OpsMill secures $14 million in Series A funding to enhance the reliability of IT infrastructure data.

      IRIS led the Series A funding round for the Paris- and London-based startup OpsMill, with BGV also participating alongside existing investors Serena and Partech. The company's Infrahub platform is currently being used by TikTok and a European cloud service provider, which claims to have reduced deployment times from five days to just fifteen minutes.

      OpsMill, which is based in Paris and specializes in infrastructure data management, has secured $14 million in a Series A round led by IRIS, with contributions from BGV and existing investors Serena and Partech. The startup plans to allocate the funding towards expanding its engineering and product teams and further developing its Infrahub platform, aimed at providing a single reliable view of an enterprise’s IT infrastructure for AI agents and engineering teams.

      The pitch tackles a longstanding issue that many enterprises have managed quietly for years. Although automation has proliferated through applications and workflows, the data that outlines the underlying infrastructure—including physical hardware, virtual machines, cloud resources, and their interconnections—has remained fragmented across spreadsheets, configuration management databases, and improvised scripts. None of these sources were designed to provide accurate information to AI agents. According to the company, when agents operate on incomplete or inaccurate infrastructure data, errors can rapidly propagate through production systems.

      OpsMill presents two statistics to illustrate the scale of the issue. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 30 percent of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities, up from less than 10 percent in mid-2023. The ITIC 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Report indicates that the average enterprise incurs losses of approximately $300,000 for every hour of downtime, excluding reputational damages.

      Infrahub, the flagship offering from OpsMill, employs a unique methodology for representing infrastructure data, differing from the traditional table-based asset registers most enterprises utilize. The platform operates on a graph database that visualizes the connections between hundreds of thousands of infrastructure elements, along with the metadata that describes the necessary configurations for each item.

      Every suggested change undergoes validation and approval through a DevOps-style review process prior to deployment. Co-founder and CEO Damien Garros, who developed Infrahub together with co-founder and COO Karen Gallantry, spent two decades grappling with similar challenges at Juniper, Roblox, and Network to Code before founding OpsMill.

      Garros presented the company's argument in his own terms: “Automation is fundamentally a data challenge, and if you only possess a fragmented view of your network, you’re essentially flying blind.” He added, “Writing the code for automating infrastructure has never been the issue; the true challenge lies in maintaining it and ensuring its reliability in production. We designed Infrahub so that infrastructure teams and the AI agents that assist them always have a complete and trustworthy record of what exists, what should exist, and a safe means to evolve and adapt at scale.”

      Infrahub comes in two versions: a free open-source Community edition and a licensed Enterprise edition. OpsMill likens its model to GitLab’s, allowing users to start with the open-source version and transition to the Enterprise edition when they require compliance and governance features at scale.

      The open-source community already comprises hyperscalers such as TikTok, along with global retailers, fintech firms, insurers, and manufacturers utilizing the Enterprise edition across Europe and North America. Eurofiber, a European cloud services provider mentioned as an Enterprise customer, has decreased its service deployment times from five days to fifteen minutes following the implementation of Infrahub. This statistic serves as a key customer data point in the company’s announcement.

      Julien-David Nitlech, managing partner at IRIS, articulated his fund's investment rationale similarly in the announcement. “The race to integrate AI into enterprise infrastructure is genuine, yet most organizations are trying to build on foundations that were never intended for that purpose,” he stated. “OpsMill is addressing the issue that others are sidestepping: without clean, structured, and reliable infrastructure data, AI-driven operations cannot perform effectively at scale.”

      OpsMill, with its headquarters in Paris and an office in London, indicates that the Series A funding will facilitate engineering and product growth while continuing the enhancement of its data-centric AIOps capabilities.