Hyground builds an AI agent that investigates production incidents for teams running business-critical software on Kubernetes. When an alert fires, the agent works through Kubernetes events, metrics, logs, traces and deployment history the way a senior SRE would, then hands the on-call engineer the likely causes with the evidence behind them. It runs inside the customer’s own cluster with whatever LLM they choose, reads by default and only writes with a human’s approval, which is why regulated companies can use it where a vendor-hosted tool is off the table. Deutsche Bahn, ifm and MaibornWolff run it in production, and those customers have seen incident resolution times drop by up to 80%.
The company was founded in Hamburg in 2025 by Dominik Rehbock (CEO, previously Bain & Company), Benjamin Hofmann (CPO) and Bastian de Groot (CTO). Benjamin and Bastian spent about a decade in software operations and SRE before spinning Hyground out of MaibornWolff, and the product grew out of on-call problems they saw first-hand on client projects. Hyground raised a EUR 3M pre-seed round led by Partech, with Adesso Ventures, Angel Invest and Plug and Play, announced at KubeCon Europe in March 2026, and is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified. The team is about 16 people, most of them engineers, and sells first to German and European enterprises where data sovereignty decides the deal.
