Paris-Based Qovery Raises €11.3M In Series A Round

The round was led by IRIS and included Speedinvest, Crane Venture Partners, Techstars, Irregular Expressions, and notable angel investors such as Datadog Co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc, Docker Co-founder Sebastian Pahl, and Checkout.com CTO Ott Kaukver (former Twilio CTO), who also joins the board. All previous Seed investors participated in the Series A.

Romaric Philogène, Co-founder and CEO of Qovery, said: “Software companies face a difficult trade-off: either build an expensive and slow-to-scale in-house DevOps team, or depend on external consultants at the cost of autonomy and flexibility. Qovery solves this by enabling organisations to ship products faster, at lower cost, while letting developers spend more time coding and less time managing the cloud infrastructure.

“Our platform can be installed in just five minutes, delivering the output of four to five DevOps engineers – roles that typically take six to twelve months to hire and onboard. That’s the kind of leverage our customers need in today’s market.”

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Qovery’s €11.3 million Series A places it among notable European infrastructure and engineering-productivity investments in 2025. French startup Cycloid raised €5M to grow its sustainable platform engineering, while Paris-based Alpic secured €5.1M for an MCP-native cloud platform.

In other European deals, Belfast-based Cloudsmith raised €21.9M in a Series B to grow its cloud-native artifact management, while Helsinki’s Swarmia secured €10M to expand its engineering productivity platform. Qovery’s €11.3M Series A, one of the bigger early-stage rounds, underscores strong investor interest in tools that make cloud deployment easier and help developers work more efficiently.

Anaïs Monlong, Venture Principal at IRIS: “As software and cloud growth continues to accelerate, the need for simple solutions to manage increasingly complex deployment infrastructures has become prevalent, and is further heightened by a DevOps talent shortage.

“In addition, as cloud providers continue to differentiate themselves, and migration between cloud providers or between on premise and cloud is increasingly attractive to companies, Qovery’s solution stands out as a platform that can provide simple automation, flexibility and speed at scale to manage such operations, with stellar customer experience. Companies can therefore focus on building products without struggling with architecture. We’re excited to support the team as they expand globally and set a new standard for DevOps automation.”

Launched in 2020, Qovery is a DevOps automation platform designed to address the global shortage of skilled DevOps engineers. By simplifying deployment and infrastructure management, it allows existing teams to focus on high-value tasks while tackling the rising complexity and costs of cloud operations.

The tech talent gap remains a major challenge, with deployments in the UK in 2024 reportedly 26% more likely to be delayed than delivered early. Cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure offer vast services but are difficult to manage, particularly in multi-cloud or migration scenarios. Kubernetes automates deployment but remains challenging for many teams.

Qovery automates the full lifecycle of application deployment and infrastructure management across clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway) and on-premise Kubernetes environments. Teams retain visibility and cost control, avoiding vendor lock-in common with PaaS solutions. Setup times drop from weeks or months to as little as one day, with installation taking just five minutes and minimal DevOps expertise.

Customers report 3× DevOps efficiency, faster deployments, and reduced need for additional resources. Once operational, Qovery enables hundreds to thousands of releases per day, accelerating product cycles while maintaining compliance, security, and operational control.

Alexis Lê-Quôc, Co-founder and CTO of Datadog: “Having built Datadog, I know how challenging it can be to scale software without DevOps becoming a bottleneck. Qovery’s approach resonated with me immediately because it addresses a pain point I’ve personally experienced. I believe it will change how engineering teams everywhere deploy software.”

Qovery is expanding rapidly, growing 115% year-over-year, serving hundreds of clients and thousands of users. Around half of its business comes from the US, with notable customers including Talkspace and RxVantage.

About Qovery

Founded in 2020, Qovery is a DevOps automation platform that simplifies cloud deployment and infrastructure management across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes environments. By automating the entire application lifecycle, it empowers development teams to increase efficiency, accelerate release cycles and focus on strategic tasks without requiring extensive DevOps expertise.