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Shortlist companies and funds tagged Developer Tools in our directory. This hub is a sector cut, not a complete market census. Search every startup from /startups or open the investor list.

Startups in this sector

Showing 12 of 184 matched profiles.

  • Oppex AI

    AI SRE and on-call product Nova with automatic investigation, incident response and guarded remediation.

  • WhyLabs

    AI model performance monitoring, data quality observability and monitoring for generative AI systems.

  • Protect AI

    AI supply chain, model scanning and runtime-security platform acquired by Palo Alto Networks in July 2025.

  • Lakera

    AI runtime security and prompt-injection defense company, acquired by Check Point in October 2025.

  • Giskard

    Open-source and enterprise testing platform for LLM applications, including quality, bias and adversarial security checks.

  • Galileo

    Generative AI evaluation and monitoring platform; acquired by Cisco in April 2026.

  • Langfuse

    Developer-oriented LLM and AI agent tracing, prompt management and evaluations; acquired by ClickHouse in January 2026.

  • Arize AI

    AI observability, LLM evaluations and Phoenix tracing for production models and agents.

  • Komodor

    Kubernetes troubleshooting and operations platform with AI assistant Klaudia for cluster and workload incidents.

  • Causely

    Causal AI platform for Kubernetes and cloud-native root cause analysis.

  • NeuBird AI

    AI operations and SRE platform with Hawkeye for diagnosing enterprise infrastructure issues using existing telemetry.

  • Rootly

    Incident-response and on-call platform with an AI SRE product for investigation and postmortem workflows.

Investors in this sector

Showing 12 of 19 matched funds.

  • Active Capital

    San Antonio pre-seed venture firm founded in 2017 by entrepreneur Pat Matthews (ex-Webmail.us / Rackspace). Backs technical founders building AI-native enterprise software and cloud infrastructure. Typical checks $100K–$1M with ability to follow; closed Fund III at $28M+ (2025). HQ at 110 E Houston St, San Antonio, TX; also invests nationally from a Texas base.

  • ANIMO Ventures

    Seed-stage firm investing $500K–$2.5M in U.S. companies from ideation through early traction, with a focus on developer tools, productivity software, and marketplace businesses. Known portfolio includes WorkOS and The Browser Company.

  • Decibel

    Early-stage venture firm investing in essential software for engineering, cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity teams. Led Dreadnode's $14M Series A in February 2025; portfolio also includes developer and security infrastructure companies.

  • DIG Ventures

    London-based early-stage venture firm founded by MuleSoft creator Ross Mason. DIG Ventures backs pre-seed and seed B2B software companies, with Fund III focused on enterprise AI, cloud and the infrastructure layer supporting AI-native businesses across Europe and Israel.

  • Essence Venture Capital

    Early-stage venture investor with a focus on enterprise software, data infrastructure and developer tools. Reported among Fiddler AI's 2024 financing investors by independent funding databases; the individual allocation was not disclosed.

  • focal

    focal is an AI-native venture firm focused on leading inception and pre-seed rounds, commonly with initial investments from $500,000 to $3 million. It participated in doxx.net's $38 million Series A.

  • Foundry

    Boulder, Colorado network-driven venture firm (foundry.vc; historically Foundry Group) founded in 2007 by Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. Invests in early-stage technology companies and early-stage venture funds. HQ commonly listed in Boulder (e.g. Walnut Street). Public materials describe Foundry 2022 as a $500M fund and the firm’s final fund while partners continue deploying and supporting the portfolio.

  • Gradient Ventures

    Google-backed venture firm investing in early-stage AI founders and enterprise applications. Participated in Rootly's August 2023 $12M Series A for incident management software.

  • Hanabi Capital

    Venture investor in AI, software infrastructure, open source and developer tools, with Mike Volpi and Bryan Offutt among its investing partners. Listed among Traversal's 2025 seed/Series A investors; investments also include LiveKit and other infrastructure companies.

  • Intel Capital

    Corporate venture investor backing computing, semiconductor, enterprise software and deep-technology companies. Intel Capital joined CScale as a strategic investor in 2026.

  • Kindred Ventures

    Kindred Ventures is an early-stage venture firm backing technology companies, including artificial intelligence, infrastructure and robotics.

  • Kleiner Perkins

    Silicon Valley venture firm founded in 1972, investing from seed to growth in enterprise infrastructure, consumer technology and AI. It led Traversal's Series A component of its $48M combined 2025 raise and co-led Traversal's $120M November 2026 Series B.