Spacelift, a leading infrastructure orchestration platform based in Redwood City, California, announced a $51 million Series C funding round on July 10, 2025. Led by Five Elms Capital with participation from Endeavor Catalyst and Inovo VC, the investment will fuel product innovation, expand enterprise adoption, and enhance AI-powered automation to simplify complex infrastructure management for global enterprises.
Spacelift raises $51M in Series C funding led by Five Elms Capital.
Funds to accelerate AI-driven automation and enterprise adoption.
Simplifies multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure management with IaC.
Integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, and other tools.
Supports clients like Redfin, Moody’s, and Oracle across diverse sectors.
Leads open-source OpenTofu with over 10M downloads since 2023.
Enterprises face growing challenges in managing multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with fragmented toolchains complicating compliance and scalability. Spacelift’s platform addresses this by orchestrating the entire infrastructure lifecycle—provisioning, configuration, and governance—using tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, and Ansible. “As infrastructure complexity grows exponentially, enterprises are seeking more intuitive and intelligent ways to manage their technology environments,” said Pawel Hytry, CEO and co-founder of Spacelift. The platform’s AI-driven features, such as predictive policy enforcement and drift remediation, reduce operational complexity while ensuring compliance and visibility.
Spacelift’s adoption is accelerating across sectors like financial services, healthcare, and software, with clients including Redfin, Checkout, Moody’s, Duolingo, and Oracle. By automating workflows and offering developer self-service with guardrails, Spacelift boosts developer velocity while maintaining governance. Its self-hosted option supports regulated industries with stringent data sovereignty needs, ensuring flexibility across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises deployments. “Their innovative approach sets a new standard for infrastructure automation, making it accessible, understandable, and powerful,” said Joe Onofrio of Five Elms Capital.
Spacelift’s foundational role in OpenTofu, a community-driven Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool launched in August 2023, underscores its open-source leadership. OpenTofu has over 600 contributors, 10 million downloads, and 350,000+ weekly downloads, with adoption by enterprises like Cisco and Fidelity. The $51M funding will further enhance Spacelift’s platform, integrating AI to streamline workflows and support the growing IaC market, projected to see significant growth through 2034.
Spacelift’s Series C funding positions it to redefine enterprise infrastructure management, leveraging AI to deliver scalable, secure, and efficient solutions. For more details, visit spacelift.io or join their upcoming IaCConf virtual event on August 27, 2025, for insights into IaC security and governance.
Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages the entire infrastructure lifecycle – provisioning, configuration and governance. Spacelift integrates with existing infrastructure tooling (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) to provide a single integrated workflow to deliver secure, cost-effective and resilient infrastructure, fast. By automating deployment and configuration, providing developer self-service, golden paths with guardrails and an OPA policy engine, Spacelift empowers businesses to accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control and governance over their infrastructure.
Five Elms Capital is a growth investor in software businesses that users love, providing capital and resources to help companies accelerate growth and further cement their role as industry leaders.
With over $3 billion in assets under management and a team of over 80 professionals, Five Elms has invested in more than 70 software platforms worldwide. Beyond providing capital, Five Elms delivers strategic and operational expertise, focused on executing initiatives that move the needle on growth, retention, product and AI to set companies up for long-term success.
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