👯 Founder(s): Darko Fabijan (CEO) and Marko Anastasov (CPO)

📅 Founding year: 2025

🏭 Industry: Dev / Platform Engineering

💥 Problem: AI has transformed how code is written, but the operational layer hasn't moved. Deployments, infrastructure changes, incident response, and cross-functional workflows are still fragmented, manual, and locked in the heads of a few senior engineers, meaning faster code generation just creates a bigger bottleneck on the other side.

📣 Solution: An open-source, AI-first control plane for event-driven workflows that sits above the existing tooling stack, giving teams a single environment to design, run, and supervise production workflows. AI agents become first-class participants, not given free rein, but operating within guardrails, context, and a policy framework that allows them to act safely.

👥 Customers: Engineering and DevOps teams managing complex production infrastructure.

🎳 Team size: 9

🌱 Stage: Pre-seed

💰 Investment amount: €2.28M ($2.6M)

🚀 Funded by: Credo Ventures (lead), First Momentum Ventures; angel investors: Stanislas Polu (CEO of Dust), Mirko Novakovic (CEO of Dash0), Tomas Kratky (Founder of Manta), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital)

👁️‍🗨️ Investor's perspective: Credo Ventures points to Darko and Marko's track record building and scaling Semaphore, used by the likes of Confluent and Superhuman, as proof they can execute at the DevOps layer, which they see as the next major shift in software yet to happen. First Momentum Ventures frames SuperPlane as a structural infrastructure play for the AI code generation era, arguing it gives engineering teams the guardrails to safely absorb the pace of AI-generated code at scale.

💡 It will be spent on… Accelerating product development, growing partnerships, expanding the open-source community, and launching the hosted version.

💬 In their own words:

"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." – Darko Fabijan, CEO.

💪 Their specialty… Darko and Marko built Semaphore, one of the early CI/CD pioneers used by Confluent, Replit, and Superhuman, giving them over a decade of firsthand experience operating developer infrastructure at scale. SuperPlane is open source under Apache 2.0 and connects to more than 400 components and integrations across the tools engineering teams already use.

🔑 Business model: Open-source control plane for platform engineering, with a hosted version coming Q2 2026

💸 Funding so far: First round €2.28M ($2.6M)

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