AI-Empowered Infrastructure Automation Firm, Spacelift, Secures $51 Million Series C Investment to Revolutionize Enterprise Operations
**Spacelift Secures $51 Million Series C Funding to Revolutionize Infrastructure Management**
London, UK – Spacelift, a leading infrastructure orchestration company, has announced a $51 million Series C funding round, led by Five Elms Capital, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst and Inovo VC. This investment will be used to scale Spacelift's platform globally and invest in artificial intelligence.
Spacelift is a fast-growing platform designed to manage and automate the entire infrastructure lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, and governance, across complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The company's unique approach to infrastructure management sets it apart in the industry.
### Unique Features of Spacelift
1. **AI-Powered Automation:** Spacelift uses artificial intelligence to simplify multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure management, helping organizations reduce operational complexity while increasing speed and scalability.
2. **Integration with Popular Tools:** Spacelift orchestrates infrastructure using existing tools that teams already rely on, such as Terraform, OpenTofu, and Ansible, rather than forcing adoption of proprietary tools.
3. **GitOps-Native Workflow:** Spacelift connects directly to your preferred version control system(s), supporting multiple repositories or monorepos, with deep API integration for visibility.
4. **Customizable Execution Environment:** The platform uses customizable Docker-based runners, enabling users to enhance workflows by incorporating custom providers, linters, security tools, and other automation utilities.
5. **Built-in CI/CD for Modules:** Spacelift includes continuous integration and delivery features tailored for infrastructure modules, allowing teams to introduce tests, checks, and linting early in the module development process.
6. **Policy-Based Governance:** Spacelift employs a flexible, policy-driven approach using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and its policy language Rego to define controls like resource creation permissions, approval workflows, and notification triggers.
7. **Visibility and Compliance:** The platform emphasizes comprehensive visibility into infrastructure changes and enforces compliance policies across the entire orchestration lifecycle, helping enterprises maintain control and governance at scale.
8. **Open Source Leadership:** As a major sponsor and contributor to OpenTofu—an Infrastructure as Code tool with millions of downloads—Spacelift maintains strong ties to the open-source community, reinforcing transparency and collaboration.
### The Future of Infrastructure Automation
Solutions like Spacelift are foundational layers enabling the next generation of autonomous infrastructure. The future of infrastructure automation lies in unified, AI-powered platforms that can interpret infrastructure-as-code, automate configuration, enforce policy, and remediate drift—all without human intervention.
Spacelift's customer base includes Moody's, Redfin, Duolingo, SailPoint, Algolia, and Checkout.com, among others. With the latest funding, Spacelift is poised to continue its mission of bridging the gap between human intent and infrastructure reality, enabling teams to run compliant, secure, and highly available environments with less manual toil and fewer late-night firefights.
As platform engineering increasingly resembles product development, with reusable templates, developer self-service, and pre-approved golden paths becoming standard, Spacelift's AI-powered platform is well-positioned to lead the way. Joe Onofrio, a partner at Five Elms Capital, praises Spacelift for offering automation with intent and AI-powered workflows that bring clarity to chaos.
With Spacelift's self-hosted option for enterprises with heightened regulatory or data sovereignty concerns, the company offers a versatile solution for businesses of all sizes and industries. The platform empowers enterprises to provision, configure, and govern infrastructure securely and at scale, with full governance retained by platform engineers via auditing, notification policies, and automated testing pipelines.
In a world where infrastructure behaves more like software, with features like composability, version control, auditing, and responsiveness, Spacelift is at the forefront of the revolution. The company is a founding member of OpenTofu, a community-driven alternative to Terraform, further solidifying its commitment to the open-source community and the future of infrastructure automation.
Investing in Spacelift's Series C funding will support technological advancements, particularly in artificial intelligence, to revolutionize the company's infrastructure management platform. Spacelift's unique technology empowers organizations to manage and automate complex infrastructure with AI-Powered Automation, simplifying multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
