CUE Labs Secures Over $10M In Early-Stage Funding

The funding round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and OSS Capital, with participation from Founders Fund, Dell Technologies Capital, and several prominent angel investors.

CUE Labs will use the investment to scale its operations and accelerate product development.

Founded by Marcel van Lohuizen and Paul Jolly, CUE Labs is the creator of CUE an open-source configuration language that simplifies complex software systems.

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Its central Configuration Control Plane transforms configuration from a source of risk into one of reliability, enabling organizations to understand, audit, and validate data across build-time and runtime. CUE is trusted by global enterprises in cloud infrastructure, networking, and space technology.

CUE’s declarative configuration language is gaining adoption among major organizations like Microsoft, Fastly, Alibaba, Elastic, Mercari, and Docomo, spanning industries such as e-commerce, cloud, telecom, IoT and energy.

With its Configuration Control Plane, teams can manage, audit, and validate all data from build-time to runtime while understanding the full impact of every configuration change in advance. Its first component, the Central Registry, is already live, offering a library of verified schemas for secure, reusable module sharing across teams and environments.

Founded in 2022, CUE Labs is the company behind the CUE open-source project, created to bring order to configuration chaos. By unifying configurations across systems and teams, CUE Labs helps developers manage complexity, ensure reliability, and keep software running as intended simply, consistently, and at scale.