USD 13 million Series A for Qovery

The round was led by IRIS, with Speedinvest, Crane Venture Partners, Techstars, Irregular Expressions and several prominent angel investors also participating. These include Datadog co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc, Docker co-founder Sebastian Pahl and Ott Kaukver, CTO of Checkout.com and former CTO of Twilio, who is also joining the board. All existing investors from the seed round are also back.

Automation against the DevOps bottleneck

The demand for qualified DevOps engineers exceeds the supply worldwide. Only around 56% of companies have automated their DevOps lifecycle and only 38% have a clear strategy in place. At the same time, cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure are highly complex, especially in multi-cloud scenarios or migrations.

Companies are often faced with a choice: build expensive internal DevOps teams or rely on external consultants. Qovery offers a third way.

Romaric Philogène, CEO & Co-Founder Qovery

Qovery's platform automates the entire lifecycle of application deployments and infrastructure management, on AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway or in local Kubernetes environments. Full transparency is maintained, as is cost control, without vendor lock-in as is known from classic PaaS solutions.

The result is that, for example, set-up times are reduced from months to one day. Installation takes just five minutes and requires no special DevOps skills. Customers report a threefold increase in efficiency, hundreds or even thousands of deployments per day and a significant reduction in product cycles.

Growth and US focus

Qovery is currently growing by 115% compared to the previous year and already has hundreds of customers and thousands of users worldwide. In Germany, Getsafe and Ninetailed are among those working with the platform.

The demand for solutions for complex deployment infrastructures is growing. Qovery combines simplicity, flexibility and speed on a large scale - setting a new standard for DevOps automation.

Anaïs Monlong, IRIS

With 50% of its business already generated in the US, Qovery plans to use the new funding to accelerate its expansion into the US market, grow its team and expand its AI-powered product development. Alexis Le-Quoc, co-founder of Datadog, is also positive:"I know from my own experience how much DevOps bottlenecks can slow down growth. Qovery addresses precisely this weakness - an approach with global potential."

Founded in 2020, Qovery is a DevOps automation platform that enables companies to easily deploy and scale applications in the cloud. It combines the ease of use of a PaaS solution with the flexibility of an individual cloud infrastructure. The target group is software companies that want to combine speed, scalability and control.