The French start-up is developing a platform intended to centralize and organize infrastructure data, an essential prerequisite for automating IT systems and deploying reliable AI agents.
The French start-up OpsMill announced this Thursday a fundraising of 12 million euros in Series A, led by the European investment fund IRIS, with the participation of BGV and historical investors Serena and Partech. This should enable it to accelerate its development, while the market in which it operates,AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT operations), today weighs 2.67 billion dollars (2.27 billion euros), according to Fortune Business Insights. OpsMill intends in particular to increase its presence in Europe and North America, strengthen its engineering and product teams and develop its solutions.
Automate the network infrastructures of large companies
OpsMill has been marketing the Infrahub tool for 18 months, intended for large companies wishing to automate their network infrastructure. The rise of enterprise AI, growing governance and compliance requirements, and network modernization have caused demand to explode, tripling since 2023, according to the company.
There start-up addresses a major problem. Most of the time, large companies store their data in the cloud using general IT solutions. But the recent explosion in data volume has made these options obsolete. Scattered and disorganized, the information cannot be used by artificial intelligence. In this context, automation can cause errors with potentially catastrophic consequences: average cost of infrastructure interruption reaches $300,000 per hour for large companies, not to mention the lasting consequences on their business and reputation.
“Automation is above all a data problem: if you only have a partial view of your network, you are moving forward blindly,” explains Damien Garros, co-founder and CEO of OpsMill. “We built Infrahub so that infrastructure teams and the AI agents who work alongside them always have a complete and reliable repository of what exists, what should exist, as well as a way to evaluate it securely, at scale.”
The “Knowledge Graph”, the keystone of autonomous AI
Artificial intelligence needs a lot of context to perform well. To meet this need, Infrahub centralizes technical and business data within a “Knowledge Graph”, structured by precise ontologies. “We expose this data via advanced query interfaces and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, which allows AI agents to directly access this knowledge,” explains Damien Garros. Thus, agents are able to make adapted decisions autonomously, if necessary, even in complex environments. As the manager explains, the challenge is not to write the code, but to trust it in production.
Around fifteen large companies already use the solutions offered by Opsmill. Among these, we find in particular TikTok which uses the free and open source version of Infrahub, called “Community”, to manage its global content distribution network. This would have allowed the social network to reduce the time to deploy a new site from several weeks to a few days.
The OpsMill solution is also offered in a paid version, under license. Called “Enterprise”, it offers an increased level of service in terms of security, governance and compliance. It has been adopted by players in the distribution, insurance, industry and fintech sectors, both in Europe and in North America. Eurofiber, a European cloud service provider, has, according to OpsMill, reduced its service deployment times from five days to just fifteen minutes since the adoption of Infrahub. As Damien Garros explains, “more and more customers are realizing that this is essential and that this will allow them to use AI efficiently and safely.”
