We are thrilled to announce our investment in ConfigHub, the company revolutionizing configuration management for modern software infrastructure. ConfigHub secured a $4M pre-seed round led by Crane Venture Partners, Encoded Ventures and Pear VC with participation from notable angel investors including Jason Warner.
How we met the team
We first connected with the ConfigHub founding team—Brian Grant, Alexis Richardson, and Jesper Joergensen— at KubeCon. Brian, best known for his work designing the Kubernetes declarative architecture at Google, has been instrumental in shaping how modern enterprises manage infrastructure. Alexis pioneered RabbitMQ and GitOps, now an industry standard for cloud-native automation, while Jesper leveraged his experience at Heroku and Twilio to advance developer-first platform tools. When this powerhouse team came to us with a vision for ConfigHub, we knew they were onto something big.
Why we invested
The market opportunity
Software infrastructure has evolved dramatically in the past two decades. Today, every company is a software company, running a complex network of interdependent services on cloud platforms. But while deployment automation has improved, configuration management remains an Achilles’ heel. Industry surveys indicate that misconfigurations contribute to nearly 70% of outages, costing enterprises billions in downtime. The need for a more structured, intelligent approach to configuration is evident.
We anticipate this problem worsening for enterprises without a robust solution. Typically, organizations must either enforce a rigid, centrally controlled reference platform—which hampers application teams’ flexibility and responsiveness—or permit teams to independently innovate, diverging from established best practices and introducing significant risks and overhead. The increasing demands on application teams will only intensify as enterprises adopt AI-driven applications and face new infrastructure complexities.
With ConfigHub, enterprises no longer need to make this difficult compromise. They can establish centralized platform configurations while empowering teams to safely customize or deviate through controlled diffs, maintaining both flexibility and oversight.
Additionally, with the growing number of agentic AI solutions targeting IT, SRE, and DevOps workflows, ConfigHub will become an essential service. As these solutions transition from diagnosis to executing automated actions on infrastructure, ConfigHub will provide the reliability and control necessary to enable seamless automation. We’ve seen similar transformations occur successfully in Software Defined Networking, and believe now is the right time to extend this approach across the entire infrastructure stack.
The product vision
ConfigHub is rethinking how software configuration data is structured, authored, and managed. Instead of relying on fragmented, manual Infrastructure as Code (IaC) processes, ConfigHub unifies configuration into a structured, automated workflow that integrates seamlessly with modern DevOps toolchains like Kubernetes, Helm, Argo, and Terraform. By providing a centralized, real-time configuration management platform, ConfigHub enables enterprises to reduce downtime, improve security, and streamline operations.
The founders
What sets ConfigHub apart isn’t just its vision—it’s the team executing it. Alexis, Brian and Jesper bring unparalleled expertise in cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and operations. Alexis is founder of cloud-native container management platform Weaveworks. CTO Brian Grant is a former Google distinguished engineer and the original lead architect of Kubernetes. And CPO Jesper Joergensen held various product roles at Salesforce (including Heroku) before joining Twilio to lead its voice, video and platform teams.
Their firsthand experience with the challenges of configuration at scale has informed ConfigHub’s design, ensuring that it meets the needs of even the most sophisticated engineering teams. Their deep understanding of the problem, combined with a strong bias for execution, makes them uniquely positioned to lead this transformation.
What’s next
ConfigHub is gearing up for its beta launch, with an initial focus on Kubernetes DevOps integrations. The team is actively hiring across engineering and product roles—if you’re passionate about shaping the future of configuration management, reach out!
We couldn’t be more excited to back ConfigHub as they tackle one of the biggest pain points in cloud-native software development. Stay tuned for more updates as they continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in configuration management.