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About - Est. 2020
Paris, France

The platform your
engineers deserve.

Qovery gives engineering teams a production-grade Kubernetes platform - running in their own cloud, governed by their own policies - so they can stop rebuilding infrastructure and start shipping product.

Founded in 2020 by Romaric Philogene and Morgan Perry, Qovery is backed by the founders of Docker, Datadog, and Contentsquare. We are a team of 40+ across Europe and North America, building the control plane for the AI era.

01Founder letter
Romaric Philogene, CEO & Co-founder
Romaric Philogene - CEO & Co-founder

The first time I got paged at 2 AM, I was 22 and working at a Paris startup that had just closed its Series A. The database had run out of disk. The fix took four minutes. Getting through the VPN, finding the right dashboard, and remembering which runbook to follow took forty-five.

That pattern repeated everywhere I worked. Smart engineers spending their best hours on undifferentiated infrastructure work - not because they wanted to, but because every team rebuilds the same platform glue from scratch. Terraform modules, CI pipelines, RBAC matrices, cost dashboards, secret rotation scripts. The same hundred problems, solved differently at every company, maintained by whoever drew the short straw.

In 2020, Morgan and I started Qovery with a simple thesis: if we could give every engineering team a production-grade Kubernetes platform - running in their own cloud, governed by their own policies - we could give them back the time they were losing to infrastructure busywork.

Four years later, 200+ organizations run on Qovery. But the thesis has evolved. The rise of AI coding agents - Claude, Cursor, Codex - changed what "self-service" means. It is no longer just humans who need to deploy. Agents do too. And they need the same guardrails: RBAC, policy enforcement, audit trails, cost controls.

So we built the Qovery Skill, the MCP server, and the agentic control plane. One API that humans and agents share. Same permissions, same audit log, same compliance posture.

The infrastructure problem has not changed since my first 2 AM page. But the solution finally has.

Romaric Philogene
CEO & Co-founder, Qovery
02Mission
"Give every engineering team - and every AI agent - a production-grade Kubernetes platform they can trust. In their cloud. Under their rules."
200+
Organizations
4
Cloud providers
40+
Team members
50%
Women in leadership
03Principles

What we believe.

I.

Your cloud, always.

Qovery runs a control plane. Your workloads, your data, your secrets stay in your VPC - encrypted with your keys, governed by your policies. We are never a sub-processor of your customer data.

II.

Policy, not permissions.

We believe in declarative guardrails, not ticket queues. Define what is allowed once - as code - and the platform enforces it on every deploy, every rollback, every scale event.

III.

Agents are first-class.

AI agents get the same API, the same RBAC scope, and the same audit trail as human engineers. The control plane does not care who triggered the deploy - it cares that the policy was satisfied.

IV.

Ship the standard.

Vanilla Kubernetes. Standard Helm charts. Open Terraform providers. No proprietary CRDs, no custom resource formats. If you leave Qovery, your manifests still work.

V.

Earn trust with evidence.

SOC 2, HIPAA, DORA, PCI DSS - compliance is not a checkbox on our marketing page. It is an architectural property of the platform, backed by audit logs, policy-as-code, and exportable evidence.

04Timeline

How we got here.

2007

First pager

Romaric gets his first 2 AM infrastructure alert. The fix takes 4 minutes. Finding the runbook takes 45.

2012

First platform

Builds an internal developer platform at a Paris startup. Realizes every team rebuilds the same glue.

2018

The gap

After working at multiple scale-ups, the pattern is clear: platform engineering is the most duplicated effort in tech.

2020

Qovery founded

Romaric and Morgan incorporate BIRDSIGHT (Qovery) in Paris. First commit to the Rust deployment engine.

2021

First customers

Early adopters deploy production workloads. The BYOC architecture proves that you can have PaaS simplicity without giving up cloud ownership.

2023

Growth

Funding from world-class angels: the CEO & CTO of Datadog, co-founder of Docker, ex-CTO of Twilio. Team grows to 30+.

2025

AI era begins

MCP server, Qovery Skill, and AI Copilot launch. Agents become first-class citizens of the platform.

2026

Fleet scale

200+ organizations, 1000+ clusters managed. 40+ team members across Europe and North America.

05Team & investors

The people.

A team of 40+ engineers, designers, and operators - fully remote across Europe and North America. 50% women at board and C-level. Backed by founders who built the infrastructure the internet runs on.

40+
Team members
100%
Remote (EU + NA)
50%
Women in board & C-level
15+
Nationalities
Backed by
Olivier Pomel
CEO, Datadog
Alexis Le-Quoc
CTO, Datadog
Sebastien Pahl
Co-founder, Docker
Ott Kaukver
CTO, Checkout (ex-CTO Twilio & Skype)
Jonathan Cherki
CEO, Contentsquare
Institutional investors
IRISCrane.vcSpeedinvestIrregExTechstars
Angel investors
Jonathan Benhamou
CEO, PeopleDoc
Clement Buyse
Co-founder, PeopleDoc
Jean-Baptiste Aviat
CTO, Sqreen
Jeremy Thomas
CEO, GitGuardian
Antoine Ayoub
Co-founder, Le Wagon
Liam Boogard-Azoulay
VP Marketing, Scaleway
Julien Quintard
CEO, Routine (ex-MD Techstars)
Christophe Chausson
CEO, Chausson Finance
Gregoire Delpit
Head of Strategy, Checkout
Antoine Nougue
Head of Commercial, Checkout
Cyril Chemla
CEO, ProcessOut
Georges Gomes
CEO, Dev.Riots
Amirhossein Malekzadeh
CEO, Logmatic
Aneel Lakhani
Investor, Crane Venture
Marie Outtier
Co-founder, Aiden
Mario Matar
CTO, Monbanquet
Nagib Beydoun
CEO, Yeeld
Valentine Baudouin
Partner, Founders Future
Yang Tran
Associate, Speedinvest
Techstars
Institutional investor

Build the
future of cloud.

We are a fully remote team of engineers, designers, and operators building the infrastructure layer for the AI era. If you care about developer experience, Kubernetes, and shipping things that matter - we should talk.