DevOps orchestration platform provider Opsera Inc. today announced it raised had $12 million in a funding round and introduced Hummingbird AI, a new generative artificial intelligence solution that provides unified insights into developer experience and productivity across the software lifecycle.

The Series A Plus funding round was led by Taiwania Capital with participation from existing investors Clear Ventures, Felicis and others. Including the company’s $15 million Series A in April 2021, it raises the total raised by Opsera to $31.3 million.

Opsera provides a platform that allows enterprise customers to enhance software delivery capabilities through a unified DevOps platform allows them to bring the entire lifecycle for software from development, testing, staging and deployment all under a single interface. It offers features such as a self-service catalog of capabilities that allow developers to register tools, integrate with services and supports a large number of clouds, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Today’s funding will be used to fuel the development and growth of Hummingbird AI, a tool that the company calls a “generative AI DevOps expert,” which can provide critical insights across the entire software development lifecycle by having a holistic view of data and toolchains.

The new AI can offer recommendations and analysis and insights based on what’s happening currently in the software development process. For example, if there is a bottleneck because a piece of software continuously fails a particular test, it can offer remediation strategies for getting it through the testing process. That can include removing a particular module or looking into a different piece of code that worked during previous testing.

The summaries produced by the AI are human-readable and easier to understand than branching lines of error code that need to be tediously examined line by line. Additionally, machine learning capabilities with MLOps orchestration will make cloud deployment faster and more secure across multicloud operations, and provide better visibility with efficacy scoring and bias detection. Security scorecards and recommendations will also be able to improve overall security efforts for organizations.

“With Hummingbird AI, users from across the organization will be able to improve efficiency, security and quality even more and have critical insights right at their fingertips with a 100% shift-left approach,” said Kumar Chivukula, co-founder and chief executive of Opsera.

Chivukula added that in internal surveys, Opsera users shipped code 80% faster and improved both security and quality posture by 60% using the platform.

Opsera operates in an extremely crowded market with numerous companies offering similar DevOps platform solutions. The market was valued at $8.9 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $10.9 in 2023 with an estimated value of $57.9 billion by 2030, according to a report from Templeton and Partners.

With the addition of a generative AI solution that can summarize pipeline anomalies, make recommendations, automatically identify and remediate issues and do so in a human-readable format, Opsera is hoping to provide a bigger-picture account of what’s happening in the software lifecycle.

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