Phoebe
Category: AI Developer Tools
An AI-powered immune system for software that uses AI agents to proactively detect and resolve issues. Phoebe was founded in 2024. The company is led by Matt Henderson. Based in London, United Kingdom. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $17 million. Latest round: Seed, $17.0M, 2025-08, led by Google Ventures. Key investors include ["Google Ventures","Cherry Ventures"].
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $17 million
Value proposition
Proactively ensures software reliability and prevents incidents by autonomously detecting and fixing issues before they impact users, reducing downtime and freeing up engineering resources.
Products and solutions
["AI agent platform for software monitoring and automated issue resolution"]
Unique value
Its 'agentic AI' approach, which functions like an 'immune system' for software. Unlike traditional monitoring tools, Phoebe's AI agents autonomously and proactively investigate, diagnose, and generate preemptive fixes for software issues.
Target customer
Enterprises and software engineering/DevOps teams in companies with complex, critical software systems.
Industries served
["Technology","Fintech","Transportation Tech"]
Technology advantage
The core advantage is its ability to automate the entire incident response lifecycle, from detection to resolution. This significantly reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR), prevents revenue loss from downtime, and allows engineering teams to focus on innovation rather than firefighting.
How they differentiate
Phoebe differentiates itself by using agentic AI to act as an 'immune system' for software. Instead of just monitoring and alerting like traditional observability platforms, Phoebe's AI agents actively investigate, diagnose, and remediate software failures in real-time, significantly reducing the manual workload for engineers.
Main competitors
["Datadog","Dynatrace","New Relic"]
Key partnerships
["GV (Google Ventures)","Cherry Ventures","Trainline (early customer)","PPRO (early customer)"]
Notable customers
["Information not publicly available."]
Major milestones
["Founded in 2024.","Secured $17 million (£12.6 million) in a seed funding round in August 2025."]
Growth metrics
As a private and recently launched startup, specific growth metrics are not publicly available.
Market positioning
Phoebe is positioning itself as a next-generation AIOps platform that goes beyond observability to provide automated issue resolution. It targets companies with complex software systems where downtime and slow remediation are costly.
Geographic focus
Phoebe is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and is initially focused on the European and North American markets.
Patents and IP
No publicly available information on patents.
About Matt Henderson
Previously Business Lead, EMEA at Stripe, Product Manager at Google, and Co-founder of Rangespan (acquired by Google).
Official website: https://phoebe.ai/