Large enterprises operate hundreds, sometimes thousands, of network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers) spread across data centers, cloud environments, and offices worldwide. Each device has its own configuration defining how traffic flows and what security rules apply. Yet despite years of investment in automation, no one has a reliable view of the whole network.
Information is fragmented across multiple tools, old scripts, spreadsheets and a disproportionate amount of critical knowledge lives only in the heads of a few engineers. So when something breaks, teams struggle to answer the most basic questions: what changed, who changed it, and whether the network still matches the intended design. As a result, most enterprise networks remain largely manual to operate.
OpsMill provides the missing foundation
Their platform, Infrahub, creates a single source of truth for the entire network. Companies define their infrastructure and the rules it must follow directly in OpsMill. Every change is validated automatically before deployment, making the network versioned, auditable, and automatable. In simple terms: it is Git for network infrastructure.
Instead of treating infrastructure as a set of loose artifacts scattered across CMDBs, IPAMs, vendor-specific systems, and ad-hoc repos, Infrahub captures both design intent and the reasoning behind changes – with branching, peer review, and validation baked into the data model. Teams can manage “what the network should be” the same way developers manage code, complete with safe rollbacks and CI validation. In early deployments, teams that previously spent hours reconciling multiple systems to diagnose incidents now find the right answers in minutes.
Why we invested
- Exceptional founder–market fit. Damien is not theorizing about network automation; he has lived through its failures at scale, at Juniper, Roblox, and Network to Code. That gives the team an almost unfair advantage: they know exactly where solutions break and which compromises are unacceptable in production. Karen brings the same depth on the go-to-market side, from mParticle and VMware.
- A must-have category. Network complexity is exploding across hybrid, multi-cloud environments while enterprises face growing pressure to automate safely. The data foundation required to do so simply does not exist today. As AI-driven and agentic operations become the norm, the cost of poor data rises from operational inefficiency to systemic risk. These are not temporary trends. They represent a durable shift in how infrastructure must be operated, positioning OpsMill not as another tool in the stack, but as a critical infrastructure layer.
- The data center race makes this urgent. Enterprises are racing to deploy GPU-scale infrastructure. Every week of delay is lost revenue. ROI doesn’t start until the network is live. With Infrahub, teams go from blueprint to live environment in weeks, not months, deploying at any scale from a single blueprint, without growing headcount proportionally. In a race measured in weeks, that is a decisive edge.
- A differentiated architecture built for where the market is going. Most incumbents – CMDBs, legacy automation tooling – address the problem only partially. None provide a true, production-grade intent data layer. Infrahub is built from first principles around what existing solutions consistently fail to deliver: versioning, validation, and modularity as first-class concepts. That architectural choice creates durable differentiation and, we believe, the foundation for a category-defining company.
We look forward to working with the OpsMill team on this journey, and are delighted to do so alongside three of French’s leading investors (Iris Capital, Partech, and Serena).
