French Startup OpsMill Secures $14 Million to Enhance Infrastructure Management
French company OpsMill has raised $14 million in Series A funding, led by IRIS, with contributions from BGV and existing investors Serena and Partech.
Founded by Damien Garros and Karen Gallantry in Paris in 2023, OpsMill aims to streamline infrastructure data management. Garros, with nearly 20 years of experience at firms like Juniper Networks and Roblox, realized that many organizations depend on outdated methods like spreadsheets and scripts, which can lead to serious issues like deployment failures and expensive outages.
The market for AI-driven IT operations is valued at about $220 billion, and interest in network automation has surged threefold since 2023. However, many businesses still grapple with infrastructure built on inadequate data systems. OpsMill believes that fixing the data issue is essential for progress in automation.
“Automation ultimately hinges on data. If your view of the network is incomplete, it’s like navigating in the dark. The challenge isn’t writing automation code; it’s maintaining it and ensuring its reliability in real-world use. We created Infrahub to give infrastructure teams and their AI partners a dependable record of what exists and what should exist, along with safe pathways for change and growth,” Garros explains.
Infrahub serves as OpsMill’s core solution, consolidating fragmented infrastructure data into a unified source of truth. Utilizing graph database technology, Infrahub illustrates the connections between physical, cloud, and virtual systems, allowing engineers to better understand interactions before making changes.
The platform also supervises configuration updates prior to deployment, minimizing automation errors. This feature is particularly crucial in industries like finance and manufacturing, where mistakes can lead to compliance issues or operational setbacks.
OpsMill offers Infrahub in both a free open-source Community edition and a paid Enterprise edition, drawing on a similar model to GitLab. This approach has attracted attention from major players in infrastructure, including TikTok.
Businesses from various sectors—retail, insurance, manufacturing, and fintech—are also recognizing the value of the platform. For instance, Eurofiber, a European cloud services provider, reportedly cut its deployment times from five days to just fifteen minutes after using Infrahub.
OpsMill competes with companies specializing in infrastructure automation and orchestration, such as Itential, NetBox Labs, and Pulumi. Unlike many competitors who prioritize orchestration, OpsMill emphasizes data quality, validation, and governance as essential steps before automation.
“The rush to adopt AI in enterprise infrastructure is significant, but many organizations are building on unsuitable foundations. OpsMill addresses the challenge that others sidestep: without clean, well-structured, and trustworthy infrastructure data, large-scale AI operations are impossible. We believe OpsMill is creating vital software for the future of enterprise technology,” comments Julien-David Nitlech, managing partner at IRIS.
The new funding will be used to grow OpsMill’s engineering and product teams and to expedite the development of its automation platform.
