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- Salus Cloud raised USD 3.7M in seed funding to scale its AI-native DevOps platform across Africa and MENA.
- The startup addresses a major gap: secure, automated CI/CD pipelines are largely missing in emerging tech ecosystems.
- With new backing, Salus will boost product development, user onboarding, and partnerships with developer communities and tech hubs.
Salus Cloud
What happened? African AI-native DevOps platform, Salus Cloud, raised USD 3.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Atlantica Ventures and P1 Ventures. It also included participation from Idris Bello of Lofty Inc. Capital and angel investor Timothy Chen of Essence VC.
What is next? With the newly acquired funding, the startup aims to accelerate product development and expand across the continent. In addition, it aims to support its customer base growth across Africa, the Middle East, and underserved tech ecosystems. It also aims to enhance the onboarding experience for both self and enterprise users. Furthermore, it also aims to build partnerships with developer communities and tech hubs.
Tech Infrastructure
Who are they? Founded in 2024 by Andrew Mori, Salus seeks to tackle the gap in global tech infrastructure. This gap is the lack of secure and automated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines in emerging markets. Even more so, globally less than one third of enterprises manage to implement secure CI/CD pipelines. In Africa, many startups and SMEs do not have any such set up.
Salus attempts to tackle this with AI-powered developer agents, automated security fixes, and enterprise grade DevOps features. Furthermore, the startup tailors all these features for lean teams and price them for growth markets.
“We built Salus so a fintech can focus on loans, an e-commerce company on logistics not on securing Kubernetes or building core banking from scratch,” said CEO and co-founder Andrew Mori.
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