Tagged: observability
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EverOps
EverOps is a San Francisco-based IT and cloud managed services provider that embeds small teams of senior engineers - called TechPods - directly inside client organizations to run DevOps, SRE, ITOps, and security work. Founded in 2012 and re-capitalized in 2022, the firm pitches itself as an alternative to advice-only consulting and staffing shops: pods sit in the client's toolchain, attend standups, and take ownership of outcomes across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, observability, and cloud cost reduction.
Foxglove
Foxglove is a San Francisco company building a data and observability platform for robotics and Physical AI. Its tools let engineers record, sync, search, and visualize the multimodal sensor data their robots produce - 3D point clouds, video, GNSS, and proprioceptive streams - so teams can debug and improve autonomous systems without building expensive in-house infrastructure. Founded in 2021 by two Cruise and Coinbase veterans, Foxglove maintains the open-source MCAP file format (now the default recording format in ROS 2) and counts NVIDIA, Amazon, Anduril, Wayve, and Waabi among its users.
Greptime
Greptime is an open-source database company building GreptimeDB, a unified observability database that stores metrics, logs, traces, and wide events in a single engine on object storage like Amazon S3. Written in Rust and built on Apache Arrow and DataFusion, it separates compute from storage to cut costs at scale and speaks both SQL and PromQL. Founded in 2022 by ex-Alibaba and Ant Group engineers, Greptime positions GreptimeDB as a drop-in replacement for the Prometheus, Loki, and Elasticsearch stack, serving customers across connected vehicles, IoT, and observability.
Inngest
Inngest is a durable execution platform that gives developers reliable background jobs, workflows, and AI-agent orchestration without managing queues or infrastructure. Founded in 2021 by Tony Holdstock-Brown and Dan Farrelly, the San Francisco company combines event streams, queues, and durable step functions into SDKs for TypeScript, Python, and Go, plus AgentKit for multi-agent systems. It has raised roughly $30 million, most recently a $21M Series A led by Altimeter in 2025, and processes over 100 million executions a day for teams including SoundCloud, Resend, and Replit.
Kloudfuse
Kloudfuse is a Cupertino-based observability company that unifies metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into a single observability data lake that runs inside a customer's own cloud (VPC) rather than a vendor SaaS. Founded in 2022 by veterans of Springpath, Nicira, VMware, and Cisco, it pitches an OpenTelemetry-native, AI/ML-powered platform that gives enterprises data ownership and 60-80% cost savings versus incumbents like Datadog. It launched out of stealth in November 2023 with $23M in funding and is used by companies including GE HealthCare, Zscaler, Tata 1mg, and Automation Anywhere.
Last9
Last9 is a unified observability company that helps engineering and DevOps teams monitor high-cardinality metrics, logs, and traces without the ballooning costs of legacy tools. Built around a Prometheus- and OpenTelemetry-compatible telemetry warehouse called Levitate and a pre-ingestion Control Plane that filters, reshapes, and routes data, Last9 has been used to observe some of the largest live-streaming events in the world - including peaks of roughly 59-61 million concurrent viewers. Founded in 2020 and backed by Sequoia/Peak XV's Surge, Better Capital and others, it targets cost-efficient, full-fidelity observability at enterprise scale.
Scanner
Scanner is a San Francisco cybersecurity company that turns the log data companies already dump into Amazon S3 into a fast, searchable security data lake. Instead of paying traditional SIEM prices to keep only a few weeks of logs, security teams use Scanner to index petabytes of data directly in object storage, run continuous threat detections, and search years of history in seconds - now increasingly driven by AI agents. Founded by ex-Cisco and Dropbox engineers Cliff Crosland and Steven Wu, the company raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia Capital in March 2026.
Nanda Santhana
Nanda Santhana is the co-founder and CEO of DataBahn.ai, a Plano, Texas startup building AI-powered telemetry data pipelines for security, observability and AI workloads. Before DataBahn he spent nearly a dozen years as a founding member and SVP at Securonix, with earlier stints at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Vaau. In June 2025 DataBahn closed a $17M Series A led by Forgepoint Capital, taking total funding to $19M.
Raj Dutt
Raj Dutt is the co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, the company behind the open source dashboarding tool used by more than 25 million people. He previously founded and sold the hosting company Voxel to Internap, then co-founded Raintank in 2014 with Torkel Ödegaard and Anthony Woods and later rebranded it as Grafana Labs. In 2025 the company crossed $400M ARR with 7,000+ customers.
DBOS, Inc.
DBOS, Inc. is a San Francisco- and Cambridge-based developer infrastructure company commercializing durable execution technology born from a joint MIT-Stanford research project led by Postgres creator Michael Stonebraker and Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia. Its flagship open-source library, DBOS Transact, adds crash-proof workflow orchestration and built-in observability to ordinary Python and TypeScript programs by persisting application state in Postgres, so software resumes exactly where it left off after a failure - without a separate workflow server. The company pairs the library with DBOS Conductor and DBOS Cloud for managing and hosting reliable backends, AI agents, and long-running workflows.
Expanso
Expanso is a Seattle-based distributed data processing company built on its open-source Bacalhau project. Instead of shipping raw data to a central cloud, Expanso runs lightweight agents that filter, transform, and govern data at its source - across edge devices, on-prem systems, and multiple clouds. The 'Compute Over Data' approach cuts egress and storage costs, keeps sensitive data in place for compliance, and speeds up pipelines feeding analytics and AI. Founded in 2022 by former Google, AWS, and Microsoft engineers, it raised a $7.5M seed round in 2023.
The Agent Scored a Hat Trick. The Business Still Lost 3-Nil.
A Salesforce editorial arguing that the AI agent conversation has moved past task completion and into 'loop engineering' — handing an agent an objective plus a way to measure progress so it plans, checks its own work, learns, and adjusts. Using a World Cup analogy, the piece contends that a brilliant individual agent (a coding agent shipping pull requests, a service agent resolving cases) means little unless it moves the business forward. Salesforce positions its 27 years of encoded CRM business rules — pipeline stages, service levels, qualified-lead definitions — as the ideal scoreboard for agents to optimize against, supported by four systems (controls, context, traceability, analytics) that form the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC). Customers Zing Health, Telepass, and Indeed illustrate agents running the loop at scale.
Vibranium Labs
Vibranium Labs is a New York-based AI company building Vibe AI, an agentic 'AI Site Reliability Engineer' that acts as the first responder to IT incidents. Its Vibe OnCall platform pages AI agents to detect, triage, and resolve outages before human engineers are woken up, integrating with tools like Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog, Jira, and ServiceNow. The company says its agents cut mean time to resolution by up to 85%, and positions itself as an AI-native alternative to PagerDuty and Opsgenie. Founded by Sang Lee (ex-Google, ex-AWS) with FiscalNote co-founder Tim Hwang, it raised $4.6M in seed funding in September 2025.
Distributional
Distributional is an enterprise AI testing platform that uses adaptive, statistical analysis of production traces to catch behavioral drift and regressions in AI agents and LLM applications. Founded in 2023 by former Intel AI software GM Scott Clark, the company helps Fortune 500 teams ship generative AI with confidence by treating reliability as a continuous test problem rather than a one-shot benchmark.
Rollbar
Rollbar is a San Francisco-based developer tools company that builds real-time error monitoring and AI-assisted debugging software. Founded in 2012 by former Lolapps engineers Brian Rue and Cory Virok, Rollbar helps engineering teams catch, group, and resolve software errors across web, mobile, and backend applications.
Dev Nag
Dev Nag is the founder and CEO of QueryPal, a San Francisco AI company rebuilding the economics of customer support with agentic automation. A serial founder with deep machine-learning roots, he earlier created Wavefront, the real-time cloud monitoring platform acquired by VMware in 2017, where he went on to launch VMware's flagship AIOps product. He also founded the observability startup CtrlStack, backed by Sequoia Capital and Engineering Capital. Before founding companies he was an engineer at Google, PayPal, and eBay and the founding engineer at securities-trading platform GLMX. Stanford-trained in both mathematics and psychology, he holds more than a dozen AI and security patents and authored one of the most widely read beginner tutorials in deep learning, 'GANs in 50 lines of code.'
OnStak
OnStak is a Milpitas, California enterprise AI consulting and hybrid-cloud services firm that helps large organizations move from AI experimentation to AI in production. With a delivery team that is roughly three-quarters AI architects and engineers, OnStak modernizes data platforms, applications and infrastructure across Cisco, NVIDIA, AWS, Oracle and on-premises environments, and ships AI products like AI Correlation Fabric, AI Assurance and AI Video Analytics. Its pitch is plain: 'Fluent in strategy, native in engineering' - straight talk about what is broken and what to fix first.
Riverbed Technology
Riverbed Technology is a San Francisco-based IT software company that helps large enterprises see, optimize, and troubleshoot the digital experiences their people and customers depend on. Originally famous for the SteelHead WAN-optimization appliance, Riverbed has reinvented itself around AI-powered unified observability - stitching together network, application, and end-user telemetry, then layering predictive, generative, and agentic AI on top to spot problems and increasingly fix them automatically. Founded in 2002, taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2015 and again by Vector Capital in 2023, it serves thousands of global organizations across finance, government, healthcare, retail, and beyond.
ControlRooms.ai
ControlRooms.ai is an Austin-based industrial AI company that builds an AI-assisted troubleshooting platform for heavy industry - chemical, energy, and materials producers. Instead of relying on static, pre-programmed rules, its software learns a plant's normal behavior on its own and flags anomalies in real time across thousands of sensor parameters, helping operators catch small problems before they become unplanned trips, flaring events, or costly downtime. Founded in 2021 by serial AI entrepreneur Monte Zweben and Omar Talib, the company raised an oversubscribed $10M Series A in 2023 led by Origin Ventures and is live at industrial leaders including OCI Global and Ardagh Group.
Mastra
Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework for building production-ready AI agents, workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. Built by the team behind Gatsby, it gives developers agents, durable workflows, memory, RAG, tool calling, evals, and observability in one stack - so JavaScript and TypeScript engineers can move from prototype to production without leaving their language. Mastra is developed by Kepler Software, a San Francisco startup, and reached 25,000+ GitHub stars and 300,000+ weekly npm downloads with adoption at companies like Brex, Sanity, Replit, and PayPal.
Shift5
Shift5 is an operational intelligence and onboard observability company that taps the raw data already flowing across the internal networks of planes, trains, tanks, and ships. Founded by former U.S. Army cyber officers, it plugs into serial-bus and RF traffic on military and commercial fleets to deliver real-time cyber threat detection, predictive maintenance, and compliance insight at the edge. Backed by $185M+ in venture funding, Shift5 serves the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, SOCOM, and several of the largest U.S. passenger rail systems.
XOPS
XOPS (legal name XperiencOps, Inc.) is a Menlo Park-based autonomous IT company that emerged from stealth in August 2025 with $40M co-led by Activant Capital and FPV Ventures. Billed as the first 'Active System of Intelligence,' its platform builds a living knowledge graph of an enterprise's fragmented IT estate and deploys a legion of goal-oriented software robots that coordinate existing systems - ServiceNow, Workday, Okta, Intune - to drive desired states across employee, device, and software lifecycles. The pitch: declare the outcome you want, and XOPS continuously converges your systems toward it, no tickets, no human middleware.
Axion Ray
Axion Ray (operating as Axion) builds an AI 'observability command center' that helps the world's largest manufacturers catch product quality and safety problems months before they turn into recalls. Founded in 2021 by former McKinsey AI strategist Daniel First, the company fuses fragmented, unstructured field data - service tickets, dealership notes, call-center transcripts, sensor telemetry - into early-warning intelligence for engineering teams. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, RTX Ventures, Amplo and Inspired Capital with $25M raised, Axion works with manufacturers across aerospace, automotive, medtech and consumer goods.
BMC Software
BMC Software is a Houston-founded enterprise software company that builds the IT operations, service management, and mainframe automation tools that keep large organizations running. Founded in 1980 by three former Shell engineers, BMC has spent four decades turning the unglamorous work of keeping systems alive - monitoring, scheduling, patching, recovering - into automated, increasingly AI-driven products. Its flagship lines include Control-M (workload automation), the BMC AMI mainframe suite, and BMC Helix (service and operations management). Owned by KKR since 2018, BMC split into two focused companies, BMC and BMC Helix, in early 2025.
New Relic
New Relic is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered observability platform that gives engineering teams a single place to see everything running in their software - from application code and infrastructure to logs, user experience, and AI models. Founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne, it helped popularize application performance monitoring (APM) and later coined much of the modern 'observability' category. After going public in 2014 and being taken private in a $6.5 billion deal in 2023, New Relic now serves thousands of companies with usage-based, consumption pricing and a strong bet on AI and agentic observability.
Karthik Rau
Karthik Rau is the CEO of Contentful, the Berlin-based composable content platform. A Stanford-trained industrial engineer, he founded the cloud-monitoring company SignalFx (acquired by Splunk for $1.05B in 2019) and earlier helped lead VMware through its 2007 IPO. He took the helm at Contentful in April 2024 to push it from headless CMS into an AI-era content platform.
Robert Weitershausen
Robert Weitershausen is Chief of Staff to the CEO at New Relic, the observability company. A retired U.S. Air Force aviator with roughly 24 years in uniform, he now translates strategy into execution at the top of a 2,000+ person software company - and writes about how leaders should think about disciplined AI adoption with humans in the loop.
BigPanda
BigPanda is an AIOps platform that uses machine learning to correlate noisy IT alerts from hundreds of monitoring tools into actionable incidents, helping enterprise operations teams detect, triage and resolve outages faster. Founded in 2012 and based in Mountain View / Redwood City, it serves large enterprises including Intel, PayPal, Workday and Gap.
Cribl
Cribl is a vendor-agnostic data engine for IT and security teams that routes, shapes, reduces, and enriches observability and security telemetry between any source and any destination - letting enterprises escape vendor lock-in and tame runaway data costs.
Imply
Imply is a San Francisco-based data analytics company that built its platform on Apache Druid - the open-source real-time analytics database that its co-founders helped create. The company offers Imply Polaris, a fully managed cloud database-as-a-service for real-time analytics, and Imply Lumi, billed as the industry's first Observability Warehouse. With $215M in total funding and unicorn status at a $1.1B valuation, Imply serves 100+ enterprise customers including Atlassian, Reddit, and Cisco ThousandEyes, enabling sub-second query performance across terabytes to petabytes of streaming and historical data.