“We Built Our AI SRE Teammate To End That Toil," Says Ciroos CEO After Landing $21M Funding

The dreaded buzz of a phone at 2 AM. The frantic scramble to diagnose system failures while bleary-eyed engineers desperately hunt through dashboards for clues. For decades, this has been the unglamorous reality of enterprise operations, a world where site reliability engineers (SREs) and DevOps teams bear the crushing weight of keeping critical systems alive, often at the expense of their own sleep and sanity.

But what if those middle-of-the-night emergencies could become a thing of the past?

That's the idea that is  driving Ciroos, a startup that just secured $21 million in funding to fundamentally reimagine how enterprises handle operational crises. Led by Energy Impact Partners LP, this investment signals growing recognition that the traditional approach to enterprise operations drowning teams in dashboards and reactive firefighting is not just inefficient, it's unsustainable.

When Tools Become the Problem

The irony isn't lost on Ronak Desai, Ciroos co-founder and CEO, who spent years watching the same story unfold across companies of every size. "More tools, more data, more dashboards… but not more answers," he reflects, drawing from decades of experience scaling systems at tech giants like Cisco, AWS, and Gigamon.