SuperPlane, the pioneer behind the first open-source control plane explicitly architected for AI-native platform engineering, today announced its formal launch alongside a $2.6 million pre-seed funding round.
The capital injection will be used to accelerate core product engineering, expand its open-source developer community under the Apache 2.0 license, and deepen collaboration with prominent enterprise design partners—including data streaming giant Confluent—ahead of a highly anticipated hosted cloud platform release scheduled for Q2 2026.
The oversubscribed investment round was led by Credo Ventures, a venture firm specializing in backing world-class founders with ties to Central and Eastern Europe. The round also saw strategic participation from First Momentum Ventures, alongside an elite roster of technology angel investors including:
Stanislas Polu (CEO of Dust)
Mirko Novakovic (CEO of Dash0)
Tomas Kratky (Founder of Manta)
Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital)
The Production Bottleneck of the Agentic AI Era
While generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally revolutionized the speed of software creation, the day-to-day operation of live production systems has remained stubbornly manual. Development teams are now shipping code at a velocity and volume that would have been unimaginable just two years ago. However, the downstream DevOps workflows required to keep digital infrastructure online—such as continuous deployments, complex infrastructure changes, live incident response, multi-stage approvals, and cross-functional operations—remain fragmented.
This structural friction has quietly become the defining bottleneck of the modern enterprise. Code can be auto-generated instantly, but deploying it safely still requires significant human oversight, manual checks, or high-stress troubleshooting by on-call site reliability engineers (SREs).
The primary barrier preventing AI from managing this operational layer is a fundamental lack of systemic trust. Infrastructure leaders recognize that a single rogue autonomous agent executing an unvalidated command could instantly compromise an entire corporate database or take down critical consumer services. Consequently, rather than granting autonomous AI agents unmonitored access to infrastructure, modern engineering organizations require a deterministic, highly secure platform where human engineers and intelligent agents can seamlessly collaborate.
SuperPlane: A Control Plane Engineered for Guardrailed Automation
SuperPlane solves this critical infrastructure vulnerability by delivering an open-source, AI-first control plane optimized for event-driven workflows. Sitting directly on top of an enterprise’s existing DevOps and platform engineering tooling stack, SuperPlane provides an isolated, deterministic environment where teams can design, execute, and rigorously audit production-level infrastructure changes.
The platform introduces a highly deliberate, two-tier operational model:
AI Generation: Intelligent agents parse operational goals and generate fully structured, deterministic workflows.
Human Verification: Senior engineers review, modify, inspect, and manually approve the generated action plans before execution.
By serving as a strict orchestration layer, SuperPlane ensures that critical production infrastructure is never manipulated directly by unverified agent code. Instead, all automated tasks are governed by strict guardrails, explicit compliance policies, and real-time observability frameworks.
In the same manner that GitHub made asynchronous code collaboration legible and secure across global engineering teams, SuperPlane is standardizing operational workflows—transforming the tribal knowledge buried in the heads of senior platform engineers into executable, auditable, and scalable code.
Democratizing Platform Assembly: Move Over, Fragmented Vendor Stacks
Beyond enforcing guardrails on AI agents, SuperPlane is driving a major shift in how internal developer platforms (IDPs) are assembled. Historically, DevOps teams have been forced to manually stitch together ten to fifteen disparate vendor platforms—spanning public cloud providers, monitoring tools, alerting engines, and databases—resulting in brittle internal infrastructure that requires constant upkeep.
SuperPlane introduces a unified alternative. By simply describing a desired platform outcome in natural language, engineers can leverage SuperPlane to instantly assemble bespoke developer platforms. The control plane boasts more than 400 pre-built components and deep API integrations across the entire modern technology ecosystem:
Public Cloud Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Code Repositories & Version Control: GitHub, GitLab
Communications & Alerting: Slack, PagerDuty
System Observability & Monitoring: Datadog, Dash0
Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models: OpenAI, Anthropic
This micro-component architecture allows teams to build custom incident management systems, automated deployment pipelines, and cross-functional enterprise automations in minutes rather than months. As a result, the day-to-day role of the DevOps specialist evolves from manual configuration maintenance to high-level system orchestration, supervised automation, and architectural governance.
Rooted in Enterprise Experience and Open Source Principles
SuperPlane is deliberately optimized for complex, highly fragmented cloud environments where the operational cost of infrastructure failure is catastrophic. To ensure the platform meets the rigorous demands of large-scale production environments, SuperPlane has partnered with Confluent as its lead design partner, refining its control plane mechanics against massive real-world data pipelines. The team is also currently in active deployment discussions with over 100 enterprise organizations.
The founding team behind SuperPlane brings over a decade of developer tooling experience to this launch. Co-founders Darko Fabijan (CEO) and Marko Anastasov (CPO) previously engineered Semaphore, a highly successful continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) platform used by major software organizations like Confluent, Replit, and Superhuman. Backed by a dedicated core team of nine infrastructure specialists, the founders are focused on expanding the open-source ecosystem while laying the foundation for their managed enterprise cloud tier.
"AI is fundamentally rewriting how software gets built, but it has not yet changed how production environments are run," explained Darko Fabijan, CEO of SuperPlane. "As AI-generated code exponentially increases the speed and sheer volume of software changes, organizations cannot rely on manual coordination or tribal knowledge to maintain uptime. The future of operations demands supervised automation through deterministic systems that engineers can implicitly trust. SuperPlane provides that missing operational layer, allowing engineering teams to capture the velocity of AI without sacrificing infrastructure safety."
Strong Investor Conviction in the Next Evolution of DevOps
The investment community views SuperPlane as a critical link required to unlock the true economic potential of agentic AI within the global software economy. Commenting on the investment, Matej Micek, Tech Partner at Credo Ventures, stated:
"At Credo, our core mandate is to back the absolute best founders with deep roots in Central and Eastern Europe, no matter where they operate globally. Darko and Marko demonstrated world-class infrastructure expertise when building Semaphore and scaling it to elite clients like Confluent and Superhuman. While we are currently experiencing a massive shift in how software code is authored, the underlying DevOps and infrastructure layer has yet to evolve. We are entirely convinced that this team has been operating at the absolute state-of-the-art long enough to make secure agentic operations a reality."
Echoing this enthusiasm for systemic engineering modernization, Christian Neumann, Principal at First Momentum, added:
"We are actively looking for forward-thinking startups that are constructing the exact infrastructure layer required to safely deploy AI-generated software at scale, and SuperPlane represents exactly the type of platform we envisioned. Their open-source control plane hands DevOps organizations the necessary guardrails and structural confidence to safely ship ten times the volume of code they could before. This is not a minor, incremental improvement—it is a massive step-change in how global enterprise software is delivered."
