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.

Mirrors provides regression testing for AI agents. Teams shipping agents constantly change prompts, models, and tools, and there's no way to test any of it. Agents call bespoke internal tools and APIs no test framework can reproduce, so most teams ship on vibes. Mirrors rebuilds the tools your agent calls from your own production traces, then replays real sessions against every change before it merges. You see which tool calls changed, which arguments moved, and where state landed differently. And when something fails, we tell you whether your agent regressed or something upstream moved. Built for teams whose agents take irreversible actions. Refunds, record updates, outbound email. Runs in your CI on every PR.

OnePatch is a forward-deployed AI SRE. It instruments your services, watches how they actually behave in prod, catches incidents, and drives each one to resolution. Think Datadog, except it doesn't stop at telling you something broke: it keeps going until the fix is shipped.

We build GitHub for agents. We're rebuilding the infrastructure for the next hundred billion commits and CI jobs with hundreds of engineers already making the move.

With tools like Cursor and Claude Code, writing software is no longer the bottleneck. Debugging is. Agents cannot fix production crashes using logs and traces that were sized for human eyeballs. The gap is missing data. HyperProbe allows agents to debug live software autonomously. Our SDK drops non-breaking probes straight into running services to read exact variable states from memory at the moment of failure, instead of reasoning backwards from flat logs. Zero redeploys. Under 1% CPU overhead. Automatic PII redaction. We turn 4-hour production war rooms into 10-minute automated resolutions. As agents write and operate more of the world's software, HyperProbe is the runtime observability layer that lets them understand what they built.

Kestrel is the AI automation layer for platform engineering teams. Platform teams use Kestrel to automate incident response, cloud provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests across their stack. Kestrel turns natural-language prompts into deterministic, production-ready workflows with 40+ integrations, 200+ pre-built actions, and support for custom HTTP and webhook actions. Developer-first, with a CLI, Python SDK, and MCP server to manage workflows from where platform teams already work.

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.

The fastest persistent computer for agents. Host long-running, stateful agents that never sleep in <50ms.

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.

Drop-in Ubuntu runners plus AI agents that open optimization PRs for your workflows. StarSling Runners continuously improve your CI to make it up to 6x faster and 13x cheaper.

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 autonomously investigates alerts and incidents using telemetry, code, and databases. It centralizes tribal knowledge for oncall teams by learning the system and generating oncall runbooks. Onboarding takes 5 minutes.

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 verifies that AI-written code actually works. Opslane opens your app in a real browser, clicks through what the PR changed, and posts screenshots, video, and data checks as proof it works.

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.

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 gives engineering teams the fast source control, builds, CI runners, sandboxes, caches, and registries they need to ship reliable software they trust at AI speed. Companies like PostHog, Inference, Wistia, PlanetScale, Poolside, Astral, and Semgrep use Depot to power their entire software delivery stack. Kyle and Jacob worked together as staff engineers for 4.5 years at Thorn and Era Software, before founding Depot. Depot is their take on what software delivery and a replacement for GitHub could look like in the world of AI.

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.

Orca is an ADE built for engineers who run 10 to 100 coding agents at once. Termina-based. Any coding agent. Bring your own subscription (Claude Code, Codex etc). Mobile app included. Browser, CUA, Mobile emulator, and other. Minimal yet powerful. Includes CLI to let agents control it https://github.com/stablyai/orca

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 2x faster, up to 90% cheaper CI in 30 seconds using WarpBuild for Github Actions.

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.

FastJVM analyzes JVM bytecode and applies provably safe optimizations such as automatic parallelization. On some workloads it already delivers up to 10× speedups; the goal is to generalize these gains across the JVM.

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.

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.

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