Startups & Funding
ScaleOps secures $130M Series C at $800M valuation
ScaleOps raised $130 million at an $800 million valuation to expand its autonomous infrastructure management platform, which aims to reduce cloud and AI costs by as much as 80%.
ScaleOps, a startup providing autonomous infrastructure management, announced on Monday that it has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round. The round, which values the company at $800 million, brings its total funding to about $210 million, according to a spokesperson.
The funding round was led by:
- Insight Partners (lead investor)
- Lightspeed Venture Partners
- NFX
- Glilot Capital Partners
- Picture Capital
The company was co-founded in 2022 by CEO Yodar Shafrir, who previously worked at Run:ai, a GPU orchestration startup acquired by Nvidia. Shafrir founded ScaleOps after observing that DevOps teams—the professionals managing software development and IT operations—struggled to manage production workloads. This challenge has intensified with the rise of inference workloads, which are AI processes where models make predictions. While companies often use Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration system, to run applications across clusters of machines, the system relies on static configurations. This setup struggles to adapt to dynamic demand, leading to underused resources and high costs.
ScaleOps aims to solve this by automatically managing and reallocating compute, memory, storage, and networking resources in real time. “Kubernetes is a great system. It’s flexible and highly configurable. But that’s also the problem,” Shafrir said. “Kubernetes relies heavily on static configurations. Applications today are highly dynamic, which requires constant manual work across teams. You need something that understands the context of each application — what it needs, how it behaves, and how the environment is changing.” The company’s software reduces cloud and AI infrastructure costs by as much as 80%.
The Series C funding comes roughly a year and a half after ScaleOps raised $58 million in its Series B round in November 2024. Since then, the company has seen more than 450% year-over-year growth and has tripled its headcount over the past 12 months. Headquartered in New York, ScaleOps serves enterprise clients globally, with a footprint that spans Europe and India. Its customer base includes enterprise clients such as Adobe, Wiz, DocuSign, Salesforce, and Coupa.
Why it matters
As AI inference workloads surge, companies are struggling with inefficient, static cloud infrastructure; ScaleOps is betting that autonomous, context-aware management is the solution to rising compute costs.