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Sedai is a technology company.
Sedai develops an autonomous cloud management platform, pioneering the concept of a self-driving cloud. Its core product leverages AI and machine learning to continuously optimize cloud resources, including Kubernetes, databases, and virtual machines, across major providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as on-premise environments. This intelligent automation is designed to reduce operational costs, enhance application performance, and improve overall system availability without human intervention.
The company was founded in 2018 by Suresh Mathew and Benjamin Thomas. Their founding insight stemmed from the pervasive toil associated with manual cloud resource management, realizing that engineers were burdened with routine optimization tasks rather than focusing on innovation. Mathew, serving as CEO, and Thomas aimed to eliminate this operational overhead through a secure, efficient, and fully autonomous solution for cloud infrastructure.
Sedai's platform is primarily adopted by cloud operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and FinOps teams within enterprise organizations. These teams utilize the product to streamline complex cloud environments, ensuring peak efficiency and reliability. The company's vision is to make cloud infrastructure cheaper, faster, and inherently more resilient, empowering engineers to focus on strategic initiatives rather than reactive maintenance and manual tuning.
Sedai has raised $39.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Sedai has raised $39.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Sedai has raised $39.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Sedai's investors include Manish Agarwal, Cultivation Capital, Entrepreneur First, Matrix Partners India, Norwest Venture Partners, Purpose Built Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Stripes Group, Telescope Partners, Uncorrelated Ventures, VitalStage Ventures, Tom Blomfield.
Sedai is an AI-powered autonomous cloud management platform that optimizes cloud costs, performance, and availability for modern applications running on Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, ECS, and more.[1][2][3] It serves DevOps, SREs, and FinOps teams in sectors like e-commerce, cybersecurity, online travel, and B2B SaaS, solving engineer toil from manual optimizations, alert fatigue, and production issues by using AI to learn, predict, and act independently—delivering up to 50% cost savings in production and 87% in development without incidents.[1][2][3] Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Sedai has raised $17.55M from investors including Sierra Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and Uncorrelated Ventures, with recent momentum including hiring CRO Vaneet Bhaskar in May 2025 to drive hyper-growth.[1][2][6]
Sedai was founded in 2018 by Suresh Mathew (CEO) and Benji Thomas (CTO), who developed the core idea while working on PayPal's massive microservices deployment—one of the largest at the time.[2][6] At PayPal, they observed that DevOps enabled faster deployments but exploded workloads and complexities, with observability tools like Datadog and CloudWatch creating alert fatigue rather than prevention.[2] They built an AI/ML platform that proactively identified performance and availability issues before customer impact, then autonomously remediated them without human input; in one year, it executed over 2 million actions and was trusted during peak holiday traffic.[2] Recognizing the universal need, they launched Sedai to automate mundane tasks, letting engineers focus on high-IQ work and eliminating night-time alerts or finger-pointing.[2]
Sedai stands out in cloud optimization through its fully autonomous AI agents that go beyond static automation:
Customers like Palo Alto Networks and KnowBe4 praise its transformative impact on efficiency.[3]
Sedai rides the autonomous AI operations (AIOps) wave in cloud management, where exploding cloud spend (projected multitrillion by 2030) meets AI-driven efficiency demands amid hyperscale apps and GenAI workloads.[1][3] Timing is ideal post-2023-2025 cloud cost crises, as firms shift from reactive tools (e.g., Datadog observability) to proactive agents that preempt issues—aligning with market forces like AWS/GCP cost pressures, Kubernetes ubiquity, and SRE/FinOps mandates.[2][3][4] It influences the ecosystem by setting a new standard for "hands-off" optimization, enabling engineers to prioritize innovation over ops toil, much like how PayPal's internal tool scaled industry-wide; its AWS Marketplace presence and patents accelerate adoption in cybersecurity (Palo Alto), security training (KnowBe4), and digital transformation (Belcorp).[1][3][4]
Sedai is poised for explosive growth, leveraging its 2025 CRO hire and proven ROI to expand beyond AWS into multi-cloud/GCP/Azure, targeting AI-heavy enterprises amid rising compute costs.[1][3][6] Trends like agentic AI, edge computing, and sustainability-driven FinOps will amplify its edge, potentially pushing valuation higher via new funding or acquisition by hyperscalers. As cloud complexity surges, Sedai's mission to "create a better life for engineers" positions it to redefine AIOps, evolving from cost-cutter to indispensable platform—much like its PayPal origins scaled to transform global DevOps.
Sedai has raised $39.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $20.0M Series B in June 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2025 | $20.0M Series B | Manish Agarwal | Cultivation Capital, Entrepreneur First, Matrix Partners India, Norwest Venture Partners, Purpose Built Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Stripes Group, Telescope Partners, Uncorrelated Ventures, VitalStage Ventures, Tom Blomfield, Norwest Venture Partners |
| Mar 1, 2022 | $15.0M Series A | Matthew Howard | Cultivation Capital, Entrepreneur First, Matrix Partners India, Norwest Venture Partners, Purpose Built Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Stripes Group, Telescope Partners, Uncorrelated Ventures, VitalStage Ventures, Tom Blomfield |
| Mar 1, 2020 | $4.0M Seed | Cultivation Capital, Entrepreneur First, Matrix Partners India, Purpose Built Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Stripes Group, Telescope Partners, Uncorrelated Ventures, VitalStage Ventures, Tom Blomfield |