Sherlocks AI Raises $900K in Pre-Seed Round led by SenseAI Ventures

The company plans to use the funding to enhance its product and expand its sales and market presence in North America, where demand for AI-driven Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and IT Operations (ITOps) solutions is growing quickly.

“AI has transformed how code gets written and shipped, but when things break in production, diagnosis is still manual and fragmented,” said Gaurav Toshniwal, Co-founder and CEO of Sherlocks AI. “We built Sherlocks AI to close that gap, so engineering teams spend less time firefighting and more time building, reliability has to be built into systems, not depend on human heroics” Akshat Jain, Co-founder and CTO of Sherlocks AI, added, “We architected Sherlocks AI as a true agentic system: specialized agents that reason over a live model of your environment, form and test hypotheses the way a senior engineer would, and converge on root cause without waiting for a human to kick off the investigation.”

Rahul Agarwalla, Managing Partner at SenseAI Venture said, “Operations is where enterprise AI either proves its value or fails. “Despite years of investment in observability, incident resolution remains slow, manual, and painful. What stood out to us was the team’s ability to solve this problem; Gaurav and Akshat have spent years building and scaling complex production systems and understand these challenges firsthand. Sherlocks AI is bringing autonomous, reasoning-led solutioning inside production environments. This is the approach modern engineering teams need to maximise reliability at scale and help protect the business’ revenues and customer experience”

Founded in 2025 by Gaurav Toshniwal and Akshat Jain, Sherlocks AI is an AI-powered incident management platform that automatically investigates and diagnoses production issues. Instead of only showing alerts and dashboards, it uses AI agents to detect and understand problems across different systems.

The platform monitors databases, Kubernetes environments, networks, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Its AI agents work together to connect information from multiple sources and quickly identify the root cause of issues, often within minutes.

Sherlocks AI acts like an AI-powered Network Operations Center (NOC), continuously monitoring systems and diagnosing problems 24/7.

By automating troubleshooting and issue diagnosis, Sherlocks AI reduces the need for manual investigation and escalation by IT operations teams. This helps organizations resolve problems faster and improve system reliability.

The company serves mid-sized and large enterprises that operate cloud-native or hybrid IT environments. Its customers include Fynd, Lokal, and TradeIndia.

Sherlocks AI integrates with more than 30 tools across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, monitoring solutions, and CI/CD systems. The platform has received a 4.9/5 rating on G2 and is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, making it suitable for enterprise use.

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