Cloudgeni just closed €858,000 ($1 million) in fresh funding. The Oslo-based startup builds AI agents that set up and run cloud infrastructure for you. The round closed in late May 2026, and the team is now pushing into the Nordics and the United States.
If you run a platform team, this one is worth a read. Cloudgeni is going after the messy, manual side of cloud operations that eats engineering hours every week.
The Team and Backers:
The money came from a group of Nordic investors. That list includes the byFounders Angel Collective, Startuplab, and Antler. reMarkable CEO Vegard Gullaksen Veiteberg joined too, along with Danish serial entrepreneur Nicolaj Højer Nielsen.
Cloudgeni was founded in 2024 by two operators with strong backgrounds. CEO/CTO & Co‑Founder Davlet Dzhakishev is a former Microsoft developer. COO & Co‑Founder Iuliia Petryshyn Thuen is a former McKinsey & Accenture consultant. Together, they are building deterministic AI for cloud work, not guesswork.
How the Agents Work:
The core product is a set of AI agents for cloud infrastructure. They build environments, watch them, and keep them in good shape over time. The pitch is simple: prevent problems, fix them when they show up, and prove compliance along the way.
These agents lean on infrastructure as code, so changes stay versioned and auditable. By Cloudgeni’s own account, the platform works across major clouds and codifies unmanaged resources, so teams can move manual ClickOps setups into clean, trackable code.
Most cloud incidents trace back to small setup mistakes. Cloudgeni cites a figure many engineers know well: by the company’s own count, misconfigurations account for 99% of cloud security failures. This is Cloudgeni’s stat rather than a third-party number, but it lines up with what platform teams see in practice. That is where configuration drift remediation comes in. Cloudgeni says it detects when live infrastructure stops matching its code, then pulls it back into line, and aims to enforce security and compliance rules directly inside the code.
Real Customers Already:
Cloudgeni is not running on slides. The company says it has earned the trust of large Norwegian enterprises, including industrial group Hydro and shipping company Havila. That kind of logo carries weight in a young startup’s first year.
It has also entered a partnership with IBM, and it recently signed its first paying customer in the US. The product is validated at home, and the team is now repeating that motion in new markets.
What Comes Next:
The plan for the fresh capital is focused. Cloudgeni wants to grow across the Nordics and expand its commercial footprint in the United States. The company also plans to expand its team to support that growth, which means faster product work and broader cloud coverage.
Cloud environments keep getting more complex, and manual oversight does not scale with them. Dzhakishev frames the shift clearly: AI is moving from a support tool toward an active role in operating systems. For founders and operators, the appeal is practical. You get the speed of automation with code you can read and audit. For developers, agents that handle drift and compliance free up time for the work that ships features.
Cloudgeni enters this next phase with funding, real customers, and a partnership with IBM behind it. If you track AI startups or follow cloud security trends, this is a clear name to know.
