Deductive AI, a Mountain View, CA-based AI-powered root cause analysis and resolution, has secured $7.5 million in Seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by CRV, with participation from Databricks Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, and PrimeSet.
CRV is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the firm targets Seed and Series A rounds in high-potential technology startups across consumer and enterprise/developer tools. With more than $4.3 billion raised, CRV has backed over 750 companies to date.
Deductive AI Use of Funds
The company will use the funds to advance product development, enhance its AI SRE agent platform, and accelerate customer growth as it expands its engineering and go-to-market teams.
About Deductive AI
Founded by Rakesh Kothari and Sameer Agarwal, Deductive AI builds AI agents that perform root cause analysis and incident remediation for complex software systems. Its unified platform connects to logs, code, metrics, traces, and events, enabling AI agents to reason over a dynamic knowledge graph that identifies system interdependencies and surfaces precise root causes. Deductive AI's technology leverages agentic AI and reinforcement learning to emulate the workflows of expert Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). Deductive’s solutions are already in use by organizations including DoorDash, Foursquare, Kumo, and Apoha.
Funding Details
Company: Deductive AI, Inc.
Raised: $7.5M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: November 2025
Lead Investor: CRV
Additional Investors: Databricks Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, PrimeSet
Company Website: https://www.deductive.ai/
Software Category: AI for DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
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