Stakpak Wraps Up US$500,000 Pre-Seed Round

Egypt-born and US-based DevOps-focused tech startup Stakpak, Inc. has secured US$500,000 in pre-seed funding to support the development of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered infrastructure platform focused on improving DevOps processes.  

The round was led by California-based venture capital (VC) firm P1 Ventures, with participation from Connecticut-based VC Digital Currency Group, Sanabil 500, the MENA-focused seed fund backed by 500 Global and Sanabil Investments, and angel investors, including Moataz Soliman and Omar Gabr, co-founders of the observability platform Instabug. 

Founded by George Fahmy in 2023, the company is tackling one of the costliest bottlenecks in software development: DevOps complexity. In an interview with Inc. Arabia, Fahmy, co-founder and CEO of the company, told us that DevOps complexity contributes to an estimated $51 billion in lost productivity each year in the US alone.

He went on to explain that Stakpak’s platform, which is built around an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE), simplifies the infrastructure setup process by automating repetitive DevOps tasks. As a result, developers can shift their focus from configuration to building actual product features. 

Stakpak’s AI tools are already available through several existing coding assistants, including Continue, Cursor, and Cline. Fahmy noted that companies using the platform report delivering projects up to five times faster and completing migration tasks as much as 16 times faster—without relying on in-house DevOps specialists. These benefits are particularly impactful for engineering teams with more than 100 employees, where time and cost efficiencies can be significant. 

Commenting on the investment, Fahmy said that Stakpak plans to channel the fresh capital into growing its business presence in the US, while scaling its engineering and product teams based in Egypt. “We're building a product that solves a global problem, but we're starting with the US," he said. "Our funding will go into research and development and go-to-market strategy in the US (spanning multiple channels).” 

He underscored the company’s ability to build a global business footprint while leveraging Egypt's engineering talent. “We're operating out of the US, with our engineering team distributed across the globe and mainly concentrated in Egypt," Fahmy revealed. "Egypt has a high density of engineering talent."

With the AI infrastructure space gaining traction, Fahmy sees Stakpak’s offerings as part of a larger industry shift, which sees "vibe coding"— programming method where coders describe a problem in natural language to a large language model (LLM) AI model that then generates code—gaining prominence. 

“Today, only three percent of software developers can handle DevOps work full-time (according to the latest StackOverflow survey), but this is changing with Stakpak," Fahmy explained. "With more and more 'vibe coding' tools like Replit Agent, Bolt, and Lovable, more and more people will be building software products and will need to deploy and operate these products at scale. We're going to make software infrastructure self-driving in five years.” 

As part of that vision, the company announced in late 2024 the release of one of the first AI DevOps agents globally. “In Q1 2025, we watched these agents help customers scale their infrastructure autonomously, and finish tasks that would take a human engineer like myself four hours in 15 minutes!" Fahmy shared. "LLMs are terrible at the worst (and most boring) part of coding infrastructure and DevOps work; this is changing with Stakpak." 

Looking ahead, the company’s roadmap for the future includes pushing the boundaries of reliability and accessibility. “In 2025, we'll keep iterating on making the technology better and more reliable," Fahmy said. "We already exceeded the state-of-the-art coding model Claude 3.7 Sonnet by 13 percent on internal reliability benchmarks. We also want to reach more developers and show them that 'vibe DevOps' is possible.” 

Pictured in the lead image is Stakpak founder and CEO George Fahmy. Image courtesy Stakpak.