The internal developer platform that gives engineers a self-service, production-grade Kubernetes experience - running inside their own cloud, under their own rules.
Qovery's dark-square mark - a stylized “Q” for a company that wants to make cloud infrastructure disappear behind a single, calm interface.
Somewhere in a growing engineering team, a developer is waiting. Not for code review, not for a build - for infrastructure. A staging environment that has to be requested, a Kubernetes cluster that only two people understand, a deploy pipeline held together by scripts nobody wants to touch. Qovery was built to end that wait.
Founded in 2020 by Romaric Philogene, Morgan Perry and Pierre Mavro, Qovery is an internal developer platform - an IDP, in the language of the trade - that lets software teams provision full environments, deploy applications and manage databases on Kubernetes without becoming infrastructure specialists first. The distinction that defines the company is quieter than its pitch: Qovery is not a hosted platform that rents you servers. It is a control plane that runs the developer experience inside the customer's own cloud account, whether that is AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or Scaleway.
That single architectural choice - your apps, your cloud, your data - is what separates Qovery from the crowded field of deployment tools it competes with. It is also the choice that, in 2025, drew a $13M Series A and the backing of people who built the last generation of developer infrastructure.
For a decade, the trade-off in cloud deployment felt fixed. You could have simplicity - a platform-as-a-service like Heroku, where you push code and the platform handles everything - or you could have control, meaning raw Kubernetes and a team of engineers to run it. Simplicity meant handing your infrastructure, and often your data, to someone else. Control meant complexity.
Qovery's answer is to refuse the trade-off. It layers a self-service, git-native developer experience on top of the customer's own cloud. Push a branch, and Qovery provisions the cluster, wires the CI/CD, sets up the databases, and hands developers a clean interface to deploy and scale. Underneath, it uses Terraform and OpenTofu to provision infrastructure and translates application configurations into native Kubernetes manifests - so nothing exotic is happening, and nothing is locked away.
“Give every engineering team - and every AI agent - a production-grade Kubernetes platform they can trust. In their cloud. Under their rules.”
The platform runs on a split-plane design. The Qovery Control Plane handles orchestration through secure APIs. The Data Plane - the Kubernetes clusters, VPCs, applications and databases - lives wherever the customer needs it. For teams in healthcare or finance, that separation is not a nicety; it is the reason they can adopt a self-service platform while still satisfying SOC2 and HIPAA obligations.
Qovery's origin is a specific kind of frustration. CEO Romaric Philogene describes recurring 2 AM alerts across several companies where the actual fix took minutes but the troubleshooting swallowed hours. The pattern repeated because every team rebuilds the same platform glue - CI/CD wiring, environment provisioning, access controls, secret management, day-2 patching - and none of it differentiates the product they are actually trying to ship.
Automates the creation of complete, ready-to-run environments for development, testing and production - including the underlying infrastructure assets.
Spins up a full, isolated environment for every pull request, then tears it down automatically when the PR is merged or closed. Fewer production surprises.
Runs on your own cloud accounts or in-house Kubernetes clusters, keeping data and compliance under your control - no forced migration.
Handles Kubernetes upgrades, Helm chart updates and CVE patching - the routine, dangerous maintenance that teams tend to defer.
Custom policies, RBAC and audit trails so platform teams can offer self-service without losing consistency or compliance.
Gives AI agents the same API access, RBAC scope and audit trails as human engineers - infrastructure built for a world where agents deploy too.
The clearest way to understand Qovery is by what it refuses to be. Most rivals - Heroku, Northflank, Render, Railway - are hosted platforms. They run your workloads on infrastructure they own and bill you for it. That is genuinely simpler to start with, and for prototypes it is often the right call. But it also means your applications live in someone else's account, your costs are opaque, and leaving gets harder the more you grow.
Qovery inverts the model. Your apps never leave your cloud. You keep ownership, you see your full cloud bill directly, and you avoid the vendor lock-in that tightens as you scale. The company is candid that this is not always the cheapest option for a tiny project - you pay Qovery's platform fee on top of your own cloud costs - but for teams that have outgrown a hosted PaaS, it is the difference between renting and owning.
Control plane inside your own cloud (BYOC)
Your workloads run on the vendor's infrastructure
You own the data, the cluster and the cloud bill
Costs bundled and opaque; data sits with the vendor
Native Kubernetes underneath - no exotic lock-in
Proprietary runtime; migration cost grows with scale
Qovery sells B2B SaaS on a per-seat subscription. Publicly reported plans start around $299 a month for two users and scale up for larger teams, charged on top of whatever the customer already pays their cloud provider. In other words, customers pay Qovery for the orchestration layer and pay AWS or Google directly for the metal. The pitch to a buyer is straightforward arithmetic: the platform fee is cheaper than the engineering time it would take to build and maintain the same self-service platform in-house.
That places Qovery squarely inside platform engineering, one of the more durable trends in enterprise software. As organizations standardize on Kubernetes but struggle to make it approachable, the internal developer platform has become the connective tissue between developers who want to ship and the infrastructure teams who have to keep the lights on. Qovery competes for that space against hosted platforms like Heroku and Northflank and BYOC-leaning tools like Bunnyshell and Porter - but its bring-your-own-cloud stance gives it a distinct lane, especially with security-conscious and regulated buyers.
The founding team came out of engineering-heavy environments - Philogene brings more than a decade building reliable, high-performance systems across ad-tech and finance, and the team's roots reach into companies like Red Hat and Criteo. That background shows in the product's bias toward operational reality over marketing abstraction: ephemeral environments, day-2 patching and audit trails are the concerns of people who have carried the pager, not just drawn the architecture diagram.
Qovery also builds in the open. It open-sourced its orchestration engine on GitHub and, in its early days, shaped the product by asking hundreds of experienced developers what they actually needed - treating community input as a research method rather than a marketing channel. The company is fully remote across Europe and North America, with more than 15 nationalities represented and roughly half of its board and C-level seats held by women.
Leads the company and its product vision. A decade-plus building reliable systems in ad-tech and finance; the origin of Qovery's “infrastructure should disappear” thesis.
Co-founders who helped shape Qovery's engineering and go-to-market from the start, with Mavro serving as CTO and deep roots in cloud-native infrastructure.
Romaric Philogene, Morgan Perry and Pierre Mavro launch Qovery to give developers a self-service path to production infrastructure.
Speedinvest and Crane Venture Partners lead the seed, with angels including the CTOs of Datadog and Checkout.com.
Qovery extends its developer experience to customers' in-house Kubernetes clusters for tighter security and compliance.
IRIS leads a $13M Series A at a reported $45M post-money valuation as Qovery repositions around agentic infrastructure.