DevOps Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

PagerDuty is an operations performance platform delivering visibility and actionable intelligence across the entire incident lifecycle. Their SaaS-based solution empowers over 10,000 small, mid-size and enterprise global customers such as Comcast, eHarmony, Slack and Lululemon with the insight to intelligently respond to critical disruptions for exceptional customer experience. PagerDuty was founded to deliver a new and innovative approach to increase business response and efficiency. When brand reputation depends on customer satisfaction, PagerDuty arms businesses with the insight to proactively manage incidents and events that may impact customers across their IT environment.

Ashr is a fully contained test and evals platform that improves AI agents by ensuring accuracy and quality across a wide range of user journeys through your product. Ashr generates user journeys through your agents’ tool calls, results, and questions. We don’t generate one off tests, we generate large amounts of authentic user stories through your product, and pick up on errors, inconsistencies, and failures that would otherwise take hours of manual testing or get caught by a customer. We also work to ensure agent response quality in line with your business goals by offering custom evaluation metrics. Ashr works with voice, text, automated website generation, image, file generation, and multimodal. We’re also willing to generate custom input types or make modifications for anyone interested. Currently, we integrate as an SDK, and are proactively working to make our documentation and resources as accessible and easy to use as possible.

Mendral is an AI DevOps Engineer that observes, diagnoses, acts, and learns continuously. It autonomously handles CI failures, flaky tests, slow builds, broken releases, and code reviews, improving with every build and run. Over time, Mendral evolves into a self-improving delivery system that manages performance, quality, security, and compliance, all without manual intervention.

Specific lets your coding agent write code and build the infrastructure to deploy it. Connect your favorite coding agent and start building immediately. Run `specific dev` to get a full local environment running in seconds. Run `specific deploy` to go to production on our scalable cloud platform in minutes.

Dedalus Labs is building Vercel for AI Agents. We host MCP servers on our cloud and handle the boring stuff like autoscaling and load balancing so users can go from idea to production in a single click. Our OpenAI-compatible SDK lets users orchestrate complex agentic workflows through one clean API. Route between any LLM provider, connect any MCP tools from our hosted marketplace, and ship in minutes.

Lark lets teams write end-to-end tests in plain English. Validate dashboards, APIs, SDKs, and full product flows without maintaining fragile test code. Run continuously on feature branches, in CI, or in production.

Datafruit is the first agentic DevOps engineer. It understands your deployment standards, design docs, and DevOps practices, then reasons across them to reduce cloud waste, prevent deployment delays, and eliminate wasted time across the stack. Reach out to us: founders@datafruit.dev

Janet AI (janet.ai) is the first AI-native ticket management system, built for modern engineering teams and tool stacks. Janet doesn’t wait for your manual work. - Ideas, bug reports, and feature requests get tracked directly from meetings/Slack/Discord/SMS/email. - Tickets are auto-moved when GitHub PRs resolving them are opened and merged. - You can reply to issue reporters in Slack/Discord directly from Janet AI when a ticket is resolved. - Janet auto-tags issues, clusters related issues, suggests assignees and priorities for issues, and evaluates ticket quality. - Your Cursor/Claude Code's context is synced with full knowledge of your Janet AI workspace, so coding agents can create, understand, update, prioritize, and resolve your issues. - And more! Founders, product leaders, customer success, and engineers all love Janet: cross-team communication, collaboration, and execution are made seamless. Check out janet.ai to get started today!

StarSling is building an agentic developer homepage that automates all the tasks that eat up a developer’s time after they’ve left their code editor: deployments, performance, incidents, and bugs. Open your homepage, click on a GitHub, Linear, or Sentry issue and you’ll see an Autofix button that triggers an AI agent and opens up a Pull Request with a fix, all without leaving your homepage.

Our CLI makes ML model training effortless - just describe your job, and we handle GPU orchestration and execution at half the cost of major cloud providers.

Reliability on autopilot. Free you team to build what's next.

Ryvn provides the devtools and infrastructure to easily deploy any workload, on any cloud, and on-prem. Run apps in your own cloud and offer Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) to your customers in minutes, with built-in observability designed for sensitive industries.

Relvy provides AI-powered debugging notebooks that help software engineers investigate and resolve incidents faster. It finds the root cause in over 70% of alerts automatically, and when it doesn’t, engineers can easily guide or correct the investigation - saving valuable time across the team.

Struct cross-references logs, metrics, traces, and your codebase to accurately root-cause eng alerts and bugs. Integrate your entire stack in minutes, auto-investigate every issue, dive deeper at will, and hand-off context to fix in one click.

Miru makes it easy for robotics teams to manage, version, and deploy robot configurations. Developers use our well-documented APIs and UI components to automate configuration updates for both engineers and operators. In the long term, we're building software infrastructure to accelerate the automation of the physical world.

Opslane is a developer-first Kubernetes delivery platform. Connect your repo and get previews, safe rollouts, and instant rollbacks — no YAML, no ops team required.

OneGrep is a DevOps Agent that helps engineers automate manual devops tasks. It works across integrations that teams have to search, correlate, and operate automated tasks like runbook automation during incidents. OneGrep specializes across devops tools to help teams release code faster and more reliably so that engineers can spend more time building rather than being trained in bespoke tools like Observability, Ci/Cd, or Infra. Achintya and Brian are technical co-founders who have deep domain expertise in building and operating systems at scale at Coinbase, Disney, and Amazon. Achintya led the Search Team at Disney enabling DisneyPlus to scale to 70M users in two weeks. Brian was a founding engineer on the team that built the Incident Management Platform at Amazon that helps 30k DAUs in Amazon resolve critical incidents every day. https://www.onegrep.dev

Metoro is an AI SRE for teams running on Kubernetes. Run one command to get autonomous root causing and automatic fix PRs. Batteries included, telemetry is set up automatically. Go from nothing to production ready in < 5 minutes.

AI coding tools made your team ship faster. But standards are slipping through review. Continue runs source-controlled AI checks on every pull request, enforcing your team's conventions, security patterns, and architecture boundaries as native GitHub status checks. Each check is a markdown file in your repo, running as a full AI agent. It only enforces what you asked for and never misses it. Consistency over breadth. Standards as checks, enforced by AI, decided by humans. With hundreds of thousands of users, Continue is loved by developers worldwide at organizations ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. Continue has raised $5.1M from Heavybit, Y Combinator, and angel investors. The company was founded in 2023 and is based in San Francisco. We believe the time is now to create a future where developers are amplified, not automated.

Terracotta AI is an AI-powered Infrastructure as Code PR reviewer for Terraform, OpenTofu, and CDK-TF code, making Infrastructure as Code changes more transparent, less risky, and faster. Terracotta stops your Infrastructure as Code deployments from becoming ticking time bombs every time you modify your environment with AI-driven, contextual feedback delivered directly to your pull requests.

Parea AI is the essential developer platform for debugging and monitoring every stage of LLM application development. We provide testing, evaluation, and monitoring in one unified platform. These capabilities help developers get visibility into LLM responses, quickly test and optimize prompts, and ensure customers get the best user experience.

We make running services on Kubernetes as easy as Heroku, but on your cloud and with all the flexibility and power of Kubernetes. Companies use Skyhook so that they don't have to hire dedicated infrastructure engineers. Although 50-70% of organizations have already adopted Kubernetes, most developers agree that it is too complex and difficult to manage. It is intended to be extremely flexible in order to solve pretty much everyone’s needs, but it can take a ton of work and many auxiliary tools to get there. As companies grow, they spend a lot on DevOps or Platform Engineers that try to reduce the burden on developers by gluing together all the 3p tools via custom internal tools. We are building an “internal developer platform” out of the box, with best practices and golden paths for building and operating services on Kubernetes. We do the research on the latest and greatest tools in the extremely vibrant ecosystem, and automatically integrate for you the tools you want to use. We operate on our customers code and in your Cloud environment, so they never locked in and never restricted, as is common with classic PaaS offerings. If you prefer a fully hosted environment like Heroku, Fly or Vercel, we’ll host a cluster for you and offer you a one-click migration to your own cluster when you want.

DataSuite provides a way to manage and collect multi-terabyte multi-media datasets, and train generative models (diffusion, gan, interactive video) models based on them. We make it trivial for non-technical builders to create their own networks by providing an instant way to collect with AI without worrying about data formats, unzipping power, caching, or data locality.

Depot is a build acceleration platform making builds up to 40x faster for Docker containers and GitHub Actions. Companies like PostHog, Wistia, Appsmith, and Secoda use Depot to save tens of hours of build time every day. We offer a remote container build service for building Intel & Arm Docker images, from your CI or local machine, up to 40x faster. Our container builds come with in-depth build insights, ephemeral registries, and instant cache sharing across your team. Finally, we also offer our own Depot GitHub Actions Runners that brings all the speed of Depot to your entire GitHub Actions workflow at half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners, and up to 10x faster builds. Simply change the runs-on label of your existing workflow to route jobs to Depot runners. Kyle and Jacob worked together as staff engineers for 4.5 years at Thorn and Era Software, before founding Depot. Depot is their solution to the wildly inefficient container build tooling and non-performant CI systems they encountered throughout their careers.

Brainboard is a collaborative and end-to-end solution for engineers to visually design & manage their Cloud infrastructures. We allow companies to lower the learning curve while moving to IaC, build a self serve model, have a service catalog to not reinvent the wheel. Both technical profiles with 25+ years of combined expertise and after working together at a major French Cloud provider, Chafik and Jeremy launched Brainboard in 2020.

Stably AI auto-writes, runs, and maintains end-to-end tests directly in your CI, guarding every pull‑request and production release—no flakiness, no test maintenance. Hundreds of modern engineering orgs already use Stably to merge code in minutes, replace brittle Playwright/Cypress suites, and slash QA spend by up to 80%. Stably offers - AI-generated test flows that mirror real user journeys. - Diff-aware execution—only tests affected by your change run, so CI stays under five minutes. - Automatic selector & assertion healing when your UI shifts, keeping the suite green. - Plain‑English editor letting PMs and QAs add tests without writing code. - One‑click GitHub App or API for instant pipeline integration.

Our app manages Argo Workflows for data teams, enabling complex data & CI pipelines in half the time while saving companies hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. We maintain Argo Workflows, an open-source pipeline framework for Kubernetes that’s used in production by Bloomberg, Intuit, Adobe, New Relic, NVIDIA, and many other open-source early adopters.

Supercharge your Playwright E2E testing, run scalable load tests, and automate production monitoring with synthetic checks — all in one platform. Built for engineering teams who want to ship fast without performance & reliability risks. Used by thousands of developer teams to help keep their production systems fast & reliable.

Accelerate software development with WarpBuild. Get 30% faster, 90% cheaper CI builds in 30 seconds using WarpBuild cloud runners for Github Actions.

Our Mission 🎯 At Shuttle, we’re on a mission to revolutionise developer experience for building web apps. Everything we do is about crafting an exceptionally simple, satisfying and effective way to do cloud development. We are open source community-driven and loved by thousands of engineers. Our vision: the ultimate platform to supercharge developers’ productivity. About Shuttle 🚀 Shuttle is the cloud infrastructure platform for developers building with Cursor and GitHub Copilot. We make it simple to ship reliable and scalable backends, so developers can focus on creating great products. Over 20,000 developers use Shuttle to build and deploy Rust backends in minutes, and we’re now bringing the same zero-config experience to every developer. As AI tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot accelerate coding, infrastructure is becoming the bottleneck - Shuttle removes it.

Dockup gives on-demand environments for engineering teams so they can merge pull requests with confidence. It works like CircleCI, but allows you to manually test and see each code changes in action with your entire tech stack without having to mock any of your services.

Tara AI helps engineering leaders measure and improve engineering efficiency, with fine-tuned, secure LLMs trained on source control and project data. Our customers include MongoDB, Clearbit and Prometric. Our platform generates all-in-one views on cycle times, benchmarks, investments and overall size and velocity of engineering activity. We're helping customers achieve 30% reduction in time to customer deployment.

Docker is the world’s leading software container platform. Developers use Docker to eliminate “works on my machine” problems when collaborating on code with co-workers. Operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by-side in isolated containers to get better compute density. Enterprises use Docker to build agile software delivery pipelines to ship new features faster, more securely and with confidence for both Linux and Windows Server apps.

The best way for businesses to ship software. Opsolutely empowers engineering teams to be more productive, inclusive, and collaborative by making the most challenging and chaotic part of their software creation process safe, easy-to-use, and friendly for every member of the team.

At Aptible, we envision a world where developers achieve more with less infrastructure. We’re building the platform that empowers developers at companies of all stages of development to move beyond the traditional method of managing infrastructure—DIY with expert infrastructure and platform engineers on AWS, GCP, or Azure. We’ve done this through our secure, compliant, reliable, and scalable Platform as a Service that’s been used by thousand of developers, hundreds of companies, and dozens of publicly traded and unicorn companies since 2013.

CoreOS is part of the Red Hat family. A leader in the open source community and an innovator of open source projects, CoreOS creates and delivers critical components for containerized applications that help fuel broad adoption of secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure. The team maintains several open source projects, including: Container Linux: the secure automatic updating OS; and etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes. Join us at https://coreos.com/ and @CoreOS on Twitter.

The BaseShield App Store is a distribution platform for Windows software. Users can download and install applications with one click, and each application runs in its own secure virtual space. It is an open platform where third party developers can publish their applications. Developers who deploy their apps this way can rely on the built-in installer, update function, security and eventually payment processing.

Compose is a fully-managed platform used by developers to deploy, host, and scale databases to help you conquer the data layer. www.compose.io