Qovery, a SaaS platform that automates DevOps and makes application deployment effortless on any cloud, has raised $13 million (€11.3 million) in Series A funding.

The round was led by IRIS, with participation from Speedinvest, Crane Venture Partners, Techstars, Irregular Expressions, and several prominent angel investors including Datadog cofounders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc, Docker cofounder Sebastian Pahl, and Checkout.com CTO Ott Kaukver (former Twilio CTO), who also joins the board of directors. Significantly, all existing investors from the seed round participated in the Series A.

Launched in 2020, Qovery is a DevOps automation platform that fills the critical DevOps developer’s shortage with easy to implement solutions allowing existing teams to focus on high-value actions. It solves the rising complexity and cost of infrastructure management – challenges that continue to slow down software teams.

Breaking the DevOps bottleneck

Hiring and retaining skilled DevOps engineers remains one of the toughest challenges in tech. This growing skills gap means deployments are 26% more likely to be delayed than delivered early in the UK in 2024. Cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure offer thousands of services, but remain complex to manage, especially in multi-cloud or migration situations. Kubernetes is a reliable solution to automate cloud deployment but remains a significant challenge for engineering teams.

Qovery addresses these pain points with a platform that automates the entire lifecycle of application deployment and infrastructure management across clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway) and on-premises Kubernetes environments. Teams retain full visibility and cost control, without the vendor lock-in often associated with PaaS solutions.

This approach slashes set-up times from weeks or months to as little as one day – with installation taking just five minutes and requiring no significant DevOps expertise or resources. On average, customers achieve 3 times DevOps efficiency, significantly accelerating deployments while reducing the need for additional DevOps resources, thereby supporting DevOps and development teams to focus more on strategic tasks that drive business outcomes. Once up and running, Qovery customers also achieve far greater release velocity, deploying hundreds or even thousands of times per day, enabling much faster product cycles without compromising on compliance and security.

Qovery is growing at 115% YoY and counts hundreds of clients and thousands of users. With half of its business already coming from the US – customers include Talkspace and RxVantage, Qovery will use the new funds to accelerate expansion in the region, scale its team and advance its AI-driven product innovation.

Romaric Philogène, cofounder and CEO of Qovery, said: “Software companies face a difficult trade-off: either build an expensive and slow-to-scale in-house DevOps team, or depend on external consultants at the cost of autonomy and flexibility. Qovery solves this by enabling organisations to ship products faster, at lower cost, while letting developers spend more time coding and less time managing the cloud infrastructure. Our platform can be installed in just five minutes, delivering the output of four to five DevOps engineers – roles that typically take six to twelve months to hire and onboard. That’s the kind of leverage our customers need in today’s market.”

Anaïs Monlong, Venture Principal at IRIS: “As software and cloud growth continues to accelerate, the need for simple solutions to manage increasingly complex deployment infrastructures has become prevalent, and is further heightened by a DevOps talent shortage. In addition, as cloud providers continue to differentiate themselves, and migration between cloud providers or between on premise and cloud is increasingly attractive to companies, Qovery's solution stands out as a platform that can provide simple automation, flexibility and speed at scale to manage such operations, with stellar customer experience. Companies can therefore focus on building products without struggling with architecture. We’re excited to support the team as they expand globally and set a new standard for DevOps automation.”

Alexis Lê-Quôc, cofounder and CTO of Datadog: “Having built Datadog, I know how challenging it can be to scale software without DevOps becoming a bottleneck. Qovery’s approach resonated with me immediately because it addresses a pain point, I’ve personally experienced. I believe it will change how engineering teams everywhere deploy software.”

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