Qovery, a French startup, has raised $4 million in seed funding. Qovery integrates directly to your git repository, allowing you to deploy your code to a public Cloud without needing to manage the infrastructure.
Qovery does not provide a hosting platform. It is a service that will deploy your application to Amazon Web Services or DigitalOcean. It acts as an abstraction layer, so you don't have to think about deployment. It's like Heroku but for modern cloud infrastructure and micro-services.
Today's round of funding is led by Speedinvest and Crane, along with Techstars, various business angels, and Alexis Le-Quoc, co-founder and CTO, Datadog, and Ott Kaukver, CTO at Checkout.com (formerly CTO, Twilio).
The company's vision is very clear. Developers should be spending more time programming and less time managing cloud infrastructure. You can connect your repository directly to Qovery if you use GitLab or GitHub. This basically allows Qovery access to your AWS account.
Qovery allows you to create multiple environments. You may decide to seperate your production environment and your staging environment.
Today's funding round will allow the company to expand its engineering team as well as build sales and marketing departments. Qovery promises support for Google Cloud Platform very soon. It is expected to be available by the end the year.
Developers can build a product using a PaaS to speed up the time it takes to get their products to market. However, they often compromise on flexibility and outgrow these platforms. Qovery allows developers to build on top of IaaS and can also deploy into their cloud infrastructure accounts. This is just as simple as working with a PaaS-based platform, Speedinvest's Dominik Tobschall stated in a statement.
This is the key to Qovery's unique position in the market. Qovery isnt a platform-as-a-service provider. Your application can be viewed in your AWS console. It won't hide your cloud infrastructure behind another product.
As an example, small startups could use Qovery to create their Terraform cloud configuration. If they don't see the need for it, companies could continue to use Qovery.
