# Firetiger

> Firetiger is a San Francisco startup that turned production monitoring into an AI job. Instead of dashboards a human has to stare at, it attaches an agent to every pull request, watches the change roll out across staging, canary and production, and returns a single verdict: verified, regression detected, or inconclusive. Built on a telemetry lakehouse that stores logs, metrics and traces cheaply on S3, it was founded in 2024 by ex-Cloudflare and Segment engineers Rustam Lalkaka and Achille Roussel, raised $7.6M from Sequoia, and in August 2026 the whole team joined Cursor to wire that feedback loop directly into an AI coding tool.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Rustam Lalkaka (CEO & Co-founder), Achille Roussel (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~7
- **Products:** Change Monitors, Service Monitors & Objectives, Telemetry lakehouse
- **Notable:** Raised $7.6M seed led by Sequoia Capital within roughly 18 months of founding (Feb 2026)., Angel backing from Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen., Reported a 32% decrease in change-related issues within two weeks for early-access customers.

## Products & services

- **Change Monitors** — An agent attaches to every pull request, reads the diff to understand intent, builds a monitoring plan, and watches the rollout across staging, canary and production - returning one verdict per deploy (verified, regression detected, or inconclusive) with root-cause evidence, and keeping watch for up to 24 hours. Billed at $5 per PR monitored.
- **Service Monitors & Objectives** — Continuous monitoring of whole services and business objectives, plus agent-run investigations that diagnose incidents. Launched June 2026.
- **Telemetry lakehouse** — An observability database that stores logs, metrics and traces cheaply on S3 using Apache Iceberg and Parquet, queried schema-on-read with an embedded DuckDB engine and OpenTelemetry collection - built to feed rich context to agents rather than to a human dashboard.

## Achievements

- Raised $7.6M seed led by Sequoia Capital within roughly 18 months of founding (Feb 2026).
- Angel backing from Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen.
- Reported a 32% decrease in change-related issues within two weeks for early-access customers.
- Acqui-hired by Cursor in August 2026 to build production-environment agents.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — On August 13, 2026 the Firetiger team joins Cursor to co-develop production-environment agents; the standalone product is sunset and customer data scheduled for deletion as the tech folds into Cursor.
- **2026-06** — Firetiger launches Service Monitors and switches to simpler usage-based pricing ($5 per PR monitored, unlimited data ingestion, no seats).
- **2026-02** — Firetiger publicly launches and announces a $7.6M seed round led by Sequoia Capital.

## Links

- Website: https://firetiger.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firetiger-inc
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/usefiretiger

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Last updated: 2026-08-20