Hyground Raises €3M Pre-Seed Round Fueling our Ambitions to Redefine Enterprise IT Operations

Hyground has closed a €3 million pre-seed funding round backed by Partech, Adesso Ventures, Angel Invest, and Plug and Play. The round will accelerate the development of Hyground's Sovereign SRE Agent, an AI system that runs entirely within a customer's own infrastructure and gives every engineer on a team the investigative depth of a seasoned senior SRE.

The announcement comes at KubeCon Amsterdam, a community at the forefront of the infrastructure challenges the company was built to solve.

The $400 billion problem hiding in plain sight

Picture a customer mid-checkout on an online store. Cart full, ready to pay. The page goes blank. Items vanish. Within seconds, trust and revenue are gone.

High-profile outages like this are only the visible tip. Modern production systems constantly experience smaller incidents, degradations, and silent failures beneath the surface that collectively cost the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars every year.

The root cause is structural. Modern infrastructure generates enormous volumes of logs, metrics, traces, and events across fragmented tools and systems. Observability platforms surface this data but stop short of solving the problem. Someone still has to correlate the signals, navigate the dashboards, and diagnose the issue under pressure. That process is slow, complex, and entirely dependent on whoever in the building holds the most context.

Operational knowledge accumulates in people, not systems. When those people are unavailable, teams grind to a halt. The alert fires. The engineer who truly understands the system is unreachable. Everyone else is stuck at "something is wrong" without a path to "why." An investigation that should take twenty minutes takes five hours.

Hyground was built to close that gap.

What Hyground does

Hyground is a Sovereign SRE Agent. It runs inside a customer's own Kubernetes cluster, connects to their existing observability stack, and delivers the same investigative depth as the most experienced engineer on the team to every engineer, around the clock.

When an alert fires, Hyground begins its investigation automatically. By the time an engineer checks their phone, the diagnosis is already running. The system correlates signals across Kubernetes events, Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, CI/CD pipelines, deployment history, and internal documentation. It returns not more data to interpret, but a clear answer: what happened, why it happened, and what to do next.

The platform captures operational patterns and institutional knowledge that typically reside with senior engineers and makes them accessible across the organisation. During incidents it provides structured root cause analysis and recommended remediation steps. Between incidents it automates the repetitive investigative work that consumes a disproportionate share of SRE time every day.

Built for sovereignty and enterprise trust

Most AIOps products require organisations to send logs, metrics, and traces to a third-party cloud. For regulated industries, critical infrastructure, and public sector organisations, that is not an option.

Hyground is self-hosted by default and fully air-gapped where required. It integrates natively with existing infrastructure without architectural changes, operates independently of any specific vendor or tooling ecosystem, and keeps all operational data inside the customer's perimeter.

Beyond incident response

Incident response is where Hyground earns its place on day one. The scope goes further.

By connecting to virtually every relevant data source across a production environment, Hyground becomes a continuous intelligence layer for IT operations. Teams can automate the repetitive groundwork that consumes up to 70% of SRE time, turning manual analysis into scheduled or event-driven workflows. This covers cost monitoring, resource optimisation, security operations, and performance analysis across environments. As operational data becomes unified and continuously analysed, the range of what can be automated keeps expanding.

Proven in production

Hyground is already in production at Deutsche Bahn and ifm, a leading German automation company. Both run complex, high-availability systems where downtime carries direct operational and financial consequences. Incident resolution times have dropped by up to 80%.

Engineers previously spending hours resolving incidents are now closing them in minutes. Platform teams buried in support tickets are seeing self-service rates climb. Organisations where a single senior engineer was a critical knowledge dependency are building operational resilience that no longer depends on any one person being available.

"Hyground runs your software operations so that you can run your business. Our goal is to give every company a virtual SRE team that continuously understands their systems and resolves operational issues before they become downtime."
Dominik Rehbock, CEO of Hyground

What the funding enables

Three million euros is enough to build something serious. The investment from Partech, Adesso Ventures, Angel Invest, and Plug and Play confirms what Hyground has believed from the start: the market for sovereign, enterprise-grade AI operations tooling is real and underserved.

The funding accelerates work already underway: deepening the agent's investigative and autonomous capabilities, expanding beyond incident resolution into FinOps and SecOps, and building the integrations that make Hyground native to the environments enterprise customers already run.

What comes next

Hyground is at KubeCon Amsterdam this week. For the SREs, platform engineers, engineering managers, and CTOs living with these challenges every day, come find the team.

With this round closed, Hyground is doubling down on autonomous operations: more agentic, more proactive, working toward a future where AI handles the full operational lifecycle so engineering teams can focus on building.

The €3M gives Hyground the runway to turn production proof into something repeatable and scalable for enterprises across Europe and beyond. Operational knowledge should not live in people's heads. It should be institutional, available, and reliable for every engineer, at any hour. That is what Hyground is building.

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