Aug 22, 2025

The Opportunity Enterprise software development has grown more complex, with multiple teams deploying changes across environments every day. Managing those deployments — coordinating metadata changes, setting up test environments, and ensuring smooth releases — remains slow and repetitive. These bottlenecks drag down developer productivity and introduce unnecessary risk. The inefficiency of modern DevOps provides a clear opportunity to bring automation and intelligence to this critical layer, allowing teams to move faster without sacrificing reliability. The Solution SRE.ai is building AI agents that work alongside development teams to handle complex DevOps workflows through natural conversation. Developers can describe what they need, and SRE.ai’s agents handle the underlying complexity — coordinating and monitoring deployments, detecting metadata conflicts before they occur, and suggesting proven fixes. Workflows pause only when human review is required, while routine tasks continue seamlessly. Early customers report cutting deployment times from hours to minutes and virtually eliminating release-blocking conflicts. Crucially, SRE.ai plugs into the tools teams already use. It connects with GitHub, delivers updates through Slack, and integrates into existing processes — no steep learning curve required. Why We’re Backing SRE.ai At Salesforce Ventures, we invest in founders and technologies that help teams work smarter and achieve more. SRE.ai is transforming DevOps from a highly manual process into a conversation-driven experience — making powerful capabilities accessible to every developer. Founders Raj Kadiyala and Edward Aryee bring deep AI expertise from their years at Google Research and DeepMind, where they built automation tools for some of the world’s most advanced engineering teams. What stood out to us wasn’t just their technical pedigree, but their empathy for developers and understanding of the daily challenges they face. Graduating from Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, SRE.ai already has validation from startups and large enterprises alike. Their ability to deliver immediate value while building for enterprise-grade reliability signals a team ready to scale. What’s Ahead SRE.ai’s vision is to make AI-powered augmentation the standard for enterprise DevOps. As these AI agents grow more capable, we envision them evolving from deployment assistants to true development partners that help teams design better solutions from the ground up. Expansion to platforms like ServiceNow and Jira is already on the horizon, with the goal of creating a unified layer of intelligent automation across enterprise systems. We’re proud to lead SRE.ai’s seed round alongside our friends at Crane Ventures. By leveraging Salesforce Ventures’ partner network and customer base, we’re excited to help SRE.ai become an essential tool for every development team, empowering developers to build and deploy with confidence, and strengthening the full ecosystem along the way. Welcome to Salesforce Ventures, SRE.ai! Related Perspectives