Resolve AI Inc., a startup with a platform that makes it easier to fix issues in production applications, has closed a $125 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation.

Lightspeed led the Series A investment. Resolve AI said in its announcement of the deal today that Greylock, Unusual Ventures, Artisanal Ventures and A* participated as well. The company previously raised $35 million from a consortium that included prominent artificial intelligence researchers Fei-Fei Li and Jeff Dean.

The root cause of an application outage isn’t always immediately apparent. Downtime can be caused by one of the application’s components, the external database in which it keeps information or the underlying hardware. Developers have to evaluate each possibility one by one, which can take a significant amount of time.

Resolve AI’s platform uses AI to speed up the task. The software identifies the potential causes of a malfunction and creates AI agents to investigate each one. Those agents work in parallel, which is faster than reviewing the potential root causes one after one another.

The platform collects the technical data necessary to carry out troubleshooting by connecting to a development team’s other tools. It can integrate with monitoring applications, code repositories, cybersecurity software and other sources of information. It also assembles the data points it collects into a regularly updated map of production applications’ components.

According to the company, its platform can not only find the root cause of a malfunction but also help developers fix it. The suggestions that the software generates vary based on the issue. If a container cluster goes offline, Resolve AI may generate commands that can be entered into kubectl, a tool that developers use to manage Kubernetes. The platform is also capable of generating configuration scripts and updates to application code.

Fixing outages isn’t the only use case supported by its platform. Engineers can use a built-in chatbot to study the architecture of an application environment and identify potential future situations that may cause it to experience issues. Furthermore, the platform identifies opportunities to reduce infrastructure costs.

Resolve AI will use the proceeds from its Series A round to grow its go-to-market team. In addition, the company plans to develop custom AI models that will enable its platform to automate more tasks for users.

“We’re pursuing closed-loop automation that will further accelerate the flywheel,” co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Mayank Agarwal wrote in a blog post. “We’re focusing on production operations end-to-end: root cause analysis, remediation, prevention, and containment.”

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