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Autoheal raises $7.9M to run AI agents that fix other AI agents

What's the deal? AutohealDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, an AI-native platform engineering startup, has raised $7.9 million in seed funding. Innovation Endeavors led the round, with participation from Emergent VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, U&I VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Darkmode VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Batch VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Param Hansa ValuesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.

What's the endgame? Autoheal is building what it calls "self-improving software factories." Its platform sits inside an organisation's private cloud and connects to existing coding agents, code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools to build a shared engineering context graph.

How it works: Two specialised agents run the show. An "Evaluator agent" rates worker agents on metrics like CI failures and incident reports; a "Healer agent" fixes low-scoring ones by opening pull requests that improve prompts, tools, and model selection. Each change is version controlled in Git, benchmarked, and approved by a human supervisor.

Why now? Enterprises are shipping more code than ever as AI tools accelerate development. But the boom has driven up production incidents, vulnerabilities, and token costs, and the "software factory" agents meant to help often fail themselves at scale.

Chief executive Sid Choudhury and his co-founders previously built AI and engineering infrastructure at Microsoft, ThoughtSpot, and Harness. "While building the first version of an AI agent is easy, scaling it consistently across the enterprise SDLC is the real challenge," Choudhury said.

Traction: After operating in stealth, Autoheal counts enterprise customers including Nomura HoldingsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, AvidXchange, and Empiric EarthDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. Nomura chief information officer Sameer Jain said the platform cut investigation timelines "from hours" for teams previously overwhelmed by alerts.

The signal: At $7.9 million, the seed round sits in the 95th percentile of all-time US enterprise software seed deals, a sign of investor appetite for tools that govern AI agents rather than just deploy them. As companies flood their pipelines with agents, the next battleground is managing the ones that break.

Read more: siliconangle.com

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