Radar · IT Operations in California
Best IT Operations Companies in California, United States
The 762 best IT Operations companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Cohesity.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
762companies tracked
$17.5Bdisclosed funding
18unicorns
389have raised
Ranked: Best IT Operations companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cohesity 🦄 Cloud and AI based enterprise data backup and management solutions | $810M | 27 mo ago | Series F | 2,270 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+35 | 341 patents Enterprise data backup, storage orchestration, and snapshot recovery technologies | 1 launch |
| 2 | Cribl 🦄 Cloud based big data preparation solution 76Tech top 16%Funding top 17%Moat top 25%Patents top 31% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 16% Fundingtop 17% Moattop 25% Patentstop 31% Talenttop 31% Producttop 33% Innovationtop 35% Globaltop 40% Markettop 43% Growthbottom 47% Newsbottom 44% Tech: 83 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $600M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 6 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $600M | 22 mo ago | Series E | 43 | ContentfulApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+39 | 34 patents Edge-based data collection and searchable observability pipelines for real-time event analytics | 1 award |
| 3 | Docker 🦄 Cloud based open source platform offering docker suite | $530M | 45 mo ago | Series E | 72 | WordPress Site EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+46 | — | — |
| 4 | Observe Provider of an AI-powered observation platform built on a streaming data lake | $382M | 12 mo ago | Acquired | 157 157 → 86 (-45%) | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+42 | 5 patents Automated ML analysis and visualization of interaction data for customer insight generation | — |
| 5 | BigPanda 🦄 Cloud based IT infrastructure monitoring software | $340M | 46 mo ago | Series E | 155 155 → 330 (+113%) | WordPressSentryAtlassian Statuspage+35 | 11 patents Automated incident detection, correlation, and remediation using unified network topology and AI | — |
| 6 | Kandji Cloud based platform offering mobile device management solutions | $288M | 23 mo ago | Series D | 335 | SentryAtlassian StatuspageApple iCloud Mail+38 | 18 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 7 | Clumio Platform offering cloud data security solution | $261M | 27 mo ago | Acquired | 126 | Apple iCloud MailSalesforceVercel+26 | 26 patents Cloud-based data backup, restoration, and time-series data lake integration services | — |
| 8 | Coralogix 🦄 Provider of a platform for unified systems, AI, and security observability 76Funding top 18%Tech top 24%Moat top 26%Market top 32% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% Techtop 24% Moattop 26% Markettop 32% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 40% Producttop 41% Globaltop 48% Growthtop 50% Newsbottom 31% Funding: Raised $238M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 11 yrs (0.5/yr) Tech: 69 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $238M | 12 mo ago | Series E | 245 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressSentry+45 | — | 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 9 | Infinera 🦄 Provider of networking, infrastructure, and communications solutions across various industries | $235M | 30 mo ago | Acquired | 1,314 | — | 1,459 patents Coherent optical transport, DWDM, Raman amplification, and advanced signal processing for fiber networks | — |
| 10 | Watershed 🦄 Provider of platform for enterprise sustainability programs, measurement, reporting, and action 78Funding top 18%Growth top 24%Moat top 25%Product top 28% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% Growthtop 24% Moattop 25% Producttop 28% Talenttop 28% Techtop 34% Newstop 38% Markettop 39% Patentstop 46% Innovationtop 47% Globaltop 49% Funding: Raised $170M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 5 yrs (0.8/yr) Growth: Headcount 11 → 225 (+1945%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100 | $170M | 5 mo ago | Series C | 225 | SanityTurbopackNode.js+25 | 31 patents Shear‑resistant geomembranes and waterproof modular bags for containment and protective applications | — |
| 11 | LogicMonitor Cloud based platform offering IT infrastructure monitoring software | $152M | 18 mo ago | Acquired | 279 | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+39 | 20 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 12 | ZEDEDA Provider of cloud-based edge virtualization software 72Funding top 22%Growth top 25%News top 30%Talent top 30% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 22% Growthtop 25% Newstop 30% Talenttop 30% Producttop 36% Techtop 40% Moattop 41% Markettop 47% Innovationtop 49% Patentsbottom 49% Globalbottom 47% Funding: Raised $130M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 8 yrs (0.6/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $130M | 17 mo ago | Series C | 99 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+34 | 3 patents Secure boot and remote attestation for air‑gapped edge computing devices | 1 launch · 2 partnerships |
| 13 | Serval 🦄 Developer of artificial intelligence agents for automated information technology workflows 80Funding top 18%AI top 30%Moat top 32%Tech top 34% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% AItop 30% Moattop 32% Techtop 34% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Markettop 44% Globalbottom 45% Funding: Raised $122M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $122M | 6 mo ago | Series B | — | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailThree.js+27 | — | 2 job openings · 1 launch |
| 14 | Cpacket Cloud based platform offering network monitoring solutions | $95M | 28 mo ago | Series C | 85 | — | — | — |
| 15 | GMI Cloud Provider of GPU cloud solutions for scalable AI and inference 57AI top 30%Tech top 33%Funding top 36%Growth top 40% All 11 signals ▾AItop 30% Techtop 33% Fundingtop 36% Growthtop 40% Newstop 46% Producttop 46% Innovationtop 48% Moattop 48% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 36% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence Tech: 42 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $93M | 19 mo ago | Series A | — | TurbopackApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | — | 1 launch |
| 16 | Coalesce Cloud based data pipeline development platform | $87M | 27 mo ago | Series B | 2 | WordPressSentryAtlassian Statuspage+30 | 5 patents Federated model aggregation for iterative ML and concept‑driven information retrieval | 1 launch |
| 17 | Spectro Cloud Provider of Kubernetes management platform simplifying multi-cluster deployment from edge to cloud | $68M | 18 mo ago | Series C | 144 | WebflowSentryApple iCloud Mail+29 | — | 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 18 | Axiamatic Provider of security co pilot solutions for early detection of execution risks and collection of feedback 45Funding top 23%Tech top 36%Moat top 38%Growth top 45% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% Techtop 36% Moattop 38% Growthtop 45% Talenttop 45% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 22% Funding: Raised $54.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) Tech: 36 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Ses rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $54M | 3 mo ago | Series B | — | WebflowSalesforceVimeo+23 | — | — |
| 19 | Orb Platform offering infrastructure monitoring solutions 57Talent top 28%Funding top 29%Tech top 30%Growth top 35% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 29% Techtop 30% Growthtop 35% Moattop 39% Marketbottom 34% Globalbottom 32% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $44.1M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 3 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $44M | 21 mo ago | Series B | 24 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+28 | — | — |
| 20 | Nova Intelligence Developer of an AI platform for SAP system management 72AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 29%Global bottom 48% All 4 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 29% Globalbottom 48% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $42M | 1 mo ago | Series A | — | — | — | 1 job opening |
| 21 | XperiencOps Provider of observability and automation solution for ITOps | $40M | 10 mo ago | Series C | — | WebflowApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+12 | — | — |
| 22 | PostHog 🦄 Cloud based product analytics tools 72Funding top 23%Tech top 23%Moat top 31%Growth top 35% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% Techtop 23% Moattop 31% Growthtop 35% Newstop 37% Talenttop 38% Partnerstop 41% Markettop 47% Globalbottom 36% Funding: Raised $39.0M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 6 yrs (1.2/yr) Tech: 56 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Ses rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $39M | 8 mo ago | Series E | 36 | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+29 | — | 1 launch |
| 23 | Resolve.ai 🦄 Provider of an AI platform for incident resolution and cost optimization 82News top 20%AI top 20%Funding top 25%Growth top 25% All 9 signals ▾Newstop 20% AItop 20% Fundingtop 25% Growthtop 25% Talenttop 28% Moattop 31% Techtop 38% Markettop 50% Globalbottom 37% News: 7 BI events in 12 mo (of 8 tracked, 2 types) · +600% YoY AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 82/100 | $35M | 2 mo ago | Series A | — | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+28 | — | 1 launch |
| 24 | incident.io Cloud based security and information management systems provider | $34M | 14 mo ago | Series B | 22 | SanityTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+32 | 7 patents Advanced sensor-based musical input interfaces and gesture detection technologies | — |
| 25 | Selector AI Developer of an AI-powered platform for network observability and automation | $33M | 3 mo ago | Series B | 35 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+33 | — | 2 launchs · 1 award |
| 26 | Fleet Device Management Provider of open-source software to manage data from devices | $25M | 13 mo ago | Series B | 46 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+30 | — | — |
| 27 | Luminai Artificial intelligence based platform offering internal workflow automation solutions 62Funding top 27%Growth top 28%News top 29%Tech top 35% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 27% Growthtop 28% Newstop 29% Techtop 35% Talenttop 38% Moattop 39% AItop 45% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 29% Funding: Raised $24.1M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 6 yrs (0.5/yr) Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $24M | 2 mo ago | Series B | 9 | WebflowThree.jsAmazon Web Services+17 | — | — |
| 28 | NeuBird Provider of agentic artificial intelligence for autonomous incident resolution solutions | $22M | 2 mo ago | Seed | — | WordPressMarkerMySQL+37 | 5 patents AI-driven dynamic query generation, schema management, and privacy for LLM data integration | 1 award |
| 29 | Sedai Provider of autonomous cloud management platform for cost optimization and performance 72AI top 8%Tech top 26%Funding top 30%Innovation top 34% All 11 signals ▾AItop 8% Techtop 26% Fundingtop 30% Innovationtop 34% Growthtop 35% Patentstop 37% Moattop 37% Talenttop 38% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 32% Newsbottom 18% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company Tech: 55 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Ses rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $19M | 1 mo ago | Series B | 19 | WebflowSentryWistia+38 | 15 patents Autonomous orchestration and management of distributed cloud and serverless computing systems | 2 launchs |
| 30 | Spin Systems Provider of SaaS security solutions protecting data from threats and risks 55Growth top 35%Tech top 36%Funding top 38%Moat top 39% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Techtop 36% Fundingtop 38% Moattop 39% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 39% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Tech: 38 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $18M | 3 mo ago | Series A | 67 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+34 | — | — |
| 31 | Observo Cloud and AI based log management software | $15M | 16 mo ago | Acquired | — | Webflow EcommerceWebflowKnockout.js+25 | — | — |
| 32 | Atomicwork AI based platform to streamline the IT service management and employee experience processes | $14M | 9 mo ago | Series A | 36 | WebflowGSAPAmazon Web Services+22 | — | — |
| 33 | OpenObserve Open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, and traces 40Tech top 31%Funding top 34%Growth top 35%Global bottom 29% All 5 signals ▾Techtop 31% Fundingtop 34% Growthtop 35% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 23% Tech: 35 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $10.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $10M | 1 mo ago | Series A | 8 | ZohoYouTubeVue.js+22 | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 34 | Sawmills Developer of an AI telemetry management platform for data optimization | $10M | 15 mo ago | Seed | — | WebflowEmotionAmazon Web Services+23 | — | 2 awards |
| 35 | RapidFort Cloud based platform offering patch management solutions 50News top 30%Funding top 35%Moat top 37%Talent top 38% All 10 signals ▾Newstop 30% Fundingtop 35% Moattop 37% Talenttop 38% Techtop 40% Innovationtop 41% Patentstop 43% Growthtop 45% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 35% News: 4 BI events in 12 mo (of 6 tracked, 3 types) · Top themes: Funding, Capital raise Funding: Raised $9.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $9M | 4 mo ago | Series A | 28 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+24 | 11 patents Instrumentation data acquisition and selection technologies for computer hardware systems | 1 award |
| 36 | Axiom Provider of observability and AI engineering platform for event data | $8M | 16 mo ago | Series B | 36 | Node.jsMonaco EditorRadix UI+23 | 17 patents Vehicle navigation systems and DOS‑resistant multicast communication protocols | 2 launchs |
| 37 | Deductive AI AI powered software solutions to automate debugging and root-cause analysis of software issues | $8M | 7 mo ago | Seed | — | WebflowGSAPAmazon Web Services+14 | — | — |
| 38 | Beacon Developer of software for automating enterprise implementation and support workflows | $7M | 15 mo ago | Series A | — | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+20 | 6 patents Laboratory pipette tip dispensing systems and meat‑processing bacon hanging apparatus | — |
| 39 | Respan Provider of an engineering platform for tracing, evaluating, and improving AI | $6M | 3 mo ago | Seed | — | TurbopackApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | — | 1 launch |
| 40 | Elotl Cloud native management controller to run enterprise applications | $5M | 10 mo ago | Seed | 10 | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 41 | SnippetSentry Provider of a mobile communications data security platform | $5M | 11 mo ago | Series A | 13 | — | — | — |
| 42 | SubImage Open source based cloud infrastructure visualization platform 16Funding top 39%Talent bottom 49%Tech bottom 40%Global bottom 33% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 39% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 40% Globalbottom 33% Marketbottom 25% Funding: Raised $4.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 16/100 | $5M | 6 mo ago | Seed | — | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailNode.js+11 | — | — |
| 43 | EP Analytics HPC experts providing performance analysis and optimization software and services | $5M | 14 mo ago | Funding Raised | 12 | — | 56 patents Distributed asynchronous data transfer and multi-view analytics visualization platforms | — |
| 44 | Nirmata Cloud based kubernetes security platform | $4M | 16 mo ago | Series A | 8 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+29 | 2 patents Optimizing performance tuning for microservices-based cloud applications | — |
| 45 | MilkStraw AI A cloud cost optimization platform that uses artificial intelligence to help companies manage AWS expenses 50Talent top 28%Growth top 35%AI top 45%Global top 45% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% AItop 45% Globaltop 45% Techtop 48% Fundingtop 50% Marketbottom 25% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $3M | 5 mo ago | Seed | — | Framer SitesTailwind CSSReact+12 | — | — |
| 46 | Dodge AI Provider of AI-based process intelligence for SAP agents automating CPG processes | $2M | 3 mo ago | Seed | — | TurbopackNode.jsTailwind CSS+16 | 6 patents Construction fastening hardware for wall sheathing, siding, and roof decking. | — |
| 47 | Evercycle Platform offering IT hardware lifecycle solutions for enterprises | $920K | 4 mo ago | Series A | 5 | WebflowAmazon Web Servicescore-js+18 | — | 1 launch |
| 48 | Risotto AI based platform offering automation for IT help desk | $500K | 4 mo ago | Seed | — | WebflowApple iCloud MailAmazon Web Services+21 | — | 2 launchs |
| 49 | Chamber Provider of GPU infrastructure optimization platform for machine learning teams | $500K | 5 mo ago | Seed | — | — | — | — |
| 50 | OpsLyft Platform offering cloud management software | $500K | 8 mo ago | Seed | 27 | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+16 | — | — |
Top 12 IT Operations companies in California
#1
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2019 · 225 employees$170.5Mraised▾
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2019 · 225 employees
Provider of platform for enterprise sustainability programs, measurement, reporting, and action. The platform offers tools for carbon accounting, emissions reduction, and sustainability disclosure preparation. It facilitates target setting and progress tracking toward decarbonization. The platform supports audit-grade data and methodologies vetted by third-party auditors.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 78how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 18%Growth
top 24%Moat
top 25%Product
top 28%Talent
top 28%Tech
top 34%Funding: Raised $170M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 5 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Series C (Dec 2025)
Growth: Headcount 11 → 225 (+1945%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 9/10 · IP moat: 31 patents · Unicorn
Audience (LinkedIn): 76k LinkedIn followers — 3.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
- Dec 2025Series C$14.5M
- Jun 2025Grant (prize money)$55K
- Feb 2024Series C$100.5M
- Feb 2022Series B$70M
Founders & team
Investors
Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Lowercarbon Capital, Greenoaks, Emerson Collective, Galvanize Climate Solutions
Tech stack
6SenseCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager
#2
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$42Mraised▾
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2024
Developer of an AI platform for SAP system management. The platform provides code intelligence, fit-to-standard analysis, and code creation. It offers documentation of objects, dependencies, and usage. The platform also checks requests against SAP provisions and implements clean-core extensions. It aims to reduce custom code and refactor to clean core for savings.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 72how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Talent
top 28%Funding
top 29%Global
bottom 48%AI: Classified as an AI company
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $42.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Seed (May 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: SAP engineers
Funding rounds
- May 2026Seed$8.5M
- Apr 2026Series A$33.5M
Founders & team
Investors
Chemistry VC, Accel, Conviction, SAP.iO, SAP
#3
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$35Mraised▾
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2024
Provider of an AI platform for incident resolution and cost optimization. The platform works across code, infrastructure, and telemetry. It participates in on-call rotations and autonomously investigates incidents. The platform builds initial theories, pursues multiple hypotheses, and validates evidence. It creates code snippets, drafts pull requests, and generates post-mortems. The platform also provides answers about code, services, infrastructure, and processes. It generates Git pull requests, kubectl commands, code fixes, and scripts.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 82how this company ranks against its industry peers
News
top 20%AI
top 20%Funding
top 25%Growth
top 25%Talent
top 28%Moat
top 31%News: 7 BI events in 12 mo (of 8 tracked, 2 types) · +600% YoY · 7 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $35.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series A (Apr 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 20k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series A$40M
- Dec 2025Series A$125M
- Oct 2024Seed$35M
Founders & team
Investors
Greylock Partners, Unusual Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Artisanal Ventures, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#4
Series B · Saratoga, California · founded 2021$54Mraised▾
Series B · Saratoga, California · founded 2021
Provider of security co pilot solutions for early detection of execution risks and collection of feedback. It is a technology company specialising in electronic controllers and power management converters. Offer a CISO Co-pilot solution that enables security teams to collect feedback from various stakeholders and channels to detect execution risks early.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 45how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 23%Tech
top 36%Moat
top 38%Growth
top 45%Talent
top 45%Global
bottom 29%Funding: Raised $54.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series B (Mar 2026)
Tech: 36 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Ses · Security: Cloudflare Bot Management, Hsts
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 4/10 · Soonicorn
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Series B$54M
Founders & team
Investors
Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGsapHsts
#5
Serval 🦄Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$122Mraised▾
Serval 🦄
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2024
Developer of artificial intelligence agents for automated information technology workflows. This platform provides tools for help desk request resolution, access management, and asset tracking. It enables the creation of automated processes through natural language descriptions, allowing for the management of user permissions and system configurations. The system integrates with existing communication channels and software tools to facilitate task execution and data synchronization across organizational infrastructure. It supports deployment options including cloud-hosted and self-hosted environments to accommodate various security and operational requirements.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 80how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 18%AI
top 30%Moat
top 32%Tech
top 34%Growth
top 35%Talent
top 38%Funding: Raised $122M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series B (Dec 2025)
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Moat: Unicorn · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 12k LinkedIn followers
Hiring (LinkedIn): 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Account Executive, Mid-Market
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Dec 2025Series B$75M
- Oct 2025Series A$47M
Founders & team
Investors
Redpoint Ventures, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, BoxGroup, Bessemer Venture Partners, Chemistry VC
Tech stack
AceAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCdnjs
#6
Series B · San Mateo, California · founded 2019 · 9 employees$24.1Mraised▾
Series B · San Mateo, California · founded 2019 · 9 employees
Artificial intelligence based platform offering internal workflow automation solutions. It also assists users in creating multi-click processes and eliminates repetitive tasks.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 62how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 27%Growth
top 28%News
top 29%Tech
top 35%Talent
top 38%Moat
top 39%Funding: Raised $24.1M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 6 yrs (0.5/yr) · Last round Series B (Apr 2026)
Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
News: 3 BI events in 12 mo (of 4 tracked, 2 types) · Top themes: Funding, Capital raise
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series B$38M
- Mar 2022Series A$20.7M
- Oct 2020Seed$3.4M
- Aug 2020Seed—
Founders & team
Investors
Unshackled Ventures, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, Underscore VC, Moxxie Ventures, General Catalyst
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesGoogle WorkspaceHstsNext.JsNext.Js App RouterNode.Js
#7
Acquired · San Mateo, California · founded 2017 · 157 employees$382Mraised▾
Acquired · San Mateo, California · founded 2017 · 157 employees
Provider of an AI-powered observation platform built on a streaming data lake. The platform structures logs, metrics, and traces as entities with semantic relationships. It offers a real-time ingest pipeline to filter and enrich signals. The platform includes logs, metrics, services, Kubernetes, and LLM Explorers. It delivers application performance and infrastructure monitoring, log management, and analytics.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 16k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- May 2025Series C$156M
- Feb 2024Series B$145M
- Oct 2023Series A$50M
- May 2022Conventional Debt$70M
Founders & team
Investors
Sutter Hill Ventures, Madrona, Capital One Ventures, Capital One, Snowflake, Evolution Equity Partners
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementElastic ApmElasticsearch
#8
Seed · Redwood City, California · founded 2023$22Mraised▾
Seed · Redwood City, California · founded 2023
Provider of agentic artificial intelligence for autonomous incident resolution solutions. It offers tools that analyze IT environments to identify and investigate issues. It correlates signals from monitoring tools and telemetry sources to determine root causes. The platform provides actionable remediation actions.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 21k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Seed$19.3M
- Dec 2024Seed$22.5M
- Apr 2024Seed$22M
Founders & team
Investors
Mayfield, M12, Prosperity7 Ventures, StepStone Group, Xora Innovation
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAosAstroCdnjs
#9
Series B · Pleasanton, California · founded 2018 · 19 employees$18.7Mraised▾
Series B · Pleasanton, California · founded 2018 · 19 employees
Provider of autonomous cloud management platform for cost optimization and performance. The platform offers autonomous optimization, remediation, and release intelligence. It provides multi-cloud support across Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and GCP. The platform delivers solutions for cloud cost optimization, application performance, availability improvement, and ops productivity.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 72how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 8%Tech
top 26%Funding
top 30%Innovation
top 34%Growth
top 35%Patents
top 37%AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company
Tech: 55 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Ses · Observability: Microsoft Clarity, Sentry
Funding: Raised $18.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) · Last round Series B (Apr 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 5k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series B—
- Jun 2025Series B$20M
- Mar 2022Series A$15M
Founders & team
Investors
Sierra Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Norwest, AVP, In-Q-Tel
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAmplitudeCalendlyCdnjs
#10
Series B · Santa Clara, California · founded 2019 · 35 employees$33Mraised▾
Series B · Santa Clara, California · founded 2019 · 35 employees
Developer of an AI-powered platform for network observability and automation. The platform unifies data and automates insights to simplify operations. It offers capabilities such as correlation, root cause analysis, digital twin, and copilot features. The platform provides full-stack observability, infrastructure observability, and network observability. It serves industries including telecom, financial services, healthcare, and retail.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 17k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 product launches · 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Feb 2026Series B$32M
- Nov 2024Series B$33M
- Mar 2022Series A$28M
Founders & team
Investors
Two Bear Capital, SineWave Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, Ansa, AT&T, Hyperlink Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementElementorGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle WorkspaceHubspot
#11
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2014 · 245 employees$238Mraised▾
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2014 · 245 employees
Provider of a platform for unified systems, AI, and security observability. The platform offers real-time analytics, cross-stack dashboards, and cost optimization tools. It features capabilities such as remote querying, infinite retention, and in-stream analysis. The platform also provides features like AI discovery, AI observability, and AI security and compliance.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 76how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 18%Tech
top 24%Moat
top 26%Market
top 32%Talent
top 38%Innovation
top 40%Funding: Raised $238M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 11 yrs (0.5/yr) · Last round Series E (Jun 2025)
Tech: 69 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Observability: Sentry
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Unicorn · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 54k LinkedIn followers — 2.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. Morrons HQ in Bradford) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jun 2025Series E$115M
- Jun 2022Series D$142M
- Jul 2021Series C$55M
- Sep 2020Series B$25M
Founders & team
Investors
Red Dot Capital Partners, Aleph, StageOne Ventures, 2B Angels, Joule Ventures, O.G. Venture Partners
Tech stack
AddtoanyAddtoany Share ButtonsAdrollAdroll Cmp SystemAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3
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Series A · Palo Alto, California · founded 2017 · 67 employees$18Mraised▾
Series A · Palo Alto, California · founded 2017 · 67 employees
Provider of SaaS security solutions protecting data from threats and risks. The company offers a platform that provides security posture management, ransomware detection and response, and data loss prevention. It delivers tools for risk assessment, misconfiguration management, and insider threat protection. The platform integrates with applications to provide security for professionals.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 35%Tech
top 36%Funding
top 38%Moat
top 39%Talent
bottom 49%Market
bottom 45%Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 38 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront · Devops: Nginx
Funding: Raised $18.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Series A (Mar 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 5k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Series A—
- Aug 2022Series A$16.1M
- Dec 2018Seed$1.5M
- Sep 2017Seed$500K
Founders & team
Investors
Blueprint Equity, Santa Barbara Venture Partners, Blu Venture Investors, Andreessen Horowitz, AVentures Capital, bValue Fund
Tech stack
All In One SeoAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
Funding & investor landscape
$17.5Btotal disclosed funding
376companies funded
1,068disclosed rounds
6rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Accel22 rounds
Notable founders
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Co-Founder · Watershed
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Co-Founder · Nova Intelligence
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Co-Founder & CTO · Axiamatic
Rajiv Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO · Axiamatic
Alex McLeod
Co-Founder & CTO · Serval
Jake Stauch
Co-Founder & CEO · Serval
Dmitry Dolgopolov
Co-Founder · Luminai
Kesava Dinakaran
Co-Founder & CEO · Luminai
Jacob Leverich
Co-Founder · Observe
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 10,028,795 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of IT Operations coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
Common questions
How many IT Operations companies are there in California, United States?
Radar tracks 762 indexable IT Operations companies headquartered in California, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by IT Operations companies in California, United States?
The IT Operations companies in California, United States on this list have raised a combined $17.5B in disclosed equity funding across 376 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded IT Operations company in California, United States?
Cohesity is the highest-funded IT Operations company in California, United States, with $810M in disclosed equity funding.
How many IT Operations companies in California, United States are funded?
376 of the 762 IT Operations companies in California, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many IT Operations unicorns are there in California, United States?
18 IT Operations companies in California, United States on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in California, United States IT Operations companies?
The most active investors in California, United States IT Operations companies on this list include Y Combinator, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Mayfield.
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