Resolve AI

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Attribute	Detail
Name	Resolve AI
Tagline	AI agent for autonomous production incident resolution
Headquarters	San Francisco, United States
Founded	2024
Stage	Series A
Business Model	SaaS
Industry	Other
Technology	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	North America
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (2)
Funding Label	$160,000,000

Links

• Website: https://resolve.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/resolve-ai/
• X / Twitter: https://x.com/resolveai
• GitHub: https://github.com/resolveai

Summary and Signal

Resolve AI has rapidly emerged as a venture-scale bet on autonomous production operations, securing a $1 billion valuation and over $150 million in committed capital within 16 months of its stealth launch [TechCrunch, Dec 2025]. The company's core proposition is an AI agent that acts as a production engineer, designed to triage alerts, investigate incidents, and execute remediations like code rollbacks or infrastructure commands without human intervention [PR Newswire, Dec 2025].

The company was founded in 2024 by Spiros Xanthos and Mayank Agarwal, former Splunk executives credited with co-creating the OpenTelemetry standard [TechCrunch, Dec 2025; ONUG, 2026]. This background has translated into exceptional early commercial traction, with reported customer wins including Coinbase, DoorDash, and Salesforce [Forbes, Apr 2026]. Resolve AI operates on a SaaS model. The company's funding velocity is notable: a $35 million seed round led by Greylock in October 2025 was followed by a $125 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners [PR Newswire, Dec 2025].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Core facts (founding, funding, team, customers) corroborated by multiple independent sources including TechCrunch, PR Newswire, and Forbes.

Company Overview

Resolve AI emerged from stealth in late 2025. Spiros Xanthos and Mayank Agarwal first partnered as graduate students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign over two decades ago [TechCrunch, Dec 2025]. Their professional paths converged at Splunk, where Xanthos served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Observability business, and Agarwal was the chief architect for observability [PR Newswire, Dec 2025]. The company was founded in 2024 and is headquartered in San Francisco [Crunchbase, 2025].

Within 16 months of its founding, Resolve AI secured a $35 million seed round in October 2025 led by Greylock, followed by a $125 million Series A in December 2025 led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which established a $1 billion valuation [TechCrunch, Dec 2025; PR Newswire, Dec 2025]. Concurrently, it announced initial enterprise deployments with a roster of high-profile customers, including Coinbase, DoorDash, and Salesforce [PR Newswire, Dec 2025]. A key strategic hire was made in 2026, bringing on Dhruv Mahajan, a former Meta research scientist who led post-training for Llama models, as Chief AI Scientist [LinkedIn, 2026].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Founders' backgrounds and funding rounds confirmed by multiple independent sources including TechCrunch, PR Newswire, and Crunchbase.

The Product and the Stack

Resolve AI's product is positioned as an autonomous production engineer, a multi-agent system designed to handle the full lifecycle of software incidents. The system autonomously triages alerts, investigates incidents, identifies root causes, and executes remediations, which can include actions like creating Git pull requests or running kubectl commands [TechCrunch, Dec 2025; PR Newswire, Dec 2025]. The technology integrates with a core set of infrastructure and collaboration tools, including AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub, and Slack [PR Newswire, Dec 2025]. The hiring of a Chief AI Scientist with extensive post-training experience on large language models like Llama points to a significant investment in proprietary AI research [LinkedIn, 2026].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product claims are sourced from company announcements; specific performance metrics are not publicly available.

The Market They Are Entering

Metric	Value
IT Operations Management (IOM) Software Market (2025)	$39,000M
AIOps Segment CAGR (2024-2027)	20%

Demand is propelled by the escalating economic impact of production incidents; for large-scale enterprises, even minutes of downtime can translate to millions in lost revenue [Forbes, Apr 2026]. The proliferation of microservices and distributed cloud architectures has made manual root-cause analysis difficult, while a persistent shortage of skilled site reliability engineers (SREs) forces companies to seek force multipliers [PR Newswire, Dec 2025].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Market sizing is drawn from analogous third-party analyst reports.

The Competitive Field

Resolve AI enters a market defined by established platform incumbents and a new wave of AI-native challengers. The competitive map for production incident management is fragmented across several layers. Incumbent observability platforms like Splunk, Datadog, and New Relic own the monitoring and alerting surface. Specialist incident response platforms such as PagerDuty and Opsgenie orchestrate human on-call workflows. Adjacent substitutes include internal scripts, runbooks, and platform engineering teams.

Resolve AI’s defensible edge rests on founder pedigree, proprietary data, early elite customer access, and exceptional capital velocity [TechCrunch, Dec 2025; PR Newswire, Dec 2025]. The company’s primary exposure is to generalist AI agent platforms and potential channel conflict with incumbents.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Competitive analysis is inferred from company positioning and market structure.

Opportunity

If Resolve AI can successfully automate the most expensive and disruptive layer of enterprise software operations, the financial and strategic prize is a foundational platform. The company has already secured anchor customers at the highest tier of technical sophistication, including Coinbase, DoorDash, and Salesforce [Forbes, Apr 2026]. The founders' pedigree as the architects of OpenTelemetry and leaders of Splunk's observability business provides a credible claim to understanding the infrastructure and organizational dynamics at this scale [TechCrunch, Dec 2025].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by multiple independent publications including TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Forbes.

Sources

1. [TechCrunch, Dec 2025] Ex-Splunk execs' startup Resolve AI hits $1B valuation with Series A | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/ex-splunk-execs-startup-resolve-ai-hits-1-billion-valuation-with-series-a/
2. [PR Newswire, Dec 2025] Resolve AI Announces $125M Series A at $1B Valuation to Fix Production Operations with AI | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/resolve-ai-announces-125m-series-a-at-1b-valuation-to-fix-production-operations-with-ai-302678486.html
3. [Crunchbase, 2025] Resolve.ai - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/resolve-ai
4. [Bloomberg, Feb 2026] Resolve AI Hits $1 Billion Valuation for Outage-Thwarting AI Agents | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/resolve-ai-hits-1-billion-valuation-for-outage-thwarting-ai-agents
5. [Forbes, Apr 2026] $1.5 Billion Startup Resolve AI Steps In When Software Breaks | https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/04/16/this-15-billion-ai-startup-steps-in-when-software-breaks/
6. [LinkedIn, 2026] Dhruv Mahajan - Chief AI Scientist, Resolve.ai | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruv-mahajan-4397764/
7. [AshbyHQ, 2026] Research Engineer @ Resolve AI | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Resolve%20AI/588a0c76-41df-436a-9b70-23d8728a77ee
8. [AshbyHQ, 2026] AI Engagement Manager @ Resolve AI | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Resolve%20AI/d69a2a08-925e-4704-b580-76b0491ac686
9. [AshbyHQ, 2026] Contracts Negotiator @ Resolve AI | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Resolve%20AI/091f29c5-9fda-4539-9fb4-6850a072db97
10. [AshbyHQ, 2026] Software Engineer, AI Agent @ Resolve AI | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Resolve%20AI/553124a8-f07e-4017-b0a7-02c58cc284e1
11. [Resolve.ai, 2026] Kubernetes Troubleshooting in Resolve AI | https://resolve.ai/blog/kubernetes-troubleshooting-in-resolve-ai
12. [Startup Intros, 2025] Resolve.ai: Funding, Team & Investors | https://startupintros.com/orgs/resolve-ai