Last month, we closed a $3.6M seed round led by Initialized Capital, along with Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog), David Cramer (Co-founder, Sentry), Michael Grinich (CEO, WorkOS), Zeno Rocha (CEO, Resend), Ben Porterfield (Co-founder, Looker), Peter Zaitsev (Co-founder, Percona), Eran Sandler (Co-author, OAuth), Oana Olteanu, Palumni VC, and multiple others.
The TL;DR
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We’ve built the fastest growing commercial open source terraform automation tool, digger.dev, which now has over 4.5k stars on github and over half a million downloads
Today we’re launching Infrabase, an AI devops agent that flags risk in the pull request, so that organisations can stay secure, compliant and cost efficient
We’re opening an office in SF!
We’re hiring!
If you asked anyone on team Digger what our ✨mission✨ is, every one of us would say that we just simply want to make infra a less of a pain in the a** for developers. That’s been the goal all along.
We’ve been through it all, 22+ product hunt launches, 5+ hacker news front page features, 4 pivots, before arriving at something that resembled our initial mission & something that people cared about - Digger OSS. Since launching in early 2023, it has now gotten to over half a million downloads and is used by over 300 organisations in production, from banks to email marketing platforms, and from casinos to freight companies, digger is used everyday to provision, manage and secure infra.
As we laid the groundwork for our next move, we did some reflecting on what has made Digger OSS a success. Our users tell us it is related to both the architecture and the form factor. Digger doesn’t require you to have a separate CI/CD system for your infrastructure code, it lets you reuse the compute of your existing CI (say Github actions for example). This makes it both secure (credentials never leave your privileged CI environment) and scalable (jobs that don’t depend on each other are triggered in parallel).
Another peculiarity about our team is that bloated UI’s and artificially lengthy time to value annoy the hell out of us, which is why we decided that Digger would be pull request native: because that’s where developers spend a large chunk of time. This seems to have resonated, too.
We’re working towards making Digger the gold standard for IaC automation. If not for anything else, to genuinely make infra a less of a pain in the a** for devs.
We’ve seen a whole revolution around how AI has influenced application code generation over the last 12-18 months. We also believe that it is a matter of time before the same revolution comes to generation, validation and deployment of enterprise infrastructure. Ask any engineering manager/devops leader about what their biggest pain point is and, so many years in, it is still the lack of self service amongst their engineers and the over reliance on humans in the loop. This isn’t helped by pricing and architecture of tools that help in infrastucture management because they prevent users from scaling usage without giving their CFO a headache! Today, we’re extremely excited to launch a research preview of Infrabase, an AI devops agent that resides in the pull request.
Early adopters of Infrabase love it, use it to define rules in natural language, and to predictably identify risk - cost, security and compliance related, before any changes hit the cloud, saving a lot of back and forth and the infra organisations P&L. Infrabase will govern trillions of IaC lines for the next million AI-native companies. It’s live, give it a try.
We’re on track to:
Turn Digger into the #1 tool for infrastructure automation by making it work with any CI, IaC tool, and VCS you throw at it.
Give every dev their own AI assistant right in their PRs to help ship better infrastructure faster and support the next wave of AI companies.
