Phoebe, a startup aiming to bring autonomous reliability to modern software systems, has raised $17 million in seed funding to support the public launch of its AI-powered platform. The round was led by GV and Cherry Ventures, with participation from a select group of early customers already using the system in production environments, including Trainline and PPRO.

This funding supports Phoebe’s goal of automating incident response and prediction in real-time production systems—an area that has remained largely manual despite the rise of AI in software development.

A Growing Problem: Software Failures in the Age of AI

As artificial intelligence rapidly increases the pace and complexity of software creation, systems have become harder to manage—especially when failures strike. In 2024 alone, software outages caused more than $400 billion in financial losses, with developers reportedly spending up to 30% of their time fixing bugs and issues instead of building new features.

“High-severity incidents can make or break big customer relationships, and numerous smaller problems drain engineering productivity. Software monitoring tools exist, but they aren’t very intelligent and require people to spend a lot of time working out what’s wrong and what to do about it.”

Matt Henderson, Cofounder & CEO at Phoebe (ex Stripe, Google, Amazon)

Real-Time Diagnoses—and Preemptive Fixes

The new funding will be used to scale Phoebe’s AI-driven platform, which operates more like a digital immune system than a traditional monitoring tool. Instead of relying solely on human intervention, Phoebe deploys swarms of AI agents that continuously analyze real-time data, diagnose problems, and propose—or even generate—code or infrastructure changes.

According to Henderson, teams using Phoebe have seen time-to-resolution cut by up to 90%. But the real leap is in prevention: Phoebe can already detect early warning signs and push fixes before incidents occur.

The company plans to expand its product capabilities further and grow its customer base across industries where uptime is mission-critical.

Building the Immune System for Software

Phoebe was co-founded by Matt Henderson and James Summerfield, who previously built and sold Rangespan to Google. After their time at Google and Stripe, the pair turned their focus to the persistent pain of maintaining large-scale software in production.

The founding team brings deep experience in both technical infrastructure and operations. Their goal with Phoebe is to help engineering teams move beyond the reactive cycle of incident management and into a new era of AI-assisted resilience.

Phoebe’s product is already live and being used in production by major players like Trainline and PPRO.

“Phoebe has already had a real impact on how we investigate and remediate incidents at Trainline. Work that used to take us hours to piece together can now take minutes, and that matters when you’re running critical services at our scale.”

Jay Davies, Head of Engineering for Reliability and Operations, Trainline

Backing from GV, Cherry Ventures, and Industry Veterans

This round was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Cherry Ventures, both known for backing ambitious companies in AI and infrastructure.

“AI has transformed how code is written, but software reliability has not kept pace. Phoebe is building a missing layer of contextual intelligence that can help both human and AI engineers avoid software failures. We love the boldness of the team’s vision for a software immune system that preemptively fixes problems.”

Roni Hiranand, GV

Phoebe’s latest funding brings a strong vote of confidence in the team’s vision for a future where most software issues are solved—or prevented—before users even notice.

Origianl Creator: Genaro Palma
Original Link: https://justainews.com/companies/funding-news/phoebe-raises-17m-to-build-an-ai-driven-immune-system-for-software/
Originally Posted: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:15:42 +0000