Thomvest invests in AppCD: the future of cloud infrastructure automation

Umesh Padval
Writings from Thomvest Ventures
2 min readMar 5, 2024

By: Umesh Padval, Ashish Kakran

We are thrilled to announce our seed investment in appCD, a disruptive cloud infrastructure automation company. The company fits squarely at the intersection of our investment areas: cloud, security, and AI infrastructure, led by serial entrepreneurs Sachin Aggarwal and Asif Awan. I have known Sachin and Asif for over five years and respect them immensely.

We recently met to discuss how appCD is addressing a significant challenge faced by software developers: how to get application code deployed to the cloud quickly without becoming infrastructure experts. We were so impressed that we made the decision to invest in the company in under a week.

Platform teams are tasked with creating, maintaining, and updating infrastructure as code (IaC) scripts to reliably deploy software in the cloud. There are tools available to solve this, both in a declarative or an imperative manner, but operationalizing these is complex. IaC enables scaling and automation of cloud infrastructure provisioning, but application deployment remains a complex, tedious, and time-consuming task. Collaboration is required between platform engineers, developers, and security teams to align on security, compliance, and operational standards before implementation.

Now, with the advances in generative infrastructure from code (IfC), it becomes possible to give superpowers to the platform engineering teams. appCD automatically generates IaC scripts by scanning the application code written by software engineers. By solving this problem, appCD is shifting the narrative from IaC to IfC.

We are excited about the opportunity to work with Sachin, Asif, and the amazing team at appCD to build a disruptive company in the cloud infrastructure automation space, accelerating the rapid and efficient deployment of applications in the cloud in an automated and secure way.

If you’re an innovative founder with a disruptive idea in cloud, security, or AI infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you. We are reachable at umesh@thomvest.com or ashish@thomvest.com.

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Published in Writings from Thomvest Ventures

For over 25 years, we’ve worked with exceptional entrepreneurs to build industry-defining companies. Thomvest Ventures invests the funds of our founder, Peter J. Thomson, and his family, so we are committed to working alongside the entrepreneurs we back.

Written by Umesh Padval

Umesh Padval is a Managing Director at Thomvest Ventures in San Francisco. He is focussed on venture investments in cybersecurity,cloud and AI Infrastructure

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