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Opsera

Palo Alto, US · Founded 2019 · Delaware corporation · 121 employees on LinkedIn · 8 known investors

Opsera provides a no-code, AI-powered platform for DevOps and DevSecOps automation that helps enterprises orchestrate software delivery and security across multiple tools and cloud environments. The platform is designed to accelerate software innovation while ensuring compliance and efficiency at scale.

Also known as Opsera, Inc. · opsera.io

Founders & leadership

RK
Ravi Kumar ChivukulaNamed on SEC filing

Board

RMRajeev Madhavan
Rajeev Madhavanin𝕏Board directorPartner and Co-Founder at Clear Ventures
WCWesley Chan
Wesley Chanin𝕏Board directorInvestor at Felicis Ventures
HL
Huang LeeBoard director
PH
Patricia HatterBoard director

Investors · 8

Also in the syndicate · 1

Prosperity7lead

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$29.3M disclosed across 2 of 3 rounds · 2023–2025

$17.3MraisedFeb 2025 · 6 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Ravi Kumar ChivukulaExecutive Officer, Director
  • Rajeev MadhavanDirector
  • Patricia HatterExecutive Officer, Director
  • Wesley ChanDirector
  • Huang LeeDirector
Offering amount
$25M
Amount sold
$17.3M
First sale
Feb 2025
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$12MraisedOct 2023 · 10 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Rajeev MadhavanDirector
  • Huang LeeDirector
  • Patricia HatterExecutive Officer, Director
  • Ravi Kumar ChivukulaExecutive Officer, Director
  • Wesley ChanDirector
Offering amount
$12M
Amount sold
$12M
Finders' fees
$85K
First sale
Aug 2023
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2019
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Opsera is a Palo Alto, California-based software company that provides a unified, cloud-native DevOps platform for enterprise engineering, IT and data teams. The platform combines toolchain automation and self-service provisioning, declarative CI/CD pipeline templates built through a drag-and-drop visual editor, integrated testing, security and compliance (including a GitCustodian vulnerability capability), and cross-lifecycle analytics. Its Unified Insights product aggregates software delivery data from tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Sonar and JMeter into persona-based dashboards covering DORA metrics (lead time, change failure rate, deployment frequency, time to restore), developer experience, quality and security posture. Generative AI features are branded Hummingbird AI, providing pipeline summaries and AI-driven analysis.

More recently the company has positioned itself around "agentic DevOps" and an AI-SDLC platform. Current product lines described on its website include Forge, which converts stated intent into PRD/BRD documents, architecture, user stories, code and deployment while maintaining machine-readable specifications and persistent context; Insights for measuring AI adoption, token spend, developer productivity and ROI; Governance for policy-as-code guardrails embedded in pipelines; BrickForge for data teams; a Salesforce DevOps offering for IT teams; and IDE-resident agents. Opsera states connectivity to more than 150 tools (an earlier platform page cites 100+ native integrations, including Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, CircleCI, Slack, GitHub, AWS and Google GKE) and support for SaaS environments such as Salesforce, Boomi and Apigee.

The platform is offered in fully managed cloud (SaaS), hybrid (customer-network data with Opsera-managed orchestration, deployable in the customer's VPC) and self-hosted/on-premises deployment models. Security architecture described by the company includes a dedicated AWS VPC per customer instance with separate ELK and MongoDB instances, plus SSO support via Okta, SAML and LDAP.

Founding story

Kumar Chivukula is identified as co-founder and CEO. Clear Ventures made an initial seed investment in Opsera, described in April 2025 as having occurred approximately four and a half years earlier. Sources give conflicting founding years: one report states the company was founded in 2020.

Business model

Opsera sells enterprise software delivered as a managed SaaS service, a hybrid deployment in which orchestration is managed by Opsera while data remains in the customer network, or a fully self-hosted deployment in customer infrastructure. Sources do not disclose pricing or contract structures.

Sources do not state pricing details; the company reports revenue growth (200% since its Series A+ round as of April 2025) from its enterprise DevOps platform sold across cloud, hybrid and self-hosted deployment options.

Traction

Opsera reported 200% revenue growth since its Series A+ round and the addition of several Fortune 1000 customers as of April 2025, alongside partnerships with GitHub, Microsoft, AWS and Databricks. Customer-reported outcomes include Qualys stating an 80% acceleration in software delivery, an unnamed Silicon Valley networking and security firm citing roughly 50% better velocity and close to 70% reduction in committed headcount for that function, and a Fortune 500 case study claiming 10,000 reclaimed engineering hours. Website claims include 83% faster delivery, 90% vulnerability reduction and 3x developer productivity.

Latest developments

As of the current website, Opsera markets a context-aware "software factory" centered on Forge, which takes intent through PRD/BRD, architecture, user stories, development and deployment while preserving machine-readable specifications; BrickForge for data teams; governance with policy-as-code; IDE-based agents; and integrations with 150+ tools including Workday for linking headcount cost to delivery value. The most recent funding disclosed in the sources is the April 2025 Series B.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies

Market position

Opsera describes itself as an AI-powered DevOps platform used by Fortune 1000 and Fortune 2000 enterprises, positioning against tool sprawl and point CI/CD tooling by remaining non-opinionated about the customer's toolchain and avoiding rip-and-replace. Its Series B lead investor cited partnerships with GitHub, Databricks and AWS as opening new use cases, and an existing investor framed the thesis as the DevOps category being ripe for modernization and consolidation. Sources do not name direct competitors.

The company emphasizes tool-agnostic orchestration with no vendor lock-in, no-code pipeline creation that removes custom scripting and glue code, unified insights spanning code-to-cloud including AI coding-assistant adoption and token spend, policy-as-code governance embedded in pipelines, and flexible deployment across SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted models. It also claims to be the only platform connecting headcount cost to delivery value through a Workday integration.

Technology

The platform provides no-code/low-code pipeline construction via a drag-and-drop visual editor, with pipeline workflows also expressible as JSON stored in Git repositories for bi-directional sync and GitOps practices. It supports event-based, scheduled and manual triggers, pass/fail thresholds per step, Slack-based granular alerting, and activity logs with console output and root-cause views plus exportable PDF reports for audit. Analytics aggregate data from CI/CD, planning, security, quality and operations tooling. AI components include Hummingbird AI for generative pipeline summaries and analysis, and autonomous agents that monitor pipeline executions and developer activity to recommend optimizations, block insecure code, map vulnerabilities to Jira, and auto-patch OS images. Newer capabilities emphasize spec-driven development with persistent machine-readable context across the AI software development lifecycle and IDE/agent integrations for VS Code and GitHub Copilot.

Go-to-market

Opsera markets through its website with demo requests, published customer stories and blog content, and works through partnerships with GitHub, Microsoft, AWS and Databricks (including a Built on Databricks partnership). It maintains dedicated sales and partnerships leadership, and stated it would use Series B proceeds in part to strengthen strategic partnerships to accelerate AI and DevSecOps adoption.

Large enterprises, including Fortune 1000 and Fortune 2000 companies, with buyers spanning engineering/DevOps teams, IT teams (including Salesforce administrators and developers), data teams, security and compliance functions, and engineering leadership. Named or referenced customers include Qualys (CIO Brad Bell) and Cisco, plus unnamed Fortune 500 and global e-commerce customers cited in case studies.

Geography

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California; the Series B announcement was datelined San Francisco. Sources do not detail additional offices or regional operations.

History

Opsera raised early backing from Clear Ventures via a seed investment made roughly four and a half years before April 2025, followed by Series A and Series A+ rounds referenced by the company. In April 2025 it announced a $20 million Series B led by Prosperity7 with Hitachi Ventures joining and existing investors Clear Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Taiwania Capital and Alumni Ventures participating. Over the preceding year it signed partnerships with GitHub, Microsoft, AWS and Databricks, expanded Unified Insights with AI code-assistant analytics and a Leadership Dashboard, and shipped agentic AI capabilities including VS Code and GitHub Copilot extension agents. Its product positioning has since broadened from a unified DevOps platform to an AI-SDLC/agentic DevOps platform including the Forge and BrickForge products.

Risks & controversies

Sources contain inconsistent basic data: one report states Opsera was founded in 2020 while internal records indicate 2019, and press materials reference both opsera.io and opsera.ai domains. Performance figures such as 83% faster delivery, 90% vulnerability reduction, 3x developer productivity and 200% revenue growth are company-stated and not independently verified in the sources. No litigation, regulatory actions or controversies are reported in the material provided.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Claimed developer productivity improvementJan 20253 x
Claimed faster deliveryJan 202583%
Claimed vulnerability reductionJan 202590%
Customer-reported software delivery acceleration (Qualys)Apr 202580%
HeadcountAug 2026121
Native integrations (platform page)Jan 2025100 integrations
Native tool integrationsJan 2025150 integrations
Revenue growth since Series A+ roundApr 2025200%

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 10

by search overlap
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Harness328 shared keywordsHarness provides software delivery automation and infrastructure for engineering teams to deploy code reliably and efficiently. The platform serves the global software development market.
GitLab325 shared keywordsGitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that enables teams and AI agents to collaborate on the full software development lifecycle, from planning through deployment, with integrated security and compliance capabilities.
Spacelift320 shared keywordsSpacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that combines Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps pipelines, and an AI assistant to let developers provision and manage cloud infrastructure while platform teams retain governance and control. It is offered as managed SaaS, self-hosted, on-prem/air-gapped, and FedRAMP-authorized SaaS, targeting platform and infrastructure engineering teams.
Circleci230 shared keywordsCircleCI develops continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tooling that helps software development and developer-experience teams build, test, and ship code faster and more reliably. It serves engineering teams and businesses across the software delivery lifecycle.
Splunk201 shared keywordsSplunk offers a unified platform for security and observability that ingests and analyzes large-scale data across hybrid cloud environments. Its tools support security operations centers with analytics and automated response, and help teams monitor application and infrastructure performance.
Truera168 shared keywordsSnowflake is a fully managed cloud data platform that integrates data ingestion, processing, analysis, and AI application development across multiple cloud providers. It serves enterprise customers with unified security, governance, and infrastructure for building data and AI workloads.
Palo Alto Networks160 shared keywordsPalo Alto Networks provides cybersecurity platforms and services to protect organizations' digital infrastructure across cloud, network, and security operations. The company serves enterprise organizations, governments, financial institutions, utilities, and healthcare providers globally.
Datadog154 shared keywordsDatadog is a cloud-based monitoring and security platform that provides observability, analytics, and protection for infrastructure, applications, and data across enterprises. The platform serves development, security, and operations teams managing cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Companies competing with Opsera for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Apr 2025
Opsera raises $20M Series B led by Prosperity7

Opsera announced a $20 million Series B round led by Prosperity7 with participation from Hitachi Ventures and existing investors Clear Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Taiwania Capital and Alumni Ventures. Stated uses of funds: expanding Agentic AI capabilities, enhancing the Unified Insights platform, and strengthening strategic partnerships for AI and DevSecOps adoption.

$20M source ↗

Apr 2025
Industry partnerships signed with GitHub, Microsoft, AWS and Databricks

Opsera reported signing key industry partnerships with GitHub, Microsoft, AWS and Databricks, including a 'Built on Databricks' partnership bringing DevOps capabilities to DataOps, alongside expanded AI integrations with the GitHub ecosystem (GitHub Copilot, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security).

source ↗

Apr 2025
Unified Insights AI Code Assistant Insights and Leadership Dashboard

Opsera described new Unified Insights capabilities, including AI Code Assistant Insights measuring developer productivity and AI adoption, and a Leadership Dashboard providing real-time visibility into inner-loop and outer-loop activity, DORA metrics, DevEx insights and application security posture.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
OpseraDelaware

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Opsera do?
Opsera sells an AI-powered, no-code DevOps and DevSecOps orchestration platform for enterprise software delivery.
Who are Opsera's investors?
Opsera's investors include Clear Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Alumni Ventures, FPV, Hitachi Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Taiwania Capital.
How much funding has Opsera raised?
Opsera has disclosed $29.3M raised across 2 of its 3 known rounds.
Where is Opsera headquartered?
Opsera is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.