RO tech firm Bunnyshell raises USD 4 million to expand its US presence

Bunnyshell, the environment-as-a-service (EaaS) platform, has raised USD 4 million in additional funding, the company announced.

The investment from Early Game Ventures (EGV) and RocaX Ventures will be primarily used for expansion into the US market, Bunnyshell said.

Bunnyshell, which was founded by Roxana Ciobanu and Alin Dobra, will use the investment to expand its US operation, including hiring Shani Shoham as its Chief Revenue Officer to lead its sales, marketing and customer success teams.

Shani was previously founder and CEO of 21 Labs, which was acquired by Perforce Software, as well as the President of Testim.io, which was acquired by Tricentis.

"We plan to focus more on the market in North America and help more CTOs and engineering leaders release faster and unleash bottlenecks. The complexity of today's software architecture, with cloud-native services, security policies, datasets and more, makes managing environments a complex process that requires multiple DevOps engineers. We established Bunnyshell so that developers can focus on delivering code and so that organizations can ship faster without the need to hire dozens of DevOps engineers. Shani brings a wealth of experience in building scalable go-to-market organizations and taking DevOps products from individual developers to enterprise tools," Alin Dobra, co-founder and CEO of Bunnyshell, said.

"Having worked with CTOs and VPs of Engineering in prior roles, I've seen the challenges of managing environments first hand, so when Bunnyshell reached out to me, I was immediately interested. Developers spend close to a fifth of their time managing environments, and it was a bottleneck for many of my customers. EaaS is a painkiller for any organization with over two or three dozen employees, no matter the vertical. As long as you have a containerized application, you will benefit from that," Shani Shoham said. "I was impressed with the traction that Bunnyshell has gained in Europe with little effort. We plan to grow aggressively in the US and globally."

Bunnyshell creates replicas of production environments, no matter how complex the architecture is and what services are used. It automatically spins up new environments with every pull request as part of the development life cycle, for development, testing, demo or the deployment of the application in the customers' cloud. Bunnyshell's EaaS includes availability rules to manage the cost of resources as well as auto-update to avoid drift issues.

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