SuperPlane raises USD $2.6 million for AI ops platform

SuperPlane has raised USD $2.6 million and launched its platform. The Serbian startup said the round was led by Credo Ventures and First Momentum Ventures.

The company has developed an open-source control plane for platform engineering, designed to give software teams a single layer for managing operational workflows involving both human engineers and artificial intelligence agents.

The product sits above existing infrastructure and developer tools, allowing teams to design, run and supervise tasks linked to production systems. Those tasks include deployments, infrastructure changes, incident response, approvals and other workflows often spread across multiple tools and teams.

The software is available under an Apache 2.0 open-source licence. A hosted cloud version is due later, and the new funding will support product development, work with design partners and growth of its user community.

Operational focus

SuperPlane is targeting an area of software engineering that has drawn more attention as generative AI tools speed up code creation while production operations remain largely unchanged. Although code can now be produced quickly, companies still rely on manual checks, senior engineers and fragmented internal processes to move that code safely into live systems.

The startup argues that this gap has become more visible as engineering teams ship software faster. It is pitching its platform as a structured control layer that lets AI agents take part in operational workflows under defined rules and human oversight, rather than act directly on critical systems without supervision.

Its model is based on deterministic flows that engineers can inspect and approve before use. It also applies policy controls over what those flows can access, aiming to make infrastructure changes more visible and auditable.

That approach reflects a broader debate in enterprise technology over how far businesses are willing to let AI systems operate production environments. Many infrastructure teams remain cautious because errors in configuration or deployment can disrupt services, expose data or cause outages.

Backers and team

The funding round included angel investors Stanislas Polu, Chief Executive Officer of Dust; Mirko Novakovic, Chief Executive Officer of Dash0; Tomas Kratky, Founder of Manta; and Andreas Klinger of Prototype Capital.

SuperPlane was founded by Chief Executive Officer Darko Fabijan and Chief Product Officer Marko Anastasov, who previously built developer infrastructure company Semaphore. The company said both founders have more than a decade of experience in developer tools and that the business now has a team of nine.

Confluent is acting as the company's lead design partner, according to SuperPlane. It has also been in talks with more than 100 companies assessing how such a control plane could fit into their software and infrastructure stacks.

The product connects with a wide range of existing software tools and cloud services. It works across more than 400 components and integrations, including AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog, OpenAI and Anthropic.

That integration layer is central to its pitch to platform engineering and DevOps teams, which often manage a patchwork of suppliers across cloud computing, observability, deployment, communications and incident management. SuperPlane said its software lets those teams describe the workflows they want and assemble internal operational tooling more quickly than through conventional procurement and integration work.

Darko Fabijan set out the company's view of the market. "AI is changing how software gets built, but it still hasn't meaningfully changed how production systems are run. As AI-generated code increases the speed and volume of change, the future of operations cannot be more manual coordination and more tribal knowledge. It has to be supervised automation through systems that engineers can trust. SuperPlane is the next step for engineering teams that want to operate production systems with the speed of AI and the safety of deterministic infrastructure," said Fabijan.

Investors said they see room for new infrastructure software that addresses the operational consequences of AI-assisted software development. A key theme in the market is that if AI increases software output, companies will need better systems to review, deploy and manage that code in production.

"At Credo, we invest in the best teams with a relationship to Central or Eastern Europe, wherever they are in the world. Darko and Marko saw greatness building Semaphore and selling it to the likes of Confluent and Superhuman. The world of software development will never be the same. We're currently experiencing the shift in how code gets written, but the DevOps layer is yet to change. We are convinced Darko and Marko have been at the state of the art long enough to make it happen," said Matej Micek, Tech Partner, Credo Ventures.

Christian Neumann, Principal, First Momentum Ventures, also pointed to the operational side of AI-generated software. "We are actively seeking startups building the infrastructure engineering organisations need to deploy AI-generated code at scale, and SuperPlane is exactly what we had in mind. Their control plane gives engineering teams the guardrails and confidence to ship ten times the code they could before, safely. That is not a marginal improvement, it is a step change in how software gets delivered," said Neumann.