kubernetes, leveraging AI to predict resource needs, help prevent downtime and optimize Kubernetes workloads. It analyzes historical patterns to predict workload demand to help users scale before traffic spikes. The technology integrates directly into Kubernetes environments and observability stacks to forecast demand and proactively adjust resources.
Trunk
CEO, Founder: Eli Schleifer
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: https://trunk.io/
Trunk develops an AI DevOps agent for reliable testing and CI (continuous integration). The company, which has raised a total of over $28 million in its seed and Series A funding rounds, uses AI to help manage and eliminate CI slowdowns and to detect, quarantine, and eliminate flaky tests in any language, test runner, or CI provider.
