AI startup Ciroos emerges from stealth with $21M to bring AI “teammates” to ops teams

Ciroos, a startup building AI tools for operations teams, just came out of stealth with $21 million in funding to roll out what it’s calling the industry’s first extensible AI “SRE Teammate.” The round was led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP), with backing from a group of angels, as the company looks to reshape how enterprise ops teams tackle growing complexity.

The pitch is simple: Ciroos wants to help site reliability engineers, DevOps pros, and operations teams respond to incidents faster—90% faster, in fact—by handing off a lot of the noisy, repetitive work to AI.

Founded in February 2025 by Ronak Desai, Amit Patel, and Ananda Rajagopal, Ciroos is led by a team that’s been around the block. They’ve held senior roles at Cisco, AWS, and Gigamon, and together hold 84 patents in areas like AI, observability, cloud infrastructure, and networking. Now, they’re bringing all that experience to a problem that’s only getting worse.

“Ciroos represents a transformative approach that delivers immediate and measurable impact,” said Shawn Cherian, partner at EIP. “The team’s deep domain expertise — both on the ground working with the SREs and in leadership at global enterprises — and their vision to automate, augment, and drive autonomous operations make them uniquely qualified to address challenges in this emerging space.”

With $21M Funding, Ciroos Aims to Take the Pressure Off Operations Teams

So what’s broken today? As applications spread across more domains and become more dynamic, ops teams are drowning in alerts. Finding the root cause of a problem often means pulling in dozens—sometimes hundreds—of engineers. Static runbooks, dashboard clicking, and disconnected tools don’t cut it anymore. And while developers are cranking out code faster thanks to AI tools, it’s the SREs who are left picking up the slack when things break.

Ciroos is going after this pain point directly. Its AI SRE Teammate doesn’t wait for a human to be paged. Instead, it can proactively kick off investigations, simulating how an experienced engineer might think through cross-system interactions to figure out what’s going wrong, or flag that everything’s actually fine.

Ciroos SRE Teammate

At the core of this is Ciroos’ multi-agent AI architecture, built using something called the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent 2 Agent (A2A) frameworks. That’s tech-speak for: it plays nicely with other AI tools and systems you’re already using. The teammate can plug into observability platforms, ticketing software, collaboration tools, incident response systems, and even your codebase. Teams can also decide how much control they want to give it, ranging from light assistance to near-autonomous actions.

“SREs carry a heavy burden — from middle-of-the-night incidents to hours of repetitive analysis and postmortems,” said Ronak Desai, co-founder and CEO. “We built our AI SRE Teammate to end that toil, fully embracing our mission to provide an AI SRE Teammate that empowers SREs to be superheroes.”

The funding will go toward building out go-to-market efforts and hiring across engineering and sales. The company is currently based in Pleasanton, California, and is hiring AI engineers, full-stack developers, and growth specialists.

In short, Ciroos is betting that AI isn’t just about writing code or generating content. It’s about giving burned-out ops teams a much-needed teammate—one that doesn’t sleep, doesn’t panic, and won’t miss the forest for the trees.