Dublin-based Bronto, a proprietary log information platform firm, at this time introduced it has raised €12 million in Seed funding to re-invent logging from finish to finish, construct a world-leading GTM operate, and broaden globally.
The spherical was led by Cercano Administration – alongside Heavybit and Conviction Capital.
“The shift to AI represents the most important transformation in computing infrastructure necessities ever, however even pre-AI, logging options haven’t saved tempo”, commented Bronto Co-founder and Co-CEO, Noel Ruane.
Infrastructure, observability, developer-tools, and AI-native information platforms have seen a gentle uptick of funding on this previous yr.
For example, Rerun (€15.6 million Seed) is tackling information and telemetry challenges, whereas Cloudsmith (€21.9 million Sequence B) and Qovery (11.3 Sequence A) deal with developer productiveness and infrastructure reliability.
This cluster of exercise highlights rising investor curiosity in AI-driven infrastructure optimisation throughout Europe. Notably, none of those companies are primarily based in Eire – positioning Bronto as one of many few Irish startups in 2025 to draw important funding throughout the observability and infrastructure area.
“Organisations proceed to be pressured into painful tradeoffs: pay astronomical payments for ‘just-adequate’ retention, or delete important information wanted for debugging, safety, and compliance. And now, in an agentic world – the place intelligence meets information – sustaining your entire log information has by no means been extra important for corporations to leverage and reap the actual advantages of AI.
“Our aim is to be the world’s #1 logging platform for all customers and use circumstances,” continued Bronto Co-founder and Co-CEO, Noel Ruane.
Based in 2024, Bronto is an AI-native log information platform firm reinventing logging infrastructure for the fashionable period. Based by serial entrepreneurs Noel Ruane (Co-founder Voysis, acquired by Apple in 2020) and Trevor Parsons (Co-founder LogEntries, acquired by Rapid7 in 2015), Bronto allows mid-market and enterprise prospects to eradicate expensive tradeoffs between information quantity and retention whereas unlocking new AI-powered use circumstances.
The corporate’s proprietary platform addresses important infrastructure bottlenecks as organisations deploy AI at scale, permitting them to take care of and leverage all log information with out discriminating between sizzling and historic data.
Bronto’s AI native logging platform removes the toil skilled by customers of current platforms and opens up helpful new use circumstances combining AI and logging area particular experience.
It means corporations don’t have to discriminate between sizzling and historic log information and get actual worth from all of their logs moderately than tradeoffs between information quantity and value.
“Logging is essentially damaged, unfit for the quantity of knowledge the AI-era has introduced, and Bronto fixes that,” stated Trevor Parsons, Co-founder and Co-CEO. “Our workforce has a mixed 150+ years of expertise constructing and working proprietary log-engines and platforms at international scale in each non-public, venture-backed and public corporations. I don’t consider you could possibly handpick a greater group of engineers than our workforce at Bronto. Each Noel and I couldn’t be extra excited to guide this unbelievable workforce.”
Bronto is utilizing the proceeds of this increase to construct a world-leading GTM operate because it continues to broaden its already world-leading engineering operate.
Trade professional and investor Joseph Ruscio concluded:”I’ve seen numerous makes an attempt to modernise log administration, they usually all fall brief in a roundabout way – whether or not effectivity, scale, or usability. What Bronto has created is revolutionary and represents a real disruption on this area. Everybody at Heavybit is extremely excited to accomplice with such an skilled pair of entrepreneurs already executing at this degree.”
